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Oscar Nominations 2025
Here are some of this year's Academy Award nominees that you can check out and watch at home.
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Wicked
2025Get this itemWelcome to the wonderful world of Oz. In this first installment of a two-part adaptation of the hit musical play, we meet Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo), a young witch shunned because of her green skin. When she unintentionally shows her innate power, Elphaba is offered a place at Shiz University, where she eventually becomes best friends with her roommate, the ambitious and popular Galinda (Ariana Grande). This received 10 Oscar nominations: Best Picture, Best Actress (Erivo), Best Supporting Actress (Grande), Best Costume Design, Best Editing, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Original Score, Best Production Design, Best Sound, and Best Visual Effects.
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The Brutalist (Blu-ray)
2025Get this itemWriter/ Director Brady Corbet examines such themes as the pursuit of the American dream, processing trauma, and the value of art in this sweeping period drama. Adrien Brody plays fictional architect László Tóth, a Jewish-Hungarian holocaust survivor immigrating to the United States. His life is altered forever when a wealthy Pennsylvanian industrialist commissions him to design a vast community center. It received 10 Oscar nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Brody), Best Supporting Actress (Felicity Jones), Best Supporting Actor (Guy Pearce), Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Production Design. and Best Original Score.
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Conclave
2025Get this itemBased on the bestselling thriller by Robert Harris. When the Pope unexpectedly dies of a heart attack, the Sacred College of Cardinals is required to hold a conclave to elect his successor. It falls to the reluctant, yet competent, Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) to oversee the process, and he finds himself investigating secrets and conspiracies while dealing with infighting and power struggles. This got eight Oscar nominations: Best Picture, Best Actor (Fiennes), Best Supporting Actress (Isabella Rossellini), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Original Score, Best Production Design, and Best Costume Design.
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A Complete Unknown (Blu-ray)
2025Get this itemTimothée Chalamet immerses himself in the role of a young Bob Dylan in this biographical musical drama that focuses on the singer-songwriter’s arrival to New York City in 1961, his success as a folk artist, and then his controversial decision to “go electric” at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. This received eight Oscars noms: Best Picture, Best Director (James Mangold}, Best Actor (Chalamet), Best Supporting Actress (Monica Barbaro as Joan Baez), Best Supporting Actor (Edward Norton as Pete Seeger), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Sound, and Best Costume Design.
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Anora (DVD)
2025Get this itemDon't be fooled--this movie is not a romance. Young escort Ani is swept away into a whirlwind marriage with the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch. When his parents catch wind, Ani's perfect new life begins to fall apart. Leading with what appears to be an impulsive love affair, Anora brilliantly dissects classism and the mistreatment of women in society. It got six Oscar nominations: Best Picture, Best Director (Sean Baker), Best Actress (Mikey Madison), Best Supporting Actor (Yura Borisov), Best Original Screenplay (Baker), and Best Editing.
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Dune: Part Two
2024Get this itemFilmmaker Denis Villeneuve mostly sticks the landing in the second part of his sprawling adaptation of a legendarily unadaptable book, as Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) comes to embrace the destiny that once (rightfully!) horrified him. If the ending doesn't fill you with dread, you weren't paying attention. This received five Oscar nominations: Best Picture, Best Cinematography, Best Visual Effects, Best Production Design, and Best Sound.
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The Substance
2025Get this itemFeaturing the talents of Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley, we follow the story of a former A-list star who has been booted by the industry due to her age. Distraught, she turns to a black-market drug promising youth and beauty in the form of an enhanced version of yourself. The only rule? You share time. It received five Oscar nominations: Best Picture, Best Director (Coralie Fargeat), Best Actress (Moore), Best Original Screenplay (Fargeat), and Best Makeup and Hairstyling.
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Nosferatu
2025Get this itemA gothic remake of F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, this reimagination of the horror classic blends the nostalgia of the original with the incredible advances in cinematography the film industry has achieved to deliver a visually stunning and atmospheric vampire tale. Nominated for Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Hair Design, and Best Production Design.
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The Wild Robot
2024Get this itemBeautifully crafted, the story revolves around a service robot that is lost in a typhoon and lands on an uninhabited island, where she learns to become more than she was programmed to be. She finds purpose and joy through motherhood, family, and friends. Nominated for Best Animated Feature Film, Best Original Score, and Best Sound.
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Sing Sing (Blu-ray)
2024Get this itemBased on the real-life Rehabilitation Through the Arts program (RTA) at Sing Sing Correctional Facility and featuring Divine G, incarcerated for a crime he did not commit, who finds a sense of self and purpose via the theater group made up of other incarcerated men. Colman Domingo as Divine G and Clarence Maclin as Divine Eye, a newcomer to the RTA program, turn in emotionally charged performances that you’ll long remember. Nominated for Best Actor (Domingo), Best Adapted Screenplay (Maclin), and Best Original Score.
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I'm Still Here (DVD)
2025Get this itemFrom acclaimed filmmaker Walter Salles, based on the memoir by Marcelo Rubens Paiva. In 1971 during Brazil’s military dictatorship, Rubens Paiva, a civil engineer and former congressman, was arrested and forcibly disappeared. His wife Eunice spends 12 days in prison being interrogated and pressured to incriminate others suspected of left-wing activities. Her life changed forever, Eunice becomes an activist and lawyer while holding together her family of five children. Nominated for Best International Feature Film, Best Picture (the first time a Brazilian film received a nomination in this category), and Best Actress (Fernanda Torres).
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The Apprentice
2024Get this itemThis unauthorized, controversial, and divisive biographical drama examines Donald Trump's career as a real estate businessman in New York City in the 1970s and 1980s, including his relationship with attorney Roy Cohn. Directed by Ali Abbasi and written by Gabriel Sherman, the film stars Sebastian Stan as Trump, Jeremy Strong as Cohn, Martin Donovan as Trump's father Fred, and Maria Bakalova as Trump's first wife, Ivana. Nominated for Best Actor (Stan) and Best Supporting Actor (Strong).
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A Real Pain
2025Get this itemTwo estranged American cousins, marvelously played by Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin, go on a Jewish tour through Poland to honor their recently deceased grandmother. She wanted them to connect with their heritage and see the home she fled when Nazis came to power. Written and directed by Jesse Eisenberg, this dramedy was nominated for Best Supporting Actor (Culkin) and Best Original Screenplay (Eisenberg).
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September 5 (DVD)
2025Get this itemWhose story is it? In 1972 the ABC Sports crew was in Munich covering the Summer Olympics when the unthinkable happened--a terrorist attack that resulted in several Israeli athletes and coaches taken hostage. Based on true events, this movie is told from the point of view of the ABC sports crew, whose decisions and coverage of the crisis (rather than letting the ABC news team take over) made broadcast history and still influences live news today. Nominated for Best Original Screenplay.
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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
2024Get this itemIn case you’re counting, KOTPOTA is the fourth installment in the reboot POTA series (each got Oscar noms for visual effects, by the way). It’s set 300 years after the War for the POTA (2017), and for various reasons the elders did not tell younger generations everything about their world. Now is the time to ask if apes and humans can live side by side again. Nominated for Best Visual Effects.
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Alien: Romulus
2024Get this itemFor sci-fi horror fans, this is the latest installment in the Alien franchise. The plot occurs between Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986), as a group of young space colonists, scavenging a supposedly deserted space station, discover a highly dangerous, shocking lifeform. Nominated for Best Visual Effects.
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Memoir of a Snail (Blu-ray)
2025Get this itemLoosely inspired by the filmmaker's own life, set in 1970's Melbourne Australia, this animated stop-motion tragicomedy shows the trials and tribulations of Grace Pudel, struggling with loneliness, isolation, and depression--yet, she hopes to one day find happiness and become a stop-motion animator. Nominated for Best Animated Feature Film.
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Soundtrack to a Coup D'etat
2025Get this itemDirected by Johan Grimonprez. This documentary uses home video footage, newsreels, text excerpts from newspapers, diplomatic correspondence, archival interviews, and footage and songs from African griots and American jazz musicians to discuss the Cold War episode that led American musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the U.N. Security Council in protest against the murder of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba. It adapts three books: My Country, Africa: Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria by Andrée Blouin, Congo, Inc. by In Koli Jean Bofane, and To Katanga and Back: A UN Case History by Conor Cruise O’Brien. This slick film essay asks the question: Who gets to shape, record, remember, and tell the stories from history? Nominated for Best Documentary Feature Film.
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Gladiator II (DVD)
2025Get this itemSixteen years after Maximus Decimus Meridius took center arena in Gladiator (2000), corrupt twin emperors hold rule over Rome. Hanno/Lucius Verus Aurelius, an exiled prince of Rome, finds himself returned to the city of birth as a gladiator, full of rage and out for vengeance. Nominated for Best Costume Design.
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Inside Out 2
2024Get this itemRiley is entering her teen years and acquiring a whole new set of emotions. This sequel to the 2016 Oscar winner succeeds on so many storytelling levels, you’ll feel your feelings along with Riley. It was nominated for Best Animated Feature Film.
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Better Man (DVD)
2025Get this itemWhat you need to know: the unique selling point of this biopic about British pop icon Robbie Williams is that he is portrayed by a CGI monkey and everyone else is human. Nominated for Best Visual Effects.
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