Where to Watch the 2025 Oscars Best Picture Nominees

The nominees for the 97th Academy Awards have been unveiled, which means now is the perfect time to catch up on the ten Best Picture nominees.

The 2025 Oscars will take place on March 2 with Conan O'Brien hosting, with ABC and Hulu offering the live broadcasts. The Best Picture line-up this year features a diverse selection of movies, from major studio blockbusters like Dune: Part Two and Wicked, to critical favorites such as The Substance and Nickel Boys.

If you're eager to check out all the movies before winners are announced in March, here's where you can watch all ten of the movies vying for the top award.

Anora

Where to watch: Available to purchase or rent on Prime Video, Apple TV, and other VOD services.

Director-writer Sean Baker's comedy-drama Anora is a clear favorite at the Oscars this year, scoring six nominations including Best Actress for Mikey Madison and Best Director. Following the story of a young sex worker in Brooklyn who marries the son of a Russian oligarch, the Neon-distributed movie made a huge impression when it premiered at Cannes and won the Palme d'Or.

The Brutalist

Where to watch: At the theater.

The A24-distributed period drama The Brutalist is one of the four Best Picture nominees that is still making its ways through theaters nationwide. Starring Adrien Brady and directed by Brady Corbet, the film focuses on a Jewish Hungarian-born survivor of the Holocaust who immigrates to America following the end of World War II to work as an architect. At over three-and-a-half hours long, the critically-acclaimed epic ties Wicked for second-most nominations, with a total of ten nods.

A24 has yet to announce when the film will be available to view in the comfort of your own home.

A Complete Unknown

Where to watch: At the theater, and eventually on Hulu.

Like The Brutalist, the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown is currently only available to watch in theaters. Starring Timothée Chalamet as Dylan, and Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, A Complete Unknown earned eight nominations including Best Director for James Mangold. The movie covers the period of Dylan's life from his early career in folk music to his decision to start using electric instruments, which initially proved controversial.

Searchlight Pictures is expected to release A Complete Unknown on Hulu in the near future.

Conclave

Where to watch: Available to stream on Peacock, and available to rent or purchase on VOD services such as Apple TV and Prime Video.

Conclave surprised audiences last year by offering a political thriller take on the selection process for the next Pope. Directed by Edward Berger, the movie has a stacked cast including Best Actor nominee Ralph Fiennes and Best Supporting Actress nominee Isabella Rossellini. It's received a total of eight nominations at the 97th Academy Awards.

Dune: Part Two

Where to watch: Available to stream on Max, and available to rent or purchase on VOD services such as Apple TV and Prime Video.

One of two Best Picture nominees starring Timothée Chalamet, Dune: Part Two picked up a total of five nominations at the Oscars this year. The box office hit adaptation of Frank Herbert's seminal sci-fi novel Dune—directed by Denis Villeneuve—picks up directly where the previous installment left off. Audiences and critics alike came away impressed, as did filmmakers Steven Spielberg, James Cameron, and Christopher Nolan (who have all previously won Best Picture for their films).

The stacked cast list also features Zendaya, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista, and Rebecca Ferguson.

Emilia Pérez

Where to watch: Available to stream on Netflix.

Musical crime drama Emilia Pérez has already proven to be the most divisive of the Best Picture nominees, splitting audiences with its story of a Mexican cartel leader transitioning into a woman. The Jacques Audiard-directed movie stars Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez, and Karla Sofia Gascón, who has made history as the first trans woman to ever get a nomination for Best Actress at the Academy Awards. Critics were mostly positive on the film, but audiences were generally less kind (it currently has a 2.6 rating out of 5 on Letterboxd, for example).

I'm Still Here

Where to watch: At theaters in limited release, with a wide release to follow on February 14.

Political biographical drama I'm Still Here is the most recent release to secure a Best Picture nomination. In fact, it only entered its limited theatrical run earlier this month after securing a strong box office performance in its native Brazil last year. Directed by Walter Salles, the Portuguese-language movie stars Fernanda Torres and Fernanda Montenegro as Eunice Paiva at two different stages of her life. Paiva was the wife of dissident political figure Rubens Paiva, who was forced to "disappear" due to his opposition of the military dictatorship in '60s and '70s Brazil.

A streaming and VOD release has yet to be announced, so be sure to catch this one in theaters when it opens wide next month.

Nickel Boys

Where to watch: At the theater, and eventually on Prime Video.

Nickel Boys might be the underdog of the Oscars this year. Director RaMell Ross, who only made one documentary movie and one documentary short before this, has earned a lot of acclaim for its innovative approach to storytelling. Shot in a first-person point-of-view, with cinematography from Jomo Fray, Nickel Boys tells the story of two Black boys sent to an abusive reform school in Jim Crow era Florida. The cast includes Daveed Diggs, Brandon Wilson, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, and Hamish Linklater.

Critics and filmmakers, including fellow Best Picture director Coralie Fargeat, have showered the movie with praise.

The Substance

Where to watch: Available to stream on Mubi, and available to rent or purchase on VOD services such as Apple TV and Prime Video.

Perhaps the most genre-oriented movie to make the list of Best Picture nominees, The Substance is a daring body horror that outperformed expectations at the box office last year. Directed and written by French filmmaker Coralie Fargeat, The Substance stars Best Actress nominee Demi Moore as Elisabeth Sparkle, who struggles with her waning popularity as an aging star and resorts to a mysterious black market drug that produces a younger duplicate of her, portrayed by Margaret Qualley.

With stunning visual effects and plenty to say about Hollywood's treatment and expectations of women—delivered with about as much subtlety as a monster truck arriving late to drive-in—The Substance is one of 2024's most daring films. Mubi secured a surprise hit with this one.

Wicked

Where to watch: Available to purchase or rent on Prime Video, Apple TV, and other VOD services.

The first part of Jon M. Chu's adaptation of the stage musical Wicked performed well at the worldwide box office in the lead-up to Christmas, and it's done just as well with critics. Starring Cynthia Erivo, Arian Grande, Jonathan Bailey, and plenty of other major stars, Wicked secured ten nominations at the Academy Awards this year. Set in the Land of Oz before Dorothy makes her way there, the movie focuses on the origin story of the Wicked Witch of the West and her friendship with Glinda the Good.