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It’s almost time for the 96th Academy Awards — live on ABC at 7 p.m. ET on March 10 — so you better get moving if you want to play catch-up before Hollywood’s biggest night. The good news is this won’t feel like homework. It was actually a great year for movies, and films nominated in all the major categories are all streaming on TV. You’ll need access to a few services such as Netflix and Prime Video, but it’s a lot easier than finding them at the theater.
Here’s how to watch the Oscar nominees for best picture, directing and acting from the comfort of your couch.
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Best picture nominees
American Fiction
First-time feature director Cord Jefferson’s sensational satire tackles racial stereotypes head-on with absurd humor as a frustrated novelist (Jeffrey Wright, 58) adopts a pen name to expose hypocrisy with hilariously unexpected results.
Watch it: Buy American Fiction on iTunes, Prime Video
Anatomy of a Fall
Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes, this searingly tense import investigates the death of a man found lying in the snow outside a French chalet. Was it suicide or murder? His German wife (Sandra Hüller) quickly becomes a suspect, and her only hope of acquittal rests on her 11-year-old partially sighted son.
Watch it: Rent Anatomy of a Fall on iTunes, Prime Video, YouTube
Barbie
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know about this pink-hued pop phenomenon that made $1.4 billion at the global box office. Director Greta Gerwig’s giddy postmodern comedy posits what would happen if the beloved kids’ doll (in the form of a note-perfect Margot Robbie) became self-aware and got a taste of the real world with the delightfully oblivious Ken (Ryan Gosling) along for the ride.
Watch it: Stream Barbie on Max
The Holdovers
Director Alexander Payne, 63, reunites with his hangdog Sideways leading man Paul Giamatti, 56, in this dramatic comedy about a curmudgeonly history teacher who is stuck at a New England prep school over winter break with the school’s grief-stricken cook (Golden Globe winner Da‘Vine Joy Randolph) and a troublemaking student (Dominic Sessa).
Watch it: Stream The Holdovers on Peacock
Killers of the Flower Moon
In a poignant epic about greed and exploitation, Martin Scorsese, 81, adapts David Grann’s bestseller about a string of murders of Osage members after their Oklahoma tribe becomes fabulously wealthy overnight with the discovery of oil on their land — and the lengths white men will go to get their hands on that wealth. Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, 80, and Golden Globe winner Lily Gladstone star.
Watch it: Stream Killers of the Flower Moon on Apple TV+
Maestro
Bradley Cooper directs and stars in this soaring portrait of iconic American conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein, his double life as a gay man and his complicated-but-loving marriage to Felicia Montealegre (Carey Mulligan).
Watch it: Stream Maestro on Netflix
Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan’s, 53, bio-epic of one of the most complex figures of the 20th century, physicist and father of the atomic bomb J. Robert Oppenheimer (Golden Globe winner Cillian Murphy), seems to be this year’s odds-on favorite to go home with Oscar gold. It’s easy to see why. It’s a haunting, harrowing masterpiece that has already taken the Golden Globe for best motion picture — drama … a harbinger?
Watch it: Stream Oppenheimer on Peacock
Past Lives
First-time director Celine Song’s decade-spanning romance tells the story of two friends from childhood who are torn apart when one of their families emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited in this beautiful meditation on love and destiny. Starring Greta Lee and Teo Yoo.
Watch it: Stream Past Lives on Paramount+
Poor Things
A deliciously twisted Frankenstein tale filtered through the singular mind of Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, The Favourite), with a bravura, Golden Globe–winning turn from Emma Stone as a young woman brought back to life — with a few small hiccups — by an unhinged scientist (Willem Dafoe, 68). The film won the Golden Globe for best motion picture — musical or comedy, so it’s got some momentum.
Watch it: Rent or buy Poor Things on Apple TV, Prime Video
The Zone of Interest
Jonathan Glazer’s, 58, drama about real-life Nazi Rudolf Höss and his family living in the shadows of Auschwitz is a gut-punch examination of the banality of evil, as their biggest concerns seem to be building an idyllic home and tending to their garden while plumes of smoke rise from the out-of-view death camp next door. Starring Christian Friedel and Sandra Hüller.
Watch it: Buy The Zone of Interest on YouTube
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Best director
Jonathan Glazer (The Zone of Interest)
Until now, the uncompromising stylist behind 2000’s fantastic Sexy Beast has been a bit of a divisive figure amongst critics. This is his first directing nod from the academy.
Watch it: Buy The Zone of Interest on YouTube
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