Written by Chris Swan
January 24, 2025
The 2025 Academy Award nominations are here!
The nominations for the 97th Academy Awards have been announced, and we’re thrilled to share the news that a collection of amazing Madman films are represented across a variety of categories.
Here are some highlights from the list of stellar nominations for the 2025 Oscars, and details on where and how you can watch them on screen.
THE SUBSTANCE
Nominated for Best Picture, Best Actress in a Leading Role, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Makeup & Hairstyling
Coralie Fargeat’s slick shocker is one of the most talked about films of the year, and Demi Moore’s acceptance speech at the Golden Globes hit all of our hearts.
THE SUBSTANCE is still in select cinemas and also available to watch now at home.
Sing Sing
Nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Song.
SING SING stars Colman Domingo as the real life inspiration for the story – Divine G. A remarkably powerful and vibrant look at an arts rehabilitation program in the notorious Sing Sing correctional facility, this is a prison story you have never seen before.
SING SING is in limited cinemas now.
The Apprentice
Nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role and Best Actor in a Supporting Role.
As the world watches Donald Trump commence his second term in the most powerful chair in the world, THE APPRENTICE sees incredible turns from Sebastian Stan as Trump and Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn in this portrait of one of the most talked about people in the world at the point in his life where he truly formed his identity and path in life. Both Stan and Strong are rewarded with nominations for their standout performances (Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor).
Available now to buy or rent.
Flow
Nominated for Best International Feature and Best Animated Feature.
FLOW has picked up a raft of awards including the Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature, and has been heralded by numerous critics as the best animated film of the year. An incredible story from the perspective of a charming cat and its animal friends as their world fills with water, this is a visual feast for adults and young people alike that is packed with riveting action, remarkably relatable emotion, and of course, lovable animals.
FLOW arrives in Australian cinemas on March 20.
Memoir of a Snail
Nominated for Best Animated Feature.
Adam Elliot is no stranger to the Oscars, having won a trophy for his short film Harvie Krumpet back in 2004, and is now nominated for Best Animated feature. This chunky-wonky film is a funny, happy, sad and moving journey into the heart of Grace – a snail obsessed girl trying to find her way in the world, voiced by Sarah Snook. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll never step on a snail again.
Available now to buy or rent.
Soundtrack to a Coup D'etat
Nominated for Best Documentary Feature.
Jazz and decolonization are entwined in this enthralling historical rollercoaster that rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against the murder of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba. As Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe in indignation at the UN’s complicity in the overthrow of Lumumba, the US State Department swings into action by sending jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to Congo to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup.
Coming soon to Australian cinemas.
Black Box Diaries
Nominated for Best Documentary Feature.
Unfolding like a tense thriller, BLACK BOX DIARIES follows director and journalist Shiori Itō’s courageous investigation of her own sexual assault in an improbable attempt to prosecute her high-profile offender. Combining secret investigative recordings, vérité shooting style and emotional first-person video, Shiori’s quest became a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country’s outdated judicial and societal systems.
Available to stream exclusively on DocPlay from February 24.
