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When it comes to streaming services, Netflix is still the king. With around 260 million subscribers, Netflix reigns supreme over its competitors thanks to its vast library of licensed content and original programming. Over the past decade, Netflix has become a major player at the Oscars thanks to its prestige dramas. Films like Roma and All Quiet on the Western Front have resonated with the Academy by winning multiple Oscars.
With the 2024 Oscars scheduled for this Sunday, March 10, we gathered some previous Academy Award-winning films to watch on Netflix. Not all of our choices are Netflix originals. Some of our selections are extremely well-known, including a groundbreaking sci-fi blockbuster and a spectacular neo-noir mystery.
At first, the scientists are in awe of the prehistoric creatures. However, a power failure turns Jurassic Park into a house of horrors as the dinosaurs become the hunters and the humans become the hunted. Jurassic Park is largely responsible for starting the CGI revolution. Even as the guinea pig in this scenario, Jurassic Park looks better than most blockbusters in 2024. Unsurprisingly, Jurassic Park won Oscars for Best Visual Effects, Best Sound, and Best Sound Effects Editing.
Erin Brockovich (Roberts) is an unemployed single mother of three who coerces her way into a job as a legal assistant at a law firm owned by Ed Masry (Albert Finney). While browsing through files, Erin discovers medical records in a real estate case, which raises her suspicion. After an initial investigation, Erin discovers that residents in a nearby community are suffering from deadly illnesses due to water contamination from a California power company. The same company is intentionally covering up its illegal activities.
Despite a lack of legal experience, Erin spearheads a class-action lawsuit against the power company. Erin Brockovich is a triumphant legal drama and an acting showcase for Roberts, who went on to win the Oscar for Best Actress.
If you've ever perused Netflix, you know that the streaming service has tons of great action movies for you to choose from. Some people, though, may find themselves having seen all of the available options, or at the very least looking for something different. If you're one of the people looking for something new on the streamer, then you should be eagerly anticipating the arrival of Land of Bad on Netflix. The 2024 movie is set to hit the streamer on July 18.
The movie, which tells the story of a young officer who gets stranded in a firefight and finds himself with only the help of a veteran drone pilot during a 48-hour battle for his own survival. Here's why you should make time for this movie when it hits Netflix.
It features an impressive cast
Land of Bad Trailer #1 (2024)
As the summer scorcher continues, there's never been a better time to sit inside, enjoy the AC, and watch some great movies. But some movies just hit differently during the warmer summer months. Most of us are looking for fun and excitement, thrill and action. It's not exactly the season for slow-burn thrillers or gut-punch dramas.
Instead, summer is the time to celebrate big box office blockbusters, effects-heavy crowd-pleasers, and feel-good favorites. Netflix, being the powerhouse streamer that is, luckily has tons of great movies to watch during the summer, including a huge selection of sci-fi hits. Check out these five fantastic sci-fi movies that are perfect for summer, all streaming right now on Netflix.
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What a summer it's been for kids' movies. Inside Out 2 is breaking box office records every single day. The Pixar sequel became the fastest animated movie to cross the $1 billion threshold and could legitimately become the highest-grossing animated film of all time. Despicable Me 4 will not catch Inside Out 2's box office grosses, but the Minions are well on their way to becoming one of the most popular movies of 2024.
While animated movies are an excellent option for families, they only represent a portion of the movies offered to kids. Netflix has entire genres and subgenres dedicated to children, from comedies and dramas to fantasy and sci-fi. Below is a list of five kids movies to watch this summer. Our selections include a popular video game adaptation, a sports comedy from a comedic icon, and a fun body-swapping adventure.
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The headline for this story might be a a bit misleading because, while these are Oscars winners, the films on this list are not necessarily Best Picture Oscar winners. What these films are, at any given time, is possibly the best example of what movies had to offer for the particular year in which they won. This isn't always the case however, but, at the very least what this list IS giving you are some very good films.
As you glance at this list, your first thought might very well be, "What an eclectic group of films given to us by the often stodgy Academy." Then, as you sort through it, you will see that these films are subversive, groundbreaking, and actually follow the tropes of what most people think an Oscar film is. You might not like that a film won this or that award, but there's no way that you can deny that it deserved to be in the running.
That said some of the films on this list should've won Best Picture. (The Aviator anyone?). Why they didn't is anybody's guess, but (and this is what makes lists like this so much fun) we can sort of give them an Award they didn't get in the moment. And, just like on Oscar night, there will certainly be people reading this that don't agree with what I've written.
At its worst this list simply devolves into an argument or way to settle old cinematic scores. At its best, the 14 Best Oscar Winning Movies on Netflix will be seen as a celebration of cinema. The kind of list that only a platform like Netflix could create. With its foothold on some of the best original content users have ever seen, it's only fitting that they would house some of the best Oscar content. After all, they have a film, Roma, that stands a big chance of winning an Academy Award in 2019.
So sit back and enjoy this list. Whether you agree with it or not this is a list that at least some Americans agreed were the best films we had during that year. In these times where it seems like we're willing to rip each other's throats out over every little thing, you can take heart in at least finding some consensus in "14 Best Oscar Winning Movies on Netflix". Now, if only Netflix could figure out a way to avoid another government shutdown!
When Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas walked out to announce the Best Director Oscar for 2007, anybody with any sense of movie knowledge had to know that Scorsese was going to finally get his coveted statue. The Departed is hardly a perfect film. However, this tale of good cops, bad cops, various ethnic mobs, and overall East Coast culture and cool just felt downright deserving. With a cast that included Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg, and Vera Farmiga just to name a few, this is one of Scorsese's films that, like Goodfellas and Casino before it, is imminently watchable. This Netflix offering would also net Scorsese a Best Picture Oscar (among others), but for this cinema giant it was the Directing honor was the equivalent of a life time achievement award. Has there ever been a cooler Academy Award winner?
This 2014 Academy Award winner may not have won for best picture (that honor went to 12 Years a Slave) but there was no denying the performances. This helps explain why Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto took home the statues for Best Actor and Supporting Actor. It would be easy to cynically look at the subject matter of this film and what the actors did to transform themselves as Oscar Bait. However, the Dallas Buyers Club is a tour de force of Americana. How else to describe the story of Ron Woodroof (McConaughey), a true salesman who, after contracting AIDS, uses his interpersonal skills to make AIDS medication cheaper for himself and others affected by the disease. This story strikes at the core of humanity in regards to the idea that any disease, whether you have it or not, effects us all. Kudos to Netflix for keeping this evergreen film on their platform.
A movie about Stephen Hawking and his wife might not seem like the most interesting film in the world. However, Eddie Redmayne's performance as Hawking (with an awesome assist from Felicity Jones as Jane Hawking) is the sort of thing that mesmerized in 2015 and continues to do so. Due to Hawking's degenerative condition, there is a good portion of the movie where Redmayne can do little more than move his face. His non-movement becomes a performance all its own and that is what makes The Theory of Everything such a standout. With so much about how Netflix operates being based on science, it seems fitting that a movie about one of the world's most recognizable scientists would be available to stream from it.
This story about Oskar Schindler, a German businessman in World War II who eventually used his money and influence to spare many Jews from the concentration camps, is an American classic. Shot in black and white this 1994 Academy Award winner would go on to win 7 awards. Among them were Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Director just to name a few. This film worked on just about every level for all audiences and is the kind of movie that is still studied in classrooms today. Schindler's List was literally made during a different time. There was no internet, social media was non-existent, and the thought of walking around with a phone everywhere was pretty ludicrous. That this movie can command attention on Netflix today is a testament to it's unyielding power.
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