Intro: Where to Stream Oscar Nominees in 2023
This post was last updated on March 8th, 2023.
The nominees for the 95th Annual Academy Awards (better known as the “Oscars”) have been announced. While a handful of these films are still in theaters, a number of them are available to stream online through various streaming services.
Here we’ve compiled a list of every major 2023 Oscar nominee and where you can find them on streaming! This page will be updated if/when new streaming options become available before the Oscars ceremony.
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What to Know About This Year's Ceremony
A total of 301 films were eligible for nominations for this year’s Academy Awards, which honor the best in film each year with their Oscar statuettes.
On Tuesday, January 24th, 2023, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) announced this year’s nominations live on Disney+. You can read the full list of nominations here.
The Oscars ceremony will occur on Sunday, March 12th, 2023 airing at 8:00PM Eastern Time/5:00PM Pacific Time on ABC.
Jimmy Kimmel returns as host this year. He previously hosted in 2017 and 2018.
Now let's get on to the nominees…
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Directed by: “Daniels” aka Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
Starring: Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, Jenny Slate, Harry Shum Jr., James Hong, Jamie Lee Curtis
What's it about? The owner of a laundromat must confront her strained relationship with her daughter as she travels through multiple universes in this trippy yet powerful sci-fi/action/dramedy.
Nominated for: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Costume Design, Film Editing, Original Score, Original Song, Original Screenplay
Where to stream it? Like other recent A24 films, it streams exclusively on Showtime. You can get Showtime on its own or bundled together with Paramount+.
The Fabelmans
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Gabriel LaBelle, Judd Hirsch
What’s it about? A semi-biographical film from Spielberg about a young man, Sammy Fabelman, who aspires to be a filmmaker. Through his moviemaking, Sammy copes with the dysfunction of his family in post-World War II Arizona.
Nominated for: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Original Score, Production Design, Original Screenplay
Where to stream it? Currently in theaters as well as available for purchase from Amazon, Apple, Vudu, and others. Will likely end up on Peacock like other releases from Universal.
The Banshees of Inisherin
Directed by: Martin McDonagh
Starring: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon, Barry Keoghan
What’s it about? When his lifelong pal puts an end to their friendship, an Irishman living on a remote island works together with his sister and another islander to repair the relationship once again.
Nominated for: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Director, Film Editing, Original Score, Original Screenplay
Where to stream it? HBO Max
Top Gun: Maverick
Directed by: Joseph Kosinski
Starring: Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glend Powell, Lewis Pullman, Ed Harris
What’s it about? Sequel to the classic 1980s film. Follows Pete “Maverick” Mitchell as he trains young aviators at the same elite naval academy from the previous movie.
Nominated for: Best Picture, Film Editing, Original Song, Sound, Visual Effects, Adapted Screenplay
Where to stream it? Paramount+ and MGM+
TÁR
Directed by: Todd Field
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Noémie Merlant, Nina Hoss, Sophie Kauer, Julian Glover, Allan Corduner, Mark Strong
What’s it about? Just when her career has reached new heights as the first female conductor of an esteemed orchestra, the fictional virtuoso Lydia Tár must deal with a series of personal setbacks that cause her success to spiral down.
Nominated for: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Cinematography, Film Editing, Original Screenplay
Where to stream it? Peacock
Elvis
Directed by: Baz Luhrmann
Starring: Austin Butler, Tom Hanks, Olivia DeJonge, Helen Thomson, Richard Roxburgh, Kelvin Harrison Jr., David Wenham, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Luke Bracey
What’s it about? Biographical film that charts the life of Elvis Presley from his youth to death, focusing specifically on his tumultuous working relationship with his longtime manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
Nominated for: Best Picture, Bests Actor, Cinematography, Costume Design, Film Editing, Makeup and Hairstyling, Production Design, Sound
Where to stream it? HBO Max
Avatar: The Way of Water
Directed by: James Cameron
Starring: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Kate Winslet
What’s it about? Follow-up to James Cameron's 2009 epic sci-fi. Jake Sully and Ney'tiri must leave their home and fight a war against the humans when an ancient threat emerges.
Nominated for: Best Picture, Production Design, Sound Visual Effects
Where to stream it? Currently in theaters, not available on streaming, but most likely will end up on Disney+ eventually.
All Quiet on the Western Front
Directed by: Edward Berger
Starring: Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch, Daniel Brühl
What’s it about? An idealistic young German solider is confronted with the harsh realities of war during World War I in this adaptation of the classic novel.
Nominated for: Best Picture, Cinematography, Best International Feature Film, Makeup and Hairstyling, Original Score, Production Design, Sound, Visual Effects, Adapted Screenplay
Where to stream it? Netflix
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Directed by: Ryan Coogler
Starring: Letitia Wright, Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira, Winston Duke, Florence Kasumba, Dominique Thorne, Michaela Coel, Tenoch Huerta Mejía, Martin Freeman, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Angela Bassett
What’s it about? Follow to 2018’s superhero epic that takes place in the fictional African country of Wakanda. In this sequel, the people of Wakanda must fight together to protect their nation after the death of King T’Challa.
Nominated for: Best Supporting Actress, Costume Design, Makeup and Hairstyling, Original Song, Visual Effects
Where to stream it? Begins streaming on Disney+ on February 1st.
Women Talking
Directed by: Sarah Polley
Starring: Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley, Judith Ivey, Ben Whishaw, Frances McDormand
What’s it about? Women in a secluded Mennonite colony band together to confront the men who have assaulted them. Based on the novel of the same name that was inspired by real events.
Nominated for: Best Picture, Adapted Screenplay
Where to stream it? Available to stream on Prime Video.
Triangle of Sadness
Directed by: Ruben Östlund
Starring: Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Dolly de Leon, Zlatko Burić, Iris Berben, Vicki Berlin, Henrik Dorsin, Jean-Christophe Folly, Amanda Walker, Oliver Ford Davies, Sunnyi Melles, Woody Harrelson
What’s it about? Black comedy about a cruise ship for the super-rich that crashes on an island, leaving the wealthy passengers to survive together with the working-class cabin crew.
Nominated for: Best Picture, Best Director, Original Screenplay
Where to stream it? Stream on Hulu
Babylon
Directed by: Damien Chazelle
Starring: Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva, Jean Smart, Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li
What’s it about? Charts the rise and fall of multiple characters as Hollywood transitions from silent to sound films in the 1920s.
Where to stream it? Paramount+
The Whale
Directed by: Darren Aronofsky
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, Hong Chau, Ty Simpkins, Samantha Morton
What's it about? A man whose severe obesity has left him confined in his apartment attempts to reconnect with his estranged daughter. Read our review here.
Nominated for: Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Makeup and Hairstyling
Where to stream it? Currently in theaters with no word yet on streaming. May end up on Showtime like other A24 releases.
The Batman
Directed by: Matt Reeves
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright, John Turturro, Peter Sarsgaard, Andy Serkis, Colin Farrell
What's it about? The Dark Knight hunts down a deranged killer whose left behind a series of clues.
Nominated for: Makeup and Hairstyling, Sound, Visual Effects
Where to stream it? HBO Max
Other Oscar Nominees
Here are some other Oscar-nominated films you can stream, broken up by streaming service:
- Netflix: Blonde (Best Actress, Ana de Armas), Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Best Adapted Screenplay, Rian Johnson), Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (Best Animated Feature Film), The Sea Beast (Best Animated Feature Film), The Elephant Whisperers (Best Documentary Short Subject), The Martha Mitchell Effect (Best Documentary Short Subject), RRR (Best Original Song, Naatu, Naatu), Bardo, First Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (Best Cinematography),
- Disney+: Turning Red (Best Animated Feature Film), Fire of Love (Best Documentary Feature), Le pupille (Best Live Action Short Film),
- Hulu: Fire of Love (Best Documentary Feature), Le pupille (Best Live Action Short Film), My Year of Dicks (Best Animated Short Film)
- HBO Max: All That Breathes (Best Documentary Feature), Navalny (Best Documentary Feature), Empire of Light (Best Cinematography)
- Apple TV+: Causeway (Best Supporting Actor, Brian Tyree Henry), The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse (Best Animated Short Film),
- Peacock: Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (Best Costume Design)
- Prime Video: Argentina, 1985 (Chile, Best International Feature Film)
- Showtime: Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (Best Animated Feature Film)
Final Thoughts: Where to Stream Oscar Nominees in 2023
Which of these films are you rooting for? Let us know in the comment section below!
