Every year, one of the most unenviable tasks in all of entertainment befalls the thousands of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences members who have to choose the winners of that year’s Oscars. Choosing between Steven Spielberg and Todd Field, Angela Bassett and Stephanie Hsu, or between one of the greatest action films ever and one of the best Batman movies, seems like torture. But their difficult decisions are our plethora of possibilities, as there are hundreds of hours of great cinema to watch, including these 16 Oscar-nominated films you must watch.
This year’s Academy Awards is making history predicated on cinematic breakthroughs. A24, long considered the next Hollywood giant, received 18 nominations, the most in the 10-year-old company’s existence. That was all thanks to Everything, Everywhere All At Once, and The Whale, two films that served as Asian performers’ long overdue reclamation of the spotlight stolen from them for decades and a triumphant return for Brendan Fraser. Tom Cruise revived the action genre (and maybe saved Hollywood, if you ask Steven Spielberg) with Top Gun: Maverick, while proving a sequel is never too late. And you’re just one long binge day on the couch from being up to date on all of these Oscar favorites.
Netflix made sure its stellar slate of Oscar-nominated films like Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, All Quiet on the Western Front, and Blonde spent time in theaters, but it didn’t take too long before it offered them up for your streaming pleasure. From Colin Farrell’s finger-cutting friendship drama The Banshees of Inisherin to Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, here are the 16 best films nominated at the 2023 Oscars you can (mostly) stream.
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