Discover all the films nominated for Oscars at the 2025 Academy Awards—and where you can watch them.
After delaying the announcement by a week due to the LA wildfires, the Academy Awards has put out its list of nominations for 2025. Audacious crime-thriller-musical Emilia Pérez leads the pack with a whopping 13 nominations followed closely by blockbuster hit Wicked and gargantuan drama The Brutalist with 10 nods each.
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Emilia Pérez
Nominated for Best Picture, Director, Actress (Karla Sofía Gascón), Supporting Actress (Zoe Saldaña), Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Original Song (“El Mal” & “Mi Camino”), Original Score, International Feature, Make-up and Hairstyling, Sound & Film Editing
Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and Edgar Ramírez star in this crime-thriller-musical from the BAFTA-winning writer-director of Rust and Bone. Overqualified and overexploited, Rita (Saldaña) employs her skills as a lawyer in the service of a large firm more prone to clear criminals than to serve justice. But an unexpected way out opens up to her: helping cartel leader Manitas (Gascón) retire from business and execute the plan he has been secretly refining for years: finally becoming the woman he has always dreamed of being.
Wicked
Nominated for Best Picture, Actress (Cynthia Erivo), Supporting Actress (Ariana Grande), Original Score, Costume Design, Make-up and Hairstyling, Production Design, Sound, Film Editing & Visual Effects
In this adaptation of the massive Broadway musical, Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo), a defiant girl born with green skin, and Glinda (Ariana Grande), a privileged aristocrat born popular, become unlikely friends in the magical Land of Oz. As they struggle with their opposing personalities, their friendship is tested as both begin to fulfill their destinies as Glinda the Good and The Wicked Witch of the West.
The Brutalist
Nominated for Best Picture, Director, Actor (Adrien Brody), Supporting Actress (Felicity Jones), Supporting Actor (Guy Pearce), Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Original Score, Production Design & Film Editing
Adrien Brody is visionary architect László Toth in this dramatic epic from filmmaker Brady Corbet (Vox Lux). Having fled post-war Europe in 1947, László longs to be reunited with his wife Erzsébet (Felicity Jones). In desperate need of work, László’s skills as an architect catch the eye of the wealthy Harrison Lee Van Buren (Guy Pearce), who hires him to oversee the construction of a monumental building. In the years that follow, they witness the birth of modern America.
A Complete Unknown
Nominated for Best Picture, Director, Actor (Timothée Chalamet), Supporting Actress (Monica Barbaro), Supporting Actor (Edward Norton), Adapted Screenplay, Costume Design & Sound
Timothée Chalamet is Bob Dylan in this rise-to-fame biopic from Oscar-nominated filmmaker James Mangold (Walk the Line) co-starring Emmy-nominee Elle Fanning, three-time Oscar-nominee Edward Norton, Monica Barbaro, and Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash.
Anora
Nominated for Best Picture, Director, Actress (Mikey Madison), Supporting Actor (Yura Borisov), Original Screenplay & Film Editing
A Las Vegas sex worker (Mikey Madison) gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she and a young Russian oligarch fall for each other in this love story from filmmaker Sean Baker (Tangerine, Red Rocket). However, when news of their impulsive marriage reaches his homeland, his parents make moves to get their union annulled.
The Substance
Nominated for Best Picture, Director, Actress (Demi Moore), Original Screenplay & Make-up and Hairstyling
Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley play the same person in this feminist take on body horror from writer-director Coralie Fargeat (Revenge). The story centres on a fading celebrity who uses a black-market drug to reverse the clock on her body. All it requires is a solid balance of use: seven days on, seven days off…
Dune: Part Two
Nominated for Best Picture, Production Design, Cinematography, Visual Effects & Sound
In the second part of Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of author Frank Herbert’s classic science fiction epic, Duke Paul Atreides joins the Fremen and begins a spiritual and martial journey to become Muad’dib, while trying to prevent the horrible but inevitable future he’s witnessed: a Holy War in his name, spreading throughout the known universe.
I’m Still Here
Nominated for Best Picture, Actress (Fernanda Torres) & International Feature
Based on the true story of Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres), a Brazilian activist of the anti-military dictatorship movement who spent years investigating her husband’s disappearance.
Nickel Boys
Nominated for Best Picture & Adapted Screenplay
This adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel tells its story of friendship and the notorious “Dozier School for Boys” from a first-person perspective.
The Wild Robot
Nominated for Best Animated Feature, Score & Sound
Family-friendly adventure from Chris Sanders (Lilo & Stitch) following Rozzum “Roz” 7134, a futuristic robot that washes ashore on a deserted island. In trying to find an objective to satisfy her directive, Roz becomes the foster mother to an orphaned gosling. Together, they must learn to be wild in order to survive.
Sing Sing
Nominated for Best Actor (Colman Domingo), Adapted Screenplay & Original Song (“Like A Bird”)
Colman Domingo leads this A24 drama, based on a true story, following a prison theatre group that escapes the reality of incarceration through the creativity of staging a play. The cast includes actors who have been incarcerated.
A Real Pain
Nominated for Best Supporting Actor (Kieran Culkin) & Original Screenplay
Mismatched cousins David (Jesse Eisenberg, who also writes and directs) and Benji (Kieran Culkin) reunite for a tour through Poland to honour their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the pair’s old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.
The Apprentice
Nominated for Best Actor (Sebastian Stan) & Supporting Actor (Jeremy Strong)
Sebastian Stan plays a young Donald Trump opposite Jeremy Strong as his infamous lawyer Roy Cohn in this biographical drama examining how Trump started his real estate business in New York during the 1970s and ’80s. From the director of 2018 Oscar nominee Border.
Flow
Nominated for Best International Feature & Animated Feature
This dialogue-free animal adventure centres on a cat who must work together with other species stuck on a boat after a flood devastates their home.
September 5
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay
True-story thriller set during the 1972 Munich Olympics, following an American sports broadcasting crew that finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes.
Nosferatu
Nominated for Best Costume Design, Make-up and Hairstyling & Production Design
Writer-director Robert Eggers takes on the classic gothic vampire tale, made renown to cinema a century ago with the silent 1922 version. The story follows the obsession between a haunted young woman in 19th century Germany and the ancient Transylvanian vampire who stalks her, bringing untold horror with him.
Inside Out 2
Nominated for Best Animated Feature
In this sequel to Pixar’s Oscar-winning 2015 film, Riley encounters new emotions in her teenage years. Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust, who’ve long been running a successful operation by all accounts inside Riley’s head, aren’t sure how to feel when Anxiety shows up. And it looks like she’s not alone.
Memoir of a Snail
Nominated for Best Animated Feature
Jacki Weaver, Eric Bana and Sarah Snook lend their voices to this bittersweet Australian memoir from Academy Award-winning animator Adam Elliot (Mary and Max) centred on a melancholic woman who hoards snails, romance novels, and guinea-pigs.
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
Nominated for Best Animated Feature
Aardman’s iconic duo return for their second feature (their first, Curse of the Were-Rabbit, won them an Academy Award). Here, Gromit’s growing concern that Wallace has become over-dependent on his inventions is justified when he invents a “smart gnome” that seems to develop a mind of its own. As events spiral out of control, it falls to Gromit to put aside his qualms and battle sinister forces – or Wallace may never be able to invent again.
The Girl with the Needle
Nominated for Best International Feature
In Copenhagen, young pregnant Karoline takes on a position as a wet nurse for an older woman named Dagmar to help support herself. Dagmar operates a clandestine adoption agency under the guise of a candy shop, assisting disadvantaged mothers place their unwanted newborns in foster homes. Karoline grows close to Dagmar, but she is soon faced with the nightmarish reality she unwittingly entered.
The Seed and the Sacred Fig
Nominated for Best International Feature
The 10th film of Mohammad Rasoulof (There is No Evil) is a Cannes award-winning drama centred around an investigating judge in the Revolutionary Court in Tehran, dealing with mistrust and increasing paranoia as nationwide political protests intensify and his gun mysteriously disappears.
Black Box Diaries
Nominated for Best Documentary Feature
Journalist Shiori Itō embarks on a courageous investigation of her own sexual assault in an improbable attempt to prosecute her high-profile offender. Her quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country’s outdated judicial and societal systems.
No Other Land
Nominated for Best Documentary Feature
Made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective, this documentary shows the destruction of the West Bank’s Masafer Yatta by Israeli authorities and the unlikely friendship that blossoms between Palestinian activist Basel Adra and Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham.
Porcelain War
Nominated for Best Documentary Feature
Under roaring fighter jets and missile strikes, Ukrainian artists Slava, Anya, and Andrey choose to stay behind and fight, contending with the soldiers they have become. Defiantly finding beauty amid destruction, they show that although it’s easy to make people afraid, it’s hard to destroy their passion for living.
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Nominated for Best Documentary Feature
Award-winning documentary on how jazz, decolonisation, and the Cold War led two musicians—Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach—to conduct a massive act of protest and crash the UN Security Council.
Sugarcane
Nominated for Best Documentary Feature
An investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school ignites a reckoning on the nearby Sugarcane Reserve.
Maria
Nominated for Best Cinematography
Angelina Jolie plays Maria Callas, the world’s greatest opera singer, in this end-of-life biographical drama recounting her final days in 1970s Paris. From director Pablo Larraín (Jackie), working with a script from Oscar-nominated writer Steven Knight (Locke).
Alien: Romulus
Nominated for Best Visual Effects
In this standalone Alien sequel from director Fede Alvarez (Don’t Breathe), a group of scavengers looking to loot a seemingly abandoned space station come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.
Better Man
Nominated for Best Visual Effects
The director of The Greatest Showman offers a unique look into the experiences that shaped Robbie Williams—by casting the popstar as a walking, singing ape—in this atypical musical biopic.
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Nominated for Best Visual Effects
The director of the Maze Runner trilogy helms this entry in the Planet of the Apes series. Set several generations after the Caesar trilogy, the world now sees apes as the dominant species, with humans reduced to the Earth’s corners and unable to speak.
Gladiator 2
Nominated for Best Costume Design
Ridley Scott returns to Ancient Rome with this follow-up to his Oscar-winning classic centred on Lucius, the son of Maximus’ love Lucilla, after Maximus’ death. Stars Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington and Pedro Pascal.
A Different Man
Nominated for Best Make-up and Hairstyling
Sebastian Stan stars in this A24 film as a man who, after undergoing a facial reconstructive surgery, becomes fixated on a charming actor, who has the same facial deformity, in a stage production based on his former life.
Elton John: Never Too Late
Nominated for Best Original Song (“Never Too Late”)
Documentary showcasing never-before-seen concert footage of Elton John over the past 50 years, as well as hand-written journals and present-day footage of him and his family.
The Six Triple Eight
Nominated for Best Original Song (“The Journey”)
Kerry Washington stars alongside Oprah Winfrey and Susan Sarandon for this Tyler Perry WWII film following the US Army’s only all-Black, all-women battalion as they take on an impossible mission: sorting through a three-year backlog of 17 million pieces of mail that hadn’t been delivered to American soldiers and finish within six months.
And here are the short film nominees
Best live action short: Anuja, I’m Not a Robot, The Last Ranger, A Lien, The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent
Best animated short: Beautiful Men, In the Shadow of the Cypress, Magic Candies, Wander to Wonder, Yuck!
Best documentary short: Death by Numbers, I Am Ready, Warden, Incident, Instruments of a Beating Heart, The Only Girl in the Orchestra
