Best Picture, Anora and Critics Choice Awards

‘Anora' Is the Best Picture Oscar Frontrunner After ‘Greatest Day' at DGA and PGA Awards
Within 24 hours, "Anora" surged to the front of the Oscar pack, with the Palme d'Or winner earning the top prizes at the PGA and DGA Awards 2025.
Oscars State Of The Race: ‘Anora’ With Its PGA, DGA & Critics Choice Best Picture Wins Now In Pole Position, But Can It Keep Momentum?
An analysis of the state of the Oscar race after Critics Choice and key guilds make Anora the new frontrunner.
Why Anora might now be the film to beat for Best Picture at the 2025 Oscars
Distributor NEON has won Best Picture before with Parasite, shedding the narrative that a film not in the English language can’t win the Oscars’ top honor. Anora hearkens back to the glories of New Hollywood, a time where more risqué subject matter was widely embraced by the Academy voters as conduit for commentary on the times.
Oscars 2025: Anora Suddenly Looks like the Best Picture Frontrunner
After three back-to-back Best Picture (or equivalent) awards over the weekend, Sean Baker’s comedy about a Brighton Beach sex worker looks like it could rally this Oscar season.
Critics Choice: ‘Anora’ Wins Best Picture; ‘Emilia Pérez,’ ‘Wicked’ and ‘The Substance’ Take 3 Awards Each
Anora won the top prize of best picture at the 2025 Critics Choice Awards, while Emilia Pérez, Wicked and The Substance each captured three trophies.
‘Anora’ surges ahead in the Best Picture race after surprise PGA, DGA wins: Oscar analysis
Maybe Anora was the frontrunner all along. In the weeks since the Oscar nominations were announced, Oscar pundits and awards strategists have treated the wide-open Best Picture race like an adaptation of Goldilocks and the Three Bears,
Here’s what you didn’t see in some of the best picture Oscar contenders
What scenes from 'Wicked,' 'Anora,' 'Conclave,' 'Nickel Boys' and 'I'm Still Here' were cut from the finished films?
AARP Movies for Grownups Awards: ‘A Complete Unknown' Wins Best Picture
After delaying its awards ceremony for several weeks following the wildfires in Los Angeles, AARP the Magazine announced the ...
‘The 47,’ ‘Undercover’ Share Best Picture Honors at Spain’s Goya Awards in Historic First
Marcel Barrena's 'The 47' and Arantxa Echevarría's 'Undercover' are the first-ever shared best picture winners at the Spanish ...
Why Can’t You Stream Best Picture Nominees ‘The Brutalist,’ ‘I’m Still Here,’ ‘A Complete Unknown’ Or ‘Nickel Boys’?
Streaming Best Picture nominees for the Oscars in 2025 is frustrating, given that a full 40% of them are not yet available.
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When did the Academy Awards start? A look at the first Oscar winners
Most notably "Sunrise" won best unique and artistic picture, an award that was scrapped a year later when the Oscars winnowed its categories to seven. Fun fact: You can stream both "Wings" and ...
‘A Complete Unknown’ and Timothée Chalamet’s Late Oscars Surge Could Result in a Best Picture Spoiler
Mangold, by contrast, is a Hollywood veteran. He directed the best picture-nominated “Ford v Ferrari” (2019) and made history ...
Oscar Nominees List Finalized As Academy Names All Producers For Best Picture & Two Other Categories
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has revealed all the producers for its Best Picture nominees, along with the ...
'Anora' topples 'Emilia Pérez' to shake up the Oscars Best Picture race. This formula predicts which movie will come out on top.
The Best Picture race looks vastly different days after a controversy involving the star of "Emilia Pérez" surfaced.