Sunday, March 2, 2025

From Nickel Boys to Boy, That’s Bad: All 50 2024 Oscar Nominees Ranked


On March 11, 2024, I sat down in the IMAX theater at the AMC Universal at City Walk for a screening of Dune: Part Two, and on Feb. 25, 2025, I sat down on my couch with my newly acquired Kino Lorber subscription and fired up Documentary Feature nominee Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat. It took nearly a full year, but once again, I was able to watch every feature and short nominated for an Academy Award this year. Here they are, in order, from best to worst:


1. Nickel Boys

2. The Seed of the Sacred Fig

3. Flow

4. A Real Pain

5. A Different Man

6. Sing Sing

7. Anora

8. Conclave

9. A Complete Unknown

10. Incident

11. No Other Land

12. The Girl with the Needle

13. Soundtrack to a Coup d’État

14. I’m Still Here

15. A Lien

16. Porcelain War

17. The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent

18. The Wild Robot

19. The Last Ranger

20. Wander to Wonder

21. Sugarcane

22. Memoir of a Snail

23. The Substance

24. Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

25. Black Box Diaries

26. The Brutalist

27. The Apprentice

28. Anuja

29. Beautiful Men

30. Dune: Part Two

31. I Am Ready, Warden

32. Alien: Romulus

33. Gladiator II

34. Inside Out 2

35. September 5

36. Magic Candies

37. I’m Not a Robot

38. Better Man

39. Maria

40. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

41. The Only Girl in the Orchestra

42. Yuck!

43. Instruments of a Beating Heart

44. In the Shadow of the Cypress

45. Emilia Pérez

46. Wicked

47. The Six Triple Eight

48. Nosferatu

49. Death by Numbers

50. Elton John: Never Too Late

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