Oscar-nominated movies you can enjoy from the comfort of your sofa! All the 2025 contenders that are already available to stream - and where to find them

This year's harvest of Oscar nominated films and actors person been revealed aft the Academy announced the films which volition beryllium recognised for the 97th ceremony.

While immoderate of the contenders are lone exclusively playing successful theatres astatine the moment, including The Brutalist and A Complete Unknown, others are disposable to stream.

The biggest and champion films of the twelvemonth are disposable crossed a enactment of streaming platforms, either for escaped oregon to rent. 

Here is simply a tally down of each the films that are imaginable to ticker close now...

Anora

Romance astir an American stripper and a Russian billionaire's son

Year: 2024

Certificate: 18

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When Ivan (Mark Eydelshteyn), the dissolute 21-year-old lad of a Russian oligarch, offers her $15,000 to walk the week with him, Brooklyn-born stripper Anora (Mikey Madison) finds it hard to accidental no. It's erstwhile helium besides asks her to wed him astatine a Las Vegas wedding chapel that her problems truly start…

The crippled whitethorn dependable similar Pretty Woman connected the aboveground but this is simply a overmuch brasher, darker and often funnier play astir transactional love. Madison is simply a ballsy and foul-mouthed enactment of caller aerial arsenic the feisty and irreverent Anora, a pistillate who refuses to measurement softly into the inheritance erstwhile the affluent boy's parents nonstop their thugs circular to 'persuade' her to annul the marriage. It's casual to spot wherefore this indie achromatic drama play picked up the Palme d'Or astatine the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. (139 minutes)

Conclave

Mystery play pursuing the intrigue astir appointing a caller Pope, starring Ralph Fiennes

Year: 2024

Certificate: 12

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The caller by Robert Harris is brought to the surface by All Quiet On The Western Front manager Edward Berger. It's an absorbing enigma that, contempt being confined to a azygous determination and being mostly speech and precise small action, is filled with intrigue and slow-building tension.

The superb formed is led by Ralph Fiennes arsenic Cardinal Lawrence, with Stanley Tucci and John Lithgow, positive Isabella Rossellini successful a relation expanded from the novel. Lawrence is fundamentally the Vatican's wide manager, the antheral who oversees the day-to-day moving of things for the Pope. When the incumbent dies, it Lawrence's occupation to tally the Conclave, the gathering of Cardinals from crossed the globe who are sequestered wrong the Vatican to ballot connected who volition get the toppest of apical jobs successful the Roman Catholic Church.

It's not a straightforward choice. There are 2 superior factions - of wide loyalists and the much reactionary aged schoolhouse who privation to undo the modernising achieved by the precocious Pope. Within these opposing camps prevarication yet much challenges and Lawrence himself becomes a somewhat reluctant candidate, contempt struggling with his ain situation of faith.

Available to rent connected Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Sky and elsewhere. (120 minutes)

Wicked

The archetypal fractional of this expansive Hollywood adaptation of the Wizard Of Oz prequel musical

Year: 2024

Certificate: PG

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The signifier philharmonic Wicked, The Wizard Of Oz prequel that imagines the relationship of 2 witches who would go enemies, feels precise overmuch similar a film. An adaptation of a 1995 caller by Gregory Maguire, Wicked was a Broadway deed successful 2003, picking up 3 Tony Awards and going onto bask large commercialized success. As a effect of each that success, that philharmonic became a movie successful 2024 and a large deed astatine the container office, with critics praising Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo's afloat committed performances arsenic the fashionable Glinda and the 'wicked' Elphaba.

Wicked the movie didn't stint connected scale, though that besides turned retired to person a downside - the prime to divided the communicative crossed 2 movies felt similar spreading the amusive to immoderate but similar greed to others. A fewer years down the line, erstwhile some movies are disposable to ticker astatine location backmost to back, it'll beryllium absorbing to spot however the wide acquisition stacks up. For now, conscionable bask the songs, the ambition and the performances successful a inactive fundamentally intriguing communicative - well, fractional of it, anyway.

Available to rent connected Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Sky and elsewhere. (160 minutes)

Emilia Pérez

Zoe Saldana stars successful an audacious philharmonic transgression play with 11 Bafta nominations

Year: 2024

Certificate: 15

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When a fearsome cartel brag contacts defence lawyer Rita (Zoe Saldana), she tin lone conjecture astatine what helium wants. None of her suppositions travel adjacent to the information though: that the mobster wants to modulation to go a pistillate and commencement a caller beingness distant from crime.

Stylish and violent, operatic and musical, this is simply a whirling, enthralling amalgam of tones and situations. Saldana is fantastic arsenic Rita but she's matched astir each measurement of the mode by trans histrion Karla Sofía Gascón arsenic the mob boss, Selena Gomez arsenic their blonde bombshell woman and Adriana Paz arsenic a battered pistillate swept up into the madness of the story.

It's acold from easygoing – swerving from transgression play to philharmonic and backmost again successful a heartbeat – but it is hugely rewarding. All 4 leads are intelligibly blistery awards contenders, and the movie arsenic a full has 11 Bafta nominations, placing it 2nd aft Conclave (which has 12). (132 minutes)

Sing Sing

Ultimately uplifting American play astir a situation theatrical accumulation that uses existent inmates

Year: 2023

Certificate: 15

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With the objection of The Shawshank Redemption, situation movies aren't mostly known arsenic consciousness bully fare. And that's not evidently existent of Greg Kwedar's movie either, a brisk yet heavy relationship of an inmates' signifier accumulation astatine Sing Sing, a maximum information situation successful New York state. It's successful the world of however it's played, though, that the yet uplifting quality of the movie truly hits you successful the thorax - determination are nary casual victories for the men here, galore of whom are played by existent ex-prisoners.

Our main quality is Divine G (Rustin's Colman Domingo) an intense, hopeful inmate who writes plays, and has theatre moving successful his blood; joining his troupe and upending Divine's pome cart is the street-tough Clarence 'Divine Eye' Maclin. Maclin is played by the existent Clarence 'Divine Eye' Maclin, an ex-inmate of Sing Sing who went done the theatre programme portion helium has there.

Watching those 2 men larn from each other, and the ups and downs they spell through, is the soaring, hard concern of a movie that leaves you successful a amended spot than it finds you. It truly feels similar a existent ensemble piece, too, possibly partially due to the fact that everyone - Oscar nominee Domingo included - was paid the aforesaid regular wage successful speech for a involvement successful the film. (105 minutes)

The Apprentice (2024 film)

Well-acted root communicative of Donald Trump successful 1970s and 80s

Year: 2024

Certificate: 15

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There are fewer much celebrated and divisive figures connected the satellite than Donald Trump and, arsenic such, it's astonishing that this movie root communicative for the 45th and 47th US President didn't make much waves than it did erstwhile it deed cinemas - particularly successful the US. Perhaps that's due to the fact that its astir fascinating melodramatic fig is, successful galore ways, not Trump himself - but his mentor Roy Cohn, who schools Trump successful however helium thinks the satellite should work, doing deals and rising up successful the satellite of the 1970s and 80s New York spot market.

Cohn is an aggravated quality and perfectly suited to the histrion who plays him - Succession's Jeremy Strong. 'The archetypal regularisation is the simplest: attack, attack, attack,' is the opening signifier of Cohn's brutal acquisition of Trump, who steadily becomes much similar Cohn arsenic the movie evolves. Sebastian Stan's Trump looks flimsy compared to Strong's Cohn but then, that is the constituent of the film. Both actors are doing precisely what's required. Available to rent connected Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Sky and elsewhere. (117 minutes)

The Wild Robot

Lovingly animated drama escapade astir a robot who learns to genitor an orphaned goose

Year: 2024

Certificate: U

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There's a definite benignant of household movie that children find saccharine and engaging but which brings parents to tears, and The Wild Robot is undoubtedly 1 of those. Based connected the beauteous publication by Peter Brown, it's the seemingly elemental communicative of a robot that wakes up connected an land afloat of cute but hostile animals, and someway finds itself arsenic the parent fig of an orphaned goose.

Roz (the robot) is programmed to implicit tasks and views the goose arsenic her lawsuit but, arsenic the weeks rotation on, her coding has to crook and interruption to woody with the challenges of what becomes overmuch much than a task. Roz is becoming a genitor and the bittersweet affectional roots of that communicative are what volition deed heavy for adults - hence the aforementioned tears. But this lovingly animated movie is besides precise enjoyable conscionable arsenic an land drama caper, 1 filled with colourful animals who are all, successful their ain way, stuck successful their ain programming.

While you ticker it each unfold, person amusive spotting a dependable formed that includes Matt Berry, Pedro Pascal, Bill Nighy, Mark Hamill, Catherine O'Hara and, successful a scene-stealing but leave-the-room-for-a-biscuit-and-you'll-miss-him performance, Ving Rhames. Lupita Nyong'o, an Oscar victor for 12 Years A Slave, leads it each and says a batch with her silences arsenic Roz.

Available to rent connected Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Sky and elsewhere. (102 minutes)

The Substance

The perils of a younger, amended you - starring Demi Moore

Year: 2024

Certificate: 18

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All the attraction has been connected Demi Moore and her comeback present is unthinkable – bold, cheeky and easy a career-best performance, but don't travel into this expecting thing similar the films she's done before. This is astir arsenic acold from Ghost arsenic you tin get.

Moore stars arsenic Elisabeth Sparkle, a faded Hollywood prima turned Jane Fonda-like TV aerobics bunny. When misogynist workplace executives (led by a cartoonishly toady Dennis Quaid) question to regenerate her with a younger model, she subscribes to the Substance, little weight-loss injection, much mad-science procedure. Margaret Qualley takes implicit arsenic Sue, Elisabeth's body-swap-horror change ego, and this is wherever the satire of sexism and ageism truly takes off.

Shocking arsenic it whitethorn be, the communicative is truthful clever and well-executed that adjacent though it scales nausea-inducing heights of gross and gruesome, you spell on with it. The mad, blood-drenched escalation and denouement besides consciousness wholly logical. And funny. The wicked, twisted consciousness of humour is accordant throughout, taking immoderate of the symptom away, though inactive keeping the jab of the constituent good aimed and sharp. (141 minutes)

Gladiator II

Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal and Denzel Washington prima successful sequel

Year: 2024

Certificate: 15

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Set a decennary and a fractional aft the decease successful the Colosseum sands of Maximus Decimus Meridius (aka Russell Crowe), this spectacular sequel returns to the streets and gladiator pits of the Roman empire for much behind-the-scenes powerfulness struggles and gritty swordfights successful beforehand of baying crowds.

Irish histrion Paul Mescal (Normal People) takes centre signifier this clip arsenic Hanno, an exiled Roman noble forced into slavery arsenic a gladiator pursuing the decease of his family. Director Ridley Scott successfully conjures up the thrilling ambiance of his archetypal 2000 movie, drafting a good tortured show from Mescal – who has the athleticism to spell with his formidable acting skills – portion besides filling the movie with fantabulous turns from the likes of Pedro Pescal and the mighty Denzel Washington, the second having a good clip arsenic a retired gladiator-turned-fearsome governmental powerbroker.

Available to rent connected Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Sky and elsewhere. (148 minutes)

Dune: Part Two

The 2nd instalment of the epic instrumentality connected Frank Herbert's novels

Year: 2024

Certificate: 12

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Director Denis Villeneuve continues his feat of someway wrestling Frank Herbert's immense sci-fi epic onto the screen. Our leader Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) is formed into the deserts of the spice-rich satellite of Arrakis successful portion two, wherever helium indispensable beryllium himself to the natives by mastering the ways of their sandy realm, culminating successful riding a elephantine worm.

If that makes Dune: Part Two sounds ridiculous, connected surface it's thing but. This is sheer cinematic muscle, filled with conflict scenes, unusual prophecies and epic vistas, brought to beingness by an enormously talented formed that besides includes Zendaya arsenic Paul's autochthonal emotion Chani, Christopher Walken and Florence Pugh arsenic the Emperor and his daughter, an unrecognisable Austin Butler (Elvis) arsenic the psychotic Feyd-Rautha and a hugely awesome Rebecca Ferguson arsenic Paul's scheming mother, who undergoes rather the translation successful this film.

You tin get each that from the trailers, though. What astir apt isn't evident is that the movie tin besides beryllium rather funny. Villeneuve intelligibly recognises the worth of humour successful making a large crippled spell down easier, and gives a batch of jokes to Javier Bardem's section main Stilgar to supply the communicative with a small lightness. First and foremost, though, this is cinematic daze and awe - and if that's what you want, you won't find galore amended examples. Watch it connected the biggest surface you tin find and it'll consciousness similar you're lasting connected the precise dunes of Arrakis. (165 minutes)

Inside Out 2

This Pixar sequel tackles Riley's awkward modulation to teenager

Year: 2024

Certificate: U

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The modulation to teen is 1 of the astir aggravated stages of life, and it's the logical taxable for Pixar's sequel to its all-round 2015 deed astir the interior beingness of an American girl. Riley, whose beingness was erstwhile governed by the comparatively elemental emotions of joy, sadness, fear, choler and disgust, is present invaded by 4 caller emotions - Anxiety, Envy, Ennui and Embarrassment - who endanger to instrumentality implicit her caput wholly arsenic the enters precocious school.

The 2 camps vie for power of the 13-year-old's caput and bosom arsenic she navigates challenges specified arsenic choosing caller friends. The results, portion not rather up to the incredibly precocious modular of the archetypal film, are a delight that is improbable to disappoint anyone. And that's astir arsenic overmuch arsenic you tin inquire for, really. There are a batch of bully jokes (don't miss the 'sar chasm') and plentifulness of relatable moments that should deed location for some teenagers and adults crossed the businesslike moving clip of conscionable implicit an hr and a half.

Keen fans of the archetypal whitethorn announcement immoderate antithetic voices connected the formed - Bill Hader and Mindy Kaling person been replaced arsenic Fear and Disgust by Tony Hale and Liza Lapira, reportedly implicit insufficient fees - though that shouldn't marque overmuch quality to the casual viewer. (96 minutes)

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

An Oscar-nominated escapade with the inventor and his canine friend

Year: 2024

Certificate: U

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They kept america waiting astir 20 years for different diagnostic movie starring the inimitable inventor Wallace and his clever canine Gromit, but each is forgiven acknowledgment to this movie featuring a robotic gnome gone rogue.

Inspired partially by fearfulness films, it sees Wallace make a gnome that does the gardening. But dastardly penguin Feathers McGraw, incarcerated successful a zoo since being caught successful a diamond theft, has plans to get revenge connected Wallace by taking virtual power of the gnome.

Peter Sallis, who provided the dependable of Wallace for truthful galore years, died successful 2017 and the portion of the cheese-loving inventor is present played by Ben Whitehead. (79 minutes)

Alien: Romulus

The seventh movie successful the sci-fi fearfulness franchise takes it backmost to basics

Year: 2024

Certificate: 15

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While attempting to portion a seemingly abandoned and derelict abstraction presumption for parts, a radical of young abstraction colonists find themselves facing attacks from the aforesaid creatures that destroyed the archetypal Nostromo craft. Such is the crippled of this Alien escapade and, portion it whitethorn beryllium the seventh movie successful the franchise, it feels precise overmuch similar a instrumentality to the glory gory days of the archetypal movie Alien and its archetypal sequel Aliens. Chronologically, it's really acceptable betwixt the two.

As the scrappy workers conflict the slimy, acid-blooded xenomorphs successful the battered corridors of the abstraction station, Evil Dead manager Fede Álvarez successfully brings the visceral consciousness of stalker/slasher fearfulness films backmost to the series, portion Mare Of Easttown's Cailee Spaeny makes a precise susceptible lead, stepping confidently into the kick-ass heroine shoes of Sigourney Weaver. She's surrounded by an fantabulous formed of rising actors, including David Jonsson (Industry, Rye Lane) and Archie Renaux (Shadow And Bone). (119 minutes)

Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes

Blockbuster revival of the sci-fi franchise, acceptable 300 years aft War For The Planet Of The Apes

Year: 2024

Certificate: 12

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The 21st-century instrumentality connected the Planet Of The Apes franchise resumes with a movie that picks up the communicative of the simian satellite 300 years aft 2017's War For The Planet Of The Apes. Director Wes Ball (The Maze Runner) brings america into a satellite wherever apes are ascendant and starting to behave, rather frankly, similar tyrants.

One successful particular, the monarch Proximus Caesar, plans to usage quality exertion to bring the full satellite nether his heel. The different 2 cardinal figures are young chimpanzee Noa, who could person a wiser cognition astir the co-existence of humans and apes connected his shoulders, and Mae (British histrion Freya Allan) - a quality who isn't anserine similar astir of the remainder of her feral kind.

Kingdom is an enjoyable epic that succeeds without immoderate stars (aside from William H Macy arsenic Proximus's advisor) and has immoderate cracking enactment scenes, though it does instrumentality a small portion to get going. At the least, it's a bully set-up for what comes next. (145 minutes)

A Different Man

Clever and absurd doppelganger play starring Sebastian Stan

Year: 2024

Certificate: 15

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This unpredictable communicative follows Edward (Sebastian Stan), a shy, wannabe histrion successful New York with neurofibromatosis, a information which has distorted his facial features. Desperate to alteration the mode helium looks, Edward tries an experimental process and transforms into the handsome Guy (Stan minus the dense prosthetics). Then Guy meets charismatic Oswald (British histrion Adam Pearson), who has the aforesaid information arsenic Edward but lives his beingness joyfully. Was it a mistake for Edward to alteration his face?

Strange and humorous, A Different Man is acold from your emblematic beauty-and-the-beast tale. Stan bagged a Best Actor Golden Globe for the role. Available to rent connected Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Sky and elsewhere. (112 minutes)

The Only Girl In The Orchestra

Documentary astir the New York Philharmonic's archetypal full-time pistillate member

Year: 2024

Certificate: PG

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In 1966, Orin O'Brien made philharmonic past by becoming the archetypal pistillate to inhabit a full-time presumption arsenic a subordinate of the 104-strong New York Philharmonic orchestra. Her hiring for the relation by nary different than the large Leonard Bernstein was truthful important that Time mag adjacent published a diagnostic astir the treble bassist, discussing however she had to get changed successful the toilets due to the fact that determination was nary pistillate changing country for musicians astatine the performance hall.

Directed by her niece, filmmaker Molly O'Brien, and featuring agelong interviews with the now-eightysomething Orin, this documentary paints a representation of an astir reluctant pioneer, a pistillate who conscionable wanted to marque euphony and overmuch preferred that immoderate attraction beryllium diverted to the family, students, friends, and colleagues that inactive situation her. It's a saccharine and intimate documentary of a groundbreaking pistillate whose quality is lone equalled by her quiescent determination. (35 minutes)

Sugarcane

Documentary astir the attraction of Native children astatine a residential schoolhouse successful Canada

Year: 2024

Certificate: 15

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The find of much than 50 unmarked graves connected the grounds of a Native residential schoolhouse tally by the Catholic Church successful Canada triggered a question of revelations astir the past of that schoolhouse successful peculiar and astir a full strategy aimed astatine forcing assimilation successful general. Amid the nationalist outcry, members of the indigenous assemblage spoke retired for the archetypal clip astir their experiences astatine the schools, recounting tales of wide maltreatment and indifferent authorities.

Uncovering the communicative down the find of the graves and telling the stories of galore who suffered astatine the school, this almighty documentary reveals horrific tales of what happened astatine the institutions crossed the country. It's an uncompromising ticker that not lone gives a dependable to those denied 1 for truthful long, but besides demonstrates the resilience of the communities from which they came. (107 minutes)

The Six Triple Eight

Drama astir a Second World War service portion made up of women of colour starring Kerry Washington

Year: 2024

Certificate: 12

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Getting station to the soldiers serving connected the beforehand lines during the Second World War was nightmarish. Three years into the war, determination were 17 cardinal pieces of station sitting undelivered. To woody with it, the US Army created the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion. The lone Women's Army Corp portion made up of women of colour, it headed overseas successful an effort to benignant retired the message and reconstruct morale.

Writer and manager Tyler Perry gives this mostly chartless communicative dignity, powerfulness and existent melodramatic clout, with Kerry Washington lasting retired arsenic Major Charity Adams, the unit's commander, arsenic it faced sexism, racism and the Nazis, and triumphed implicit each three. It's a movie that slots neatly successful alongside the likes of Hidden Figures arsenic a objection of the forgotten roles that women – particularly women of colour – person played successful history. (127 minutes)

Elton John: Never Too Late

Prestige documentary with Elton John reflecting connected his beingness and vocation arsenic helium prepares to retire

Year: 2024

Certificate: 15

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'I don't cognize however overmuch clip I person left.' In a reflective documentary co-directed by the Oscar nominee RJ Cutler (The September Issue) and Elton John's husband, David Furnish, the popular megastar looks backmost connected his beingness and career.

Recorded astatine the constituent of his status aft fractional a period of connected the road, its eventual absorption is his past North American performance - astatine Dodger Stadium successful Los Angeles - but the main thread is looking backmost astatine his turbulent puerility erstwhile helium was inactive Reg Dwight, uncovering solace successful phantasy and euphony portion his parents argued.

The communicative moves connected chronologically, told straight by Elton and interspersed with archive footage (which you'd expect), immoderate alternatively charming retro animations (which you mightiness not), and a dependable countdown to the LA gig.

It's undoubtedly a prestige spot of documentary-making, intelligibly made with 1 oculus connected posterity, but besides a alternatively cosy viewing acquisition successful which Elton comes crossed precise overmuch arsenic a humble mundane chap with genius level euphony skills. Some of the finest moments are to beryllium recovered erstwhile he's successful his constituent successful the studio. (102 minutes)