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Every curtain raiser on New Year’s is a clarion call for Hollywood to suit up. Wonder why? Because nothing gets Tinseltown going more than an award season. Of course, the Oscars are not the first accolade ceremony of the year, but every other one builds up to one final momentum when actors clinch onto that tiny golden statuette. While this year’s Academy Awards may be done and dusted, here are ten Oscar-nominated movies you should definitely watch on Netflix.

Whenever the Oscar buzz takes Tinseltown by storm, streaming giants, including Netflix, kneel in prayer, hoping their high-stakes streaming gambles pay off in gold. The prediction scales tip, fan theories spike up, and the precursor galas almost feel like an official countdown. At that very hour, Netflix takes the cue, planning and plotting its way out to become the one and only in the streaming race.

The 2025 Oscars saw Netflix edging like a supernova with its library brimming with Oscar-nominated movies. Sure, the big night ends with streamers counting the gold in their court.

However, an Oscar-nominated title does not lose its shine with the night’s wrap-up. So, we are bringing you ten Oscar-nominated flicks on Netflix for a binge-run etched in gold.

The best Oscar-nominated movies on Netflix

10. Emilia Pérez (Jacques Audiard, 2024)

Emilia Pérez is one of the most celebrated Oscar entries of 2025, a film based on Jacques Audiard’s opera libretto of the same name. The film stars Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz, Édgar Ramírez, and Mark Ivanir. Emilia Pérez follows a big-league attorney who takes an unlikely job to help a Mexican cartel leader fake their death and pursue surgical gender affirmation.

Officially described as a French musical crime drama, critics were split in their reviews. Despite the polarity, Emilia Pérez earned a whopping 13 nominations at the 97th Academy Awards. It won two Oscars, ‘Best Supporting Actress’ for Saldaña and ‘Best Original Song’ for ‘El Mal’.

9. The Six Triple Eight (Tyler Perry, 2024)

Tyler Perry’s universe is slowly making its presence known on Netflix with a pentagonal arrival schedule just for 2025. However, last year, Perry released a war drama film, The Six Triple Eight, and the Oscar jury could not help but take notice. Based on Kevin M. Hymel’s article, Fighting a Two-Front War, the flick centres on the 688th Central Postal Directory Battalion. The 688th Central Postal Directory Battalion is an all-Black, all-female Army Corps unit in World War II.

During World War II, they were tasked with sorting out a logistical nightmare involving the millions of undelivered mail. Despite the mission’s significance and importance, the Army Corps unit encountered several kinds of discrimination. The movie’s feature song, ‘The Journey’, was Oscar-nominated for ‘Best Original Song’.

8. All Quiet on the Western Front (Edward Berger, 2022)

All Quiet on the Western Front is a German epic anti-war film based on Erich Maria Remarque’s 1929 novel. The film revolves around the life of a young, ambitious German soldier, Paul Bäumer, during World War I, whose enrollment in the German Army with his friends eventually brings a hardcore reality check. Despite being filled with the sense of emerging as a hero, the harsh realities of war take a toll. The will to survive ultimately trumps his intentions to save.

All Quiet on the Western Front received nine nominations at the 95th Academy Awards. It won four, including ‘Best International Feature’, ‘Best Cinematography’, ‘Best Original Score’, and ‘Best Production Design’.

7. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson, 2022)

The Oscars are undeniably the most prestigious of honours in Hollywood. But one thing that makes the Academy Awards a crowd puller is its genre-bending recognition. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio was deemed his passion project for the longest time. Loosely based on Carlo Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio, the film is a stop-motion dark fantasy musical.

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio is set in the interwar period of Italy. It follows Pinocchio, the wooden puppet who comes alive as the carver’s child, Geppetto. Pinocchio won the ‘Best Animated Feature’ at the 2023 Oscars.

6. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (George C. Wolfe, 2020)

Oscars may be all about filmography. But if let loose, musical spirits also sneak in. Inspired largely by the legendary blues singer Ma Rainey and his influential career, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is based on August Wilson’s 1982 play. The film primarily dramatises a tumultuous recording session in 1920s Chicago at Paramount’s Recording Studios.

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom had a limited theatrical release before its streaming debut on Netflix on November 25, 2020. It received five Oscar nominations at the 93rd Academy Awards and won two: ‘Makeup and Hairstyling’ and ‘Costume Design’.

5. Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach, 2019)

It was Noah Baumbach who envisioned a turbulent couple of actors, Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver, for Marriage Story. But little did he know that his imagination would hit the bullseye with the Oscar jury. In Marriage Story, Johansson and Driver portray a pair going through a messy bi-coastal divorce, which gets far more complex with the custody issues surrounding their son.

Laura Dern, Alan Alda, Ray Liotta, Julie Hagerty, and Merrit Wever star in supporting roles. Marriage Story was a six-time Oscar-nominated Netflix movie at the 92nd Academy Awards, winning ‘Best Supporting Actress’ for Dern.

4. My Octopus Teacher (Pippa Ehrlich, 2020)

From war dramas to biopics, the Oscars have a place for everything. However, at the 93rd Academy Awards, a documentary film, My Octopus Teacher, on Netflix, won the ‘Best Documentary Feature’. The film documents filmmaker Craig Foster’s year spent cultivating a relationship with a wild common octopus in a South African kelp forest.

My Octopus Teacher follows Foster’s free-diving since 2018, when he encountered a curious young octopus. While showbiz has shown the evolution of unlikely friendships, My Octopus Teacher tells a tale distinct from its own.

3. Parasite (Bong Joon-ho, 2019)

Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite rewrote history at the 92nd Oscars. The South Korean black comedy thriller portrays two contrasting families, poor and rich, to the forefront. It tells the story of the Kims who infiltrate the Park family through meticulous and treacherous ways to secure jobs in the wealthy household.

Parasite was the first non-English-language film to win an Oscar for ‘Best Picture’. The film went on to win three more Academy Awards, including ‘Best Director’ for Bong Joon-ho, ‘Best Original Screenplay’, and ‘Best International Feature Film’. Parasite is streaming on Netflix.

2. The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion, 2021)

The Power of the Dog, a Jane Campion-directed western psychological drama, explores the themes of repression, masculinity, and generational trauma. The film revolves around the Burbank brothers, Phil and George, two opposite characters who live on a ranch. When George marries Rose, a widow and takes in her son, Peter, Phil grows incredibly harsh towards the mother and son, convinced they are only after his money.

As days pass, Rose becomes an alcoholic, and Phil’s submerged desire for connection unleashes more cruelty. The story ends in a tragic ending, but the tragedy does not befall its cinematic influence. The Power of the Dog was nominated in 12 categories at the 94th Academy Awards. The film lost 11 Oscars, but Campion won ‘Best Director’, the first to win only in that category and nothing else since The Graduate.

1. Barbie (Greta Gerwig, 2023)

The 2024 Oscar ceremony was famous or dare we say infamous, thanks to the Barbenheimer fight. Greta Gerwig’s Barbie is based on Mattel’s fashion dolls, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. The film depicts Barbie and Ken’s existential crisis and their layered journey across Barbieland and the real world. While the dolls have had countless animated specials, Barbie is the first live-action film of its kind.

Barbie led the Oscars last year with eight nominations, winning just one. The event was followed by worldwide criticism over the snubbed nominations for Gerwig and Robbie.