What the Snubs Tell Us About This Year's Oscars

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What the Snubs Tell Us About This Year's Oscars

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By Ben Elliott

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Looking through this year’s Academy Award nominations, your first question might be: What about…?

What about Paul Mescal in Hamnet? Jesse Plemons in Bugonia? Chase Infiniti in One Battle After Another? Odessa A’zion in Marty Supreme? And those are performances in films that were nominated elsewhere. What about The Testament of Ann Lee, No Other Choice, Wicked: For Good, Wake Up Dead Man, and Sorry, Baby — some of the year’s most acclaimed movies that didn’t receive a single nomination?

Two friends chasing floating legs in a red room from House, 1977

If I had Legs I'd Kick You, 2025

The snubs were glaring, but that’s the kind of problem you want to see on Oscar morning. 2025 was packed with so many remarkable films that the Academy could never acknowledge them all. And the ones that did break through show just how varied an “Oscar movie” can be. The Best Picture category spans genres and influences, with horror (Sinners, Frankenstein), sci-fi (Bugonia), sports stories (F1 and Marty Supreme), and grindhouse-inflected action (One Battle After Another and The Secret Agent) sitting alongside stirring dramas Hamnet, Sentimental Value, and Train Dreams.

A young woman holding a severed head in House, 1977

Sentimental Value, 2025

To help you prepare for the ceremony on March 15th, we’re adding two more nominees to our lineup this week alongside Hamnet, The Secret Agent, and Marty Supreme. Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value — nominated for nine awards, including Picture, Director, Actress, Supporting Actor, and two Supporting Actress nods — returns for an encore engagement after its run last fall. We’re also excited to present Rose Byrne’s Best Actress–nominated performance in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, one of the few nominated performances that weren’t on our screen last year.

These are all films worth discovering on their own. But in a year as jam-packed with quality as 2025 was, these nominations are a reminder of why it’s worth braving the winter weather to see them the way they were meant to be seen — on the big screen.

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