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Category: Best Picture
The Academy nominated the maximum 10 films for Best Picture, providing voters with a wide range of strong choices. But there’s no Oppenheimer in this cohort, and without a clear frontrunner, one could make a convincing case for at least four of the nominees.
Heading into award season, the “safe” bet had been on Anora, which became an early favorite after it won the Palme d’Or at Cannes. But the momentum has been behind Brady Corbet’s historical epic The Brutalist, papal thriller Conclave, and Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown as of late. Our previous pick, four-time Golden Globe winner Emilia Pérez, has suffered enough bad press lately that we don’t 2025 will be the year Netflix wins its first Best Picture Oscar.
IMDb Editors’ Pick: Conclave
See all the nominations here
The Academy nominated the maximum 10 films for Best Picture, providing voters with a wide range of strong choices. But there’s no Oppenheimer in this cohort, and without a clear frontrunner, one could make a convincing case for at least four of the nominees.
Heading into award season, the “safe” bet had been on Anora, which became an early favorite after it won the Palme d’Or at Cannes. But the momentum has been behind Brady Corbet’s historical epic The Brutalist, papal thriller Conclave, and Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown as of late. Our previous pick, four-time Golden Globe winner Emilia Pérez, has suffered enough bad press lately that we don’t 2025 will be the year Netflix wins its first Best Picture Oscar.
IMDb Editors’ Pick: Conclave
See all the nominations here