Where to Watch 2025 Oscar Nominated Films Online Streaming

Oscar Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Actress in a Leading Role, Actor in a Supporting Role, Original Screenplay, Film Editing

Where to Watch: Rent/buy on Prime Video and Apple TV+

Variety Review: “Taken alone, ‘Anora’ is a profane kick. But seen in the context of Baker’s recurring fixations — from ‘Starlet’ to ‘Red Rocket’ — it stresses his belief that sex work is real work, that it’s more central to society than society wants to admit, and that by identifying with those we typically objectify, we can’t help but love them.”

Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Actor in a Leading Role, Actor in a Supporting Role, Actress in a Supporting Role, Original Screenplay, Original Score, Cinematography, Film Editing, Production Design

Where to Watch: TBA

Variety Review: “If you see only one madly ambitious, wildly allegorical movie this year about a fabled architect whose dream is to design buildings that define the future, make that movie ‘”The Brutalist.’”

Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director (James Mangold), Actor in a Leading Role (Timothée Chalamet), Actor in a Supporting Role (Edward Norton), Actress in a Supporting Role (Monica Barbaro), Adapted Screenplay (James Mangold and Jay Cocks), Costume Design (Arianne Phillips), Sound (Tod A. Maitland, Donald Sylvester, Ted Caplan, Paul Massey and David Giammarco)

Where to Watch: TBA

Variety Review: “‘A Complete Unknown’” is a drama of scruffy naturalism, with a plot that doesn’t so much unfold as lope right along with its legendary, curly-haired, sunglass-wearing coffee-house troubadour hero.”

Nominations: Best Picture, Actor in a Leading Role (Ralph Fiennes), Actress in a Supporting Role (Isabella Rosellini), Adapted Screenplay (Peter Straughan), Costume Design (Lisy Christl), Original Score (Volker Bertelmann), Film Editing (Nick Emerson), Production Design ( Suzie Davies and Synthia Sleiter)

Where to Watch: Peacock

Variety Review: “One of the most satisfying twists in years, a Hail Mary that both surprises and restores one’s faith (maybe not everyone’s, but certainly that of the disillusioned).”

Nominations: Best Picture, Cinematography, Production Design, Sound, Visual Effects

Where to Watch: Max

Variety Review: “A massive gamble at a time of diminished moviegoing, Warner Bros. and Legendary’s multipart adaptation of the Frank Herbert novel graduates from the world-building thrills of the 2021 original to a meaty, all-encompassing narrative.”

Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Actress in a Leading Role, Actress in a Supporting Role, Adapted Screenplay, Makeup and Hairstyling, Original Score, Cinematography, Film Editing, International Feature Film, Original Song, Sound

Where to Watch: Netflix

Variety Review: “Like a rose blooming amid a minefield, it’s a miracle that Jacques Audiard’s ‘Emilia Pérez’ exists: a south-of-the-border pop opera about a most unlikely metamorphosis and the personal redemption it awakens in a stone-cold criminal.”

Nominations: Best Picture, Actress in a Leading Role, International Feature Film

Where to Watch: TBA

Variety Review: “Having the fate of this well-appointed, upper-middle-class house evoke that of an increasingly oppressed Brazil might seem like a strained metaphor, but Salles’ deeply invested filmmaking is remarkable in its grace and naturalism.”

Nominations: Best Picture, Screenplay

Where to Watch: TBA

Variety Review: “For his narrative debut, the Oscar-nominated director envisions a radical new way of adapting Colton Whitehead’s novel, inviting audiences to more deeply identify with its protagonists.”

Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Actress in a Leading Role, Original Screenplay, Makeup and Hairstyling

Where to Watch: Mubi

Variety Review: “Shocking and resonant, disarmingly grotesque and weirdly fun, “The Substance” is a feminist body-horror film that should be shown in movie theaters all over the land.”

Nominations: Best Picture, Actress in a Leading Role, Actress in a Supporting Role, Costume Design, Makeup and Hairstyling, Original Score, Film Editing, Production Design, Sound, Visual Effects

Where to Watch: Rent/purchase on Prime Video and Apple TV+

Variety Review: “Split into two halves — but satisfying enough to stand alone — the fabulous big-screen version of Broadway’s what-makes-a-villain spin on ‘The Wizard of Oz’ feels more relevant than ever.”

Nominations: Actor in a Leading Role, Adapted Screenplay

Where to Watch: Rent/buy on Apple TV+ and pre-order on Prime Video

Variety Review: “Cages can’t contain the sheer amount of imagination on offer in ‘Sing Sing’ — not just in the way director Greg Kwedar and his writing and producing partner Clint Bentley conceived of the prison-set drama, but also as an animating force among its characters.”

Nominations: Actor in a Leading Role, Actor in a Supporting Role

Where to Watch: Rent/buy on Prime Video and Apple TV+

Variety Review: “For its first half, ‘The Apprentice’ is kind of a knockout: the inside look at how Trump evolved that so many of us have imagined for so long, and seeing it play out is both convincing and riveting.”

Nominations: Actor in a Supporting Role, Original Screenplay

Where to Watch: Hulu

Variety Review: “It’s a delight and a revelation — a deft, funny, heady, beautifully staged ramble of a road movie.”

Nominations: Original Screenplay

Where to Watch: Rent/buy on Apple TV+ and pre-order on Prime Video

Variety Review: “Multiple well-told accounts exist of the Munich massacre, including Kevin Macdonald’s excellent, Oscar-winning doc “One Day in September,” which makes the movie’s blind spots fairly easy to forgive.”

Nominations: Costume Design, Makeup and Hairstyling, Cinematography, Production Design

Where to Watch: Rent/buy on Prime Video and Apple TV+

Variety Review: “Visually striking as it is, with compositions that rival great Flemish paintings, the obsessive director’s somber retelling of F.W. Murnau’s expressionistic vampire movie is commendably faithful to the 1922 silent film and more accessible than ‘The Lighthouse’ and ‘The Witch,’ yet eerily drained of life.

Nominations: Costume Design

Where to Watch: Paramount+

Variety Review: “It is a solid piece of neoclassical popcorn — a serviceable epic of brutal warfare, Colosseum duels featuring lavish decapitations and beasts both animal and human, along with the middlebrow ‘decadence’ of palace intrigue.”

Nominations: Makeup and Hairstyling

Where to Watch: Max

Variety Review: “Featuring boundary-defying performances from both Stan and ‘Under the Skin’ actor Adam Pearson, director Aaron Schimberg’s dizzyingly rich think-piece raises bold questions about representation.”

Oscar Nominations: Original Score, Animated Feature Film, Sound

Where to Watch: Rent/buy on Prime Video and Apple TV+

Variety Review: “The film’s expressionistic environments can take one’s breath away. Sunsets, sea views and changing seasons suggest scenic calendar art come to life.”

Nominations: Animated Feature Film, International Feature Film

Where to Watch: Rent/buy on Prime Video and Apple TV+

Variety Review: “In practically every respect, ‘Flow”’could only be animated. And it could only be animated as hynotically as this by Zilbalodis, the one-man world-builder responsible for the 2017 indie marvel ‘Away.’

Nominations: Animated Feature Film

Where to Watch: Disney+

Variety Review: “‘Inside Out 2’ marks a triumphant creative return for Pixar, bringing off the thing that this studio, at its best, has done better than anyone: finding the sweet spot that merges the gaze of children and adults.”

Nominations: Animated Feature Film

Where to Watch: AMC+

Variety Review: “There’s a magic to 100%-CG-free stop-motion, with its cellophane flames and tears made of sexual lubricant. Don’t be surprised if “Memoir” has you shedding real ones in your seat.”

Nominations: Animated Feature Film

Where to Watch: Netflix

Variety Review: “Although less ambitious than ‘The Curse of the Were-Rabbit,’ Aardman’s adorable new feature gives fans what they want: the return of a cold-hearted penguin and more puns than you can count.”

Oscar Nominations: Cinematography

Where to Watch: Netflix

Variety Review: “’Maria,’ as shot by the great Edward Lachman, has an autumnal visual warmth that’s beautiful and seductive. The flashbacks are in black-and-white, and they color in Maria’s past, though in a way that leaves us with as many questions as answe

Oscar Nominations: Documentary Feature Film

Where to Watch: Paramount+ With Showtime

Variety Review: That raw first-person perspective, untempered by the interests of another filmmaker and given narrative rigor by Ito’s substantial journalistic skills, makes “Black Box Diaries” not just a damning analysis of patriarchal power structures in contemporary Japan, but a vivid evocation of the day-to-day psychological swings and breaks that come with living as a survivor. 

Oscar Nominations: Documentary Feature Film

Where to Watch: TBA

Variety Review: “Young Palestinian activist Basel Adra teams with Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham to chronicle the despair of the displaced in his home territory — the resulting film could open eyes and change minds.”

Oscar Nominations: Documentary Feature Film

Where to Watch: TBA

Variety Review: “The filmmakers make copious use of camera drones to capture these other drones in action; the resulting scenes of aerial warfare are both vertiginously impressive and discomfitingly gung-ho.”

Oscar Nominations: Documentary Feature Film

Where to Watch: Rent/buy on Prime Video and Apple TV+

Variety Review: “’Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat’ might sound overwhelming or too academic, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. It’s an entertaining and instructive documentary that presents a huge canvas on which it masterfully explains a complicated historical moment.”

Oscar Nominations: Documentary Feature Film

Where to Watch: Hulu

Variety Review: “’Sugarcane’ is the product of humane and insightful filmmakers who are determined to never let anyone forget, and put their moral outrage to exemplary good use.”

Oscar Nominations: International Feature Film

Where to Watch: Rent/buy on Apple TV+

Variety Review: “The Involuntary descent, to not just a grimy gutter but a near-Hadean underworld of human cruelty, is the chief horror in ‘The Girl With the Needle,’ Magnus von Horn’s extraordinary and upsetting film — an adult fairytale abundantly populated with witches and wretches, but where society is revealed as the true monster.”

Oscar Nominations: International Feature Film

Where to Watch: Rent/buy on Apple TV+ and pre-order on Prime Video

Variety Review: “By the nail-biting finale of this masterful allegory, decades of compromise have eroded what he stands for, threatening to bury him and the authoritarian system he represents.”

Oscar Nominations: Original Song

Where to Watch: Netflix

Variety Review: “Impressive in both its subject and suggested scope, Perry’s sweeping film reflects how the achievement of these women directly impacted the troops’ morale, despite the adversity they faced from skeptical superior officers”

Oscar Nominations: Original Song

Where to Watch: Disney+

Variety Review: “The film is astonishing archival detail, cutting back and forth between that and the lead-up to his 2022 Farewell Concert in Dodger Stadium.”

Oscar Nominations: Visual Effects

Where to Watch: Hulu

Variety Review: “When I say that ‘Alien: Romulus’ is one of the best ‘Alien’ sequels, that it delivers the slimy creep-out goods in a way that none of the last three “Alien” films have, I don’t mean to suggest that the shock and awe is back, or that the movie has reinvented this series in any visionary mind-fuck way. Quite the contrary. This is closer to a grandly efficient greatest-hits thrill ride, packaged like a video game. Yet on that level it’s a confidently spooky, ingeniously shot, at times nerve-jangling piece of entertainment.

Oscar Nominations: Visual Effects

Where to Watch: Rent/buy on Apple TV+ and pre-order on Prime Video

Variety Review: “First off, Americans don’t really know who [Robbie Williams] is, making it easy to accept whatever Gracey puts in his place. Better still, his simian CG counterpart proves far more expressive than most human actors, meaning the movie is built around an animated performance powerful enough to wring tears.”

Oscar Nominations: Visual Effects

Where to Watch: Hulu

Variety Review: “’Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ invites us to embrace the drama of apes fighting apes. By the end, though, in what is in effect a teaser for the next sequel, it looks as if the franchise’s blowhard version of the human race will be back after all.”