How to Watch and Stream
Every 2024 Oscar-Nominated Movie

By Savannah Salazar, Vulture.com
Mar. 8, 2024

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 nominations have been officially announced, giving you a perfect watchlist for catching up on all the films you missed ahead of the Oscar ceremony in March.

The good news, depending on who you ask, is that a handful of the Best Picture nominees are already available to stream — from The Holdovers, to Barbie, to Oppenheimer, the leader of the Oscar-nominee pack. You have options!


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

And we’re here to help you sort through them. In the list below, we’ve prioritized the Best Picture nominees up top, with the additionally nominated films split into a few categories. Some titles, such as shorts and international films, are not widely available to see yet, but this list will be updated regularly throughout the awards season. Without further ado, here’s how to watch and stream all the 2024 Oscar nominees.

Best Picture Nominees Streaming or in Theaters

American Fiction

Nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor (Jeffrey Wright), Best Supporting Actor (Sterling K. Brown), Best Adapted Screenplay, 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, Jeffrey Wright and Sterling K. Brown pulled through in the acting categories while director and writer Cord Jefferson received an Adapted Screenplay nomination for his first feature film. (Available to stream on MGM+ and to rent on Amazon, iTunes, and Google Play.)

Anatomy of a Fall

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, managed to edge out Barbie at the Golden Globes, 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

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 Ken” and “What Was I Made For”)



Hi, Barbies! Hi, eight nominations! The box-office juggernaut of 2023 received a handful of noms — from America Ferrera’s first Oscar nomination to two nods for its original songs. The only bummer is that Margot Robbie was snubbed for Best Actress, though is nominated as producer, and 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 if only the Academy can convince Ryan Gosling to sing “I’m Just Ken” at the ceremony. (Available to stream on Max.)

The Holdovers

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



It’s becoming more and more obvious that the Supporting Actress award is Da’Vine Joy Randolph’s to win, so go see why. (Available to stream on Peacock.)

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)”)



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.)

Oppenheimer

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



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, including Christopher Nolan in Best Director. If he wins, it will be his first time ever winning an Academy Award, which is wild. (Available to stream on Peacock.)

Past Lives

Nominated for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay



Director and writer Celine Song’s lush first feature will go down in history 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+.)

Poor Things

Nominated for Best Picture, Best Director (Yorgos Lanthimos), Best Actress (Emma Stone), Best Supporting Actor (Mark Ruffalo), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Cinematography, Best Production Design, 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 received a Best Actress nom, 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

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



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.)
Other Oscar Movies Streaming or in Theaters

American Symphony

Nominated for Best Original Song (“It Never Went Away”)

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 Boy and the Heron

Nominated for Best Animated Feature Film



Hayao Miyazaki earns his fourth nomination for Best Animated Feature Film. (His earlier film Spirited Away won in 2003.) Now, if only voice acting was a category. (Available in theaters.)

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 Inside”)

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.)

Godzilla Minus One

Nominated for Best Visual Effects

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

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 news for the Napoleon Bonaparte biopic this morning! 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 (and the latter was possibly the nomination that spoiled Margot Robbie’s chances in the lineup), 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

Congrats to Miles and Gwen. (Available to stream on Netflix.)


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Best Documentary Feature Film


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.)

20 Days in Mariupol

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.)




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Best International Feature Film


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.)

The Zone of Interest
(See above.)


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Best Live-Action Short Film


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.)

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

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.)


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Best Animated Short Film

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.)

War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John and Yoko
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.)


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Best Documentary Short Film


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.)

The Last Repair Shop

A story on a group of craftspeople who repair student instruments. (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+.)