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Where to Watch the 2025 Oscar-Winning Movies
See 'The Brutalist,' 'The Substance' and the other Academy Award champs in theaters and streaming
Adrien Brody shows off his Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role for 'The Brutalist' during the Oscars.
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The 97th annual Academy Awards are now finally in the bag. Now it's time to catch up on the evening’s big winners and see what all the fuss was about. So kick back and binge the newly minted champs from the comfort of your living room. Here's our handy guide for finding the best place to stream them...
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Anora
What it won: Best Picture, Actress (Mikey Madison), Director (Sean Baker), Original Screenplay, Editing
What it’s about: Indie auteur Sean Baker’s drama is about a Brooklyn sex worker (the mesmerizing Mikey Madison) who falls for a ruthless Russian oligarch’s son (Mark Eydelshteyn). Dad ( Aleksei Serebryakov, 60) is none too happy about the impulsive relationship and tries to break the couple up. Anora was, hands down, the evening’s big winner with five statuettes.
Where to watch: Prime Video
Conclave
What it won: Adapted Screenplay
What it’s about: The Vatican becomes a viper’s nest in director Edward Berger’s thrilling drama about closed-door intrigue and political infighting involved with choosing the next pope. Ralph Fiennes, 62, Stanley Tucci, 64, and Isabella Rossellini, 72, head up the divine ensemble.
Where to watch: Peacock
The Brutalist
What it won: Actor (Adrien Brody), Cinematography, Original Score
What it’s about: Clocking in at three-and-a-half hours (with an intermission), everything about Brady Corbet’s extraordinary film is epic. Adrien Brody, 51, who won best actor both at the Oscars and at AARP's Movies for Grownups Awards, stars as a Hungarian architect and Holocaust survivor who comes to America and takes on a hugely ambitious commission that gets him involved with a charismatic industrialist (Guy Pearce).
Where to watch: Prime Video
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Emilia Perez
What it won: Supporting Actress (Zoe Saldana), Original Song (“El Mal”)
What it’s about: Zoe Saldana, Selena Gomez, and Karla Sofia Gascon, 52, star in this daring musical crime drama about a dissatisfied Mexican lawyer (Saldana) who’s hired to represent a notorious cartel boss who wants to disappear and transition into living as a woman (Gascon).
Where to watch: Netflix
Wicked
What it won: Costume Design, Production Design
What it’s about: If you ever wondered what Oz was like before Dorothy and Toto showed up, Wicked imagines the song-fueled origin stories of its two most famous witches — Galinda, the Good Witch (Ariana Grande) and Elphaba, who will become the Wicked Witch of the West (Cynthia Erivo).
Where to watch: Prime Video
The Substance
What it won: Makeup and Hairstyling
What it’s about: Demi Moore, 62, returns to the big screen (and the A list) for the role of her career, playing a fading celebrity and TV aerobics star who is fired by her producer (Dennis Quaid, 70) due to her advancing age. Her insecurities about her looks drive her take an experimental new drug with some very strange (and gross) side effects.
Where to watch: Mubi, Prime Video
Dune: Part Two
What it won: Sound, Visual Effects
What it’s about: Denis Villeneuve’s thrilling follow-up to his terrific 2021 adaptation of Frank Herbert’s cult sci-fi novel manages to be even better than the first part thanks to its eye-candy visuals and mythic storyline. Proof that high art and blockbusters don’t need to be mutually exclusive.
I’m Still Here
What it won: International Feature
What it’s about: Brazil took home the Oscar for director Walter Salles’ searing import starring an incandescent Fernanda Torres, 59, as a wife investigating the disappearance of her husband, a dissident politician during the country’s military dictatorship.
Where to watch: Only in theaters
A Real Pain
What it won: Supporting Actor (Kieran Culkin)
What it’s about: Succession’s Kieran Culkin shines opposite Jesse Eisenberg, who also directed this poignant comedy about odd-couple cousins who attempt to reconnect while on a Holocaust tour in Poland.
Where to watch: Hulu
Flow
What it won: Animated Feature
What it’s about: Shockingly, Disney did not walk off with the Oscar in the category it’s historically owned. Why? Because of the undeniable brilliance of this hypnotic Latvian animated film about the adventures of a cat that is left homeless by a flood.
Where to watch: Max
No Other Land
What it won: Documentary Feature
What it’s about: The timely story of Palestinian activist Basel Adra explores the displacement of his friends and relatives in the West Bank. Made by an Israeli-Palestinian filmmaking team, this is a harrowing look at the seemingly endless and intractable situation in the Middle East.
Where to watch: Only in theaters
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