The contenders for the Academy Awards biggest honor range from 120-minute dramas to ambitious 3-hour epics Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones in "The Brutalist" (A24) The 2025 Oscar nominations are finally here, and this year’s Best Picture nominees form an eclectic group of titles. That’s fitting for a year that offered as many diverse surprises and delights at the theater and on streaming as 2024 did. 2025’s Best Picture nominees are also noteworthy because none of them are shorter than 2 hours