Discover all the Oscar-winning films at the 2025 Academy Awards—and where you can watch them.
Conan O’Brien exited the Demi Moore flesh puppet from The Substance and kicked of the 97th Academy Awards ceremony with immediate digs at Netflix price increases, Timothée Chalamet’s banana suit, and Karla Sofía Gascón’s Twitter history. He then ended his 18-minute monologue with a drawn-out musical number about how he won’t waste time. The man knows his stuff.
As for the awards themselves, it was a big night for independent cinema with Anora sweeping the big prizes and Flow rising above Pixar, DreamWorks, Aardman and Australia to win Latvia’s very first Oscar.
Read on for this year’s winners, what they’re about, excerpts from acceptance speeches, and where you can watch these films. Plus, for the truly dedicated, here’s where you can watch all of this year’s nominated films.
Anora
Winner: Best Picture, Director, Actress (Mikey Madison), Original Screenplay & Film Editing
A Las Vegas sex worker (Mikey Madison) gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she and a young Russian oligarch fall for each other in this love story from filmmaker Sean Baker (Tangerine, Red Rocket). However, when news of their impulsive marriage reaches his homeland, his parents make moves to get their union annulled.
“Where did we fall in love with movies? At the movie theatre. Watching a film in the theatre with an audience is an experience… it’s a communal experience you simply don’t get at home. Right now, the theatre-going experience is under threat. Movie theatres, especially independent owned theatres are struggling, and it is up to us to support them.” – Sean Baker accepting the Oscar for Best Director
The Brutalist
Winner: Best Leading Actor (Adrien Brody), Cinematography & Original Score
Adrien Brody is visionary architect László Toth in this dramatic epic from filmmaker Brady Corbet (Vox Lux). Having fled post-war Europe in 1947, László longs to be reunited with his wife Erzsébet (Felicity Jones). In desperate need of work, László’s skills as an architect catch the eye of the wealthy Harrison Lee Van Buren (Guy Pearce), who hires him to oversee the construction of a monumental building. In the years that follow, they witness the birth of modern America.
“Thank you to Brady for trusting me, allowing me to sail close to the edge, and offer your hand if I ever fell in.” – Lol Crawley accepting the Oscar for Best Cinematography
I’m Still Here
Winner: Best International Film
Based on the true story of Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres), a Brazilian activist of the anti-military dictatorship movement who spent years investigating her husband’s disappearance.
“This goes to a woman who, after a loss suffered during an authoritarian regime, decided not to bend and to resist.” – Walter Salles accepting the Oscar for Best International Film
Flow
Winner: Best Animated Feature Film
This dialogue-free animal adventure centres on a cat who must work together with other species stuck on a boat after a flood devastates their home.
“I’m really moved by the warm reception our film has had. I hope this will open doors to independent animation filmmakers around the world.” – Gints Zilbalodis accepting the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film
No Other Land
Winner: Best Documentary Feature
Made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective, this documentary shows the destruction of the West Bank’s Masafer Yatta by Israeli authorities and the unlikely friendship that blossoms between Palestinian activist Basel Adra and Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham.
“No Other Land reflects the harsh reality that we have been enduring for decades and still resist as we call on the world to take serious actions to stop the injustice and to stop the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian people.” – Basel Adra accepting the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature
Emilia Pérez
Winner: Best Supporting Actress (Zoe Saldaña) & Original Song (“El Mal”)
Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez and Edgar Ramírez star in this crime-thriller-musical from the BAFTA-winning writer-director of Rust and Bone. Overqualified and overexploited, Rita (Saldaña) employs her skills as a lawyer in the service of a large firm more prone to clear criminals than to serve justice. But an unexpected way out opens up to her: helping cartel leader Manitas (Gascón) retire from business and execute the plan he has been secretly refining for years: finally becoming the woman he has always dreamed of being.
“Mommy!” – Zoe Saldaña accepting her award for Best Supporting Actress
A Real Pain
Winner: Best Supporting Actor (Kieran Culkin)
Mismatched cousins David (Jesse Eisenberg, who also writes and directs) and Benji (Kieran Culkin) reunite for a tour through Poland to honour their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the pair’s old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.
“I should thank my mum and Steve for trying to raise me. You’re really good people. You gave it your best shot.” – Kieran Culkin accepting the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor
Conclave
Winner: Best Adapted Screenplay
Set within the opulent confines of the Vatican, this political thriller stars Ralph Fiennes as a cardinal tasked with maintaining order amongst his peers as they vote on a new Pope. With influential cardinals looking to make power plays, sneaky back-stabbings and uncloaked conspiracies seek to determine the future of the Catholic Church for decades to come.
Wicked
Winner: Best Production Design & Costume Design
In this adaptation of the massive Broadway musical, Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo), a defiant girl born with green skin, and Glinda (Ariana Grande), a privileged aristocrat born popular, become unlikely friends in the magical Land of Oz. As they struggle with their opposing personalities, their friendship is tested as both begin to fulfill their destinies as Glinda the Good and The Wicked Witch of the West.
Dune: Part Two
Winner: Best Sound & Visual Effects
In the second part of Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of author Frank Herbert’s classic science fiction epic, Duke Paul Atreides joins the Fremen and begins a spiritual and martial journey to become Muad’dib, while trying to prevent the horrible but inevitable future he’s witnessed: a Holy War in his name, spreading throughout the known universe.
The Substance
Winner: Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley play the same person in this feminist take on body horror from writer-director Coralie Fargeat (Revenge). The story centres on a fading celebrity who uses a black-market drug to reverse the clock on her body. All it requires is a solid balance of use: seven days on, seven days off…
And here are the short film winners
Best live action short: I’m Not a Robot
Best animated short: In the Shadow of the Cypress
Best documentary short: The Only Girl in the Orchestra
