Oscars 2025 Best Picture: Watch All 10 Academy Awards Nominees In India - A Complete Unknown, The Brutalist, Wicked And More

The Oscars is ready to roll the red carpet to honour the best in cinema on the biggest night of the Hollywood awards season. Running in the Best Picture nominee are Emilia Pérez, A Complete Unknown, The Brutalist, Wicked, Dune: Part Two, The Substance, Conclave, Anora, The Brutalist and Nickel Boys. Are you figuring out where to watch them? Are they streaming? For free? In theaters?

A Complete Unknown (8 Oscar nominations)

James Mangold’s acclaimed Bob Dylan biopic did well Oscar morning with best picture, best director, best actor for Timothée Chalamet, supporting actress for Monica Barbaro, who plays Joan Baez, and supporting actor for Edward Norton as Pete Seeger.

Where to watch: Theatres in India

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The Brutalist (10 Oscar nominations)

A major player, despite the lack of a SAG ensemble nomination, this film stars Adrien Brody as a noted architect and Holocaust survivor who attempts to start life anew in America and gets a life-changing commission from Guy Pearce’s wealthy industrialist. It won the Golden Globe for best director, best drama and best actor, and Brody won the BAFTA too. Felicity Jones was also among its Oscar nominations.

Where to watch: Theatres in India

Emilia Perez (13 Oscar nominations)

Jacques Audiard’s audacious musical crime thriller about a Mexican drug lord who undergoes gender-affirming surgery was steamrolling awards season, with a leading 13 Oscar nominations, including best picture, SAG noms for Karla Sofía Gascón and Zoe Saldaña, who also won at the Globes, until it was derailed by controversy over some not-too-old comments from Gascón. But after a few BAFTA wins it still has a shot, especially for Saldaña.

Where to watch: Netflix and theatres in India

Conclave (8 Oscar nominations)

This pulpy, smart thriller about the selection of a new pope got a DGA nom for director Edward Berger and a SAG nod for Ralph Fiennes’ lead performance. It also won the best screenplay Golden Globe. Berger was not nominated for a best director Oscar, but Isabella Rossellini got in for supporting actress.

Where to watch: Theatres in India

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The Substance (5 Oscar nominations)

Demi Moore’s turn as an aging actor who goes to extremes to preserve her looks in Coralie Fargeat’s body horror already won her a Golden Globe, got her a SAG nomination and an Oscar nod. It was also nominated for best picture and best director.

Where to Watch: Mubi

Dune: Part Two (5 Oscar nominations)

The first Dune got a best picture nomination but Denis Villeneuve was snubbed for a directing nod — and the same thing happened with Part Two. He was also left off the Directors Guild of America list.

Where to Watch: JioHotstar

Anora (6 Oscar nominations)

Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winner about a New York stripper’s rollercoaster romance with a Russian oligarch’s son emerged as the Oscar frontrunner after big wins at the Directors and Producers Guild, and Mikey Madison got the BAFTA over Demi Moore. It will stream on March 17.

Where to Watch: JioHotstar

I'm Still Here (3 Oscar Nominations)

This Brazilian film from Walter Salles stars Fernanda Torres (who won the Golden Globe) as Eunice Paiva, the wife of Rubens Paiva, a former leftist Brazilian congressman who was taken and not returned during the country’s military dictatorship. It made best picture, best actress and best international feature. It will stream on OTT after the Academy Awards.

Where to watch: Netflix

Wicked (10 Oscar nominations)

Jon M. Chu’s vibrant adaptation of the popular movie musical (well, the first half) was widely recognized by the academy, with nods for Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande and best picture. It also snagged a coveted best ensemble nomination from SAG, as well as individual nods for Erivo, Grande and Jonathan Bailey.

Where to Watch: ZEE5

Nickel Boys (2 Oscar nominations)

RaMell Ross used first-person POV to adapt Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about an abusive reform school in the Jim Crow South and for it got a best first feature nomination from the DGA.

Where to Watch: Apple TV