14 Can't Miss Movies For Awards Season 2025

Anora, a sex worker from Brooklyn, meets her Prince Charming in the form of the son of a young Russian oligarch. After the two elope, his parents are set on annulling the marriage. The buzz on this film is big, with predicted nominations for Best Picture, Director, Mikey Madison for Lead Actress, Yura Borisov for Supporting Actor and Editing, but it will likely take home the prize for Original Screenplay.

Clocking in at over three hours, this mammoth-sized biopic of Hungarian designer László Tóth is also a visual epic. Director Brady Corbet is the frontrunner for his category and the film might also win Cinematography and Original Score, but other nominations might include Lead Actor for Adrien Brody, Supporting Actor for Guy Pearce, Original Screenplay and Production Design.

Timothée Chalamet is earning rave reviews for his turn as a young Bob Dylan, and the biopic just might nab him his first Oscar for Lead Actor. Other likely nominations include Best Picture, Supporting Actor for Edward Norton, Supporting Actress for Monica Barbaro, Adapted Screenplay and Costume Design.

The predicted frontrunner for Best Picture is this political potboiler about the election for the next pope. Adapted Screenplay and Editing are other likely wins for the film, but expect nominations for Best Director, Lead Actor for Ralph Fiennes, a supporting nomination for Isabella Rossellini, as well as nominations for Production Design, Cinematography, Costume Design, Editing and Original Score.

Zoe Saldaña plays a lawyer helping a Mexican cartel leader transition to a woman, earning her rave reviews and making her the current frontrunner for Supporting Actress. The musical crime comedy is also expected to win for Original Song and International Feature, but also net nominations for Best Picture, Director, Lead Actress for Karla Sofía Gascón, Adapted Screenplay, Editing, Score and Makeup and Hairstyling.

Dialogue-free and made in open-source software, this animated feature about a cat making its way through a newly aquatic post-flood world is so striking and compelling, it will probably win Animated Feature, as well as International Feature, as it hails from Latvia.

This political biographical drama from Brazil will probably be nominated for Best Picture and International Feature Film, but Fernanda Torres might get a Lead Actress nomination for her role as a mother and activist coping with the disappearance of her political dissident husband.

Will Pamela Anderson get a surprise nomination for her role as a middle-aged Vegas showgirl? As great as the reviews have been, probably not, but Jamie Lee Curtis will probably snag a Supporting Actress nomination as her best friend, Annette.

Kieran Culkin will likely win a Supporting Actor Oscar for playing the bristly but charismatic Benji, who travels to Poland with his cousin (writer, director and lead Jesse Eisenberg) to see their family’s homeland and the country’s Holocaust history. The charming road trip dramady will likely get nominations for Best Picture and Original Screenplay, too.

Demi Moore already won the Golden Globe for her turn as Elisabeth Sparkle, an aging actress who turns to a black market drug to look younger, and she’s now the frontrunner for the Lead Actress race, too. Other noms are predicted for Best Picture, Original Screenplay and Makeup and Hairstyling.

"Wicked" was one of the biggest films of the year, and even though it will probably earn nominations for Best Picture, Lead Actress and Supporting Actress for Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, it’s really going to shine as the frontrunner in categories like Production Design, Costume Design, Makeup and Hairstyling and Sound. It will likely earn nominations for Adapted Screenplay, Editing and Visual Effects, too.

The sequel to the space drama remake, it will likely be the frontrunner for Visual Effects, but it will probably also get nominations for Best Picture, Director, Production Design, Cinematography, Makeup and Hairstyling and Sound.

More of an underdog in the race, this prison drama about a stage show program for incarcerated men stars Colman Domingo and Clarence Maclin. Both are expected to get acting nominations, for Lead Actor and Supporting Actor, respectively.

Not only will this film about a robot on an uninhabited island get a nomination for Animated Feature, but things look promising for it to receive nominations for Original Score and Original Song.