Oscars: All 207 movies eligible for Best Picture nominations this year, from ‘Aadujeevitham – The Goat Life’ to ‘Your Monster’
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences announced on Monday the 207 feature films eligible for Best Picture consideration, two days before voting for the 2025 Oscar nominations begins.
There are 323 feature films eligible for the Academy Awards, but just 207 met the Best Picture competition eligibility requirements.
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As stated by the Academy in a press release, “To be eligible for consideration in the general entry categories, under rules implemented for the 97th Academy Awards year, feature films must open in a commercial motion picture theater in at least one of six U.S. metropolitan areas: Los Angeles County; the City of New York; the Bay Area; Chicago, Illinois; Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas; and Atlanta, Georgia, between Jan. 1, 2024, and Dec. 31, 2024, and complete a minimum qualifying run of seven consecutive days in the same venue. Feature films must have a running time of more than 40 minutes.”
But Best Picture eligibility is different. Films under consideration must not only hit the general entry threshold but also submit a confidential Academy Representation and Inclusion Standards (RAISE) form. From there, films must meet two of the four RAISE requirements in addition to the expanded theatrical eligibility requirement, “which includes a theatrical run of seven days, consecutive or non-consecutive, in 10 of the top 50 U.S. markets, no later than 45 days after the initial release in 2024.”
“Eligibility in the Best Picture category is subject to change if late-in-the-year films do not complete the planned expanded theatrical run by Jan. 24, 2025,” added the Academy.
The RAISE requirements focus on diversity and inclusion. All eligible Best Picture contenders must clear two of four hurdles focused on onscreen representation (either in subject or cast), diversity among department heads (at least two department heads from an underserved group or six crew members from underrepresented backgrounds), “industry access opportunities,” and diversity among marketing and public relations staff.
This year’s roster of films includes all the expected Best Picture contenders, including Golden Globe winners The Brutalist and Emilia Perez, and top hopefuls like Anora, A Complete Unknown, Conclave, and The Substance.
Oscar nominations voting begins on Wednesday, Jan. 8, at 9 a.m. PT/12 p.m. ET and concludes on Sunday, Jan. 12, at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET.
Check out the full list of 2025 Oscar Best Picture contenders from Aadujeevitham – The Goat Life to Your Monster.
Aadujeevitham – The Goat Life
Abigail
The Absence of Eden
Albany Road
Alien: Romulus
All We Imagine as Light
Am I Racist?
The American Society of Magical Negroes
American Star
Anora
The Apprentice
Argylle
Arthur the King
Babes
Babygirl
Back to Black
Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme
Band of Maharajas
The Beast
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Better Man
Between the Temples
The Bikeriders
Black Dog
Blink Twice
Blitz
Bob Marley: One Love
Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin.
The Book of Clarence
The Brutalist
Bull Street
Cabrini
Challengers
City of Dreams
Civil War
Close to You
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Critic
Cuckoo
Daddio
Dandelion
Day of the Fight
The Dead Don’t Hurt
Deadpool & Wolverine
The Deliverance
Despicable Me 4
Dìdi
A Different Man
Drive-Away Dolls
Dune: Part Two
Elton John: Never Too Late
Emilia Pérez
The End
Evil Does Not Exist
Exhibiting Forgiveness
Ezra
The Fall Guy
Fancy Dance
The Fire Inside
Firebrand
Flow
Fly Me to the Moon
The Forge
Fresh Kills
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Ghostlight
Gladiator II
Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire
Good One
Goodrich
The Greatest Hits
Green Border
Handling the Undead
Hard Truths
Here
Heretic
His Three Daughters
Hit Man
The Hopeful
Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1
How to Make Millions before Grandma Dies
I Saw the TV Glow
The Idea of You
IF
I’ll Be Right There
I’m Still Here
Imaginary
The Imaginary
Immaculate
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
In the Summers
Inside Out 2
The Instigators
It Ends with Us
Janet Planet
Joker: Folie à Deux
Juror #2
Kanguva
The Keeper
Kensuke’s Kingdom
Kinds of Kindness
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Kneecap
Kraven the Hunter
Kung Fu Panda 4
La Cocina
The Last Front
The Last Showgirl
Last Summer
Late Night with the Devil
Lee
Lisa Frankenstein
Longing
Longlegs
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
Los Frikis
Love Lies Bleeding
Maria
MaXXXine
Megalopolis
Memoir of a Snail
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Moana 2
Monkey Man
Mufasa: The Lion King
My Old Ass
My Penguin Friend
National Anthem
Never Let Go
Nickel Boys
Night Swim
Nightbitch
1992
Nosferatu
Oh, Canada
One Life
The Order
Ordinary Angels
The Outrun
The People’s Joker
The Performance
The Piano Lesson
Piece by Piece
Porcelain War
Problemista
Putul
Queens
Queer
A Quiet Place: Day One
A Real Pain
Red One
The Return
The Room Next Door
Rumours
Santosh
Sasquatch Sunset
Saturday Night
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Seeking Mavis Beacon
September 5
Shirley
Sing Sing
The Six Triple Eight
Skincare
Small Things like These
Sometimes I Think about Dying
Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot
Spaceman
Speak No Evil
Strange Darling
The Strangers – Chapter 1
Stress Positions
The Substance
Sugarcane
Suncoast
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
Swatantrya Veer Savarkar
Thelma
The Thicket
Tokyo Cowboy
Touch
Transformers One
Trap
Tuesday
Twisters
Ultraman: Rising
Unstoppable
Venom: The Last Dance
Vermiglio
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
The Watchers
We Grown Now
We Live in Time
White Bird
Wicked
Wicked Little Letters
Widow Clicquot
The Wild Robot
Wildcat
Will & Harper
William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill
Wolfs
Young Woman and the Sea
Your Monster
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