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It isn’t too late to get through all the best Oscar-nominated films ahead of the Academy Awards ceremony this March. Luckily, most of this year’s big awards winners are already available on streaming, or at least available to rent/purchase on Prime Video and Apple TV+.
Both of this year’s biggest nominees — Ryan Coogler’s vampire saga “Sinners,” which earned a record-breaking 16 Oscar nominations and Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another,” which closely follows with 13 nods — are both available to stream on HBO Max (and Hulu, with this add-on). The Emma Stone-led “Bugonia,” meanwhile, is available to stream on Peacock, while Apple’s “F1” blockbuster quickly landed on Apple TV+ (currently offering a free trial).
Other Best Picture nominees include Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” and Clint Bentley’s “Train Dreams,” both streaming on Netflix; “Sentimental Value,” available to rent on Prime Video; and “The Secret Agent,” available for pre-order on Prime Video. Neither “Hamnet” nor “Marty Supreme” have received streaming homes yet.
Netflix picked up 18 of this year’s nominations, meaning they’re all available on the streamer. Buzzy titles include “The Perfect Neighbor,” nominated for Best Documentary, “KPop Demon Hunters,” nominated for Best Animated Feature and two short films: “The Singers” and “All the Empty Rooms.”
The 98th Academy Awards will broadcast live from the Dolby Theatre on March 15, broadcasting live on ABC and Hulu. In the meantime, check out the best way to stream all of this year’s feature film nominees — and a full list of this year’s nominees here.
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Sinners
Image Credit: ©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection Oscar Nominations: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Score, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Visual Effects, Best Film Editing, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Costume Design, Best Production Design, Best Sound
Where to Stream: Hulu (with HBO Max add-on)
Variety Review: “It’s vibrant and richly acted, and also a wild throat-ripping blowout. But though overloaded at times, it’s the rare mainstream horror film that’s about something weighty and soulful: the wages of sin in Black America.”
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Bugonia
Image Credit: ©Focus Features/Courtesy Everett Collection Oscar Nominations: Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score
Where to Stream: Peacock
Variety Review: “The director is at the top of his visionary nihilistic game in a movie about what’s happening to the world.”
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F1
Oscar Nominations: Best Picture, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound, Best Film Editing
Where to Stream: Apple TV+
Variety Review: Joseph Kosinski builds a high-powered movie out of Bruckheimer clichés, but that wouldn’t matter if the races were as dramatic as they are flashy.
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Frankenstein
Image Credit: ©Netflix/Courtesy Everett Collection Oscar Nominations: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Score, Best Cinematography, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Costume Design, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Production Design, Best Sound
Where to Stream: Netflix
Variety Review: What should have been the perfect pairing of artist and material proves visually ravishing, but can’t measure up to the impossibly high expectations Guillermo del Toro’s fans have for the project.
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Hamnet
Image Credit: Agata Grzybowska Oscar Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Costume Design, Best Production Design, Best Casting
Where to Stream: TBA
Variety Review: “It’s impossible to overstate how radical — and for some, no doubt unwatchable — the ‘Nomadland’ director’s adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel turned out.”
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Marty Supreme
Image Credit: Courtesy of A24 Oscar Nominations: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Costume Design, Best Casting, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Production Design
Where to Stream: TBA
Variety Review: “In Josh Safdie’s hyperkinetic spin on the sports movie, Chalamet banishes any trace of self-doubt as a midcentury striver based on Jewish American table-tennis champ Marty Reisman.”
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One Battle After Another
Image Credit: ©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection Oscar Nominations: Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Casting, Best Original Score, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Production Design, Best Sound
Where to Stream: Hulu (With HBO Max add-on)
Variety Review: “Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn lead an extraordinary cast in a film about autocracy, revolution, Christian nationalism … and a father and daughter torn apart.”
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The Secret Agent
Image Credit: Neon Oscar Nominations: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best International Feature Film, Best Casting
Where to Stream: Pre-order on Prime Video
Variety Review: “[Mendonça Filho’s] dazzling period drama reveals a surprising underground support network operating during the country’s dictatorship, when human lives were deemed expendable.”
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Sentimental Value
Image Credit: Neon Oscar Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best International Feature Film, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing
Where to Stream: Rent/purchase on Prime Video
Variety Review: “In [Joachim Trier’s] mature and moving tale of two sisters, Elle Fanning plays the American star who lands the role ‘The Worst Person in the World’ discovery Renate Reinsve was born to embody.”
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Train Dreams
Image Credit: Courtesy of Netflix Oscar Nominations: Best Picture, Best Cinematography, Best Original Song
Where to Stream: Netflix
Variety Review: “Clint Bentley translates Denis Johnson’s novella into a meditative mosaic, celebrating the Puritan work ethic that shaped this country via the joys and sorrows of an itinerant worker.”
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Blue Moon
Image Credit: Sony Pictures Classics Oscar Nominations: Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay
Where to Stream: Rent/purchase on Prime Video
Variety Review: “Fake hair and trick shots simply can’t transform Ethan Hawke into short, balding musical legend Lorenz Hart — which is too bad, since it distracts from a wonderfully written movie.”
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Kokuho
Image Credit: Aniplex Inc. Oscar Nominations: Makeup & Hairstyling
Where to Stream: TBA
Variety Review: “Lee Sang-il, the director of ‘Unforgiven,’ crafts a decades-spanning historical drama starring Ryo Yoshizawa as an orphan aspiring to master the rigorous artform.”
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The Smashing Machine
Image Credit: Courtesy Everett Collection Oscar Nominations: Makeup & Hairstyling
Where to Stream: Hulu (With HBO Max add-on)
Variety Review: “In his first solo outing, the director tells the story of UFC fighter Mark Kerr, crafting a clear-eyed drama that feels like a cousin to ‘The Wrestler.’”
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The Ugly Stepsister
Image Credit: Courtesy Everett Collection Oscar Nominations: Makeup & Hairstyling
Where to Stream: Hulu
Variety Review: “Norwegian director Emilie Blichfeldt skewers impossible female beauty standards in a horrific spin on the familiar fairy tale, presented here from the rival’s perspective.”
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Kpop Demon Hunters
Image Credit: KPOP DEMON HUNTERS Oscar Nominations: Makeup & Hairstyling
Where to Stream: Netflix
Variety Review: “Because the nimble, genre-hopping movie is set in the world of K-pop, it may not even occur to fans that they’re watching a musical — although it’s kind of hard to deny as you catch yourself singing along.”
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Arco
Oscar Nominations: Best Animated Feature Film
Where to Stream: Pre-order on Apple TV
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Elio
Image Credit: Everett Collection Oscar Nominations: Best Animated Feature
Where to Stream: Disney+
Variety Review: “While not as original as ‘Wall-E’ and the ‘Toy Story’ movies, the animation studio’s latest reminds that subpar Pixar is still smarter and more satisfying than most of what’s out there.”
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Little Amelie or the Character of the Rain
Image Credit: Courtesy Everett Collection Oscar Nominations: Best Animated Feature
Where to Stream: Rent/Purchase on Prime Video
Variety Review: “The look and feel owes an obvious debt to the beloved films of Studio Ghibli, which have offered some of the most iconic representations of wartime Japan and its long, fraught recovery period. ‘Little Amélie’ starts from a place of (mostly endearing) solipsism and builds empathy and emotional depth as it goes.”
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Zootopia 2
Image Credit: Disney Oscar Nominations: Best Animated Feature
Where to Stream: TBA
Variety Review: “While it doesn’t have quite the same breakout potential as the Mouse House’s past few hits, “Zootopia” has shrewdly established both an environment that could be further explored from countless other angles (in a spinoff TV series, perhaps) and an odd-couple chemistry between Nick and Judy that carries on even after Gazelle returns for her obligatory grand finale.”
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The Alabama Solution
Image Credit: Courtesy of HBO Max Oscar Nominations: Best Documentary Feature Film
Where to Stream: Hulu (With HBO add-on)
Variety Review: It’s a look at horrific prison conditions, detailed by prisoners on contraband cell phones, that becomes a muckraking murder mystery.
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Come See Me in the Good Light
Image Credit: Apple TV+ Oscar Nominations: Best Documentary Feature Film
Where to Stream: Apple TV
Variety Review: “Comedian Tig Notaro was sure a film about the couple reckoning with mortality would make a rending but also affirming film. She was right.”
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Cutting Through the Rocks
Image Credit: Courtesy Everett Collection Oscar Nominations: Best Documentary Feature Film
Where to Stream: TBA
Variety Review: “The film’s irascible but deeply principled subject — thirty-something divorcee Sara Shahverdi — gives the film its energy, though its lulls aren’t quite as purposeful. However, despite feeling drawn-out, the doc features occasional bursts of visual panache that help emphasize its underlying story.”
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Mr. Nobody Against Putin
Image Credit: Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival Oscar Nominations: Best Documentary Feature Film
Where to Stream: Apple TV
Variety Review: “Through the eyes of its delightfully brave, yet utterly relatable subject (also the de facto cinematographer), this terrifying, revelatory and poignant exposé offers an unseen human angle on an ongoing conflict that’s continues to be widely addressed in documentary cinema.”
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The Perfect Neighbor
Image Credit: Courtesy of Netflix Oscar Nominations: Best Documentary Feature Film
Where to Stream: Netflix
Variety Review: “Reconstructing an escalating dispute from video recordings made by 911 responders, director Geeta Gandbhir reveals how white citizens attempt to leverage the police against people of color.”
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It Was Just an Accident
Image Credit: Neon Oscar Nominations: Best International Feature Film, Best Original Screenplay
Where to Stream: TBA
Variety Review: After being censored and imprisoned multiple times, [Jafar Pahani] director emerges anything but chastened, serving up a powerful moral dilemma for those Iran has treated unfairly.
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The Voice of Hind Rajab
Image Credit: Willa Oscar Nominations: Best International Feature Film
Where to Stream: TBA
Variety Review: “It’s impossible not to be moved by the real-life audio recording that is the centerpiece of Kaouther Ben Hania’s hybrid film, but the ethics and execution of the concept are questionable.”
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Viva Verdi
Oscar Nominations: Best Original Song (“Sweet Dreams Of Joy”)
Where to Stream: Mubi
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Diane Warren: Relentless
Image Credit: Courtesy Everett Collection Oscar Nominations: Best Original Song (“Dear Me”)
Where to Stream: Rent/Purchase on Prime Video
Variety Review: “Filmmaker Bess Kargman provides an engaging look at a top music writer who has come to be a mogul but still acts like a song hustler.”
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
Image Credit: KATIE YU/NETFLIX Oscar Nominations: Best Costume Design, Best Visual Effects
Where to Stream: TBA
Variety Review: “It’s better than the second film — bolder and tighter — and still has its share of amazements. But it no longer feels visually unprecedented.”
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Jurassic World: Rebirth
Image Credit: ©Universal/Courtesy Everett Collection Oscar Nominations: Best Visual Effects
Where to Stream: Peacock
Variety Review: “Gareth Edwards rejects the silliness of the previous three films, directing Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Bailey through a series of tense, exciting set-pieces that hew closer to Steven Spielberg’s 1993 classic.”
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The Lost Bus
Image Credit: Apple TV+ Oscar Nominations: Best Visual Effects
Where to Stream: Apple TV and Prime Video (with Apple TV add-on)
Variety Review: “Matthew McConaughey brings his signature intensity and man-of-the-people appeal to a blistering re-creation of the 2018 Camp Fire, which focuses on a narrow splinter of a story with far more compelling angles to explore.”
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Weapons
Oscar Nominations: Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Where to Stream: Hulu (With HBO Max add-on)
Variety Review: “Zach Cregger, director of ‘Barbarian,’ explores the fear and anger that consume an otherwise stable American community in which 17 children up and vanish.”
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Song Sung Blue
Image Credit: ©Focus Features/Courtesy Everett Collection Oscar Nominations: Best Actress:
Where to Stream: Rent/purchase on Prime Video
Variety Review: “Craig Brewer’s film is a winning pop nostalgia trip with a dark side.”
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If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Image Credit: Courtesy Everett Collection Oscar Nominations: Best Actress
Where to Stream: Rent/purchase on Prime Video
Variety Review: Writer-director Mary Bronstein sees something in Rose Byrne the industry missed, casting the ‘Damages’ star as a woman overwhelmed by life in an alternately exhilarating and maddening Safdie-like indie.”
