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 did not receive a single nomination?
The snubs were glaring, but that is 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.”
To help you prepare for the ceremony on March 15, The Triplex is 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 are 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 were not 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 is worth braving the winter weather to see them the way they were meant to be seen: on the big screen.
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“If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”
With her life crashing down around her, Linda (Rose Byrne) attempts to navigate her child’s mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist. Liable to leave you in a cold sweat, this fever dream immersion into parental stress connects with thunderous force thanks to Byrne’s gutsy star turn and director Mary Bronstein’s uncompromising vision.
Academy Award nominee for Best Actress.
Starts Friday.
“Sentimental Value”
After sisters Nora (Renate Reinsive) and Agnes (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas) reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic director Gustav (Stellan Skarsgård), he offers Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she soon discovers he has given her part to an eager young Hollywood star (Elle Fanning), who suddenly finds herself in the middle of their complex family dynamics.
Nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actress!
Starts Friday.
BIFF presents: To Life!
Join Berkshire International Film Festival for a special screening of “To Life!” (“Auf Das Leben!”) in observance of Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), on February 1 followed by a conversation with award-winning screenwriter and Berkshire resident Stephen Glantz!
Originally shown at BIFF in 2015, this moving film follows the intertwined lives of Ruth, an aging cabaret singer, and Jonas, a young man facing a terminal illness. Though separated by generations and shaped by vastly different life experiences, the two form an unexpected and profound bond—giving one another renewed purpose and a reason to live.
Sunday at 3 p.m.
“The Testament of Ann Lee”
From award-winning writer-director Mona Fastvold (“The World to Come,” “The Brutalist”) comes the extraordinary true legend of Ann Lee, founder of the devotional sect known as the Shakers. Academy Award nominee Amanda Seyfried stars as Lee, the Shakers’ irrepressible leader who preached gender and social equality while trying to build a utopia—and suffering tremendous personal losses along the way.
“Hamnet”
From Academy Award-winning writer/director Chloé Zhao, “Hamnet” tells the powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, “Hamlet.” Featuring emotional tour-de-force performances from stars Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, “Hamnet” is an award season juggernaut that will break your heart and heal it before the lights come up.
Nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actress!
“The Secret Agent”
Brazil, 1977. Marcelo, a technology expert in his early 40s, is on the run. Hoping to reunite with his son, he travels to Recife during Carnival but soon realizes that the city is not the safe haven he was expecting. Winner of Best Director and Best Actor at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, “The Secret Agent” is a thematically rich and visually arresting political thriller that blends grindhouse stylization with biting social commentary to weave a vividly dangerous yet darkly human tale.
Nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor!
“Marty Supreme”
In 1950s New York City, Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet) is a young man with a dream no one respects: to become America’s first table tennis superstar. Going to hell and back in pursuit of greatness, Marty risks everything he has to prove the world wrong in this tense, tender, and funny exploration of the American dream from director Josh Safdie.
Nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor!
Coming Soon
“The Voice of Hind Rajab”
Incorporating real-life elements that are as difficult to hear as they are impossible to forget, “The Voice of Hind Rajab” follows volunteers at the Palestine Red Crescent Society as they stay on the phone with a six-year-old girl who gets trapped in a car in war-torn Gaza. A harrowing docudrama that makes a powerful appeal to humanity, don’t miss “The Voice of Hind Rajab” when it comes to The Triplex.
Nominated for the Oscar for Best International Film!
Starts February 6.
“Arco”
In 2075, “Arco,” a mysterious boy in a rainbow jumpsuit, falls from the sky. When he meets 10-year-old Iris, she discovers that Arco is not a normal kid: He is a time traveller from a distant, idyllic future, and he needs her help to return home. Blending together different influences from the history of illustration and animation, “Arco” soars with its clever world-building and lovable characters.
Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Feature!
Starts February 6.
“A Private Life”
When renowned psychiatrist Lilian Steiner learns of the death of one of her patients, she becomes convinced that it was murder and sets out to investigate. An entertaining mix of Hitchcockian suspense and dark humor, “A Private Life” is the perfect showcase for Jodie Foster’s first French-speaking leading role.
Starts February 6.
“Wuthering Heights”
From Emerald Fennell, the Oscar-winning writer-director behind “Promising Young Woman” and “Saltburn,” comes a lurid reimagining of one of the greatest novels ever written. Starring Margot Robbie as Catherine and Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff and featuring original songs from Charli XCX, “Wuthering Heights” promises to be a thoroughly modern reimagining of the classic romance.
Starts February 13.
“The Choral”
As World War I rages on, the Choral Society in Ramsden, Yorkshire, decides to recruit local young men to replace the men they have lost to war. Under the direction of new chorus master Henry Guthrie (Ralph Fiennes), the group helps the whole community discover that the best response to the chaos laying waste to their lives is to make music together.
Starts January 13.
“GOAT”
Living in an all-animal world, Will, a small goat with big dreams, gets a once-in-a-lifetime shot to join the pros and play roarball—a high-intensity, co-ed, full-contact sport dominated by the fastest, fiercest animals in the world. Will’s new teammates are not thrilled about having a little goat on their roster, but he is determined to revolutionize the sport and prove once and for all that “smalls can ball!” in this latest adventure from the studio behind “KPop Demon Hunters” and “Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse” and executive producer Stephen Curry.
Starts February 13.
