The 2025 Oscars are less than a week away, so time is running out if you’re trying to watch all 10 Best Picture nominees.
Luckily, all but one is streaming online now, making it even easier to check out all the frontrunners ahead of the big night. This year’s slate, of course, includes both of the Golden Globes’ big winners — “The Brutalist” and “Emilia Pérez” — plus “Anora,” which won big with the producers, directors, and writers guilds, and “Conclave,” which won SAG last weekend and BAFTA the weekend before.
This year’s 10-movie lineup includes two biopics, four movies based on books, two musicals, a rare horror film, and two wholly original works that aren’t based on anything preexisting.
The Oscars are on March 2, but until then, you can use this story as your “how-to guide” on all the ways to check out 2024’s biggest movies.
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Directed by: Sean Baker | Written by: Baker | Starring: Mikey Madison, Mark Eydelshteyn, Yura Borisov
Other nominations (5): Best Director, Best Actress (Madison), Best Supporting Actor (Borisov), Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing
About the film: Meet Ani (Madison), a Brooklyn sex worker who marries the son of a Russian Oligarch on a whim so he can stay in the United States. What follows is a modern screwball comedy when his parents find out and descend on the country to end the marriage; the Cinderella story is flipped on its head.
Where to stream “Anora”
Directed by: Brady Corbet | Written by: Corbet, Mona Fastvold | Starring: Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Joe Alywn
Other nominations (9): Best Director, Best Actor (Brody), Best Supporting Actor (Pearce), Best Supporting Actress (Jones), Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design
About the film: Brady Corbet’s American epic clocks in at 3.5 hours long and explores the promise and reality of the American Dream through fictional architect László Tóth (Brody). Tóth, who is immensely talented, immigrates to America after surviving the Holocaust and scrapes to get by until his work catches the eye of a wealthy, snobbish industrialist.
Where to stream “The Brutalist”
Directed by: James Mangold | Written by: Mangold, Jay Cocks | Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Boyd Holbrook
Other nominations (7): Best Director, Best Actor (Chalamet), Best Supporting Actor (Norton), Best Supporting Actress (Barbaro), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Costume Design, Best Sound
About the film: Bob Dylan (Chalamet) arrives in New York with a guitar and a dream in 1961. The film charts Dylan’s rise to stardom through his monumental and game-changing performance of “Like A Rolling Stone” at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival.
Where to stream “A Complete Unknown”
Directed by: Edward Berger | Written by: Peter Straughan | Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Isabella Rossellini
Other nominations (7): Best Actor (Fiennes), Best Supporting Actress (Rossellini), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, Best Original Score
About the film: The Dean of the College of Cardinals, Thomas Cardinal Lawrence (Fiennes), is responsible for holding a conclave following the death of the pope where a new pope will be elected. Once the cardinals are sequestered inside the Vatican, Lawrence begins investigating secrets and scandals involving top candidates as they come to light.
Where to stream “Conclave”
Directed by: Denis Villeneuve | Written by: Villeneuve, Jon Spaihts | Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh
Other nominations (4): Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Sound, Best Visual Effects
The sequel to 2021’s “Dune” picks up after the destruction of House Atreides; Paul Atreides, the heir to the House, unites with the Fremen people native to Arrakis to enact revenge on the Harkonnens for the destruction they caused.
Where to stream ‘Dune: Part Two‘
Directed by: Jacques Audiard | Written by: Audiard | Starring: Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez, Edgar Ramirez, Adriana Paz
Other nominations (12): Best Director, Best Actress (Gascón), Best Supporting Actress (Saldaña), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best International Feature Film, Best Original Score (Camille and Clément Ducol), Best Original Song (“El Mal,” “Mi Camino”), Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Sound, Best Makeup and Hairstyling
A Mexican cartel kingpin (Gascón) hires a lawyer to make the leader disappear by transitioning into a woman.
Where to stream ‘Emilia Pérez’
Directed by: Walter Salles | Written by: Murilo Hauser, Heitor Lorega | Starring: Fernanda Torres, Selton Mello, Fernanda Montenegro
Other nominations (2): Best Actress (Torres), Best International Feature Film
“I’m Still Here” tells the story of Eunice Paiva, a mother and activist dealing with the forced disappearance of her husband, the dissident politician Rubens Paiva, during the military dictatorship in Brazil.
Where to stream ‘I’m Still Here’
Directed by: RaMell Ross | Written by: Ross, Joslyn Barnes | Starring: Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger, Daveed Diggs, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor
Other nomination (1): Best Adapted Screenplay
Based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and the real-life story of the Dozier School for Boys, Nickel Boys follows Elwood as he’s sent to an abusive reform school in 1960s Florida. There, he strikes up a friendship with Turner, whose cynicism clashes with Elwood’s idealism.
Where to stream “Anora”:
Directed by: Coralie Fargeat | Written by: Fargeat | Starring: Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid
Other nominations (4): Best Director, Best Actress (Moore), Best Original Screenplay, Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Fading celebrity Elisabeth Sparkle (Moore), fired from her job upon turning 50, takes a black-market drug designed to create a younger, hotter version of herself (Qualley).
Where to stream ‘The Substance
- stream on Mubi (seven-day free trial)
- buy on-demand ($12.99)
- rent on-demand ($5.99)
Directed by: Jon M. Chu | Written by: Winnie Holzman, Dana Fox | Starring: Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande-Butera, Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Marissa Bode, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum
Other nominations: Best Actress (Erivo), Best Supporting Actress (Grande), Best Original Score (Stephen Schwartz, John Powell), Best Production Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Sound, Best Visual Effects
“Wicked” is the story of what happened before Dorothy dropped into the land of Oz. It’s the first act of the popular Broadway musical of the same name that explores the budding friendship between the Wicked Witch of the West (Erivo) and Glinda the Good (Grande).
Where to stream ‘Wicked’
The 2025 Academy Awards are March 2 at 7:00 p.m. ET. The Conan O’Brien-hosted ceremony will air on ABC and Hulu.
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