Oscar's Best Picture 2025

Here are this year's crop of ten...

Anora
The Brutalist
A Complete Unknown
Conclave
Dune: Part Two
Emilia Pérez
I'm Still Here
Nickel Boys
The Substance
Wicked

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I’m predicting The Brutalist to win, but this is a close race. Anora, Conclave or even Emilia Perez (please no) could win.

If I were an Academy voter I would definitely vote for Wicked.

However, we know how many of those voters have absolutely no taste whatsoever, so most likely it will go to Emilia Perez (absolute worst winner they could have), Conclave (almost as bad, just not so outrageously so), or The Brutalist (a reasonable compromise between good taste and Academy taste).

i think emilia perez has a really strong chance because of the current political climate. i haven't seen it yet but it winning would be very funny from the things i've heard about it. personally pulling for wicked as of rn having only seen half the nominees.

My ranking of the best picture nominees that I have seen:

1. The Substance
2. Conclave
3. Wicked
4. Anora
5. Dune Part 2
6. Emilia Perez

my current ranking would be:

1. wicked
2. dune 2
3. the substance
4. conclave
5. [power gap]
6. a complete unknown

Haven't seen them all but I'd probably rank the ones I have:


1. Anora
2. Conclave
3. Wicked
4. Dune 2
5. A Complete Unknown
6. Emilia Perez


The other nominees can't be worse than Emilia Perez, surely. Hopefully seeing The Brutalist at the weekend.

Haven't seen it yet, but The Brutalist is a 3 1/2 hour film with an intermission.

The Academy is a sucker for films like that (Ben-Hur, Lawrence of Arabia).

Looks like the obvious winner.

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Only seen three nominees here will have to come back here later

I saw The Brutalist today. I would rank it number 1 out of the nominees.

Watched Conclave today so I have is seen four of the Best Picture nominees

I watched A Complete Unknown yesterday, so I have seen eight of the nominees. I would rank A Complete Unknown 7th out of the 8 nominees that I have seen.