Conclave will be hoping to replicate its Bafta success at this year’s Oscars after winning big at the prestigious ceremony. The film, starring Ralph Fiennes, tied with The Brutalist for the most wins at this year’s Baftas nabbing awards for best film, outstanding British film, best adapted screenplay, and editing. Edward Berger’s drama film which centres on the Catholic church is also up for a whopping eight Academy Awards, including best picture.
Emilia Perez leads the charge at this year’s Oscars with 13 nods, followed by The Brutalist and Wicked both up for 10 accolades. Horror made a big impression on this year’s Academy Awards, with The Substance, Nosferatu, and Alien: Romulus all receiving nods. The most eagerly-anticipated category each year is best picture, with 10 of the year’s top films battling it out for the accolade. Naturally, you may not have caught them all during their cinema run the first time around – and there may be some you’ve never heard of.
But fear not, as we round up where you can watch the 10 best picture contenders including Bafta-winning Conclave right now so you can swot up before March 1. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. Where to watch: In cinemas now and available to buy via Sky, Apple TV, and Prime Video. Sean Baker’s latest film Anora has racked up an impressive six Oscar nominations, including directing, original screenplay and editing, lead actress for Mikey Madison, supporting actor for Yuriy Borisov and best picture.
The film follows the titular Anora (Madison), a young sex worker from Brooklyn who sees her Cinderella story come true when she meets Ivan ‘Vanya’ Zakharov (Borisov), the son of a Russian oligarch. After several encounters, the pair get married, but once the news reaches Russie, Vanya’s parents set out for New York to have the marriage annulled. Where to watch: In cinemas now. Brady Corbet’s three-and-a-half-hour epic The Brutalist has snagged a whopping 10 nominations this year, despite the AI controversy surrounding the picture.
Starring Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, and Joe Alwyn, the film follows Hungarian-Jewish immigrant, László Tóth (Brody), who leaves behind the horrors of his past in post-World War Two Europe to live out the American dream. He settles in Pennsylvania, where wealthy and prominent industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren (Pearce) recognises his talent, changing his life in the process. Two films starring Timothée Chalamet are up for awards at this year’s Oscars, including the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown with eight nods.
The film follows Chalamet as the now reclusive musician Dylan from a 19-year-old and his ‘meteoric rise as a folk singer to concert halls and the top of the charts’ up to the singer’s electric rock and roll performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965. It also stars Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo, a character based on Suze Rotolo, an artist who was part of the Greenwich Village scene along with Dylan and was his girlfriend in the early 1960s.
Where to watch: In cinemas now and available to rent and buy via Sky, Prime Video, and Apple TV. After facing backlash due to its portrayal of Catholics, Conclave has received eight nominations at this year’s Oscars. Based on Robert Harris’ 2016 novel, it follows Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) who is tasked with the ancient process of selecting the next Pope. It becomes murky, however, when he ends up uncovering shocking truths about the potential candidate, secrets which lead right to the heart of the Catholic Church.
Where to watch: Now TV, and available to rent and buy via Sky, Apple TV, and Prime Video. Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two rounded up five Oscar nominations after its predecessor took the awards by storm with 10 nods. Adapted from Frank Herbert’s magnum opus, it stars Chalamet as Paul Atreides once more as he united with Chani (Zendaya) and the Fremen to seek revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family.
It follows Villeneuve’s 2021 film, which saw Paul and his family travel to the planet Arrakis after they take stewardship, a move that becomes their undoing when betrayal forces Paul and his mother Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson) to flee to the desert, where they meet the Sardaukar. Where to watch: Netflix. Emilia Perez has garnered the most Oscar nominations this year with a whopping 13, though the Netflix film also hasn’t been without controversy.
Starring Selena Gomez, Zoe Saldana, Edgar Ramirez, and Karla Sofia Gascon, it tells the story of Rita Mora Castro (Saldana), a lawyer who is given the unusual job of helping Mexican cartel boss Juan ‘Manitas’ Del Monte (Gascon) retire and transition to living life as a woman. After transitioning, Manitas, now Emilia, wishes to reunite with her children, with Rita bringing them and Emilia’s wife Jessi (Gomez) to Mexico City, though they do not recognise Emilia.
