Oscars 2025 – can you predict the winners?
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The Academy Awards nominations have been announced, and you can catch lots of the nominated films on the big screen at DCA this month – check out the Awards Film tag on our Cinema page.
Read on to find out more, and have a go at predicting the winners in our Oscars competition! Head over to our easy form and make your guesses until Sat 1 March – the person with the most correct predictions will win a year's DCA Membership.
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Showing now are frontrunners The Brutalist, Brady Corbet's epic historical drama, which has been nominated for 10 Oscars, and Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, nominated for eight.
Both films are competing in the Best Picture category against Anora, Dune: Part Two, Emilia Pérez, Nickel Boys, The Substance and Wicked, which you may have seen at DCA in 2024, plus I'm Still Here and Conclave, both showing this month.
"Best Picture is a strong category this year," says David Nixon, DCA's Head of Cinema, "I’m delighted to see two of my standouts of the year so far, Nickel Boys and I’m Still Here, recognised."
"I'm also glad to see The Seed of the Sacred Fig nominated in the always-competitive Best International Feature category – an important film that deserves to be seen on the big screen."
"The Brutalist must be considered for some of the best writing, cinematography and score work this year," says Simon Lewis, DCA Cinema Manager, "Even on its modest budget, it builds a film of a scale that rivals some of the greatest accounts of the American immigrant experience."
You can also see comedy-drama A Real Pain on the big screen until Thu 6 February; its been nominated for Best Original Screenplay alongside September 5, a gripping dramatisation of the real-life hostage crisis at the 1972 Olympics, told from the perspective of a sports news team, showing at DCA from Fri 7 February.
We're also thrilled to bring you three of the nominees for Best Animated Feature in the coming months.
Just in time for half-term school holiday, don't miss The Wild Robot, the charming tale of a lost robot who adopts a gosling and learns to live in nature. This family-friendly adventure is also nominated in the Best Sound and Best Original Score categories.
Then grown-ups can look forward to Memoir of a Snail, a poignant coming-of-age story from Australian director Adam Elliott (Mary and Max), with a terrific voice cast including a standout cameo from musician Nick Cave.
DCA's cinema team are also particularly excited for you to see Flow, the enchanting dialogue-free tale of a cat on an adventure to find a new home following a devastating flood. It's showing at Discovery Family Film Club on Sat 5 and Sun 6 April, with Donate What You Can tickets!
"It’s exciting to see Flow nominated both in the categories of Best Animation Film and Best International Feature Film, it highlights the film’s powerful storytelling as well as its exceptional animation style," says Amaya Bañuelos Marco, our Cinema Young Audiences Coordinator.
"Regardless of getting the award or not, Flow is already a triumph for international independent animation in a landscape dominated by mainstream family films. It’s a film that takes on the big themes of our times and renders them in an approachable, imaginative, and delightful style. Come and see it!"
"I can't contain my excitement to see Flow on the big screen," adds Simon, "Its feline lead is depicted in incredibly rendered animation that is totally engrossing."
Enter our Oscars competition!
There's a DCA Membership up for grabs in our annual Oscars competition! Correctly guess the winner in each of the Academy Award categories to be in with the chance to win.
Click over to our competition form and enter by Sat 1 March! We'll announce a winner in the week beginning Mon 3 March 2025. Good luck!