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 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.

Watched A Complete Unknown today so I have now seen five of the nominees.

I'm switching back to Anora to win best picture after it won both the PGA and DGA.

Should be 'Sing Sing', 'Nickel Boys' or 'Girl with The Needle'. But I'm seeing Mikey Maddison everywhere. Apps, TV shows, news, media, websites - there is big money from whoever is funding it so Anora is probably going to win.

See, now it's just boring.

Interesting. I am going make a short film with an intermission...see if that catches their eyes next year. Maybe if I make the intermission longer than the film I am a sho-in

Theres just not much I particularly want to see that is new. Usually I can get behind at least 2-3 films. I dunno they just don't make films that peak my interest anymore. Only one I've seen is Dune part 2. Thought it was good...Villeneuve deserve an Oscar one day but I can't see it winning.

I might give The Substance a whirl one day...probably watch Anora. Possible the Bob Dylan movie (just to see Chalamet performance) Not sure if Sean Baker is quite my cup of tea. Red Rocket was cool but to me it was more performance driven than story driven. I fell asleep on Florida Project (because it was late). Ironically I'm from the parts of Florida he was portraying he nailed the atmosphere of Central Florida but I don't know never cared to revisit.

Conclave...I just have no interest in that subject. Rest of them I've never really even heard of (besides Whicked of course). Guess I want Emilia Perez to win to cause chaos in the aftermath The takes are going to be glorious from both the left and right.

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101 Favorite Movies (2019)

Loved Red Rocket

Don't really see Anora winning the final thing even though it just had a surprise win.

The Brutalist is what I would bet on, however a certain scene could work against it (t's just too much man)...

Could also see them going a safe route and give it to Conclave, the kind of message movie that isn't "too" offensive and has enough quality.

Saw it like a year ago. Because forget most of it expect Simon Rex. He was awesome in it.