Where To Stream The 2025 Golden Globe Winners: ‘Emilia Perez,’ ‘The Brutalist,’ And Other Likely Oscars Best Picture Nominees

After the usual months of build-up, including many smaller awards bodies, critics’ best-of lists, and, oh yeah, movies actually getting released, Oscar season is truly here. Though the voting body of the Golden Globes does not overlap with the Oscars (and never has, throughout its checkered history), the awarding of those weird little spheres does tend to kick the Oscar campaigns into high gear, not least because the ceremony offers a dress rehearsal of sorts for potential winners – like this year’s surprise winner for Female Actor in a Musical/Comedy Demi Moore, whose work in The Substance (neither a musical nor a comedy, fwiw) into an emotional speech that might well help her secure a spot at the Oscars.

The Globes ceremony also signals that it’s catch-up season for movie-watchers who want to stay in tune with the big awards movies – which means you may be wondering where and when you can stream certain titles from the Globes ceremony and the general Oscar buzz-o-meter. Though some remain in theaters, most of the contenders have some kind of at-home component. Here, then, are your current Oscar frontrunners, ordered by how many nominations they might expect to land when those are announced on January 17, along with information about where you can catch up. These could be your ten Best Picture nominees, or some of them could get knocked out by surprise contenders. Regardless, watching these ten should guarantee that you’re familiar with a whole lot of nominations, wherever they land.

What Is It? You probably know by now: the Broadway-to-movie sensation riffing on an untold story from The Wizard of Oz. It wound up with a consolation prize at the Globes – the newly created award for simultaneously box office and artistic achievement (one that the Oscars also created, then discarded before ever actually awarding it). But it will still probably figure heavily into Oscar nominations, even if it doesn’t keep defying gravity through the whole ceremony.
Serious Contender: Picture, Actress (Cynthia Erivo), Supporting Actress (Ariana Grande), Art Direction, Makeup/Hairstyling, Costumes, Sound, Visual Effects
Also Possible: Director, Editing, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography (somehow)
Maximum Total Oscar Noms: 12
Streaming: For a price, anywhere! Though it’s still on thousands of screens nationwide, remaining in the box office top five this past weekend, Wicked is also available on PVOD (Premium Video On Demand), meaning you can rent it for $20, or buy it for $30 (and for what it’s worth, the digital release has way more extras than usual for that sort of thing). This means for a big chunk of the country (and/or for AMC Stubs or Regal Unlimited subscribers) it might actually still be cheaper to go out and see it in a theater.
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What Is It? Another musical, this one far less conventional (and, in its own way, way further out there) than the Oz one; it’s about a drug kingpin who begins her new life as a trans woman, with her reluctant lawyer and unknowing ex-wife in tow. The Globes seemed impressed, favoring it in the Musical/Comedy category over Wicked and awarding Zoe Saldaña in the combined supporting category (for what is, truth be told, a lead role in the film). (She also performs the Globes’ Best Song choice.)
Serious Contender: Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Actress (Karla Sofía Gascón), Supporting Actress (Zoe Saldaña; Selena Gomez), Song, Score
Also Possible: Cinematography, Makeup/Hairstyling, Editing
Maximum Total Oscar Noms: 11
Streaming: Though it had a brief theatrical run back in November, Emilia Pérez is on Netflix, which will remain its streaming home in perpetuity.
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What Is It? The season’s most celebrated papal-intrigue thriller, about the fictional election of a new pope. It might have become a presumed frontrunner with a major Globes win; instead, it had to settle for a screenplay award. Still, don’t count out any scheming cardinals yet.
Serious Contender: Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Actor (Ralph Fiennes), Cinematography, Editing, Score
Also Possible: Supporting Actor (Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Carlos Diehz) and Supporting Actress (Isabella Rossellini)
Maximum Total Oscar Noms: 11
Streaming: Some theaters are still playing it and it’s streaming on VOD, but the easiest way to catch Conclave is on Peacock – and it’s the kind of comfortable-at-home viewing that used to make for screener-season comebacks in the time of VHS copies being sent to Academy members.
What Is It? A sweeping yet intimate film about a Hungarian immigrant climbing up the perilous ladder of capitalism in the mid-century United States. It got a profile bump when the film, director Brady Corbet, and lead actor Adrien Brody all took home Globes.
Serious Contender: Picture, Director, Original Screenplay, Actor (Adrien Brody), Supporting Actor (Guy Pearce), Cinematographer, Score, Art Direction
Also Possible: Supporting Actress (Felicity Jones), Editing
Maximum Total Oscar Noms: 10
Streaming: Nowhere. A24 may be the most theatrical-protective studio this side of Sony, which means that their big awards contender – and we do mean big; the movie runs three and a half hours – is doing a traditional indie-movie platform release, which means it’s just now entering a wider release. It hits many more theaters on Friday, January 10th, with presumably more to follow the weekend after when the Oscar nominations are announced.
What Is It? The rest of Dune. Everyone loved it last spring, but has its awards moment passed?
Serious Contender: Picture, Editing, Cinematography, Art Direction, Visual Effects, Sound
Also Possible: Director, Score
Maximum Total Oscar Noms: 8
Streaming: As a Warner Bros. title, Dune: Part Two is available to stream on Max. It’s also on Netflix for the moment, along with much of Warner’s 2024 lineup (in case you want to catch up with Furiosa, another Warner-released, desert-set, auteur-made sci-fi franchise entry that deserves just as many nominations).
What Is It? Another musician biopic, this one leading up to the 1965 moment when Bob Dylan ditches folk music and goes electric. It went home empty-handed on Globes night, but it’s got a lot of categories up its sleeve.
Serious Contender: Picture, Adapted Screenplay, Actor (Timothee Chalamet), Supporting Actor (Edward Norton), Editing, Sound
Also Possible: Supporting Actress (Monica Barbaro), Art Direction
Maximum Total Oscar Noms: 8
Streaming: Nope; still in theaters. Look for it on PVOD next month; a Hulu debut will eventually follow, but likely not until sometime this spring, long after the Oscars have been decided.
What Is It? Part screwball crime farce, part doomed romance, and part character study, Sean Baker’s comedy-drama follows a stripper who thinks she may have found her Pretty Woman-style happily ever after, only to face a series of half-hilarious, half-devastating complications.
Serious Contender: Picture, Director, Original Screenplay, Actress (Mikey Madison)
Also Possible: Supporting Actor (Yura Borisov), Editing, Cinematography
Maximum Total Oscar Noms: 7
Streaming: Anora has already arrived on PVOD, so you can already watch it at home for $20. But distributor NEON, like their fellow indie superstars A24, tends not to rush their movies onto streaming services; last summer’s hit Longlegs is still only available to rent or buy. But when they Neon titles do make it to streaming, they go to Hulu, thanks to a multi-year deal. Most likely Anora will remain rental-only until after the Oscars (though maybe Longlegs will be on Hulu soon, at least; sadly, a Nic Cage longshot nomination seems less likely by the day).
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What Is It? The wildest body-horror movie you’ve seen in a minute, with Demi Moore cast metatextually as a Hollywood performer in the midst of getting unfairly aged out of her career, resorting to drastic measures to stay in the game. The movie is satirical and often prompts laughter of delighted disbelief, which may be how Moore became an upset winner in the Comedy/Musical category at the Globes. She may garner her first Oscar nomination ever.
Serious Contender: Actress (Demi Moore), Supporting Actress (Margaret Qualley), Original Screenplay, Makeup/Hairstyling
Also Possible: Picture, Director, Visual Effects
Maximum Total Oscar Noms: 7
Streaming: The Substance was distributed by MUBI, a boutique streaming service which also happens to offer a seven-day free trial (it’s also well worth a subscription). If neither a subscription nor a trial interests you, it’s also available individually on PVOD.
What Is It? The latest iteration of a classic vampire story (and, in its way, ripoff). It didn’t figure into the Globes at all, but it’s been a major success for Focus, and it’s got a lot of categories in play.
Serious Contender: Cinematography, Art Direction, Costumes, Makeup/Hairstyle
Also Possible: Editing, Score, Picture
Maximum Total Oscar Noms: 7
Streaming: Universal typically puts movies on PVOD within three to four weeks of opening, so it’ll be available to rent for $20 soon, and probably not on Peacock for another few months. But with this surprise hit still in plenty of theaters, why not succumb to the darkness of a multiplex?
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What Is It? Director-writer-star Jesse Eisenberg’s delicate yet punchy comedy about a pair of mismatched cousins (Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin) traveling through Poland. Not a deep bench of potential nominations here, but Culkin won his umpteenth supporting-actor trophy at the Globes and seems to be the favorite for the Oscar (despite him having only slightly less screentime than Eisenberg).
Serious Contender: Picture, Supporting Actor (Kieran Culkin), Original Screenplay
Also Possible: Director
Maximum Total Oscar Noms: 4
Streaming: A Real Pain is available on PVOD; it will likely hit Hulu a bit later in awards season, probably closer to the Oscar broadcast in March.