Your 2022 Oscar Nominees Streaming Guide
Find out where to stream most of the contenders before Sunday night!
Do You Like Apples’ Super Bowl, aka the Oscars, is almost here! On Sunday night at 8PM ET, the 94th Academy Awards kicks off on ABC. Just like the last couple years, we will have plenty of Oscars content for you over the next several days. Today, we have an Oscar-nominated streaming guide, where you can make sure you are as ready as possible by finding out where to watch most of the nominated films before Sunday night.
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BEST PICTURE
Belfast (available to rent on demand)
A young boy and his working-class Belfast family experience the tumultuous late 1960s.
7 Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Ciarán Hinds), Best Supporting Actress (Judi Dench), Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Song ("Down to Joy"), Best Sound
Drew: In telling this very personal story from his own 9-year-old point of view, writer-director Kenneth Branagh has fashioned a nostalgic, rose-tinted vision of the Northern Ireland of his youth. Belfast works so wonderfully not only because it’s charming, sweet, and moving, but because the lens so fully inhabits a childlike perspective. There are undoubtedly very different and darker films out there depicting the violence and conflict of the time, but Branagh’s accomplished but modest story springs from his own memory of his upbringing, which includes brief glimpses of political strife but mostly concerns his family, school, and interests as a kid. Life often goes on in the background of socio-political upheaval, and Belfast gives us an engaging (and idealized) picture of the ups and downs experienced by one child growing up amid the chaos.
CODA (streaming on Apple TV+)
As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults) Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her love of music by wanting to go to Berklee College of Music and her fear of abandoning her parents.
3 Nominations: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Troy Kotsur), Best Adapted Screenplay
Don’t Look Up (streaming on Netflix)
Two low-level astronomers must go on a giant media tour to warn mankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet Earth.
4 Nominations: Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Film Editing
Drive My Car (streaming on HBO Max)
A renowned stage actor and director learns to cope with his wife's unexpected passing when he receives an offer to direct a production of Uncle Vanya in Hiroshima.
4 Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best International Feature (Japan)
Billy: Drive My Car has made me acutely aware of how much time I spend in certain places. Car, bed, work, etc… A potentially minor theme of the movie, but a theme that spoke to me. Using our time in those places is so important and can be used as a detriment or a benefit. Shielding the feelings from previous trauma in those places is easy when the monotony sets in. While a three hour slow paced drama is not an easy sell for everyone. Even for me, but I knew that if I were to watch this one I needed to see it in a movie theater. Luckily I had that opportunity and my attention was on the screen entirely. Completely moved by the entire run time. I hope my moments watching movies, a huge part of my life that can be a source of masking emotions and monotony, will be used more for movies like Drive My Car. I don’t necessarily think that “I avoided therapy because movies are my therapy” as Steven Spielberg strangely said, but movies are used to help curb some anxiety from time to time. And Drive My Car calmed me greatly.
Dune (streaming on HBO)
Feature adaptation of Frank Herbert's science fiction novel about the son of a noble family entrusted with the protection of the most valuable asset and most vital element in the galaxy.
10 Nominations: Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Production Design, Best Sound, Best Visual Effects
King Richard (streaming on HBO Max March 24)
A look at how tennis superstars Venus and Serena Williams became who they are after the coaching from their father Richard Williams.
6 Nominations: Best Picture, Best Actor (Will Smith), Best Supporting Actress (Aunjanue Ellis), Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Song ("Be Alive"), Best Film Editing
Licorice Pizza (available to rent on demand)
The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.
3 Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay
Nightmare Alley (streaming on Hulu and HBO)
An ambitious carny with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychiatrist who is even more dangerous than he is.
4 Nominations: Best Picture, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Production Design
The Power of the Dog (streaming on Netflix)
Charismatic rancher Phil Burbank inspires fear and awe in those around him. When his brother brings home a new wife and her son, Phil torments them until he finds himself exposed to the possibility of love.
12 Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Benedict Cumberbatch), Best Supporting Actor (Jesse Plemons), Best Supporting Actor (Kodi Smit-McPhee), Best Supporting Actress (Kirsten Dunst), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Production Design, Best Sound
West Side Story (streaming on Disney+ and HBO)
An adaptation of the 1957 musical, West Side Story explores forbidden love and the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds.
7 Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress (Ariana DeBose), Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Production Design, Best Sound
Billy: He’s back. Spielberg hasn’t had a great movie since 2002 and his decision-making on projects has been incredibly confusing. Including this one! Recreating a Best Picture-winning musical feels ambitious and unnecessary, but if there is a director that has the skill to back up the hubris it is Mr. Spielberg. And my goodness he nailed it. All aspects came together to satisfy me all the way through. Some shots have stuck with me and I have thought about them every day since. Musicals are a tricky business regardless and I am still baffled that he stuck the landing on remaking one of the best musicals ever. He’s back!
OTHER FILMS WITH MULTIPLE NOMINATIONS
Being the Ricardos (streaming on Amazon Prime)
3 Nominations: Best Actor (Javier Bardem), Best Actress (Nicole Kidman), Best Supporting Actor (J.K. Simmons)
Cruella (streaming on Disney+)
2 Nominations: Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling
The Eyes of Tammy Faye (streaming on HBO Max)
2 Nominations: Best Actress (Jessica Chastain), Best Makeup and Hairstyling
The Lost Daughter (streaming on Netflix)
3 Nominations: Best Actress (Olivia Colman), Best Supporting Actress (Jessie Buckley), Best Adapted Screenplay
Tick… tick… BOOM! (streaming on Netflix)
2 Nominations: Best Actor (Andrew Garfield), Best Film Editing
The Tragedy of Macbeth (streaming on Apple TV+)
3 Nominations: Best Actor (Denzel Washington), Best Cinematography, Best Production Design
BEST ANIMATED FILM
Encanto (streaming on Disney+)
Flee (streaming on Hulu)
Luca (streaming on Disney+)
The Mitchells vs. the Machines (streaming on Netflix)
Drew: If you’re looking for an alternative to the Disney and Pixar domination in this category, The Mitchells vs. the Machines is a fun and wild animated ride. Behind the madcap energy and the chaotic cacophony of colors, sounds, and references, The Mitchells vs. the Machines has a lively beating heart that sets it apart from lesser animated movies. It’s definitely a lot to take in, but there are actually nuanced ideas about technology’s role in our lives and the value of artistic endeavors. Plus, there’s the heartstrings-tugging father-daughter dynamic that is handled with bittersweet grace.
Raya and the Last Dragon (streaming on Disney+)
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Ascension (streaming on Paramount+)
Attica (streaming on Amazon Prime)
Flee (streaming on Hulu)
Summer of Soul (streaming on Disney+ and Hulu)
Drew: What if there was a music festival that featured some of today’s best artists and then was completely forgotten almost immediately? In his directorial debut, Questlove (of the Roots) explores this very real scenario in Summer of Soul, his documentary about the Harlem Cultural Festival of 1969. This was a fest that boasted performances by Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Mahalia Jackson, and Sly and the Family Stone, among many more, but then the footage remained virtually unseen for decades. This fascinating and engaging doc goes into why this happened and what it meant to those that attended and those that were influenced by it so many years later.
BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM
Flee (streaming on Hulu)
The Hand of God (streaming on Netflix)