Your 2024 Oscar Nominees Streaming Guide
Catch up with all the Oscar-nominated films before next weekend's ceremony!
Oscars season is here, people! With less than 10 days until the 96th Academy Awards, it’s time to brush up on the nominees you’ve missed. Fortunately for you, today’s newsletter is a streaming guide for where you can watch them all! In addition to that, we’ve written about a few of the nominees that we found definitely worth watching before the show.
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BEST PICTURE
American Fiction (available to buy digitally)
5 nominations: Best picture, best lead actor (Jeffrey Wright), best supporting actor (Sterling K. Brown), best writing for adapted screenplay (Cord Jefferson), best original score (Laura Karpman)
Anatomy of a Fall (available to rent digitally)
5 nominations: Best picture, best directing (Justine Triet), best lead actress (Sandra Hüller), best writing for original screenplay (Justine Triet, Arthur Harari), best film editing
Barbie (streaming on Max)
8 nominations: Best picture, best supporting actor (Ryan Gosling), best supporting actress (America Ferrera), best writing for adapted screenplay (Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach), best costume design (Jacqueline Durran), best original song (“I’m Just Ken” by Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt; “What Was I Made For?” by Billie Eilish, Finneas O’Connell), best production design
The Holdovers (streaming on Peacock)
5 nominations: Best picture, best lead actor (Paul Giamatti), best supporting actress (Da’Vine Joy Randolph), best writing for original screenplay (David Hemingson), best film editing
Killers of the Flower Moon (streaming on Apple TV+)
10 nominations: Best picture, best directing (Martin Scorsese), best lead actress (Lily Gladstone), best supporting actor (Robert De Niro), best cinematography (Rodrigo Prieto), best costume design (Jacqueline West), best original song (“Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People)” by Scott George), best original score (Robbie Robertson), best production design, best film editing
Maestro (streaming on Netflix)
7 nominations: Best picture, best lead actor (Bradley Cooper), best lead actress (Carey Mulligan), best writing for original screenplay (Bradley Cooper, Josh Singer), best cinematography (Matthew Libatique), best makeup and hairstyling (Kazu Hiro, Kay Georgiou and Lori McCoy-Bell), best sound
Oppenheimer (streaming on Peacock)
13 nominations: Best picture, best directing (Christopher Nolan), best lead actor (Cillian Murphy), best supporting actor (Robert Downey Jr.), best supporting actress (Emily Blunt), best writing for adapted screenplay (Christopher Nolan), best cinematography (Hoyte van Hoytema), best costume design (Ellen Mirojnick), best makeup and hairstyling (Luisa Abel), best original score (Ludwig Göransson), best production design, best film editing, best sound
Past Lives (available to rent digitally, streaming on Kanopy)
2 nominations: Best picture, best writing for original screenplay (Celine Song)
Poor Things (available to rent digitally, streaming March 7 on Hulu)
11 nominations: Best picture, best directing (Yorgos Lanthimos), best lead actress (Emma Stone), best supporting actor (Mark Ruffalo), best writing for adapted screenplay (Tony McNamara), best cinematography (Robbie Ryan), best costume design (Holly Waddington), best makeup and hairstyling (Nadia Stacey, Mark Coulier and Josh Weston), best original score (Jerskin Fendrix), best production design, best film editing
The Zone of Interest (available to buy digitally)
5 nominations: Best picture, best directing (Jonathan Glazer), best writing for adapted screenplay (Jonathan Glazer), best international feature film, best sound
Drew: There are images and sounds – billowing smoke, distant screams, muffled gunshots – in The Zone of Interest that I don’t think I’ll ever shake. That’s the power of what writer-director Jonathan Glazer accomplished in presenting the quotidian daily activities of the Nazi commandant and his family at Auschwitz. In departing from a traditional narrative, Glazer and his team give the viewer plenty to ponder amid an unseen and unthinkable atrocity happening over the concentration camp wall. Pair with Killers of the Flower Moon for two masterfully varied meditations on the banality (and bureaucracy and indifference) of evil.
OTHERS WITH MULTIPLE NOMINATIONS
Napoleon (streaming on Apple TV+)
3 nominations: Best visual effects, best production design, best costume design
The Creator (streaming on Hulu)
2 nominations: Best visual effects, best sound
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (streaming on Paramount+)
2 nominations: Best visual effects, best sound
Nyad (streaming on Netflix)
2 nominations: Best lead actress (Annette Bening), best supporting actress (Jodie Foster)
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
The Boy and the Heron
Elemental (streaming on Disney+)
Nimona (streaming on Netflix)
Robot Dreams
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (streaming on Netflix)
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Bobi Wine: The People’s President (streaming on Disney+)
The Eternal Memory (streaming on Paramount+)
Four Daughters (streaming on Kanopy)
To Kill a Tiger
20 Days in Mariupol (available to rent digitally)
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE
Io Capitano
Perfect Days
Society of the Snow (streaming on Netflix)
Drew: Harrowing, grueling, and often inspiring, Society of the Snow is a survival drama that doesn’t hold back. Depicting the famous 1972 Uruguayan rugby team’s plane crash in the Andes, this Spanish version is probably as accurate a retelling as we’ll get for what these victims of a horrific tragedy went through, including a violent plane crash, crushing avalanche, and extreme cold and hunger. Society of the Snow is by no means an easy watch, but it ends in a rewarding place.
The Teachers’ Lounge
The Zone of Interest (available to buy digitally)
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