Where and When You Can Watch This Year's Oscar Nominations

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 — figuring out where to watch this year's Oscar nominations can be a pain. So, we've done the legwork for you, tracking down where you can find every potential best picture, best actor and actress, best soundtrack and more.

Here's where to watch this year's Oscar nominations in Australia, whether they're streaming now, available on demand or still playing in cinemas.

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.

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.

Marty Supreme — In cinemas

Directed with a frantic charm by Josh Safdie (Uncut Gems), Timothée Chalamet leads Marty Supreme as Marty Mauser, a 23-year-old shoe salesman with a clear dream to become the greatest table tennis player in the world. And he'll hustle, lie, scheme and manipulate everybody who can help him make it to the top. Watch it in cinemas now.

Nominations: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Costume Design, Best Casting, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Production Design.

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.

Sentimental Value — In cinemas

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. Watch it in cinemas now.

Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best International Feature Film, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing.

Hamnet — In cinemas

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. Watch it in cinemas now.

Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Costume Design, Best Production Design, Best Casting.

The Secret Agent — In cinemas

Set during the political upheaval of a brutal military dictatorship in 1970s Brazil, this film from director Kleber Mendonça Filho (Bacurau) stars Wagner Moura as Marcelo, a man attempting to escape authoritarianism and retreat to a coastal town in the hope of reconnecting with his family and evading forces from his past. Watch it in cinemas now.

Nominations: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best International Feature Film, Best Casting.

Bugonia — Available on VOD and Digital

First, it was the Oscar-winning Poor Things; now, director Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone return to the Academy with Bugonia. This time, Stone plays a pharmaceutical executive who's kidnapped by two conspiracy theorists (Jesse Plemons and Aidan Delbis) who believe she's secretly an alien intent on destroying planet Earth. Rent or buy it on a digital storefront of your choice.

Nominations: Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score.

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.

Train Dreams — Netflix

Centred around logger (Joel Edgerton) and his family in the early 20th century, Train Dreams as much a meditation as a film, reflecting on progress through the workforce that carved a nation out of the wilderness of North America. Watch it now on Netflix.

Nominations: Best Picture, Best Cinematography, Best Original Song.

Blue Moon — In cinemas

It's the worst night of theatre legend Lorentz Hart's life (played by a short, balding Ethan Hawke), having just watched Oklahoma!, the first new production of his former partner Richard Rodgers (Andrew Scott), and feeling like he's way past his glory days. Watch it in cinemas now.

Nominations: Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay.

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.

It Was Just an Accident — In cinemas

An Azerbaijani mechanic, who was once imprisoned and interrogated while blindfolded by Iranian authorities, recognises a customer with a prosthetic leg as one of his former torturers. Watch it in cinemas now.

Nominations: Best International Feature Film, Best Original Screenplay.

Sirāt — In cinemas February 26

A father, joined by his young son, explores the deeply unfamiliar world of the Moroccan desert rave scene in search of his daughter. In Australian cinemas from February 26.

Nominations: Best International Feature Film, Best Original Screenplay.

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.

Jurassic World Rebirth — VOD and Digital

With the global dinosaur population in decline, a pharmaceutical exec recruits a crew of mercenaries and a palaeontologist to explore a quarantined island and acquire DNA from supersized prehistoric species. Buy or rent on a digital storefront of your choice.

Nominations: Best Visual Effects.

The Lost Bus — Apple TV

A bus driver (Matthew McConaughey) and a school teacher (America Ferrera) work together on a desperate mission to rescue 22 school children stranded in the deadly 2018 Paradise wildfire. Watch it now on Apple TV.

Nominations: Best Visual Effects.

Kokuho — In cinemas

A young gangster is taken under the wing of a legendary kabuki performer (Ken Watanabe) and spends his life alongside the actor's only son as they grow and evolve together, perfecting the art of traditional Japanese theatre. Watch it in cinemas now.

Nominations: Best Makeup & Hairstyling.

The Smashing Machine — VOD and Digital

Dwayne Johnson swaps the big-screen blockbusters you're used to seeing him in for a more vulnerable role as troubled MMA fighter Mark Kerr. Buy or rent on a digital storefront of your choice.

Nominations: Best Makeup & Hairstyling.

The Ugly Stepsister — Shudder, VOD and Digital

A Norwegian-made horror spin on Cinderella, The Ugly Stepsister switches to the titular perspective for a tale about how far someone can go to be beautiful. Stream it on Shudder or rent or buy on a digital storefront of your choice.

Nominations: Best Makeup & Hairstyling.

Arco — In cinemas March 12

In 2075, a young girl meets a time-travelling boy from an idyllic future and will do anything to help him get home. Releasing in Australian cinemas on March 12.

Nominations: Best Animated Feature Film.

Elio — Disney+

A young space fanatic finds himself whisked away on an adventure of self-discovery with intergalactic proportions. Stream it now on Disney+.

Nominations: Best Animated Feature Film.

Zootopia 2 — VOD and Digital

Nick Wilde and Judy Hopps investigate a case of a slithering newcomer to Zootopia that threatens to turn the metropolis upside down. Buy or rent it on a digital storefront of your choice.

Nominations: Best Animated Feature Film.

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You — In cinemas

Rose Byrne stars as a mother balancing life, work, a sick child, an absent husband, a missing person and an unusual therapist — all without having a nervous breakdown. Watch it in cinemas now.

Nominations: Best Actress.

The Alabama Problem — HBO Max

An exposé on the brutal truth of life inside America's prison system, filmed by prisoners on contraband phones. Watch it on HBO Max now.

Nominations: Best Documentary Feature Film.

Come See Me in the Good Light — Apple TV

Facing an incurable cancer diagnosis, two poets go on a journey of love and life. Watch it on Apple TV now.

Nominations: Best Documentary Feature Film.

Cutting Through Rocks — Streaming on DocPlay March 2

A divorced, motorcycle-riding, former midwife becomes the first elected councilwoman of her conservative Iranian village. Watch it on DocPlay from March 2.

Nominations: Best Documentary Feature Film.

Mr Nobody Against Putin — In cinemas

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 in cinemas now.

Nominations: Best Documentary Feature Film.

The Voice of Hind Rajab — In cinemas March 3

Red Cross emergency workers manning an emergency phone line do everything they can to save a young woman in Gaza trapped in a car while under fire.

Nominations: Best International 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.

Song Sung Blue — In cinemas

Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson co-lead a bedazzled, musical (and true) love story about a husband and wife who formed a legendary Neil Diamond tribute act. Watch it in cinemas now.

Nominations: Best Actress.

Keen to keep expanding your cinematic horizons? Check our guide for what movies we're going to be watching this month.