Oscars 2025: Where To Watch The Nominated Movies
The Oscars will be presented on March 3 (SGT), so you have a few weeks to catch up on these movies.

The nominations for the 97th Annual Academy Awards are out. Besides arguing over who will win, who should win and who got snubbed (no love for Hugh Grant in Heretic?). And speaking of snubs, it’s 2025, we’ll still waiting for the Old-scars to honour the stunt community. (We’ll leave that to Vulture to recognise the stunt performers’ contributions.)
What’s there left to say about the Class of 2025 that hasn’t already been said? Honestly, I’ve been slacking off: of the 10 Best Picture nominees, I’ve only seen Dune: Part Two (Timothee Chalamet’s hair) and The Substance (that f***ing ending). Let’s face it, TV is just too good to lure me back into the cinemas.
Anyhoo, I’m looking forward to Emilia Perez, a musical crime film about a Mexican drug lord (Karla Sofía Gascón) who hires a lawyer (Zoe Saldaña) to fake her death and undergo gender-confirming surgery. The Spanish-language, French-made Netflix film landed the most nominations of 13, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress (Gascón makes history as the first openly trans actor nominated for an Oscar). The epic immigration drama The Brutalist (10 nominations) is also on my watch list.
If you know your Oscars, they’re pretty predictable. Just close pay attention to the Directors Guild Awards and Producers Guild Awards (Feb 8), Writers Guild Awards (Feb 15), and Screen Actors Guild Awards (Feb 24). These groups share the same voters as the Academy, so their respective outcomes will decide who walks away with Best Director, Best Picture, Screenplay (Original and Adapted), Best Actor/Actress and Best Supporting Actor/Actress.
So many movies, so little time. What to do? If you like me have a lot of movies to catch up, I hope this guide is a good start.
The 97th Annual Academy Awards will air live on Mediacorp Channel 5 and mewatch on Mar 3, from the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood. Red carpet kicks off at 7.30am with the main show starting from 8am. Catch the same-day encore at 6.30pm and 10.30pm for the Red Carpet and main show, respectively. With Conan O’Brien as host.
In cinemas:

Anora: The Academy really, really love movie hookers, pardon me, sex workers, don’t they? Mikey Madison is the latest to join that club. She plays a stripper, sorry, exotic dancer, who marries the son of a Russian oligarch but her in-laws disapprove of their nuptials. Hilarity and heartbreak ensue.
Anora – Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing
Better Man – Best Visual Effects
Flow – Best International Feature Film, Best Animated Feature Film
Black Box Diaries – Best Documentary Feature Film
The Brutalist – Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Production Design (Feb 20)
A Complete Unknown – Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Costume Design, Best Sound (Feb 27)
Conclave – Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Film Editing, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design
I’m Still Here – Best Picture, Best International Feature Film, Best Actress (Undated March)
Maria – Best Cinematography (Feb 20)
Nosferatu – Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling (Feb 27)
The Seed of the Sacred Fig – Best International Feature Film (Jan 29)
The Substance – Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best Makeup and Hairstyling (also available for rent/sale on Apple TV)
A Real Pain – Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay (Feb 20)
Wicked – Wicked – Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Original Score, Best Production Design, Best Sound, Best Visual Effects (also available for sale on YouTube Movies, Apple TV; for rent on Apple TV from Feb 5)
Disney+:

Sugarcane: Produced by National Geographic Documentary Films, this Best Documentary Feature contender looks into the abuse and missing children at a Canadian Indian residential school.
Alien: Romulus – Best Visual Effects
Elton John: Never Too Late – Best Original Song
Inside Out 2 – Best Animated Feature
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes – Best Visual Effects
Sugarcane – Best Documentary Feature Film
Max:
Dune: Part Two – Best Picture, Best Cinematography, Best Sound, Best Production Design, Best Visual Effects
Netflix:

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl: The claymated duo are no strangers to the Oscars. Since 1990, their exploits have been nominated six times (in both the short and feature categories), winning three (1993’s The Wrong Trousers, 1995’s A Close Shave, and 2005’s Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit).
Anuja – Best Live-Action Short
Emilia Pérez – Best Picture, Best International Feature Film, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Original Score, Best Original Song, Best Sound (TBA; also available in the US, Canada and UK...got VPN?)
The Only Girl in the Orchestra – Best Documentary Short
Six Triple Eight – Best Original Song
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl – Best Animated Feature Film
Prime Video:
Nickel Boys – Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay (Feb 27)
Rent/Buy:

Gladiator II: Ridley Scott’s 2000 original won five Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor (for Russell Crowe). But its belated, not-as-good sequel only managed to pick up a nod for Best Costume Design.
A Different Man – Best Makeup and Hairstyling (YouTube Movies, Apple TV)
Gladiator II – Best Costume Design (YouTube Movies, Apple TV)
The Wild Robot – Best Animated Feature Film, Best Original Score, Best Sound (YouTube Movies, Apple TV)
Vimeo:
A Lien – Best Live-Action Short
Wander to Wonder – Best Animated Short
YouTube:
I’m Not a Robot – Best Live-Action Short
Incident – Best Documentary Short
Instruments of a Beating Heart – Best Documentary Short
You’re on your own...:

The Apprentice: President Donald Trump had threatened to sue this unauthorised biopic about his early days as a real-estate developer, with Sebastian Stan as the title character. In other words, he absolutely hated it. But what will happen if Stan wins Best Actor? Is Trump going to congratulate Stan ….or himself?
The Apprentice – Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor (released in cinemas Oct 24)
Memoir of a Snail – Best Animated Feature Film
September 5 – Best Original Screenplay
Sing Sing – Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay
Click here for the complete list of the 97th Academy Awards nominations.