The Oscar nominations for this year are finally out. With the ceremony less than a month away, it’s time to catch up on the Oscar nominees you may have missed and also re-decide on your favorites. Luckily, most of these movies are already available on streaming for you to watch.
Here’s our guide to help you watch this year’s top contenders straight from the comfort of your couch.
Parasite
🏆Nominations: Picture, Director, International Feature Film, Original Screenplay, Editing, Production Design
🎬Synopsis: Ki-taek’s family are poor and unemployed. They slowly ingratiate themselves into the lives of the wealthy and glamorous Parks. But, they didn’t expect was to get entangled in an unexpected incident.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
🏆Nominations: Picture, Director, International Feature Film, Original Screenplay, Editing, Production Design
🎬Synopsis: Ki-taek’s family are poor and unemployed. They slowly ingratiate themselves into the lives of the wealthy and glamorous Parks. But, they didn’t expect was to get entangled in an unexpected incident.
Ad Astra
🏆Nominations: Sound Mixing
🎬Synopsis: Astronaut Roy McBride’s father went missing during a space mission thirty years ago. Now he must go on a daring mission to Neptune to uncover the truth about his missing father and his crew.
Breakthrough
🏆Nominations: Original Song
🎬Synopsis: Joyce Smith’s 14-year-old adopted son falls into a frozen. Though rescued and brought to the hospital, he is still struggling for his life. His faithful mother is praying for him to be healed. But, will it be enough?
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
🏆Nominations: Animated Feature Film
🎬Synopsis: Hiccup discovers that Toothless is not the only Night Fury. However, a hired tyrant named Grimmel is out to wipe out all the dragons. It is up to Hiccup to unite the clans and save Toothless and his flying friends.
The Irishman
🏆Nominations: Picture, Director, Actor in a Supporting Role (Al Pacino and Joe Pesci), Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Costume Design, Production
🎬Synopsis: This Martin Scorsese’s epic saga is about the organized crime in post-war America. The movie has World War II veteran Frank Sheeran in the lead role. He was a hustler and hitman who worked alongside some of the most notorious figures of the 20th century.
📺Where To Watch: Netflix
Harriet
🏆Nominations: Actress in a Leading Role (Cynthia Erivo), Original Song
🎬Synopsis: The real-life story of Harriet Tubman, who escaped from slavery. Through the underground railroad, she helps free thousands of slaves and became one of America’s greatest heroes.
Klaus
🏆Nominations: Animated Feature Film
🎬Synopsis: Klaus is a toy-maker. He is befriended by the worst postman ever. Together they must deliver gifts to melt an age-old feud.
📺Where To Watch: Netflix
The Lighthouse
🏆Nominations: Cinematography
🎬Synopsis: The story takes place in the 1890s. Two lighthouse keepers are to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island.
The Two Popes
🏆Nominations: Actor in a Leading Role (Jonathan Pryce), Actor in a Supporting Role (Anthony Hopkins), Adapted Screenplay
🎬Synopsis: The conservative Pope Benedict and the liberal future Pope Francis are trying to find a common ground to help set a new path for the Catholic Church.
📺Where To Watch: Netflix
Rocketman
🏆Nominations: Original Song
🎬Synopsis: Based on the real-life story of Elton John, this movie is a musical fantasy about the fantastical human’s breakthrough years.
I Lost My Body
🏆Nominations: Animated Feature Film
🎬Synopsis: A cut-off hand is stored in a dissection lab. But, somehow it escapes from the lab. Now it must find a way back to its body.
📺Where To Watch: Netflix
Pain and Glory
🏆Nominations: Actor in a Leading Role (Antonio Banderas), International Feature Film
🎬Synopsis: Salvador Mallo is a film marker. In his times of decline, he is reevaluating the choices he had made in life. Will he be able to save himself when the past and present crashing down around him?
Joker
🏆Nominations: Picture, Director, Actor in a Leading Role (Joaquin Phoenix), Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Costume Design, Makeup and Hairstyling, Original Score, Film Editing, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing
🎬Synopsis: Salvador Mallo is a film marker. In his times of decline, he is reevaluating the choices he had made in life. Will he be able to save himself when the past and present crashing down around him?
Honeyland
🏆Nominations: Documentary Feature, International Feature Film
🎬Synopsis: A woman utilizes ancient beekeeping traditions to cultivate honey in the mountains of Macedonia
Avengers: Endgame
🏆Nominations: Visual Effects
🎬Synopsis: Thanos has disintegrated half of the universe. Now the Avengers must assemble once again to restore balance to the universe.
