A complete list of films eligible for Best Pictures at Oscars 2025

The Oscars are just around the corner and it is already time to discuss one of the most prestigious awards in the world- The Academy Award for Best Picture. While as many as 323 films were eligible for the Oscars, only 207 of them met the criteria for Best Picture.

After last year's addition of Representation and Inclusion Standards (RAISE) to the Academy Awards, as many as 116 movies will not be eligible for the Best Picture category at the upcoming Oscars 2025.

While some of the 116 movies are not eligible because they are animated movies, documentaries, or foreign-language movies, a large chunk of movies will not be considered for failing to meet the diversity and inclusivity standards.

This list consists of some big names that one would assume to see in the Best Picture category. Movies like Woman of the Hour, Harold and the Purple Crayon, and Smile 2, are among the ones that are being excluded from the category. Regardless, they can participate in other categories at the Oscars, and some of these movies will likely win some there as well.

Here is the complete list of movies that will be eligible for Best Pictures at Oscars 2025 despite having qualified for the Oscars.

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Complete list of movies that will be eligible for Best Picture at Oscars 2025

• Aadujeevitham – The Goat Life
• Abigail
• The Absence of Eden
• Albany Road
• Alien: Romulus
• All We Imagine as Light
• Am I Racist?
• The American Society of Magical Negroes
• American Star
• Anora
• The Apprentice
• Argylle
• Arthur the King
• Babes
• Babygirl
• Back to Black
• Bad Actor: A Hollywood Ponzi Scheme
• Band of Maharajas
• The Beast
• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
• Better Man
• Between the Temples
• The Bikeriders
• Black Dog
• Blink Twice
• Blitz
• Bob Marley: One Love
• Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin.
• The Book of Clarence
• The Brutalist
• Bull Street
• Cabrini
• Challengers
• City of Dreams
• Civil War
• Close to You
• A Complete Unknown
• Conclave
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• The Critic
• Cuckoo
• Daddio
• Dandelion
• Day of the Fight
• The Dead Don’t Hurt
• Deadpool & Wolverine
• The Deliverance
• Despicable Me 4
• Dìdi
• A Different Man
• Drive-Away Dolls
• Dune: Part Two
• Elton John: Never Too Late
• Emilia Pérez
• The End
• Evil Does Not Exist
• Exhibiting Forgiveness
• Ezra
• The Fall Guy
• Fancy Dance
• The Fire Inside
• Firebrand
• Flow
• Fly Me to the Moon
• The Forge
• Fresh Kills
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
• Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
• Ghostlight
• Gladiator II
• Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire
• Good One
• Goodrich
• The Greatest Hits
• Green Border
• Handling the Undead
• Hard Truths
• Here
• Heretic
• His Three Daughters
• Hit Man
• The Hopeful
• Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1
• How to Make Millions before Grandma Dies
• I Saw the TV Glow
• The Idea of You
• IF
• I’ll Be Right There
• I’m Still Here
• Imaginary
• The Imaginary
• Immaculate
• In the Land of Saints and Sinners
• In the Summers
• Inside Out 2
• The Instigators
• It Ends with Us
• Janet Planet
• Joker: Folie à Deux
• Juror #2
• Kanguva
• The Keeper
• Kensuke’s Kingdom
• Kinds of Kindness
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
• Kneecap
• Kraven the Hunter
• Kung Fu Panda 4
• La Cocina
• The Last Front
• The Last Showgirl
• Last Summer
• Late Night with the Devil
• Lee
• Lisa Frankenstein
• Longing
• Longlegs
• The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
• Los Frikis
• Love Lies Bleeding
• Maria
• MaXXXine
• Megalopolis
• Memoir of a Snail
• The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
• Moana 2
• Monkey Man
• Mufasa: The Lion King
• My Old Ass
• My Penguin Friend
• National Anthem
• Never Let Go
• Nickel Boys
• Night Swim
• Nightbitch
• 1992
• Nosferatu
• Oh, Canada
• One Life
• The Order
• Ordinary Angels
• The Outrun
• The People’s Joker
• The Performance
• The Piano Lesson
• Piece by Piece
• Porcelain War
• Problemista
• Putul
• Queens
• Queer
• A Quiet Place: Day One
• A Real Pain
• Red One
• The Return
• The Room Next Door
• Rumours
• Santosh
• Sasquatch Sunset
• Saturday Night
• The Seed of the Sacred Fig
• Seeking Mavis Beacon
• September 5
• Shirley
• Sing Sing
• The Six Triple Eight
• Skincare
• Small Things like These
• Sometimes I Think about Dying
• Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot
• Spaceman
• Speak No Evil
• Strange Darling
• The Strangers – Chapter 1
• Stress Positions
• The Substance
• Sugarcane
• Suncoast
• Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story
• Swatantrya Veer Savarkar
• Thelma
• The Thicket
• Tokyo Cowboy
• Touch
• Transformers One
• Trap
• Tuesday
• Twisters
• Ultraman: Rising
• Unstoppable
• Venom: The Last Dance
• Vermiglio
• Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
• The Watchers
• We Grown Now
• We Live in Time
• White Bird
• Wicked
• Wicked Little Letters
• Widow Clicquot
• The Wild Robot
• Wildcat
• Will & Harper
• William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill
• Wolfs
• Young Woman and the Sea
• Your Monster

There are a mix of great commercial movies, some blockbuster earners, and some critically acclaimed gems. It is very hard to decipher which of these films will make it to the final stage of the Oscars, but some of them definitely have a better chance at the Oscars 2025 than some others.

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