Where To Watch Most Of The 2024 Oscar-Winning Films At Home
Awards season may be officially over, but if you’re still looking to catch up on all of 2024’s Oscar-winning films you’re in luck. Most of the 10 feature films as well as the two shorts that won awards on Hollywood’s big night are available now to stream, purchase, or rent online.
Keep going for a round-up of how to catch most of this year’s Oscar standouts from the comfort of your own home!
Oppenheimer
Inspired by the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, Oppenheimer stars Cillian Murphy as the “Father of the Atomic Bomb” alongside an ensemble that includes Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr. and Florence Pugh.
The most nominated film of the year took home the Best Picture Oscar, and earned director, Christopher Nolan his first Best Director statue. Oppenheimer also took home acting awards for stars Robert Downey Jr. and Cillian Murphy, as well as the top prize for editing, original score, and cinematography.
Where to Watch: Stream on Peacock. Buy or rent on AppleTV and Prime Video
Poor Things
Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe and Ramy Youssef all star in a genre-defying film, based on the novel by Alasdair Gray. Think Frankenstein meets coming-of-age road-trip saga that starts as an absurdist comedy that evolves into an unconventional reflection on female freedom.
The film took home four Oscars, including makeup and hairstyling, production design, costumes, and the Best Actress for Emma Stone’s dazzling performance.
Where to Watch: Streaming on Hulu. Available to rent or buy on AppleTV and Prime Video
The Holdovers
Best Supporting Actress winner Da’Vine Joy Randolph completed her awards season dominance in this category winning the film’s only award of the night. Directed by Alexander Payne and starring best-actor nominee Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph and newcomer, Dominic Sessa. Giamatti plays a cranky professor at an all-boys East Coast prep school forced to stay on campus over the holidays and chaperone a handful of students and fellow employees,
Where to Watch: Streaming on Peacock. Available to rent on AppleTv and Prime Video
The Boy and the Heron
The critical acclaim and box office success of what may or may not be Hayao Miyazaki’s final film was enough to land the beloved director his second Oscar for Best Animated Feature (the first was for 2002’s Spirited Away).
Where to Watch: Available to stream on AppleTV and Prime Video
The Zone of Interest
Director, Jonathan Glazer’s film is loosely adapted from the Martin Amis novel. Focusing on a concentration camp commandant’s family living just over the wall from Auschwitz it’s a Holocaust movie unlike any other. The film took home the awards for Best International Feature and Best Sound. Starring Christian Friedel and Sandra Hüller (also the star of Anatomy of a Fall) it was nominated for five Oscars, including best picture, best director, and best adapted screenplay.
Where to Watch: Available to rent or buy on AppleTV and Prime Video
Barbie
2023’s box office champion Barbie may have won only one Oscar, for Best Original Song (Billie Eilish and Finneas’ “What Was I Made For"), but it had one of the most exciting moment’s of the night. Ryan Gosling’s live performance of “I’m Just Ken” stole the show and brought the crowd of A-listers to it’s feet.
Where to Watch: Streaming on Max. Available to rent or buy on AppleTV and Prime Video
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Wes Anderson finally has an Oscar winner thanks to his inventive live-action short film, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar. Based on a story by Roald Dahl and starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Dev Patel, Ben Kingsley, Richard Ayoade, and Ralph Fiennes as Dahl himself, the short film is a dazzling nesting doll of stories, anchored by high-wire performances and Anderson’s famous visual flair.
Where to Watch: Streaming on Netflix
20 Days in Mariupol
This harrowing, immersive documentary and winner for Best Documentary Feature documents 20 days spent by filmmaker, Mstyslav Chernov in a Ukranian city under siege immediately following the Russian invasion. It’s the e first-ever Oscar winner from Ukraine.
Where to Watch: Available for free on YouTube
Anatomy of a Fall
Director, Justine Triet’s, Anatomy of a Fall won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival when it debuted last year, and earned five Oscar nominations, including best picture, best director, and best actress for Sandra Hüller. Hüller plays an author on trial for killing her husband in this legal thriller Triet and her cowriter and husband Arthur Harari took home the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
Where to Watch: Available to rent or buy on AppleTV and Prime Video
American Fiction
Cord Jefferson’s directorial debut, and now the winner for Best Adapted Screenplay, is another critical and awards-season darling based on a novel. American Fiction is an adaptation of Percival Everett’s 2001 novel, Erasure. Starring Jeffrey Wright, Sterling K. Brown, Erika Alexander, Tracee Ellis Ross, and Issa Rae, the film had five Oscar nominations, including best picture, lead and supporting acting noms for Wright and Brown, best adapted screenplay, and best original score.
Where to Stream: Streaming on MGM+. Available to rent or buy on AppleTV and Prime Video
Godzilla Minus One
This relatively low-budget Toho release made history as the first Godzilla movie to ever receive an Oscar nomination, much less a win for Best Visual Effects. Its victory for best visual effects was celebrated onstage by director, Takashi Yamazaki and his team, who carried Godzilla figurines with them to pick up their awards.
Where to Watch: Not yet streaming.
The Last Repair Shop
The winner for Best Documentary Short is a collaboration between the Los Angeles Times and Searchlight Pictures, and chronicles the lives of the people who work repairing instruments for Los Angeles public school children. Directors Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers each had a strong Oscar legacy before they won this year: Proudfoot was already an Oscar winner for his documentary short The Queen of Basketball, he and Bowers were nominated together in the category for 2021’s A Concerto is a Conversation, and Bowers is a composer who has worked on Oscar-nominated films like King Richard, Green Book, and this year’s The Color Purple.
Where to Watch: Available for free on YouTube
War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko
Sean Ono Lennon and Peter Jackson teamed with Pixar alumnus Dave Mullins on this Oscar-winning Best Animated Short Film inspired by John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s “Happy Xmas (War is Over).”
Where to Watch: Not yet streaming
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