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How to Watch and Stream Every 2024 Oscar Winning (and Nominated) Movie

Watching 1973’s Oscar winner The Godfather in this year’s Oscar-nominated Barbie. Photo: Warner Bros.

This article is regularly updated.

It’s time to fire up your Letterboxd, roller-skate out of the real world, and head off to movie land. After a year of dual WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, a pink-and-black double-feature phenomenon, and some truly great films from auteur directors, the 2024 Oscar winners have been officially crowned, giving you a perfect watchlist for catching up on all the films you missed. The good news, depending on who you ask, is that most of the winners are available to stream — from Poor Things, to Barbie, to Oppenheimer, the king of the 2024 Oscars. You have options!

And we’re here to help you sort through them. In the list below, we’ve prioritized the Oscar winners up top, with the additional nominated films split into a few categories. Without further ado, here’s how to watch and stream all the 2024 Oscar winners and nominees.

Oscar Winning Movies Streaming

American Fiction

Winner of Best Adapted Screenplay and nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor (Jeffrey Wright), Best Supporting Actor (Sterling K. Brown), and Best Original Score

Academy voters seemed to be as smitten with American Fiction as the book publishers were smitten with My Pafology in American Fiction. Along with a top prize nom for Best Picture, Jeffrey Wright and Sterling K. Brown received recognition in the acting categories while director and writer Cord Jefferson won an Adapted Screenplay award for his first feature film. (Available to stream on MGM+ and to rent on Amazon, iTunes, and Google Play.)

Anatomy of a Fall

Winner of Best Original Screenplay and nominated for Best Picture, Best Director (Justine Triet), Best Actress (Sandra Hüller), Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Editing

The legal drama from Neon won the Palme d’Or at 2023 Cannes and is continuing that streak by earning a slot in the Best Picture lineup and a Best Director nom for Justine Triet, making her the only woman nominated in that category this year. (Available to rent on Amazon, iTunes, Google Play, and YouTube and will be available to stream on Hulu March 22.)

Barbie

Winner of Best Original Song (“What Was I Made Forâ€) and nominated for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Ryan Gosling), Best Supporting Actress (America Ferrera), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Costume Design, Best Production Design, and Best Original Song (“I’m Just Kenâ€)

Hi, Barbies! The box-office juggernaut of 2023 received a handful of noms (including America Ferrera’s first Oscar nomination) and a win (a second Oscar for Billie Eilish and Finneas). Some may be bummed that Margot Robbie was snubbed for Best Actress, though she is nominated as producer, and that voters didn’t nominate Greta Gerwig for Best Director. A weird choice for sure, but at least she and Noah Baumbach were recognized in Adapted Screenplay. Now, Ryan Gosling may have not gotten the Supporting Actor award but he definitely won our hearts with that insanely fun “I’m Just Ken†number at the Oscars. (Available to stream on Max.)

The Boy and the Heron

Winner of Best Animated Feature Film

Hayao Miyazaki earned his fourth nomination and second win for Best Animated Feature Film. (His earlier film Spirited Away won in 2003.) Now, if only voice acting was a category. (Available in theaters and on Max later this year.)

Godzilla Minus One

Winner of Best Visual Effects

Godzilla’s first Oscar nom (and win!) (Available in theaters.)

The Holdovers

Winner of Best Supporting Actress (Da’Vine Joy Randolph) and nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor (Paul Giamatti), Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Editing

The Supporting Actress award was absolutely Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s to win, so go see why. (Available to stream on Peacock.)

Oppenheimer

Winner of Best Picture, Best Director (Christopher Nolan), Best Supporting Actor (Robert Downey Jr.), Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, and Best Actor (Cillian Murphy), and nominated for Best Supporting Actress (Emily Blunt), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Production Design, and Best Sound

Despite a different voting body, the Golden Globes was just the beginning of most people realizing that Oppenheimer is the movie to beat this awards season. It has 13 nominations spread healthily among the majority of the awards categories and has the most wins of the night, including the award of the night Best Picture and Christopher Nolan’s first win in Best Director. (Available to stream on Peacock.)

Poor Things

Winner of Best Actress (Emma Stone), Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, and Best Production Design, and nominated for Best Picture, Best Director (Yorgos Lanthimos), Best Supporting Actor (Mark Ruffalo), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, and Best Original Score

There have been comparisons drawn between Poor Things and Barbie, mostly because both films, on the surface, are about women venturing into a world radically new to them. Instead of a doll, Poor Things stars Emma Stone, who won Best Actress, as a dead woman brought back to life with the brain of her unborn child by a brilliant and maybe slightly mad surgeon (Willem Dafoe). It’s an audacious dark comedy from Yorgos Lanthimos that earned him a Best Director nom, and the film itself is the second most-nominated film of the bunch. (Available to stream on Hulu.)

The Zone of Interest

Winner of Best International Feature Film and Best Sound, and nominated for Best Picture, Best Director (Jonathan Glazer), and Best Adapted Screenplay

The most dour film on this lineup, The Zone of Interest struck a chord in Academy voters as they awarded Under the Skin director Jonathan Glazer his first Oscar nominations, for Best Director and Adapted Screenplay, for this heavy story about Nazi commander Rudolf Höss and his family’s idyllic home right outside of the horrors of Auschwitz. The film also earned a nomination for Best Sound; if you’ve seen the film, you know why. (Available to purchase on Amazon, iTunes, and Google Play and to stream on Max on April 5.)

Oscars Nominees Streaming or in Theaters

Killers of the Flower Moon

Nominated for Best Picture, Best Director (Martin Scorsese), Best Actress (Lily Gladstone), Best Supporting Actor (Robert De Niro), Best Costume Design, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, and Best Original Song (“Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People)â€)

Martin Scorsese’s sweeping film earned ten nominations including Best Director, Score, a Supporting Actor nomination for Robert De Niro, and most importantly, a Best Actress nomination for Lily Gladstone, the first Indigenous American woman to receive recognition in that category. It also paves the way for her high-school superlative to come true. (Available to stream on Apple TV+.)

Maestro

Nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor (Bradley Cooper), Best Actress (Carey Mulligan), Best Original Screenplay, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Cinematography, and Best Sound

For all the attention Bradley Cooper’s Maestro nose got this season, it didn’t stop the movie from nabbing seven nominations. (Available to stream on Netflix.)

Past Lives

Nominated for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay

Director and writer Celine Song’s lush first feature will go down as an impressive directorial debut: It earned her Best Picture and Original Screenplay nominations right out of the gate, a feat most recently pulled off by Jordan Peele and Greta Gerwig in 2018. (Available to stream on Paramount+.)

Other Oscar Movies Streaming or in Theaters

American Symphony

Nominated for Best Original Song (“It Never Went Awayâ€)

Jon Batiste’s song “It Never Went Away,†written for the documentary American Symphony focusing on him and his wife, Suleika Jaoaud, was able to receive some Oscar love despite not landing a nom in Best Documentary. (Available to stream on Netflix.)

The Color Purple

Nominated for Best Supporting Actress (Danielle Brooks)

After playing the role of Sofia in the Broadway revival of The Color Purple, Danielle Brooks’s stunner performance in the theatrical musical remake earned her a Supporting Actress nom. (Available to stream on Max.)

The Creator

Nominated for Best Visual Effects and Best Sound

Gareth Edwards’s original sci-fi story — just like his earlier film, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story — was honored in two categories: Best Visual Effects and Sound. (Available to stream on Hulu.)

El Conde

Nominated for Best Cinematography

Pablo Larraín’s bloody film about the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet may have come and gone last fall, but its cinematographer, Ed Lachman, brought the film an Oscar nomination. (Available to stream on Netflix.)

Elemental

Nominated for Best Animated Feature Film

It’s been quite a journey for Elemental from box-office failure, to box-office success, and now, some Oscar recognition! (Available to stream on Disney+.)

Flamin’ Hot

Nominated for Best Original Song (“The Fire Insideâ€)

Will Diane Warren get an award for writing a song for a Hot Cheeto movie? Probably not, but it’s fun to say out loud. (Available to stream on Hulu.)

Golda

Nominated for Best Makeup and Hairstyling

I did not recognize Helen Mirren for a hot second in the Golda trailer, so one can assume the Best Makeup and Hairstyling nod was deserved. (Available to stream on Paramount+.)

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Nominated for Best Visual Effects

The Guardians of the frickin’ Galaxy have now saved Marvel’s ass twice in the past year: (1) by actually delivering a good movie, and (2) by earning a frickin’ Visual Effects nomination. Quantumania could never. (Available to stream on Disney+.)

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Nominated for Best Original Score

Indy lives another day in the Oscars limelight! Thanks to legendary composer John Williams, that is. (Available to stream on Disney+.)

May December

Nominated for Best Original Screenplay

Charles Melton, we will avenge you!! Most of the Academy just didn’t get it, but at least Samy Burch got an Original Screenplay nomination for her whip-smart script. (Available to stream on Netflix.)

Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning

Nominated for Best Visual Effects and Best Sound

Tom Cruise may have not gotten all the IMAX screens he wanted, but hey, at least Dead Reckoning (née Part One) is getting some credit this awards season. (Available to stream on Paramount+ .)

Napoleon

Nominated for Best Visual Effects, Best Costume Design, and Best Production Design

Bonne for the Napoleon Bonaparte biopic! It notched three nominations, for Visual Effects, Production Design, and Costume Design. (Available to stream on Apple TV+.)

Nimona

Nominated for Best Animated Feature Film

Considering that Nimona was so close to being lost forever and one of the best animated films of a stacked year, the adorably fun adventure film getting an Oscar nomination is the cherry on top of its long journey to viewers. (Available to stream on Netflix.)

Nyad

Nominated for Best Actress (Annette Bening) and Best Supporting Actress (Jodie Foster)

Nyad hasn’t made much noise over awards season, but given that Jodie Foster and Annette Bening nabbed nominations in Supporting Actress and Best Actress, respectively, the Academy was certainly paying attention. (Available to stream on Netflix.)

Robot Dreams

Nominated for Best Animated Feature Film

Robot Dreams is Neon’s second animated feature to be nominated for an Oscar, two years after Flee. Adapted by the comic of the same name by Sara Varon, this film follows the close friendship between a dog and a robot. (Not available yet.)

Rustin

Nominated for Best Actor (Colman Domingo)

Colman Domingo’s performance of Bayard Rustin (and his sheer charisma on the awards trail) landed the actor his first Oscar nomination. (Available to stream on Netflix.)

Society of the Snow

Nominated for Best Makeup and Hairstyling and Best International Feature Film

An unflinching retelling of the 1977 Andes flight disaster, director J.A. Bayona’s Society of the Snow is Spain’s representative in the International Feature Film category and also managed to receive recognition for its Makeup and Hairstyling. (Available to stream on Netflix.)

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Nominated for Best Animated Feature Film

In another multiverse, Across the Spider-Verse won something. (Available to stream on Netflix.)

Best Documentary Feature Film

âž½ 20 Days in Mariupol (Winner)
Trapped in a city under siege, a team of Ukrainian journalists struggle to report on the Russia-Ukraine war from the hotspot of Mariupol. (Available to rent on Amazon, Google Play, and YouTube.)

Bobi Wine: The People’s President
This documentary tracks Bobi Wine’s journey from a musician to a politician fighting against Uganda’s dictatorship. (Available to stream on Disney+.)

The Eternal Memory
Maite Alberdi directs a poignant tale about a Chilean couple who learn that one of them has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. (Available to stream on Paramount+.)

Four Daughters
Winner of Best Documentary at Cannes, Four Daughters follows Olfa Hamrouni and her daughters’ relationship as two of her eldest children are radicalized by Islamic State. (Available to stream on Netflix and the Kino Film Collection.)

To Kill a Tiger
After his daughter is raped, an Indian farmer demands justice, challenging the country’s courts. The doc portrays her choice, after she turns 18, to reveal her identity and reject the culture of shame around victims of sexual violence. (Available in select theaters.)

Best International Feature Film

âž½ The Zone of Interest (Winner)
(See above.)

Io Capitano
In this refugee drama, a Senegalese boy and his cousin flee their hometown of Dakar in an attempt to emigrate to Italy. (Available in theaters.)

Perfect Days
A meditation on repetition directed by Wim Wenders, the warmly received Perfect Days follows a contented toilet cleaner named Hirayama, played by Koji Yakusho. (Available in theaters.)

Society of the Snow
(See above.)

The Teachers’ Lounge
A teacher investigates some thievery going on at her school. You just know she’s not being paid enough. (Available in select theaters.)

Best Live-Action Short Film

âž½ The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (Winner)
Wes Anderson’s magnificent Asteroid City may have been ignored this awards season, but at least his delightful Roald Dahl adaptations earned some recognition. (Available to stream on Netflix.)

The After
David Oyelowo stars as a grieving rideshare driver. (Available to stream on Netflix.)

Invincible
Inspired by the director Vincent René-Lortie’s childhood friend, Invincible follows the final 48 hours of a 14-year-old boy. (Available to watch on YouTube.)

Knight of Fortune
A comedic short focused on two widowers who meet at a morgue. (Available to watch online through The New Yorker.)

Red, White and Blue
Brittany Snow stars in this short film from Nazrin Choudhury about a single woman who must cross state lines to get a much needed abortion. (Available to rent here.)

Best Animated Short Film

âž½ War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John and Yoko (Winner)
Executive-produced by Sean Ono Lennon and directed by Pixar alum Dave Mullins, War Is Over! translates John and Yoko’s song into a World War I tale. (Available in theaters.)

Letter to a Pig
An unlikely letter (written by a Holocaust survivor to the pig who saved his life) is read to an unlikely audience — a classroom of high-schoolers — and stirs a powerful reaction in one of its students. (Available in theaters.)

Ninety-Five Senses
Tim Blake Nelson leads this tale of a man appreciating all five of his body’s senses for possibly the last time. (Available to watch online.)

Our Uniform
An Iranian girl remembers old memories through her school uniforms. (Available in theaters.)

Pachyderme
A young girl’s stay at her grandparents unravels. (Available to watch on YouTube.)

Best Documentary Short Film

âž½ The Last Repair Shop (Winner)
A story on a group of craftspeople who repair student instruments. (Available to watch on YouTube.)

The ABCs of Book Banning
Young children and authors come together to talk about book-banning. (Available to stream on Paramount+.)

The Barber of Little Rock
A New Yorker short following Arlo Washington, a local Black barber who plans to open a nonprofit bank for his community. (Available to watch online.)

Island in Between
A New York Times Op-Doc, filmmaker S. Leo Chiang examines Taiwan China and the United States in relation to the islands of Kinmen. (Available to watch on YouTube.)

Nǎi Nai and Wài Pó
Filmmaker Sean Wang’s documentary focuses on his two grandmothers. (Available to stream on Disney+.)

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