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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.

Oscars 2025: Where To Watch The Nominated 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

FlowBest 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.

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