It was usually about this time of year when, if your heart desired, you could line up back-to-back weekend days to watch the Oscar nominations at the cinema before the big night. Nowadays, of course, more of the season's hottest releases are distributed by, or available on, streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV in the weeks leading up to Hollywood's biggest event.
Right now in the UK, you needn't leave the house to catch up on over half of the ten Best Picture nominees for the 97th Academy Awards, which take place on Sunday 2nd March 2025. While Oscars-favourite The Brutalist, Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, Brazilian heartbreaker I'm Still Here and Pulitzer Prize-winning-novel adaptation Nickel Boys all require a trip to the cinema, three others are available under video service subscriptions and the other trio can be rented on your video service of choice. Between us, the What Hi-Fi? team has seen each one and, in our books, none deserve to be overlooked.
