By Kevin Slane
The 2024 Oscar nominations were announced Tuesday morning, which means you now have a little more than a month to catch up on all of the best movies of 2023 before the Academy Awards ceremony on March 10.
If box office receipts are any indication, many viewers have already seen two of the movies that landed the most nominations in Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” (13 nominations) and Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” (8 nominations). But there are so many other great movies worth checking out, including three Best Picture nominees that were filmed in Massachusetts: Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biopic “Maestro,” Alexander Payne’s 1970s dramedy “The Holdovers,” and Cord Jefferson’s searing satire “American Fiction.”
With the proliferation of streaming services, you may be wondering how to watch the movies that landed 2024 Oscar nominations.
Until recently, some best picture nominees, including “American Fiction,” “Poor Things,” and “The Zone of Interest,” were only in theaters. But as of late February, all ten best picture nominees are available to watch at home, with most now streaming on a popular service such as Netflix, Prime Video, or Apple TV+.
If you’re looking at pure dollar value, Netflix is the best way to watch Oscar nominated movies, with nine feature-length films and two shorts available on the service. Others, like Hulu, have several nominated movies that will be added in the coming weeks, including “Poor Things,” which begins streaming on Hulu March 7, and “Anatomy of A Fall,” which begins streaming on Hulu March 22.
Even “Oppenheimer,” the prohibitive Best Picture favorite that begs to be experienced on the big screen, is available to stream on Peacock as of Feb. 16, weeks before the 96th Academy Awards.
Below you will find a full list of how to watch the 2024 Oscar nominees, whether it’s in theaters, an on-demand rental, or streaming on Netflix, Hulu, Max, Prime Video, or another streaming service.
Nomination(s): Best Picture, Best Actor (Jeffrey Wright), Best Supporting Actor (Sterling K. Brown), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Score
First-time director Cord Jefferson has made one of the funniest movies of 2023 in “American Fiction,” a sharp satire of the commodification of Black identity. Monk (Jeffrey Wright) plays a bitter, depressed author from Boston whose works aren’t considered “Black enough” by the publishing world. In a drunken fit of pique, Monk writes a ludicrous parody of a story — an ebonics-heavy tale of drugs, gangs and murder called “My Pafology” — under a pseudonym. To Monk’s chagrin, the book becomes a hit, forcing him to come to terms with the idea of persona and authenticity as he nears a payday that could help his ailing mother.
How to watch: “American Fiction” is available to rent, and will begin streaming on Prime Video on a date to be announced.
Nomination(s): Best Picture, Best Actress (Sandra Hüller), Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing
“Anatomy of A Fall” is be the arthouse answer to the true crime bonanza, a Palme d’Or winner at Cannes that centers a grisly murder and subsequent courtroom drama that will entice fans of podcasts like “My Favorite Murder.” At the center of the trial is a novelist (Sandra Hüller) accused of murdering her husband at the family’s posh chalet, leaving the body for her blind son to discover. Director Justine Triet is less concerned with plotting zany twists as she is digging into couple’s toxic domestic life and the incredible strain a high-profile trial puts on everyone in its orbit.
How to watch: “Anatomy of A Fall” is available to rent, and will begin streaming on Hulu on March 22.
Nomination(s): Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Ryan Gosling), Best Supporting Actress (America Ferrera), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, Best Song
Greta Gerwig’s film consistently refuses to be defined. It’s a Mattel brand extension and an anti-capitalist screed. It’s an uplifting comedy and a sobering meditation on the agony of existence. More than anything, “Barbie” is one of the most subversive, unexpected summer blockbusters in recent memory. Margot Robbie perfectly embodies the ubiquitous doll, who, on the surface, embodies the impossible beauty standard set for generations of girls. But internally, Barbie is conflicted and must head to the real world to find out why. Along for the ride is Ken (Ryan Gosling), who’s been insecure way longer than Barbie has and quickly learns some extremely toxic ways to process his emotions from the real world.
How to watch: “Barbie” is streaming on Max.
Nomination(s): Best Picture, Best Actor (Paul Giamatti), Best Supporting Actress (Da’Vine Joy Randolph), Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing
From the very first frame, “The Holdovers” is a love letter to a bygone era. Featuring a throwback studio logo and grainy film stock, the movie takes place in 1970 at the fictional Massachusetts prep school Barton Academy, where curmudgeonly teacher Paul Hunham (Paul Giamatti) is stuck babysitting a precocious student (newcomer Dominic Sessa) over Christmas break, while the school’s cook, Mary (Da’Vine Joy Randolph), watches from a healthy distance. Director Alexander Payne showed Sessa a number of ’70s films to prepare for his role, including Hal Ashby’s “Harold & Maude” and “The Last Detail.” It’s fitting then, that “The Holdovers” feels like a tribute to the New Hollywood-era filmmaker: A film that prioritizes quirky, flawed characters over plot and leaves your heart full when the credits roll.
How to watch: “The Holdovers” is streaming on Peacock.
Nomination(s): Best Picture, Best Actress (Lily Gladstone), Best Supporting Actor (Robert De Niro), Best Director, Best Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, Best Score, Best Song
Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” is 206 minutes of stomach-turning drama featuring a career-best performance from Leonardo DiCaprio — which is saying a lot. The true story of white men who married or killed off wealthy Osage tribe members who inherited oil rights is the story of America’s past, present, and future. DiCaprio’s plain-spoken Ernest endears himself to Mollie (Lily Gladstone), and the pair marry, as per the plan of Ernest’s uncle, William (Robert De Niro). DiCaprio is an avatar of greed no different than Henry Hill of “Goodfellas” or Jordan Belfort in “The Wolf of Wall Street,” and seeing the way he destroys Molly’s life is tragic and unmissable.
How to watch: “Killers of the Flow Moon” is streaming on Apple TV+.
Nomination(s): Best Picture, Best Actor (Bradley Cooper), Best Actress (Carey Mulligan), Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Sound
From the moment he first steps on screen in “Maestro,” Bradley Cooper is utterly magnetic as composer Leonard Bernstein. The life of the party wherever he goes, “Lenny” quickly begins a courtship with Felicia Montealegre (Carey Mulligan), each glance and one-liner delivered like he’s starring in his own sitcom. Even after decades of marriage, Bernstein still feels like he’s putting on a performance at all times, a function of both his gargantuan ego and the massive pressure of hiding his relationships with other men. As Montealegre, Mulligan sublimely captures a woman who willingly discards her own needs to support a generational talent. When Bernstein takes the stage to conduct Gustav Mahler’s “Resurrection Symphony,” with Montealegre watching in the wings, we understand why.
How to watch: “Maestro” is streaming on Netflix.
Nomination(s): Best Picture, Best Actor (Cillian Murphy), Best Supporting Actor (Robert Downey Jr.), Best Supporting Actress (Emily Blunt), Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, Best Score, Best Sound, Best Makeup and Hairstyling
“Oppenheimer” is an incredible achievement — one of the most thorough, ambitious historical dramas ever put to film. Every single aspect of the movie is huge, from the cast to the real, non-CGI explosions Nolan created to mimic the Trinity Test. But “Oppenheimer” is also quiet and understated. Much of its three-hour runtime functions as a tense courtroom drama and a sprawling game of 1940s backroom politics. Most of all, it’s a fascinating character study of a man stuck living in a world of absolutes whose mind never seemed to be satisfactorily made up about anything. Cillian Murphy is brilliant, but despite his centrality to nearly every scene of the film, he leaves space for others to shine in roles both big (Robert Downey Jr.) and small (Casey Affleck).
How to watch: “Oppenheimer” is streaming on Peacock.
Nomination(s): Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay
Celine Song takes a page out of Richard Linklater’s “Before” trilogy in her debut, the decades-spanning love story “Past Lives.” The story begins in South Korea, where two neighboring 12-year-old children, Na Young and Hae Sung, develop crushes on each other, going on a single parent-supervised date before Na Young’s family moves to Toronto. Twelve years later, Hae Sung (Teo Yoo) finds Na Young (Greta Lee) on Facebook, and the two rekindle their connection. After losing touch again, 12 more years pass before Hae Sung decides to visit Na Young (now Nora) in New York City. More than any other film in 2023, “Past Lives” will stick with you, conjuring feelings of longing, nostalgia, and heartbreak that linger long after the credits have rolled.
How to watch: “Past Lives” is streaming on Paramount+.
Nomination(s): Best Picture, Best Actress (Emma Stone), Best Supporting Actor (Mark Ruffalo), Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, Best Score, Best Makeup and Hairstyling
With “Poor Things,” director Yorgos Lanthimos has turned the story of Frankenstein into a treatise on the fundamental nature of womanhood, with Emma Stone as Bella, the living, breathing, highly sexual monster at the center of it all. After a mad scientist (Willem Defoe) implants the brain of an infant in Bella’s reanimated body, she begins a “Billy Madison”-esque speedrun from newborn to full-blown womanhood, with plenty of bumps along the way. Stone’s performance is the most fearless thing you’ll see in 2023, and she’s perfectly in tune with where her character’s development stands. Watching Mark Ruffalo play a mustache-twirling Lothario is icing on the cake.
How to watch: “Poor Things” is streaming on Hulu.
Nomination(s): Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best International Feature Film, Best Sound
“The Zone of Interest” is Hannah Arendt’s “banality of evil” made manifest. Director Jonathan Glazer uses a documentary-style camera setup to capture the story of a the Hösses, a family of Nazis living next door to Auschwitz whose patriarch, Rudolf (Christian Friedel), is in charge of most efficiently enacting Hitler’s Final Solution. “The Zone of Interest” is PG-13, and much like his 2014 film “Under the Skin,” Glazer doesn’t show the atrocities that took place at the labor camp. Instead, we see Rudolf’s wife Hedwig (Sandra Hüller) and their children steadfastly ignore the sounds of bullets and the stench of burning bodies in pursuit of a white-picket fence and a pool. Glazer spent years researching actual dialogue spoken by the Hösses. The commonalities they share with a certain type of American suburban living is deeply disturbing, to say the least.
How to watch: “The Zone of Interest” is available to rent, and will begin streaming on Max on a date to be announced.
Nomination(s): Best Live Action Short Film
Watch “The After” streaming on Netflix
Nomination(s): Best Song
Watch “American Symphony streaming on Netflix
Nomination(s): Best Cinematography
Watch “El Conde” streaming on Netflix
Nomination(s): Best Picture, Best Actor (Bradley Cooper), Best Actress (Carey Mulligan), Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Sound
Watch “Maestro” streaming on Netflix
Nomination(s): Best Original Screenplay
Watch “May December” streaming on Netflix
Nomination(s): Best Animated Feature Film
Watch “Nimona” streaming on Netflix
Nomination(s): Best Actress (Annette Bening), Best Supporting Actress (Jodie Foster)
Watch “Nyad” streaming on Netflix
Nomination(s): Best Actor (Colman Domingo)
Watch “Rustin” streaming on Netflix
Nomination(s): Best International Feature Film, Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Watch “Society of the Snow” streaming on Netflix
Nomination(s): Best Animated Feature Film
Watch “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” streaming on Netflix
Nomination(s): Best Live Action Short Film
Watch The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar streaming on Netflix
Nomination(s): Best Sound, Best Visual Effects
Watch “The Creator” streaming on Hulu
Nomination(s): Best Song
Watch “Flamin’ Hot” streaming on Hulu
Nomination(s): Best Documentary Feature Film
Watch “Bobi Wine: The People’s President” streaming on Disney+
Nomination(s): Best Animated Feature Film
Watch “Elemental” streaming on Disney+
Nomination(s): Best Song
Watch “Flamin’ Hot” streaming on Disney+
Nomination(s): Best Visual Effects
Watch “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” streaming on Disney+
Nomination(s): Best Documentary Feature Film
Watch “20 Days in Mariupol” streaming on Prime Video or free on PBS.org.
Nomination(s): Best Documentary Feature Film
Watch “Four Daughters” streaming on Prime Video with Kino subscription
Nomination(s): Best Picture, Best Actor (Paul Giamatti), Best Supporting Actress (Da’Vine Joy Randolph), Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing
Watch “The Holdovers” streaming on Peacock
Nomination(s): Best Picture, Best Actor (Cillian Murphy), Best Supporting Actor (Robert Downey Jr.), Best Supporting Actress (Emily Blunt), Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, Best Score, Best Sound, Best Makeup and Hairstyling
How to watch: “Oppenheimer” is streaming on Peacock.
Nomination(s): Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Ryan Gosling), Best Supporting Actress (America Ferrera), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, Best Song
Watch “Barbie” streaming on Max
Nomination(s): Best Supporting Actress (Danielle Brooks)
How to watch: “The Color Purple” is streaming on Max.
Nomination(s): Best Documentary Short Film
Watch “The ABCs of Book Banning” streaming on Paramount+
Nomination(s): Best Documentary Feature Film
Watch “The Eternal Memory” streaming on Paramount+
Nomination(s): Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Watch “Golda” streaming on Paramount+
Nomination(s): Best Sound, Best Visual Effects
Watch “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning” streaming on Paramount+
Nomination(s): Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay
Watch: “Past Lives” streaming on Paramount+
Nomination(s): Best Picture, Best Actress (Lily Gladstone), Best Supporting Actor (Robert De Niro), Best Director, Best Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, Best Score, Best Song
Watch “Killers of the Flower Moon” streaming on Apple TV+
Nomination(s): Best Picture, Best Actor (Jeffrey Wright), Best Supporting Actor (Sterling K. Brown), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Score
How to watch: “American Fiction” is available to rent, and will begin streaming on Prime Video on a date to be announced.
Nomination(s): Best Picture, Best Actress (Sandra Hüller), Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing
How to watch: “Anatomy of A Fall” is available to rent, and will begin streaming on Hulu on March 22.
Nomination(s): Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, Best Visual Effects
How to watch: “Napoleon” is available to rent, and will begin streaming on Apple TV+ March 1.
Nomination(s): Best Picture, Best Actress (Emma Stone), Best Supporting Actor (Mark Ruffalo), Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, Best Score, Best Makeup and Hairstyling
How to watch: “Poor Things” is streaming on Hulu.
Nomination(s): Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best International Feature Film, Best Sound
How to watch: “The Zone of Interest” is available to rent, and will begin streaming on Max on a date to be announced.
Nomination(s): Best Animated Feature Film
How to watch: “The Boy and the Heron” is in theaters, and will begin streaming on Max on a date to be announced.
Nomination(s): Best Visual Effects
How to watch: “Godzilla Minus One” is in theaters.
Nomination(s): Best International Feature Film
How to watch: “The Teachers’ Lounge is in theaters.
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