20 Oscar-Nominated Films You Can Watch On OTT Platforms

Planning on watching Oscar-nominated films before the Academy Awards 2022 airs? The 94th Academy Awards, often known as the Oscars, will be held on March 28, 2022, at 5:30 a.m. IST at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California. Here is a list of Oscar-nominated films and the OTT platforms where you can watch them.

Every year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hosts the Academy Awards ceremony. On December 21, 2021, the shortlisted films in 10 categories were announced, and the final nominations were announced on February 8, 2022. The Oscars will be broadcast live on Channel ABC and its website on Sunday, March 27, 2022, at 8 a.m. EDT/5 a.m. PDT or 5:30 a.m. Indian Standard Time on March 28, 2022. This year, the films nominated by the Academy are, Belfast, Coda, Don't Look Up, Drive My Car, Dune, King Richard, Licorice  Pizza, Nightmare Alley, The Power Of The Dog and West Side Story. 

20 Oscar-Nominated Films Available On OTT Platforms:

1. The Father

Florian Zeller's directorial debut, The Father, is a 2020 drama film that he co-wrote with fellow playwright Christopher Hampton and is based on Zeller's 2012 play Le Père. The play is a part of a trilogy that also includes Le Fils and The Mother. The film stars Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman, Mark Gatiss, Imogen Poots, Rufus Sewell, and Olivia Williams, and is a French-British co-production. It follows an octogenarian man dealing with dementia.

Available on: Amazon Prime Video

2. Coda

CODA is a drama-musical film released in 2021. It tells a story of Ruby (Emilia Jones), a deaf family's only hearing member. She is drawn to her duet partner in the choir club at her high school, despite having a passion for singing. Sian Heder directed the film, which is based on the French drama film La Famille Bélier.

Available on: Apple TV+

3. Don't Look Up

Don't Look Up stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Himesh Patel, Michael Chiklis, Lance Norris, Lizzie Short, Ashleigh Banfield, Breanna Wing, and Isaac Liev Schreiber, among others, and is directed by Adam McKay. The plot follows the exploits of two astronomers as they embark on a media tour to warn humanity about an oncoming comet that could destroy the planet.

Available on: Netflix

4. Drive My Car

Drive My Car is a Japanese drama film directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi and based on a short tale by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. The plot explores the odd friendship that develops between an older actor and a 20-year-old female driver while they are driving.

Available on:  Mubi From April 1, 2022

5. Dune

Dune is a science fiction adventure film based on Frank Herbert's novel of the same name. It stars Zendaya, Timothee Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Jason Momoa, and Stellan Skarsgard, among others. Denis Villeneuve, an award-winning filmmaker, is in charge of the direction. A sequel to the adventure film is expected in 2023.

Available on: Apple TV+, YouTube

6. Promising Young Woman

Emerald Fennell's feature directorial debut, Promising Young Woman, is a 2020 black comedy thriller film she wrote, co-produced, and directed. Carey Mulligan plays a young woman who is haunted by a horrific past as she attempts to strike a balance between forgiveness and retribution. Supporting cast members include Bo Burnham, Alison Brie, Clancy Brown, Jennifer Coolidge, Laverne Cox, and Connie Britton.

Available on: Apple TV+, YouTube

7. Nomadland

Chloé Zhao wrote, produced, edited, and directed Nomadland, a 2020 American drama film. It stars Frances McDormand as a widow who leaves to travel around the United States in her van as a nomad, based on Jessica Bruder's 2017 nonfiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century. In a supporting role, David Strathairn appears. Linda May, Swankie, and Bob Wells, all real-life nomads, feature as fictionalised versions of themselves.

Available on: Disney+ Hotstar, Apple TV+

8. Nightmare Alley

Nightmare Alley is a psychological thriller drama directed by Guillermo del Toro and set in the 1940s. The film is based on the same-titled novel by William Lindsay Gresham. Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Toni Collette, Paul Anderson, and Willem Dafoe play pivotal roles in the film.

Available on: Hulu, HBO Max

9. The Power Of The Dog

The Power of the Dog is a psychological thriller based on the novel of the same name by Thomas Savage. Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, and Kodi Smit-McPhee star in the film, which was written and directed by Jane Campion. Love, jealousy, masculinity, and sexuality are among the themes explored in the film.

Available on: Netflix

10.West Side Story

The film follows the teenage romance between Toni (Ansel Elgort) and Maria (Rachel Zegler), who belong to opposing families, and is based on the 1957 musical of the same name. When Zegler claimed that she had not been invited to the 94th Academy Awards presentation, a controversy erupted. Steven Spielberg directed the musical drama.

Available on: Disney+ Hotstar, Apple TV+, YouTube

11. Parasite

A still from the film Parasite.

Bong Joon-ho co-wrote the screenplay with Han Jin-won and directed the 2019 South Korean black comedic thriller, Parasite. Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik, Park So-dam, Jang Hye-jin, and Lee Jung-eun appear in the film, which follows an impoverished family who plots to join an affluent family's household by posing as unrelated, highly qualified individuals.

Available on: Amazon Prime Video

12. Green Book

Green Book is a biographical comedy-drama film directed by Peter Farrelly that was released in 2018. The film is based on the true events of African American classical and jazz pianist Don Shirley and Italian American bouncer Frank "Tony Lip" Vallelonga, who acted as Shirley's chauffeur and bodyguard during a tour of the Deep South in 1962. Based on interviews with his father and Shirley, as well as letters his father wrote to his mother, the film was written by Farrelly, Brian Hayes Currie, and Vallelonga's son, Nick Vallelonga.

Available on: Disney+ Hotstar

13. The Shape of Water

Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water is a 2017 American romantic fantasy film directed and written by del Toro and Vanessa Taylor. In addition to Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Doug Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Octavia Spencer, they feature in the film. The film concerns a mute cleaner at a high-security government facility who falls in love with a captured humanoid amphibian creature, set in 1962 Baltimore, Maryland.

Available on: Disney+ Hotstar, Apple TV+, YouTube

14. Moonlight

Moonlight is a 2016 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Barry Jenkins and based on Tarell Alvin McCraney's semi-autobiographical play In Moonlight, Black Boys Look Blue. The film follows the main character through three stages of his life: childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood. It delves into his struggles with sexuality and identity, as well as the physical and emotional abuse he endured as a child.

Available on : Amazon Prime Video

15. Spotlight

Spotlight is a biographical drama film directed by Tom McCarthy and written by McCarthy and Josh Singer that was released in 2015. The film follows The Boston Globe's "Spotlight" team, the country's oldest continually running newspaper investigative journalism section, as they investigate widespread and systemic child sex abuse by multiple Roman Catholic priests in the Boston area.

Available on: Sony LIV, Apple TV+, YouTube

16. Birdman

Birdman, or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance, directed by Alejandro G. Iárritu, is a 2014 American comedy-drama film. Iárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Armando Bó wrote it. In this film starring Michael Keaton, Riggan Thomson, a faded Hollywood actor best known for playing the superhero "Birdman," attempts to mount a Broadway rendition of a short tale by Raymond Carver.

Available on: Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, YouTube

17. 12 Years a Slave

Twelve Years a Slave is a 2013 biographical drama film directed by Steve McQueen from a screenplay by John Ridley, based on David Wilson's 1853 slave memoir, Twelve Years a Slave, about a free African-American man from New York State who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in Washington, D.C. by two conmen in 1841.

Available on:  Apple TV+, YouTube

18. Slumdog Millionaire

Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British drama film based on Indian novelist Vikas Swarup's novel Q & A (2005). It tells the narrative of 18-year-old Jamal Malik from Mumbai's Juhu slums. The film was directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy, and produced by Christian Colson, with Loveleen Tandan listed as co-director. It starred Dev Patel as Jamal and was shot in India.

Available on : Amazon Prime Video

19. Argo

Ben Affleck directed Argo, a 2012 American historical drama thriller film. Chris Terrio wrote the script, which was based on the same-titled novel published in 1999. During the 1979–1981 Iran hostage crisis, Mendez led the "Canadian Caper," in which he led the rescue of six US diplomats from Tehran, Iran, under the premise of making a science-fiction film.

Available on: Apple TV+, YouTube

20. Life of Pi

Ang Lee directed and produced Life of Pi in 2012, and David Magee wrote the screenplay. Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Rafe Spall, Tabu, and Adil Hussain feature in the film, which is based on Yann Martel's 2001 novel of the same name. The plot centres around two survivors of a shipwreck on an ocean liner. Suraj Sharma, a sixteen-year-old Indian boy, and Richard Parker, a dangerous Bengal tiger, are aboard a lifeboat that has been trapped in the Pacific Ocean for 227 days.

Available on: Available on: Disney+ Hotstar, Apple TV+, YouTube

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