SFF 2025 Titles Score Major Oscar Nominations

10 films that screened at the 2025 Sydney Film Festival have been nominated for Academy Awards, marking one of the Festival’s strongest Oscars showings in recent years.

The nominated titles are Sentimental Value, It Was Just an Accident, The Secret Agent, Blue Moon, Sirat, Come See Me in the Good Light, The Perfect Neighbour, Cutting Through Rocks, and Mr. Nobody Against Putin, as well as Frankenstein, which we hosted the Australian Premiere of at The Ritz in October.

This year’s results highlight the Festival’s growing role as a launchpad for globally recognised cinema. Of the five international feature films among the nominees, four had their Australian Premieres at SFF 2025 – with The Secret Agent director Kleber Mendonça Filho and It Was Just An Accident director Jafar Panahi both attending the Festival.

The Festival also showcased four of the five Oscar‑nominated feature documentaries as Australian Premieres, underscoring its continued commitment to introducing local audiences to the most compelling factual work from around the world.

We congratulate all the nominated filmmakers and look forward to celebrating more groundbreaking, award-winning cinema in June 2026.