This article is updated regularly as Oscar contenders enter theaters and streaming services.
The Oscars came and went! On Sunday night, the Academy awarded the best films, performances, and craft of 2024 in a madcap broadcast hosted by Conan O’Brien. There were some surprises, some snubs, some sermons, and a sweep of five categories by Best Picture winner Anora, which ceded ground on only one of its nominations. In the afterglow of all the accolades you may be wondering: Where can I see all these movies? With so many streaming services and companies taking different paths to bring their A-list projects to viewers, it can be overwhelming work to simply track down these acclaimed titles. If you need to catch up, we’re here to help with detailed information on the streaming availability of every single feature nominee. Don’t plan to leave the house for a few weeks.
How to Watch the 10 Best Picture Nominees
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Anora 🏆
Won for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Achievement in Film Editing. Also nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
The Awards Chatter: It started with the Palme d’Or at 2024’s Cannes, a prize won by recent Oscar darlings like Anatomy of a Fall, Triangle of Sadness, and Parasite. The latest from the genius behind Tangerine and The Florida Project brought Sean Baker back into the Oscar fold: Star Mikey Madison won Best Actress while Baker himself personally earned four awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.
How to Watch It: Available to rent or own on demand; streaming on Hulu March 17.
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The Brutalist
Won for Best Actor, Best Achievement in Cinematography, and Best Original Score. Also nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best Achievement in Film Editing, Best Achievement in Production Design.
The Awards Chatter: The second-most nominated film of this year’s Oscars got to double digits because of its remarkable ensemble and technical achievements. The epic drama starring Adrien Brody as a Hungarian architect in postwar America started its run at Venice, where it won the Silver Lion, and went through waves of critics groups (it won Best Picture at Chicago, for example). It was a big winner at the Globes, taking home Best Picture (Drama), Actor, and Director. It may not have won quite as many on Oscars night, but it did give Brody his moment (or a few).
How to Watch It: Available to rent or own on demand.
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A Complete Unknown
Nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Achievement in Costume Design, Best Sound
The Awards Chatter: The Academy loves biopics, and that didn’t change this year with the nominations for this story of an essential chapter in music history. Timothée Chalamet landed his second nomination for playing Bob Dylan in James Mangold’s acclaimed drama about the folk-music legend, joined by Edward Norton and Monica Barbaro as Pete Seeger and Joan Baez, respectively. It went home empty-handed from the Oscars, but it’s alright, Ma.
How to Watch It: Available to rent or own on demand.
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Conclave
Won for Best Adapted Screenplay. Also nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Achievement in Film Editing, Best Achievement in Production Design, Best Achievement in Costume Design, Best Original Score.
The Awards Chatter: This papal drama launched its way through awards season, notching citations from every major group on its way to a bunch of big Oscar nods, including Ralph Fiennes, Isabella Rossellini, and Peter Straughan for Best Adapted Screenplay. It was one of the few Best Picture nominees this year that (mostly) didn’t seem to make some people mad. Fiennes went home Oscar-less yet again this year, but at least the whole cast earned Outstanding Ensemble at the SAGs a week earlier.
How to Watch It: Peacock.
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Dune: Part Two
Won Best Sound and Best Achievement in Visual Effects. Also nominated for Best Picture, Best Achievement in Cinematography, Best Achievement in Production Design.
The Awards Chatter: The first Dune in this series landed ten Oscar nominations, winning six, more than any other film from 2022. Part Two didn’t exactly replicate that success, likely hurt by being released so early in 2024. Still, it found its way across the awards season desert yet again. Will the third film do the same? Don’t doubt the spice.
How to Watch It: Max.
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Emilia Pérez
Won for Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Song (“El Mal”). Also nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best International Feature Film, Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Original Score, Best Original Song (“Mi Camino”), Best Sound, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Achievement in Cinematography, Best Achievement in Film Editing.
The Awards Chatter: One of the most divisive films of the year turned out to be an awards-season juggernaut, landing as many Oscar nominations as Oppenheimer did last year and falling one short of tying the all-time record. The Jacques Audiard–directed musical-crime film’s run actually started much earlier, when it won three prizes at Cannes, including a special joint Best Actress award for stars Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz, and Zoe Saldaña. In the end, the controversies over Gascón’s social media history turned the Emilia Pérez into a monologue joke, despite Saldaña and the film’s songwriters going home with statues.
How to Watch It: Netflix.
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I’m Still Here
Won for Best International Feature Film. Also nominated for Best Picture and Best Actress.
The Awards Chatter: The phenomenal Fernanda Torres was a surprising but deserving winner of the Golden Globe for Best Actress (Drama) for this devastating story of a woman dealing with the disappearance of her husband by the Brazilian government. A deeply personal project for Torres, it co-stars her mother, Fernande Montenegro, herself an Oscar nominee for 1998’s Central Station, which like this film was also directed by Walter Salles. He clinched the prize for International Feature for this title.
How to Watch It: In limited theatrical release.
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Nickel Boys
Nominated for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay
The Awards Chatter: An adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s celebrated novel, this RaMell Ross drama has been a critical darling since its fest-season debuts. Nickel Boys won Best Director at Gotham and the New York Film Critics Circle before landing five Critics Choice nods, including Best Picture, and two Independent Spirit nominations. It only got one Golden Globe nomination, but it was a biggie: Best Picture. And it continued that odd trend at the Oscars, getting only two nods, including the big one, though it didn’t win any. That’s just fine, it’s still “a cinematic experience unlike any other.”
How to Watch It: MGM+.
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The Substance
Won for Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling. Also nominated for Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay.
The Awards Chatter: It’s hard to believe this was the film that broke through the Academy’s blind spot when it comes to horror, but we were happy it did. The Demi Moore–starring film was a stronger-than-predicted performer all year, all the way back to a Best Screenplay win at Cannes in May 2024. It rolled its bloody carcass through the season, including a memorable win for Demi Moore at the Golden Globes. It certainly felt like the Oscars couldn’t ignore her performance in the acting category, right up until the moment she lost.
How to Watch It: Mubi.
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Wicked
Won for Best Achievement in Costume Design and Best Achievement in Production Design. Also nominated for Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Score, Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Achievement in Film Editing, Best Sound, Best Achievement in Visual Effects.
The Awards Chatter: Was the biggest movie on this list also a major Oscars player? Definitely. The crowd favorite of this year’s awards likely helped boost the ratings, and it went into the night easily the most widely beloved film on this list. Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo may not have gone home awarded, but the film’s Production Design victory was well-earned, as was Paul Tazewell’s for Best Costume Design: He’s the first Black man to win an Oscar for the category.
How to Watch It: Available to rent or own on demand; streaming on Peacock March 21.
How to Watch the Rest of the 2025 Oscar Winners and Nominees
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Alien: Romulus
Nominated for Best Achievement in Visual Effects
Fede Alvarez’s hit reboot of one of the most popular franchises of all time notched a visual effects nomination that’s probably more for the creatures than the janky resurrection of a certain character from a past movie.
How to Watch It: Hulu.
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The Apprentice
Nominated for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor
The performances by Sebastian Stan as Donald J. Trump and Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn were too much for the Academy to ignore this twisted origin story of a monster.
How to Watch It: Available to rent or own on demand.
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Better Man
Nominated for Best Achievement in Visual Effects
While news stories touted how much money Paramount lost on this unique Robbie Williams biopic, at least they got an Oscar nomination out of the deal.
How to Watch It: Available to rent or own on demand.
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Black Box Diaries
Nominated for Best Documentary
This is a harrowing true story of a sexual assault investigation in Japan that launched at Sundance almost exactly a year before its Oscar nomination.
How to Watch It: Paramount+.
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A Different Man
Nominated for Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling
Another Sundance debut, some thought this clever film would have appeared in more categories come Oscars night. The evening may not have gone its way, but viewers will appreciate its canny performances by Sebastian Stan, Adam Pearson, and Renate Reinsve for years to come.
How to Watch It: Max.
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Elton John: Never Too Late
Nominated for Best Original Song
This documentary about the life of Elton John features a new song by Sir Elton himself — one so powerful that it became the title of the film and earned a nod for Best Original Song.
How to Watch It: Disney+.
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Flow
Won for Best Animated Feature. Also nominated for Best International Feature Film.
Gints Zilbalodis’s dialogue-free gem has been one of the most awarded animated films of its era — a streak that culminated with the first Academy Award for a Latvian film.
How to Watch It: Max.
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The Girl With the Needle
Nominated for Best International Feature Film
Though it didn’t ultimately win, the striking black-and-white cinematography made this this dark period piece one of the most visually distinct films of the Oscars set.
How to Watch It: Mubi.
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Gladiator II
Nominated for Best Achievement in Costume Design
Once viewed as a multi-category juggernaut like the original film, this fell short and notched only one costume design nomination. Denzel was robbed.
How to Watch It: Paramount+.
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Inside Out 2
Nominated for Best Animated Feature
It was a Pixar movie. It was the highest-grossing movie of the year. And it was the highest-grossing animated film ever. It was a no-brainer for a nomination.
How to Watch It: Disney+.
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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Nominated for Best Achievement in Visual Effects
Another nomination that felt inevitable, because these Apes films have revolutionized motion-capture performance, and the new one pushed that technology forward yet again.
How to Watch It: Hulu.
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Maria
Nominated for Best Achievement in Cinematography
Pablo Larraín completed his trilogy of 20th-century women (following Jackie and Spencer) with this story of Maria Callas that missed the categories where many had predicted it — actress for Angelina Jolie and costumes — but did land a nomination in cinematography.
How to Watch It: Netflix.
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Memoir of a Snail
Nominated for Best Animated Feature
This beautiful little gem from the director of Mary & Max pushed out possible contenders from big studios to land a deserved nomination.
How to Watch It: AMC+.
No Other Land
Won for Best Documentary
One of the best films of the year, this documentary detailed the Israeli military occupation of a small village in the West Bank, told by journalists from both regions. It proved too powerful to miss, as did the filmmakers’ speech on Oscars night.
How to Watch It: In theaters.
Nosferatu
Nominated for Best Achievement in Costume Design, Best Achievement in Production Design, Best Achievement in Cinematography, Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling
Robert Eggers and the Academy don’t go hand in hand, but this one’s technical achievements couldn’t be ignored. Despite its losses, Nosferatu’s nominations were another case of a genre film being recognized this year (like The Substance) when it felt like the Academy would have skipped it just a few years ago.
How to Watch It: Peacock.
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Porcelain War
Nominated for Best Documentary
The documentary branch does love timeliness, and this story of Ukrainian artists trying to survive during the Russian occupation had an undeniable immediacy this season.
How to Watch It: In theaters.
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A Real Pain
Won for Best Supporting Actor. Nominated for Best Original Screenplay.
After a stellar awards-season run, this one arguably came up short on Oscar nominations morning with nods in just two categories, but Kieran Culkin still eventually won Best Supporting Actor, and that’s not nothing.
How to Watch It: Hulu.
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The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Nominated for Best International Feature Film
Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof’s movie has a rich backstory, having been shot in secret in Iran before being finished in Germany in order for Rasoulof to avoid further time in prison. The film also had a rich awards-season run before its Oscars night, including wins at the National Board of Review for International Film and for Best Director from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
How to Watch It: Available to rent or own on demand.
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September 5
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay
This telling of the events at the Munich Olympics through the eyes of the newspeople covering it was a regular performer this season, mostly in editing, but it actually missed there for the Academy and dropped in a writing category.
How to Watch It: Paramount+.
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Sing Sing
Nominated for Best Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Song
This excellent A24 drama tells the true story of prisoners changed by working on a theater production, and it’s building steam over the season, winning Best Actor for Colman Domingo from Gotham and getting multiple nominations for its star and the excellent supporting work from Clarence Maclin. It’s too bad it didn’t win an Oscar, but three nominations — and the film itself — are undeniably a major achievement.
How to Watch It: Available to rent or own on demand; streaming on Max March 21.
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The Six Triple Eight
Nominated for Best Original Song
Was this the first Tyler Perry film to be nominated for an Oscar? Maybe.
How to Watch It: Netflix.
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Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Nominated for Best Documentary
This was not the kind of standard nonfiction film that the Academy usually nominates, telling the story of American musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach as they protested the murder of Patrice Lumumba with a unique structure and visual language.
How to Watch It: Kino Film Collection and on demand.
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Sugarcane
Nominated for Best Documentary
A brave piece of filmmaking, this documentary pulled the curtain back on the Canadian Indian residential school system, speaking to survivors about the horrors they witnessed there.
How to Watch It: Hulu and Disney+.
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Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
Nominated for Best Animated Feature
Everyone’s favorite cheese-loving inventor and his trusty sidekick were away for far too long but came back in 2024 like an old friend.
How to Watch It: Netflix.
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The Wild Robot
Nominated for Best Animated Feature, Best Original Score, Best Sound
Arguably underperforming given how beloved it became, this Dreamworks and Universal gem still landed two nods.
How to Watch It: Peacock.
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