5 Oscar-Nominated Movies You Can Watch on Netflix Right Now
This year’s ceremony has just wrapped the awards season up, so it might be the best time to reminisce about the Academy’s favourites.
It’s all over for Hollywood’s prestigious ceremonies after the Oscars concluded just last night, and the big event’s most nominated and awarded contenders will finally reach bigger audiences on streaming platforms.
It also might be a good time, however, to come back to the previous years’ big contenders, especially since the Academy’s decisions might have turned out to be yet another disappointment for many movie fans.
Luckily, a vast collection of flicks that had their own part in the Oscars race are carefully stored on Netflix, and you can also find some of this year’s nominees and winners among those.
Emilia Pérez (2024)
Jacques Audiard’s musical criminal drama might have done much better at the 2025 ceremony hadn’t it been for a pile of controversies that were surrounding the movie for months.
However, the film still won two Oscars for Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Song, making relatively little out of its record 13 nominations.
After its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival last year, Emilia Pérez went directly to Netflix in the US, the UK and Canada, also receiving theatrical release back in November. The movie can still be found on Netflix.
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024)
The sixth movie in the franchise, Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl went on to prove the previous instalments’ legacy by earning yet another Academy Award nomination in the Best Animated Feature Film category, though ultimately losing it to Gints Zilbalodis’ Flow.
The Wallace & Gromit franchise’s journey has so far been impressive anyway, as three earlier movies — The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave and The Curse of the Were-Rabbit — have already brought it well-deserved Oscar statuettes.
Maria (2024)
Nominated for the Academy Award in just one technical category, Pablo Larraín’s concluding movie in the trilogy about the most important women of the 20th century is considered one of the biggest snubs this year.
Starring Angelina Jolie in her first leading role since 2021, Maria follows American-born Greek opera singer Maria Callas seven days prior to her death, watching her delve into her past life and career.
The film received an Oscar nod for Best Cinematography and eventually lost to Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist.
Barbie ( 2023)
One of the frontrunners in the Oscars race back in 2024, Greta Gerwig’s hit doll-ish comedy drama won only one statuette for Best Original Song, losing to other contenders in 7 remaining categories.
It had, however, much bigger success in the box office, becoming the highest-grossing movie in history made by a woman and ultimately earning around $1.4 billion worldwide, which is even more impressive when reminded that Barbie’s box office rival at the time, Christopher Nolan ’s Oppenheimer, grossed $975 million in total.
Roma (2018)
Alfonso Cuarón’s heartwarming semi-biographical drama about a housekeeper staying by his side during his childhood years, Roma was a turning point in Mexican cinema when it became the first Mexico-produced movie to win in the Best Foreign Language Film category.
Out of 10 nominations in total, Roma took home 3 statuettes, including for Best Director and Best Cinematography. Additionally, Roma is still considered a film brutally robbed of the Best Picture award at the 2019 ceremony, where the ultimate winner was Peter Farrelly’s Green Book.