Nothing produced by Apple Unique Movies for Apple TV+ can win an Oscar this 12 months. The nominations went out Thursday, and Apple TV+ didn’t rating a single one.
Movies that appear like Oscar bait — together with Fancy Dance and Blitz — received completely snubbed.
No Oscars for Apple: Academy snubs TV+
Apple TV+ produces a variety of sequence in quite a lot of genres. Many of those turn out to be extremely popular, win Emmys or each. Apple additionally produces movies… although it could be simple to neglect that. New TV sequence premiere each few weeks, whereas the Mac-maker introduces solely a handful of films annually.
Nonetheless, through the years a few of these impressed the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences. Final 12 months, Martin Scorsese’s historic epic Killers of the Flower Moon scored ten Oscar nominations — together with for Finest Image — and Ridley Scott’s historic epic Napoleon earned three.
However in 2025, the entire variety of Oscar noms for Apple Unique Movies totals zip, zero, nada.
It’s a little bit of a black eye for a corporation that’s clearly attempting to earn Oscars, Emmys, Golden Globes, and so forth. Because it brags in current press releases, “To this point, Apple Unique movies, documentaries, and sequence have been honored with 537 wins and a couple of,545 award nominations and counting.” These numbers didn’t improve at this time.
There are some Oscar wanna-bes
Apple produced a few movies that had the potential to earn Oscars. Nobody anticipated the Matt Damon/Casey Affleck buddy comedy The Instigators to get any consideration from the Academy, however the household drama Fancy Dance starring Lily Gladstone positively had a shot at an Oscar or two. Particularly since Gladstone received a number of awards final 12 months for her efficiency in Killers of the Flower Moon, and her latest movie was extremely praised by critics.
And there’s Steve McQueen’s WWII drama Blitz. It appears the form of movie which may choose up a nomination. However no.
As a substitute, 13 nominations, together with for Finest Image, went to Emilia Pérez, a musical a few drug cartel chief who fakes his demise so he can undergo a gender change. And Depraved and The Brutalist earned ten nominations every. The total listing is out there from the Academy.