Where to stream Nomadland and other big Oscar winners
All of the Oscar winners can be watched at home. Here's a guide for home viewers
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EVERY single Oscar winner is available for home viewers to watch right now, including Nomadland, which won major prizes for best picture, best director and best actress, and has been streaming on Hulu for months.
The big questions are where, how and how much. Some are exclusive to popular streaming services like Netflix, some are affordable rentals while a couple more recent releases are US$19.99, and some can be streamed and bought but not rented while others can be rented but not bought.
Sounds confusing? The list of Oscar winners below will put you a click away from knowing all the options and discovering whether or not the Academy got it right.
Nomadland
Won for: Best picture, director and actress
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How to watch: Stream it on Hulu. Buy it on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, Vudu and YouTube.
In her follow-up to The Rider, director Chloé Zhao again ventures into the harsh, beautiful world of the American West, where another maverick faces an uncertain future.
Left jobless and houseless after a mine closure, Fern (Frances McDormand) is a widow living out of her van, roaming the country while picking up odd jobs.
She finds a community of sorts in other modern-day "nomads" who have made a place for themselves in the open country, where the possibilities of true freedom are checked by the anxiety of a hand-to-mouth existence.
The Father
Won for: Best actor and adapted screenplay
How to watch: Rent it on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, Vudu and YouTube
Adapting his own stage play with seasoned writer Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller makes a confident directorial debut with this lacerating drama about dementia and its cascading effects in the life and mind of an isolated octogenarian.
From the start, Anthony Hopkins plays him as a difficult character, alarming his daughter (Olivia Colman) with the awful mistreatment of his latest caretaker.
But his grip over reality itself soon begins to loosen, too, turning The Father into a psychodrama generated from its lead character's deteriorating sense of self and the compassionate efforts of those who try to intervene.
Judas and the Black Messiah
Won for: Best supporting actor and song
How to watch: Rent it on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play and Vudu.
As J Edgar Hoover's FBI settles on seeing Black revolutionaries as the greatest internal threat to national security, the agency finds a ripe target in Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya), the fiery young leader of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party. Shaka King's gripping historical drama details the effort to suppress his message, focusing on William O'Neal (Lakeith Stanfield), a car thief who's directed by a field agent (Jesse Plemons) to infiltrate the Panthers and keep tabs on Hampton's actions. What follows is a pitched battle for O'Neal's soul and a vivid staging of Civil Rights history.
Minari
Won for: Best supporting actress.
How to watch: Rent it on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play and Vudu.
Drawn from writer-director Lee Isaac Chung's own childhood experiences, this finely wrought drama starts with a Korean American family moving to a plot of untilled land in rural Arkansas in the 1980s.
With tensions already high between Jacob (Steven Yeun) and his wife, Monica (Yeri Han), who doesn't share Jacob's optimism over the farm's potential to yield a fortune in Korean vegetables, the two struggle to settle into a place where language and cultural barriers are high.
Their children are a worry, too, particularly a young son (Alan Kim) with a heart condition and no easy access to a hospital. As a grandmother visiting from South Korea, Yuh-Jung Youn imports a loopy chaotic energy that breaks up (and occasionally exacerbates) the domestic tension.
Promising Young Woman
Won for: Best original screenplay.
How to watch: Rent it on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, Vudu and YouTube
Bored barista by day, vengeful honey pot by night, Cassie (Carey Mulligan) feigns drunkenness in nightclubs and on dates as a way of trapping men eager to take advantage of vulnerable women.
In her icy debut feature, writer-director Emerald Fennell, who worked on the third season of Killing Eve, gradually digs into Cassie's past as a med-school student, which ended abruptly after a traumatic incident.
As she audaciously and methodically responds to this wrongdoing, Cassie enters into a relationship with a former classmate (Bo Burnham), but her experiences with predatory men makes it difficult for her to let down her guard.
Mank
Won for: Best cinematography and production design
How to watch: Stream it on Netflix
Based on a screenplay by his late father Jack, David Fincher's sumptuous evocation of Hollywood's Golden Age is principally about Herman Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman) and the tortured process of writing Citizen Kane for Orson Welles.
But Mank opens up into a much more expansive survey of the studio system, the media and the Californian political scene in the '30s and early '40s, which include run-ins with power brokers such as MGM boss Louis Mayer (Arliss Howard) and William Randolph Hearst (Charles Dance), the glowering inspiration for Charles Foster Kane.
The movie also spends time with Hearst's mistress Marion Davies (Amanda Seyfried), an actress trailed by scandal.
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Won for: Best costume design and makeup and hairstyling
How to watch: Stream it on Netflix.
As a gifted, swaggering, mercurial jazz trumpeter whose ambitions mask an anger and pain that simmers beneath the surface, Chadwick Boseman gives a performance for the ages in this tightly wound adaptation of August Wilson's stage play.
Set almost entirely during a recording session in Chicago in 1927, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom works primarily as a showcase for actors like Boseman and Viola Davis, who stars as a demanding singer whose ensemble is laying down tracks for white producers. Tussles over the creative direction of the album lead to deeper conflicts over race and how much power even a revered Black artist can wield in white society.
Soul
Won for: Best animated feature and score.
How to watch: Stream it on Disney+. Buy it on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, Vudu and YouTube.
Through the story of Joe Gardner (Jamie Foxx), a jazz pianist who dies and tries to negotiate a way back to New York to play the gig of his dreams, Pixar's Soul makes a touching and sophisticated argument for the pleasures of life itself.
As with previous work such as Monsters, Inc and Inside Out, co-writer/director Pete Docter draws on a gift for abstract world-building to imagine an afterlife where souls are efficiently processed for new mortals.
Gardner games the system with the help of an unassigned soul (Tina Fey) who joins him on a journey back to Earth, where they both learn something about what it means to be alive.
Another Round
Won for: Best international feature.
How to watch: Stream it on Hulu. Rent it on Amazon, Google Play, Vudu and YouTube.
Poised between a boozy campus comedy and a sobering reflection on midlife crises, Thomas Vinterberg's lively Danish film stars Mads Mikkelsen as a high school history teacher who's barely going through the motions as an educator and a family man.
The morning after a delightful, liquor-soaked dinner together, he and his three colleagues (Thomas Bo Larsen, Lars Ranthe and Magnus Millang) decide to embark on an experiment: If they all day-drink to a certain degree, perhaps the social lubricant will allow them to perform at a higher level. The experiment works swimmingly for a while, but the hangover inevitably sets in.
Tenet
Won for: Best visual effects.
How to watch: Rent it on Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play and Vudu.
It's a brain-spraining exercise to wrap your mind around Christopher Nolan's latest spectacle, which introduces the concept of "time inversion", a process that allows actions from the future to infiltrate the present, like a fired bullet getting sucked back into the chamber.
So it's probably best to approach Tenet as a globe-hopping 007-style adventure starring John David Washington and Robert Pattinson as special agents assigned to stop a Russian arms dealer (Kenneth Branagh) from using time inversion to destroy the world in reverse. The forward/backward fight sequences are as elegantly choreographed as they are inexplicable. NYTIMES
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