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Feb 27, 2024 · Here are a slew of Oscar winners you can stream on Netflix, from cinema classics, rousing documentaries, and movies that feature some of the best performances committed to film.
- Forrest Gump
- Still Alice
- Brokeback Mountain
- If Beale Street Could Talk
- My Octopus Teacher
- Les Misérables
- Power of The Dog
- Phantom Thread
- Marriage Story
- Darkest Hour
Run Time: 2 hr 22 min | Genre: Comedy Drama | Director: Robert Zemeckis Cast: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field Oscars Won: Picture, Actor in a Leading Role (Hanks), Director, Adapted Screenplay, Film Editing, Visual Effects Forrest Gump was the biggest movie of 1994, and its cultural legacy is still hotly debated today. IsRobert Ze...
Run Time: 1 hr 41 min | Genre: Drama | Director: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland Cast: Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth Oscars Won: Best Actress (Moore) Based on the 2007 novel by Lisa Genova, Still Alice stars Julianne Moore as the titular character: a linguistics professor who’s diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. M...
Run Time: 2 hr 14 min | Genre: Romance Drama | Director: Ang Lee Cast: Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway Oscars Won: Director, Adapted Screenplay, Original Score Winner of three Oscars including Best Director, Adapted Screenplay, and Original Score (and it should have won Best Picture), Brokeback Mountain remains a tow...
Run Time: 1 hr 59 min | Director: Barry Jenkins Cast:Kiki Layne, Stephan James, Regina King, Teyonah Parris, Colman Domingo Oscars Won: Supporting Actress (King) This drama/romance from 2018 features some tough situations and themes. Tish, played by KiKi Layne, discovers she is pregnant, but her beau, Fonny, played by Stephan James, is soon wrongly...
Run Time: 1 hr 25 min | Genre: Documentary | Director: Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed Cast: Craig Foster, Tom Foster Oscars Won: Documentary Feature My Octopus Teacher is a fascinating documentary set in the South African kelp forest that explores the beauty and realities of life in the ocean through the impassioned eyes of Craig Foster, the founder of ...
Run Time: 2 hr 38 min | Genre: Epic Period Musical | Director: Tom Hooper Cast: Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, Helena Bonham Carter, and Sacha Baron Cohen Oscars Won:Sound Mixing, Makeup and Hairstyling, Supporting Actress (Hathaway) Based on Victor Hugo's seminal novel of the same name, Les Misérables ...
Run Time: 2 hrs 6 min | Genre: Revisionist Western Psychological Queer Drama | Director: Jane Campion Cast:Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons Oscars Won: Best Director Based on the novel by Thomas Savage, Power of the Dog stars Benedict Cumberbatch(Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness) in a gritty western that reveals overloo...
Run Time: 2 hr 11 min | Genre: Historical Drama | Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Cast:Daniel Day-Lewis, Lesley Manville, and Vicky Krieps Oscars Won: Costume Design Phantom Thread is a historical drama starring Daniel Day-Lewis (in his last film role before his retirement) as an obsessive high-end dressmaker. Through a series of circumstances, he f...
Run Time: 2 hr 16 min | Genre: Drama | Director: Noah Baumbach Cast:Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, Laura Dern, Alan Alda, and Ray Liotta Oscars Won:Supporting Actress (Dern) Fair warning: Marriage Story will wreck you. But it’s also not just one of the best films of 2019, it’s the best film Noah Baumbach has ever made. Nominated for six Oscars, t...
Run Time: 2 hr 5 min | Genre: War Drama | Director: Joe Wright Cast: Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lily James, Stephen Dillane, Ronald Pickup, and Ben Mendelsohn Oscars Won: Lead Actor (Oldman), Makeup and Hairstyling A historical war drama, Darkest Hour earned Gary Oldman his first Oscar for his performance as Winston Churchill. Set during hi...
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Mar 26, 2021 · Netflix took home its biggest haul of Oscar nominations in their history beating out most other rivals in the race to the Oscars due to air at the end of April 2021. Netflix Original movies scored 37 (41 if you include News of the World and Love and Monsters which Netflix distributed internationally) Oscar nomination nods this year. This means ...
- Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) This groundbreaking and absurd comedy-drama received the lion's share of the love at the Oscars last year by blending a soulful and genuinely moving premise with some of the most wonderfully silly moments you're likely to find in a major motion picture.
- All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) A new adaptation of the 1929 anti-war novel from Erich Maria Remarque, this new version didn't take home Best Picture nor Best Director as the original 1930 version did, but still, All Quiet wound up being the second-most awarded film on Oscar night 2023, behind Best Picture winner Everything Everywhere All at Once.
- My Octopus Teacher (2020) Filmmaker Craig Foster spent a year forming a relationship with a wild common octopus in a South African kelp forest, transferring some of the lessons learned to his relationship with his own son.
- Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020) One sweaty, blues-filled afternoon in the Chicago of 1927, the great Ma Rainey (Viola Davis) shows up at the studio to make a new album.
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- The Graduate (1967) 1 Oscar Won: Best Director (Mike Nichols) The Graduate director Mike Nichols won best director for the Rom-Com Classic. Even 50 years on The Graduate is still one of Dustin Hoffman’s most career-defining roles.
- The King’s Speech (2010) 4 Oscars Won: Best Picture, Best Actor (Colin Firth), Best Director (Tom Hooper), Best Original Screenplay. There’s something about monarchs in films that the academy and thus audiences absolutely adore.
- Good Will Hunting (1997) 2 Oscar’s Won: Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor (Robin Williams) Not only was the late Robin Williams a comedic genius but when it a serious role was presented to him he would smash it out of the park.
- Apocalypse Now (1979) 2 Oscars Won: Best Cinematography, Best Sound Mixing. While one of the most visually compelling films of the 1970s and that of the 20th century, the film was also marred with controversy.
May 17, 2024 · 1. Whiplash. Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, Melissa Benoist. 20 votes. Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing. Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Academy Award for Best Film Editing. In the gripping drama Whiplash, Andrew Neiman (Miles Teller), a young jazz drummer, seeks to climb the ranks at a prestigious music conservatory.
Mar 6, 2024 · Every year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards its coveted Oscar to bestow the highest honors in filmmaking.
