The 2025 Academy Awards nominations are out , and there are a few oversights that stand out right away. Of course, not every movie can be represented at the Oscars — perhaps the award show can’t even acknowledge every great movie in a single year. Still, some of the movies listed below were among the best of 2024, and it’s hard to imagine that they didn’t warrant recognition in any category.
That includes genre titles like Furiosa and Transformers, but also one-off movies like Challengers and Babygirl, among others. As always, fans online are already making a ruckus and questioning the validity of the Oscars’ voting system overall. It should be said that compared to previous years, the 2025 Oscars do not have as many “snubs” as we have seen before.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has been trying to strike a balance by acknowledging popular blockbusters while still giving other movies a place to shine, and it’s definitely approaching an equilibrium. There are even some big surprises this year — Emilia Pérez , a Netflix original film about a transgender drug lord with musical numbers, has the most nominations at 13. Still, for fans of the movies listed below, there’s no consolation price to make this right.
Read on for the seven biggest snubs of the Oscars this year. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Immediately after it premiered, many fans remarked that Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga didn’t live up to the excitement of watching Mad Max: Fury Road. Howev.