Netflix has recently upgraded a section dedicated to the Oscars category where the users can watch every movie that has been either nominated for the Academy Awards or has won it already.
Netflix received 17 other nominations across 10 titles, including NYAD, Rustin, Society of the Snow, El Conde, and Nimona. From the 2024 winner for Best Live-Action Short Film for ‘The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar’ to the nominated movie Maestro featuring Bradley Cooper, here is a list of nominated movies that Netflix is streaming right now:
Maestro
Nominated for: Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Original Screenplay, Best Sound, Best Cinematography, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Picture
Maestro starring Bradley Cooper is a towering and fearless love story chronicling the lifelong relationship between Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre Cohn Bernstein.
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
Best Live-Action Short Film Winner
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar follows the titular character to a doctor’s office, where Henry Sugar finds a medical report on a man from India who claims to be able to see without his eyes.
Henry is a gambling man who has never worked a day in his life, so he predicts the financial opportunities this power could grant him.
Over three years, Sugar studies the meditation method and eventually gains the ability to see through playing cards and even predicts the future.
Henry takes his new-found talents to a casino and sees the greed in those around him after winning a large sum of money.
He soon realizes he has lost the sense of fun that comes with the chance of winning and decides to do something good with his money.
NYAD
Nominated for: Best Supporting Actress, Best Actress
Nyad tells the remarkable true story of athlete Diana Nyad who, at the age of 60 and with the help of her best friend and coach, commits to achieving her life-long dream: a 110-mile open ocean swim from Cuba to Florida.
The After
Nominated for: Best Live-Action Short Film
David Oyelowo (Selma) stars in this short film about a rideshare driver in mourning. Wholesome college freshman Tessa Young thinks she knows what she wants out of life, until she crosses paths with complicated bad boy Hardin Scott. Watch all you want. Voted Drama Movie of 2019 at the People’s Choice Awards, it’s based on novelist Anna Todd’s bestselling “After” series.
El Conde
Nominated for: Best Cinematography
Pablo Larraín’s pitch-black comedy recasts Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet (Jaime Vadell) as a 250-year-old vampire biding his time in the country’s remote hills. Now tired of his life, he wants to die at last after the disgrace and family crises he has caused.
Nimona
Nominated for: Best Animated Feature Film
If Nimona is a subversive fairy tale, then Nimona herself is an even more subversive heroine. A knight is framed for a crime he didn’t commit, and the only person who can help him prove his innocence is Nimona, a shape-shifting teen who might also be a monster he’s sworn to kill.
Society of the Snow
Nominated for: Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best International Feature Film
A Netflix Original release, “Society of the Snow,” recounts the true story of Andes plane crash survivors facing the harsh realities of their situation. In 1972, a Uruguayan flight crashed in the remote heart of the Andes, forcing survivors to become each other’s best hope.
Rustin
Nominated for: Best Actor
Rustin is a biographical drama film that tells the story of the charismatic gay civil rights activist Bayard Rustin. Despite incredible odds, he managed to organize the March on Washington in 1963.
This event is considered one of the high points of the civil rights movement in the United States. Over 200,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., and called for an end to racial discrimination in the USA. Martin Luther King gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech at the event.
