Overview
Award season might run across global events and involve dozens of prestigious awards from Critics' Choice to Golden Globes and BAFTAs, and AACTAs, but it's hard to deny that it all comes to a head with the annual Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars. For Hollywood, it's the night of nights, where a year of films comes to its conclusion in a celebration of the greatest filmmakers, actors and creatives in the game.
Whether it's a love for filmmaking, a need to stay in the loop or if you're just looking for some inspiration on what's worth your time — These awards steer film opinions for years to come, and many a to-be-watched list for cinephiles around the world. Now that this year's winners are rolling down the red carpet, we've done the legwork for you, tracking down where you can find the best picture, best actor and actress, best soundtrack and more.
Here's where to watch this year's Oscar winners in Australia, whether they're streaming now, available on demand or still playing in cinemas.
One Battle After Another — HBO Max
The other main contender for the best film of 2025 is Paul Thomas Anderson's (There Will Be Blood) One Battle After Another, a timely film that follows ex-revolutionary Bob (Leonardo DiCaprio), who has to call on his former brothers and sisters in arms to rescue his daughter (Chase Infiniti) from a slimy, antisemitic army colonel (Sean Penn). Watch it now on HBO Max.
Nominations: Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Casting, Best Original Score, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Production Design, Best Sound.
Winner: Best Casting, Best Supporting Actor (Sean Penn), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Director, Best Picture.
Sinners — HBO Max
The latest film by Ryan Coogler (Black Panther) is the most Oscar-nominated movie in history. Sinners follows twin brothers Smoke and Stack (Michael B. Jordan) who return to their home of Clarksdale, Mississippi, with the hopes of opening a juke joint, but things quickly get bloody when a vampire (Jack O'Connell) arrives intending to claim the community for himself. Watch it now on HBO Max.
Nominations: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Score, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Visual Effects, Best Film Editing, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Costume Design, Best Production Design, Best Sound.
Winner: Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Cinematography, Best Actor (Michael B. Jordan)
Frankenstein — Netflix
A lifelong filmmaking dream for director Guillermo Del Toro (The Shape of Water), this take on the classic novel stars Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein opposite Jacob Elordi as Frankenstein's Monster — telling the story of Frankenstein's childhood all the way to the Monster's relentless, vengeful pursuit of him across the world. Watch it now on Netflix.
Nominations: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Score, Best Cinematography, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Costume Design, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Production Design, Best Sound.
Winner: Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Production Design
KPop Demon Hunters — Netflix
Netflix's biggest original animated film ever needs no introduction, thanks to its millions of fans, earworm original songs and wildly entertaining premise about Korean pop stars who moonlight as demon hunters. Watch it on Netflix now.
Nominations: Best Original Song, Best Animated Feature Film.
Winner: Best Original Song, Best Animated Feature Film
Sentimental Value — Available on VOD and Digital
Family and parenting are at the heart of this moving film from Joachim Trier (The Worst Person in the World), in which Stellan Skarsgård stars as a filmmaker who comes back into the life of his estranged daughter to offer her a leading role in his new film. Audiences worldwide advise bringing tissues. Rent or buy it on a digital storefront of your choice.
Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best International Feature Film, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing.
Winner: Best International Feature Film.
Hamnet — Available on VOD and Digital
Speaking of tissues, the other major tearjerker of 2025 also earned eight Oscar nominations. Chloé Zhao's Hamnet adapts the Maggie O'Farrell book of the same name, exploring the relationship between Agnes (Jessie Buckley) and William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal), their challenges as parents, and the devastating grief they share after an unthinkable tragedy. Rent or buy it on a digital storefront of your choice.
Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Costume Design, Best Production Design, Best Casting.
Winner: Best Actress (Jessie Buckley).
F1 The Movie — Apple TV
Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinki's F1 stars Brad Pitt as nomadic driver Sonny Hayes, who gets approached by an old rival, now the owner of a low-ranking Formula One team, to become his new driver alongside a younger rival co-driver Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris). Watch it now on Apple TV.
Nominations: Best Picture, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound, Best Film Editing.
Winner: Best Sound.
Avatar: Fire and Ash — In cinemas
The third film in James Cameron's groundbreaking Avatar series sees the Sully family face a new threat in the form of a hostile Na'vi tribe that allies with the destructive RDA. Watch it in cinemas now.
Nominations: Best Costume Design, Best Visual Effects.
Winner: Best Visual Effects.
Mr Nobody Against Putin — DocPlay
During the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war, a Russian schoolteacher goes underground to record the extreme propaganda that Russian students are being presented. Watch it on DocPlay now.
Nominations: Best Documentary Feature Film.
Winner: Best Documentary Feature Film.
Weapons — HBO Max
A teacher in a small town becomes the centre of a spine-tingling mystery when 27 children from her classroom go missing in the middle of the night. Watch it now on HBO Max.
Nominations: Best Actress in a Supporting Role.
Winner: Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Amy Madigan).
Keen to keep expanding your cinematic horizons? Check our guide for what movies we're going to be watching this month.