Emilia Pérez
Streaming on Apply TV and Neon Rentals
Nominated for 13 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, co-starring Emmy-nominees Selena Gomez and Edgar Ramírez.
Overqualified and overexploited, Rita (Saldaña) employs her skills as a lawyer in the service of a large firm more prone to clear criminals than to serve justice. But an unexpected way out opens up to her: helping cartel leader Manitas (Gascón) retire from business and execute the plan he has been secretly refining for years: finally becoming the woman he has always dreamed of being.
Wicked
Apple TV, Prime Video, Google TV, YouTube, Neon Rentals
Nominated for: Best Picture, Actress (Cynthia Erivo), Supporting Actress (Ariana Grande), and more. A defiant girl born with green skin (Erivo) and a privileged aristocrat (Grande) form an unlikely friendship in this Wizard of Oz prequel.
A Complete Uknown
In Cinemas around New Zealand
Nominated for: Best Picture, Director, Actor (Timothée Chalamet), and more. Timothée Chalamet stars as Bob Dylan in this biopic charting his rise to fame.
Anora
Streaming on Apple TV, Prime, Google TV,
Nominated for Best Picture, Director, Actress (Mikey Madison), Supporting Actor (Yura Borisov), Original Screenplay & Film Editing
A Las Vegas sex worker (Mikey Madison) gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she and a young Russian oligarch fall for each other in this love story from filmmaker Sean Baker (Tangerine, Red Rocket). However, when news of their impulsive marriage reaches his homeland, his parents make moves to get their union annulled.
The Substance
Streaming on TVNZ+, Apple TV, Prime, Google TV, Neon Rentals, Aro Vision
Nominated for Best Picture, Director, Actress (Demi Moore), Original Screenplay & Make-up and Hairstyling
Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley play the same person in this feminist take on body horror from writer-director Coralie Fargeat (Revenge). The story centres on a fading celebrity who uses a black-market drug to reverse the clock on her body. All it requires is a solid balance of use: seven days on, seven days off…
Dune: Part Two
Streaming on Neon, Apple TV, Prime, Youtube, Google TV
Nominated for Best Picture, Production Design, Cinematography, Visual Effects & Sound
In the second part of Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of author Frank Herbert’s classic science fiction epic, Duke Paul Atreides joins the Fremen and begins a spiritual and martial journey to become Muad’dib, while trying to prevent the horrible but inevitable future he’s witnessed: a Holy War in his name, spreading throughout the known universe.
Nickel Boys
Streaming on Prime. Nominated for Best Picture & Adapted Screenplay This adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel tells its story of friendship and the notorious “Dozier School for Boys” from a first-person perspective.
The Wild Robot
Streaming: Apple TV, Prime Video, Google TV +2 Nominated for: Best Animated Feature, Score, Sound A futuristic robot bonds with an orphaned gosling in this family-friendly adventure.
Sing Sing
In cinemas and streaming from March 4th
Nominated for Best Actor (Colman Domingo), Adapted Screenplay & Original Song (“Like A Bird”)
Colman Domingo leads this A24 drama, based on a true story, following a prison theatre group that escapes the reality of incarceration through the creativity of staging a play. The cast includes actors who have been incarcerated.
A Real Pain
Streaming on Disney+, Apple TV, Prime Video
Nominated for Best Supporting Actor (Kieran Culkin) & Original Screenplay
Mismatched cousins David (Jesse Eisenberg, who also writes and directs) and Benji (Kieran Culkin) reunite for a tour through Poland to honour their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the pair’s old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.
The Apprentice
Streaming on Apple TV, Prime Video, Google TV
Nominated for Best Actor (Sebastian Stan) & Supporting Actor (Jeremy Strong)
Sebastian Stan plays a young Donald Trump opposite Jeremy Strong as his infamous lawyer Roy Cohn in this biographical drama examining how Trump started his real estate business in New York during the 1970s and ’80s. From the director of 2018 Oscar nominee Border.
Flow
In cinemas Nominated for Best International Feature & Animated Feature
This dialogue-free animal adventure centres on a cat who must work together with other species stuck on a boat after a flood devastates their home.
September 5
In Cinemas
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay
True-story thriller set during the 1972 Munich Olympics, following an American sports broadcasting crew that finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes.
Inside Out 2
Streaming on Disney +, Apple TV, Prime Video
Nominated for Best Animated Feature
In this sequel to Pixar’s Oscar-winning 2015 film, Riley encounters new emotions in her teenage years. Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust, who’ve long been running a successful operation by all accounts inside Riley’s head, aren’t sure how to feel when Anxiety shows up. And it looks like she’s not alone.
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
Streaming now on Netflix
Nominated for Best Animated Feature
Aardman’s iconic duo return for their second feature (their first, Curse of the Were-Rabbit, won them an Academy Award). Here, Gromit’s growing concern that Wallace has become over-dependent on his inventions is justified when he invents a “smart gnome” that seems to develop a mind of its own. As events spiral out of control, it falls to Gromit to put aside his qualms and battle sinister forces – or Wallace may never be able to invent again.
