nominees for the 97th Academy Awards were announced Thursday morning, with “Emilia Pérez,” a polarizing musical about a drug kingpin who undergoes gender affirming surgery, leads this year’s race with 13 nods including Best Picture.
It was followed closely by “The Brutalist,” a historical epic the examines the Jewish immigrant experience, and “Wicked,” the hit Broadway adaptation, which both nabbed 10 nominations.
Other Best Picture nominees include “Conclave,” a thriller about the election of a new pope, and “A Complete Unknown,” the Timothée Chalamet-led Bob Dylan biopic, alongside indies “Anora,” “Nickel Boys,” and “I’m Still Here,” as well as the body horror film, “The Substance,” and “Dune: Part Two,” one of the rare studio blockbusters to garner Oscar attention.
Although many of the Academy’s favorite films only recently arrived in theaters, many of them are already available to stream online (or to rent/purchase digitally on Prime Video and Apple TV), which means you can easily watch a large majority of the 35 Oscar-nominated feature films online before tuning into the Oscars on March 2.
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