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The nominees for the 96th Academy Awards were announced Tuesday morning, with “Oppenheimer,” Christopher Nolan’s sprawling examination of the dawn of the Atomic Age, leading with 13 nods including Best Picture. It was followed closely behind by Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things,” a feminist fantasy set in a steampunk world of mutants and male chauvinist pigs, which earned 11 nominations.
“Killers of the Flower Moon,” Martin Scorsese’s historical crime drama about a vast conspiracy to rob the Osage Nation of its oil wealth, received 10 nominations, and Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie,” last year’s biggest box office hit, earned eight nominations.
Although many of the Academy’s favorite films only recently arrived in theaters, many of them are already available to stream online (or to rent/purchase digitally on Prime Video and Apple TV), which means you can easily watch a large majority of the 37 Oscar-nominated feature films online before tuning into the Oscars on March 10.
See how to stream all the nominated feature films below:
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Oppenheimer
Image Credit: ©Universal/Courtesy Everett Col Oscar Nominations: Best Picture; Best Director (Christopher Nolan); Actor in a Leading Role (Cillian Murphy); Actor in a Supporting Role (Robert Downey Jr.); Adapted Screenplay; Cinematography; Costume Design; Sound; Original Score (Ludwig Göransson); Makeup and Hairstyling; Production Design; Film Editing
Where to Stream: Will begin streaming on Peacock starting Feb. 16.
Variety‘s Review: “‘Oppenheimer’ tacks on a trendy doomsday message about how the world was destroyed by nuclear weapons. But if Oppenheimer, in his way, made the bomb all about him, by that point it’s Nolan and his movie who are doing the same thing.”
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Poor Things
Image Credit: Searchlight Pictures Oscar Nominations: Best Picture; Best Director (Yorgos Lanthimos); Actress in a Leading Role (Emma Stone); Actor in a Supporting Role (Mark Ruffalo); Adapated Screenplay; Cinematography; Costume Design; Original Score; Makeup and Hairstyling; Production Design; Film Editing
Where to Stream: Not yet streaming.
Variety‘s Review: “Against this spirit of sensual and sensory richness, experimental pop artist Jerskin Fendrix’s gnawing, atonal score — mirroring Bella’s switching fixations by doggedly stressing one instrument at a time — stands out for its severity.”
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Barbie
Image Credit: ©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection Oscar Nominations: Best Picture; Actor in a Supporting Role (Ryan Gosling); Actress in a Supporting Role (America Ferrera); Adapted Screenplay; Original Song; Costume Design; Production Design
Where to Watch: Streaming on Max.
Variety‘s Review: “The thing about Östlund is that he makes you laugh, but he also makes you think. There’s a meticulous precision to the way he constructs, blocks and executes scenes — a kind of agonizing unease, amplified by awkward silences or an unwelcome fly buzzing between characters struggling to communicate.”
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American Fiction
Image Credit: MGM Oscar Nominations: Best Picture; Actor in a Leading Role (Jeffrey Wright); Best Supporting Actor (Sterling K. Brown); Adapted Screenplay; Original Score;
Where to Watch: Available to pre-order on Prime Video and Apple TV+.
Variety‘s Review: “Promising first-time director Cord Jefferson uses a 22-year-old book to poke fun at how Hollywood and others attempt to commercialize the African American experience.
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Anatomy of a Fall
Image Credit: Courtesy of Neon Oscar Nominations: Best Picture; Best Director (Justine Triet); Actress in a Leading Role (Sandra Hüller); Original Screenplay; Film Editing
Where to Watch: Available to rent/purchase on Prime Video and Apple TV+.
Variety‘s Review: “From the opening scene, set in an unfinished chalet in the French Alps, it often feels as if the movie is eavesdropping on moments too intimate to be shared — except that husband and wife are both novelists, and domestic conflict serves as the raw material of their work.:”
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The Holdovers
Oscar Nominations: Best Picture; Actor in a Leading Role (Paul Giamatti); Actress in a Supporting Role (Da’Vine Joy Randolph); Original Screenplay; Film Editing;
Where to Watch: Streaming on Peacock.
Variety‘s Review: “Payne teases several romantic subplots, flirting with the possibility of taking manipulative shortcuts — tricks that would’ve been surefire ways to wrench tears from his audience — but wisely steers the focus back to his characters and the work they still need to do on themselves.”
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Killers of the Flower Moon
Image Credit: Courtesy of Apple Oscar Nominations: Best Picture; Best Director (Martin Scorsese); Actress in a Leading Role (Lily Gladstone); Actor in a Supporting Role (Robert De Niro); Cinematography; Original Song; Costume Design; Original Score (Robbie Robertson); Production Design; Film Editing
Where to Watch: Streaming on Apple TV+
Variety‘s Review: “Instead of focusing his cameras on the Native victims, the ‘Irishman’ director lets Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro have the lion’s share of the screen time in this meaty but demanding true-crime saga.”
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Maestro
Image Credit: ©Netflix/Courtesy Everett Collection Oscar Nominations: Best Picture; Actor in a Leading Role (Bradley Cooper); Actress in a Leading Role (Carey Mulligan); Original Screenplay; Cinematography; Sound; Makeup and Hairstyling;
Where to Watch: Streaming on Netflix.
Variety‘s Review: “’Maestro’ can’t help but be dominated by the grandeur of Bernstein’s passion, his outsize flaws, and the tightrope he walked between the need to find the meaning of beauty and the desire to stay fancy free. Yet Cooper and Mulligan make the movie a duet to remember.”
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Past Lives
Image Credit: Courtesy of Sundance Institute Oscar Nominations: Best Picture; Original Screenplay
Where to Watch: Available to rent/purchase on Prime Video and Apple TV+.
Variety‘s Review: “The Korean-born playwright demonstrates a way with words, but also with the deep wells of emotion that can flow between them, in this exceptional feature debut.”
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The Zone of Interest
Oscar Nominations: Best Picture; Best Director (Jonathan Glazer); Adapted Screenplay; Sound; International Feature Film
Where to Watch: Not yet streaming.
Variety‘s Review: “It’s a remarkable film — chilling and profound, meditative and immersive, a movie that holds human darkness up to the light and examines it as if under a microscope.”
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Rustin
Image Credit: Parrish Lewis/Netflix Oscar Nominations: Actor in a Leading Role (Coleman Domingo);
Where to Stream: Netflix
Variety‘s Review: “Most Americans don’t know the name of the man standing over MLK’s shoulder during the March on Washington, but a galvanizing performance and equally compelling script are sure to change that.”
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Nyad
Image Credit: Liz Parkinson/Netflix Oscar Nominations: Best Supporting Actress (Annette Bening); Actress in a Supporting Role (Jodie Foster)
Where to Stream: Netflix
Variety‘s Review: “‘Nyad’ is an almost single-minded account of Diana’s multiple attempts to swim that stretch, and while the experience is long and repetitive enough that you’ll probably emerge with the mental equivalent of prune fingers, feeling as if you made that 53-hour swim yourself, the takeaway is obvious: Never give up.”
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The Color Purple
Image Credit: Photo Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures Oscar Nominations: Actress in a Supporting Role (Danielle Brooks)
Where to Stream: Available to rent/purchase on Prime Video and Apple TV+
Variety‘s Review: “Instead of rejecting what came before, the Ghanian filmmaker embraces and builds upon it, collaborating with Spielberg, Quincy Jones and Oprah Winfrey to update the material for the next generation.”
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May December
Image Credit: ©Netflix/Courtesy Everett Collection Oscar Nominations: Origina Screenplay
Where to Stream: Netflix.
Variety‘s Review: “Todd Haynes unpacks America’s obsession with scandal and the impossibility of ever truly knowing what motivates others in this layered look at the actor’s process.”
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El Conde
Image Credit: Courtesy of Pablo Larraín, Netflix, Venice Film Festival Oscar Nominations: Cinematography
Where to Stream: Netflix
Variety‘s Review: “The Chilean director imagines the Chilean dictator as a 250-year-old vampire committing slow, self-pitying suicide in a defiantly weird, gruesome but gorgeous-looking satirical horror.”
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Flamin' Hot
Image Credit: Emily Aragones / Courtesy of Searchlight Oscar Nominations: Best Original Song
Where to Stream: Hulu and Disney+
Variety‘s Review: “Longoria has been directing shorts and episodic TV for more than a dozen years, bringing all that experience (and just the right amount of sizzle) to a stirring motivational exercise — one that treats Montañez’s charisma-to-burn mythology not as gospel truth so much as a compelling Horatio Alger story.”
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American Symphony
Image Credit: Netflix Oscar Nominations: Best Original Song
Where to Watch: Netflix
Variety‘s Review: “For this warm and lovely film’s most natural audience, which will most likely be families struggling with illness, the documentary’s final inconclusiveness may feel like a feature, not a flaw: Music is forever, and so is chemo, in some cases. Holding those elements in balance is one way to create a symphony.”
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Napoleon
Image Credit: Courtesy of Apple Original Films/Sony Pictures Oscar Nominations: Costume Design; Production Design; Visual Effects
Where to Watch: Available to rent/purchase on Prime Video and Apple TV+
Variety‘s Review: “The director’s motives are unclear, much like those of Napoleon Bonaparte, as played by Joaquin Phoenix, who gives a mumbly and oddly anti-charismatic performance as the figure — short, slender and something of an outsider, owing to his Corsican birth — who came to rule France after the revolution.”
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The Creator
Image Credit: Courtesy of 20th Century Studios Oscar Nominations: Sound
Where to Watch: Hulu
Variety‘s Review: “The footage of a near-future war between America and anyone caught developing AI looks stunning, but isn’t enough to save a derivative plot about a cute child-like robot that might also be a superweapon.”
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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Image Credit: Paramount Pictures and Skydance Oscar Nominations: Sound; Visual Effects
Where to Watch: Paramount+ starting Jan. 25.
Variety‘s Review: “As always, the plot is but an excuse for ever more elaborate set-pieces, executed so convincingly that Cruise has acquired a reputation for carrying out all the insane things Hunt is called upon to do in the movie. That’s a testament to more than just the marketing department; Cruise really is committed to topping his previous feats, and though there’s no shortage of good old-fashioned movie magic involved (in the editing and visual effects), the crew does a terrific job of making “Dead Reckoning” look real.”
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Godzilla Minus One
Image Credit: Courtesy of Toho Oscar Nominations: Visual Effects
Where to Watch: Not yet streaming.
Variety‘s Review: “With an emotionally engaging storyline and plenty of city-stomping, heat-ray-breathing action, the first live-action Godzilla from Japan since ‘Shin Godzilla’ marks a high point in the long-running series.”
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Image Credit: Courtesy of Marvel Studios Oscar Nominations: Visual Effects
Where to Watch: Disney+
Variety‘s Review: “James Gunn brings the underdog superhero trilogy to a satisfying close in this team effort to save Bradley Cooper’s smart-aleck raccoon.”
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Golda
Image Credit: Courtesy Everett Collection Oscar Nominations: Makeup and Hairstyling
Where to Watch: Showtime, Paramount+, Hulu
Variety‘s Review:“’Golda’ is a good drama about Israel. But it will take a great drama about Israel to dig into the nation’s long-simmering moral ambiguities.”
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Society of the Snow
Image Credit: ©Netflix/Courtesy Everett Collection Oscar Nominations: International Feature Film; Makeup and Hairstyling
Where to Watch: Netflix
Variety‘s Review: “As you would expect from the Spanish director of 2012’s Indian Ocean tsunami drama ‘The Impossible,’ he once again pulls off a rattlingly visceral reconstruction of a real-life catastrophe, pummelling the audience with formal pyrotechnics for throat-grabbing you-are-there effect, before shifting focus to the devastated personal crisis of it all.”
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Image Credit: Sony Oscar Nominations: Animated Feature Film
Where to Watch: Netflix
Variety‘s Review: “The images in ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ have an intoxicating unpredictability. The film makes you feel like you’re dropping through the floors of a modern art museum on acid, yet there’s a thrilling moment-to-moment logic to it all.”
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Robot Dreams
Image Credit: Credit: Arcadia Motion Pictures Oscar Nominations: Animated Feature Film
Where to Watch: Not streaming yet.
Variety‘s Review: “The Spanish director of ‘Blancanieves’ makes an unexpected but appealing pivot to animation in dialogue-free tale of friendship found, lost and rewired.”
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Nimona
Image Credit: Courtesy of Netflix Oscar Nominations: Animated Feature Film
Where to Watch: Netflix
Variety‘s Review: “Orphaned by the Fox-Disney merger, then scooped up by Annapurna, this former Blue Sky project feels a million miles removed from anything its original parent studio has made — and that’s a good thing.”
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Elemental
Image Credit: Pixar Oscar Nominations: Animated Feature Film
Where to Watch: Disney+
Variety‘s Review: “’Elemental’ is so elaborate and calls for so much exposition that the briskly paced movie is still trying to shoehorn essential backstory into the film’s final reel. Sohn should have made the plot simpler, not faster.”
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The Boy and the Heron
Image Credit: Gkids / Studio Ghibli Oscar Nominations: Animated Feature Film
Where to Watch: Apple TV+
Variety‘s Review: “Better to think of “The Boy and the Heron” as the bonus round — a worthy but mid-range addition to a remarkable oeuvre that expands his filmography without necessarily topping it. It’s a more fitting finale than 2013’s “The Wind Rises,” but still might not be his last.”
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The Teachers' Lounge
Image Credit: Courtesy of If… Productions, Judith Kaufmann Oscar Nominations: International Feature Film
Where to Watch: Not streaming yet.
Variety‘s Review: “It delivers you directly into a sense memory of chalk dust and boredom, of fidgeting at your desk and gazing longingly through big windows that seem tauntingly designed for exactly that purpose.”
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Perfect Days
Image Credit: Courtesy of MasterMIND Ltd. Oscar Nominations: International Feature Film
Where to Watch: Apple TV+ starting next month.
Variety‘s Review: “’Perfect Days’ finds its maker in bracing, uncomplicated form: It hasn’t the ecstatic spiritualist philosophy of “Wings of Desire” or the penetrating poetry of human and cultural desolation that marked “Paris, Texas.” But the new film’s humane, hopeful embrace of everyday blessings is enough to make it Wenders’ freshest, most rewarding and arthouse-friendly fiction feature in close on 30 years
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Io Capitano
Image Credit: Courtesy of EFP Oscar Nominations: International Feature Film
Where to Watch: Not streaming yet.
Variety‘s Review: “For Garrone, this proves an energizing shift in focus, yielding his most robust, purely satisfying filmmaking since his international breakthrough with ‘Gomorrah’ 15 years ago.”
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20 Days in Mariupol
Image Credit: PBS Oscar Nominations: Documentary Feature Film
Where to Watch: Prime Video
Variety‘s Review: “This is bleak but essential viewing, deftly edited by Michelle Mizner, video technology rendering Chernov’s camerawork discomfitingly bright and sharp where not long ago we might have been spared a degree of horror by lesser image clarity.”
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To Kill a Tiger
Oscar Nominations: Documentary Feature Film
Where to Watch: Not streaming yet.
Variety‘s Review: “The rare documentary that opens not just with a content warning, but with a request not to share identifying images of its child subject, To Kill a Tiger is a heavy but necessary work about the legalese and cultural attitudes surrounding sexual violence in rural India
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Four Daughters
Image Credit: Courtesy Cannes Film Festival Oscar Nominations: Documentary Feature Film
Where to Watch: Kino Film Collection and Prime Video (With Kino Film Collection add-on)
Variety‘s Review: “The gripping true story of a Tunisian mother whose two elder daughters joined ISIS is overlaid with fictional, self-analyzing elements in fascinating if not always convincing ways.”
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The Eternal Memory
Image Credit: Courtesy of Micromundo/Fabula Oscar Nominations: Documentary Feature Film
Where to Watch: Paramount+
Variety‘s Review: “For those who think they cannot stomach one more, Maite Alberdi‘s “The Eternal Memory” treats inexorably sad material with a lighter, more lyrical approach than most — focusing less on the day-to-day ravages of living with Alzheimer’s than on the slippery, transient concept of memory itself, as formed, held and lost both in the individual mind and a wider collective consciousness.”
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Bobi Wine: The People’s President
Image Credit: Courtesy of National Geographic Oscar Nominations: Documentary Feature Film
Where to Watch: Disney+
Variety‘s Review: “If recent history Stateside has cautioned us against celebrities getting into politics, Christopher Sharp and Moses Bwayo’s gripping, alarming doc makes a worthy case for one.”