Where to Stream the 2024 Oscar Winners Right Now?
After a difficult few years shrouded in the pandemic, the Oscars returned in style last night, with Hollywood studios once again stealing the spotlight from streamers following recent strong performances from the likes of Netflix and Apple TV+. While I love nights filled with old Hollywood glamor, it’s hard to hate the streamers too much considering they make it possible to watch almost every award-winning movie right now from the comfort of your couch. Here’s where you can stream all of this year’s winners right now.
Oppenheimer (7 Oscar wins)
Awards : Best Picture, Best Director (Christopher Nolan), Best Actor (Cillian Murphy), Best Supporting Actor (Robert Downey Jr.), Best Original Score (Ludwig Göransson), Best Cinematography (Hoyte van Hoytema), Best film editing (Jennifer Lame)
As expected, it was Christopher Nolan’s night at the Oscars, with his atomic bomb biopic winning most of the major awards, including best actor (his longtime co-star Cillian Murphy, who has starred in six of the director’s films), and a late-night award. Robert Downey Jr. received the award for Best Supporting Actor in a Career Role.
Where to stream: Peacock
Poor Things (4 Oscar wins)
Awards: Best Actress (Emma Stone), Best Production Design (James Price, Shauna Heath and Zsuzsa Michalek), Best Makeup and Hairstyling (Nadia Stacey, Mark Coulier and Josh Weston), Best Costume Design (Holly Waddington).
Taking the position of the most-awarded nominee in the Mad Max: Fury Road category , Bad Things started the evening early with three statuettes, and then had to wait a couple of hours to pick up a fourth as Emma Stone picked up her second Best Actress award. role in the film “Killers of the Flower Moon ” by Lily Gladstone.
Where to watch : Hulu
Leftovers (1 Oscar win)
Award: Best Supporting Actress (Devin Joy Randolph)
I was hoping Paul Giamatti would get his well-deserved Best Actor award two decades after his snub for Sideways , but the only award for The Leftovers went to his co-star Da’vin Joy Randolph. (In one of the most moving moments of the evening, her heartfelt speech brought Giamatti to tears.)
Where to stream: Peacock
Zone of Interest (2 Oscar wins)
Awards: Best Non-English Language Film, Best Sound.
Jonathan Glazer’s disturbing Holocaust drama was nominated for both best picture and best non-English language film, with the latter taking home. He was one of the few winners to mention the October 7 attack on Israel and the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip in his acceptance speech.
Where to watch: Digital purchase ($19.99).
Anatomy of a Fall (1 Oscar win)
Award: Best Original Screenplay (Justine Trieu)
The Cannes Palme d’Or winner was nominated for multiple awards but only won best original screenplay for writer-director Justine Triet.
Where to watch: Digital rental ($5.99).
American Fantasy (1 Oscar win)
Award: Best Adapted Screenplay (Cord Jefferson)
Notably, American Fantasy, the only Oscar-winning film written and directed by a former Gawker writer, won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay; it is based on the 2001 novel Erasure by Percival Everett.
Where to stream: MGM+
Barbie (1 Oscar win)
Award: Best Song (“What Was I Made For?”, Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell)
On the final lap of the Barbenheimer race, Barbie lost, winning only the Oscar for Best Original Song. But don’t feel bad for everyone involved: director Greta Gerwig is planning her next blockbuster on Netflix (an adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia), and producer Margot Robbie can tout that she’s spawned the biggest global box office hit of 2023. And at 22, Billie Eilish became the youngest person to win two Academy Awards.
Where to stream: Max
Godzilla Minus One (1 Oscar win)
Award: Best Visual Effects.
We live in a world where a Godzilla movie won an Oscar, and I think that’s wonderful.
Where to stream: TBD
“The Boy and the Heron” (1 Oscar win)
Award: Best Animated Film.
If this turns out to be Hayao Miyazaki’s last film, he will come out a winner: A Boy and a Heron won him his second Oscar after 2001’s Spirited Away . In classic Miyazaki fashion, he wasn’t there to receive.
Where to watch: Nowhere yet, but it should join the rest of Studio Ghibli’s films on Max soon.
“20 days in Mariupol” (1 Oscar win)
Award: Best Documentary Film.
A harrowing documentary about the ongoing war in Ukraine seemed like a virtual lock for the award, but it’s hard to support given the subject matter. Even director Mstislav Chernov said in his speech that he would prefer neither an Oscar nor a war.
Where to watch: Stream free on PBS.org , Prime Video.
“The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar” (1 Oscar win)
Award: Best Short Fiction Film
Critics love Wes Anderson, but Academy voters have long seemed largely indifferent to his quirky charm – but now he’s finally won an Oscar, albeit for a short film rather than a feature. (I’m sure Netflix will accept this – it turned out to be the streamer’s only win of the night, a far cry from the many awards it won during the pandemic years).
Where to watch: Netflix
The Last Repair Shop (1 Oscar win)
Award: Best Short Documentary Film.
This charming short film about the latest store in Los Angeles that repairs student musical instruments has proven to be a favorite in its hometown of Hollywood.
Where to watch: Disney+.
The War Is Over: Inspired by the Music of John Lennon and Yoko Ono (1 Oscar Win)
Award: Best Animated Short Film.
It was a little strange that no one involved in the making of this anti-war film mentioned the many ongoing wars in their speeches, but at least Sean Lennon wished his mum a happy (British) Mother’s Day.
Where to stream: Nowhere yet