Your Oscar Nominations Roundup and Films to Watch
Who’s who in the 2025 Oscar Season race? With the ceremony, slightly delayed due to the California wildfires, finally taking place in the first week of March this year, we take a look at the key films to know from the 97th Academy Award lineup with Brandon Blake, entertainment attorney Los Angeles at Blake & Wang P.A.
Where We Stand
2024 itself brought us a very unpredictable and rather turbulent, although ultimately successful, blockbuster year. Films that were meant to be blockbusters flopped, while little-considered ones saw massive popular traction. From the festival circuit, we saw some stellar titles emerge, including Anora, A Real Pain, and The Substance proving to be crowd-pleasers.
On the animated front, Inside Out 2 proved a massive sleeper success, while Dune: Part Two was clear in its Best Picture hopes. The indie circuit came back to life amazingly, with titles catching audience attention throughout the year (like Civil War and Conclave), but particularly accelerating in the final half of the year.
The Oscar Race
This leaves the Oscar race in an interesting
place. Several of the nominated films weren’t even on critical radars until
late in the year.
For the coveted Best Picture title, it was a contentious and drawn-out voting round. Anora still looks like the best bet to win, despite its surprising Golden Globes loss. However, Conclave and The Brutalist could have surprises up their sleeve.
For Best Director, we saw surprise nominations for The Substance, and Conclave was a surprise snub. While The Brutalist seems like a clear win for Brady Corbet, it does have significant competition from Anora, Emilia Pérez, and The Substance.
On the International Picture side, Emilia
Pérez is still looking like the strongest entry, although its recent social
media scandal has hurt public perception a little. I’m Still Here and Flow,
are, however, strong contenders, and The
Seed of the Sacred Fig may be a surprise upstart.
With the ceremony hitting the airwaves on Sunday, March 2, we only have a little longer to wait. It will be interesting to see if current predictions win out, or if a dark horse will surprise us all.
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