How to Stream All Oscar 2022 Best Picture Nominees for Free and Subscription

Oscars 2022 - How to stream the best picture nominees

There's still time to stuff in the ones you missed before the Academy Awards winners are announced March 27.

Years ago, if you wanted to watch all the titles nominated for best picture you’d have to put on your hat and coat and go to the theater. This year, it’s a little easier. For those watching at home, though, there may have been a moment of stark realization: there’s some catching up to do.

Here are the Oscar 2022 best picture-nominated titles available for free with a streaming subscription, and those that you can stream for a fee:

1.Don't Look Up - Stream on Netflix for free with a streaming subscription

“Don’t Look Up,” the stress-inducing comedy from Adam McKay starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, and a planet-leveling asteroid is ready to raise your blood pressure right now at Netflix. It was nominated for four Oscars overall, including Best Editing, Best Score, and Best Original Screenplay.

2.The Power of the Dog - on Netflix for free with a streaming subscription

“The Power of the Dog,” Jane Campion’s gorgeously photographed psychological Western starring nominees Benedict Cumberbatch, Jesse Plemons, and Kirsten Dunst, is available to stream on Netflix. You’ll need to freeze-frame to find the dog.

Oscar Chances: The Jane Campion-directed juggernaut snatched the most nominations this year, and is likely to win in multiple categories including Picture, Director, acting, and below-the-line categories. The Jesse Plemons nom is a surprising show of strength and with the exception of perhaps a Costume Design nom, it landed everything it could have.

3.Nightmare Alley - Stream on Hulu and HBO Max for free with a streaming subscription

“Nightmare Alley,” which some might consider a surprise nomination, is streamable two ways: on HBO Max and on Hulu. In addition to best picture, it has also been nominated for cinematography, costume design, and production design. And if you want to watch the 1947 original upon which Guillermo Del Toro based his latest, well, you are out of luck. It was streaming on Criterion Collection for a while, but now it’s on physical media only.

4.CODA -Stream on Apple TV Plus for free with a streaming subscription

The film is streaming now on Apple TV+.

CODA,” the beloved coming-of-age film set in a New England fishing community starring Emilia Jones as a Child of Deaf Adults (hence the title, but it is also a pun because it is also about music) is one of the smaller movies nominated this year. But with nominations for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Kotsur as a supporting actor, it’s a true crowd-pleaser worth catching up with if you haven’t seen it already.

Nominations Received: Three - Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Troy Kotsur), and Best Adapted Screenplay

What It's About: A hearing teenage girl (Emilia Jones) in an all-deaf family is torn between following her passion for music, which her family doesn't understand, and helping them keep their struggling fishing business afloat as their translator and connection to the outside world.

Oscar Chances: It was acquired out of Sundance in a record-breaking deal and has garnered praise for its supporting performances from Troy Kotsur and Marlee Matlin. Though competition is stiff, there remains an outside chance that CODA could take home gold for Screenplay and/or Supporting Actor.

5.Ala Kachuu: Take and Run - Where to Stream: Currently unavailable but will premiere later on Shorts.TV.

6.Ascension - Where to Stream: Paramount+

Nominations Received: One - Best Documentary Feature

What It's About: A study of the Chinese dream and how individuals are affected by productivity, consumption, and waste as they attempt to climb the daunting social ladder.

Oscar Chances: While the Documentary race is often hard to predict, it feels like Flee or Summer of Soul is likely to win here instead.

7.Audible - Where to Stream: Netflix

Nominations Received: One - Best Documentary Short Subject

What It's About: A black, deaf senior at Maryland School for the Deaf who hopes to lead his team as they defend their winning streak while struggling with the loss of a friend due to suicide.

8.Belfast - Where to Stream: Rent it on Prime Video.

It is available via Amazon, Apple TV, Google Play, Vudu, and elsewhere for $19.99.

Nominations Received: Seven - Best Picture, Best Director (Kenneth Branagh), Best Supporting Actor (Ciaran Hinds), Best Supporting Actress (Judi Dench), Best Original Song ("Down to Joy" by Van Morrrison), Best Sound, and Best Original Screenplay

What It's About: A little boy (Jude Hill) grows up in Northern Ireland during the Troubles in a Kenneth Branagh written and directed black-and-white film that's based on his own boyhood.

Oscar Chances: A stellar cast including Judi Dench, Jamie Dornan, Ciaran Hinds, and Caitriona Balfe play the parents and grandparents who must decide whether to stay in Ireland or move to Britain. It's fighting with The Power of the Dog for Best Picture and could also scoop up other awards if the Academy goes all in.

9.Dune - Available to rent on Apple TV, other options from $5.99.

“Dune,” Denis Villeneuve’s sweeping adaptation of the first half of Frank Herbert’s legendary science fiction novel, which picked up 10 nominations in all including Best Cinematography, Best Sound, Best Production Design, and Best Adapted Screenplay.

"Dune" is ready to haunt your dreams on the usual platforms like Amazon, Apple TV, Vudu and elsewhere for $5.99. David Lynch’s bonkers version from 1984 is streaming on Starz.

10.Drive My Car - Not yet available to stream

Where to Stream: Currently in theaters. Buy tickets.

“Drive My Car,” the three-hour Japanese-language drama that won the top prize with the New York Film Critics Circle, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and the National Society of Film Critics, pulled off the rare stunt of getting a Best International Feature nomination as well as Best Picture. (Ryusuke Hamaguchi is also nominated for Best Director, and he shares a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination with Takamasa Oe.) Alas, you will need to drive your car to see this film in some of the nation’s finer art houses (like Lincoln Center in New York) for now.

Oscar Chances: The broadening international faction of the Academy clearly put their weight behind this film, pushing it not only into the expanded Best Picture lineup but also into the more competitive screenplay and director races. Don't underestimate this film taking home multiple Oscars in addition to the International Feature trophy it seemingly has locked up.

11.West Side Story - Not yet available to stream

“West Side Story,” is not the first remake of an Oscar-winning Best Picture, but the first to ever to also be nominated for best picture. It’s enough to make you want to get out in the street and dance. Steven Spielberg’s terrific adaptation, for which Ariana DeBose got a supporting actress nod, and was also nominated for cinematography, production design, costume design, and sound, is another one that’s only playing in theaters for now.

12.King Richard - Available to rent on Apple TV, other options from $19.99

“King Richard,” arguably the most classically Oscar-feeling film of the year, netted nominations for Will Smith and Aunjanue Ellis, as well as Best Editing and Best Original Screenplay for Zach Baylin. The sports-themed biopic (about Richard Williams, father to Serena and Venus Williams) is awaiting your serve on all the major platforms (Amazon, Apple TV, Vudu) but, alas, will cost you $19.99. It was on HBO Max last year, and will likely return to the platform soon.

13.Licorice Pizza - Not yet available to stream

“Licorice Pizza,” the romantic and rich triumph of youth from Paul Thomas Anderson (also nominated for original screenplay) that stars Alana Haim and Cooper Hoffman, is nothing if not nostalgic. It’s set in the 1970s, it was shot on 35mm film stock, and if you want to see it you need to get off the couch and go to a movie theater.

14.Bestia - Where to Stream: Currently unavailable but will premiere later on Shorts.TV

15.Coming 2 America - Where to Stream: Prime Video.

Nominations Received: One - Best Makeup and Hairstyling

What It's About: In the sequel to Coming to America, Eddie Murphy reprises his role as Prince Akeem Joffer of Zamunda, who must return to America to meet his long lost son, the heir to his throne.

Oscar Chances: Not much. It's a bit of a shock that this sequel from what feels like fifteen years ago got a nomination at all.

16.Cruella - Where to Stream: Disney+

Nominations Received: Two - Best Makeup and Hairstyling and Best Costume Design

What It's About: Before Cruella de Vil (Emma Stone) was skinning puppies to make coats, she was a low-level fashion intern trying to give her boss (Emma Thompson) a mental breakdown by ruining her business and becoming London's premiere designer.

Oscar Chances: It's this versus Dune for the Costume Oscar, so let's see if Disney can pull it out.

17.The Dress - Where to Stream: Currently unavailable but will premiere later on Shorts.TV

Nominations Received: One - Best Live Action Short Film

What It's About: A Polish short film about a maid at a rundown hotel in Poland who struggles with loneliness until a truck driver begins making repeated visits to the hotel.

18. Encanto - Where to Stream: Disney+

Nominations Received: Three - Best Animated Feature Film, Best Original Score, and Best Original Song ("Dos Orugutas" by Lin-Manuel Miranda)

What It's About: In the newest Disney Animation film with music from Lin-Manuel Miranda, a girl sets out to help her magical family retain their magical powers when they start to lose them.

Oscar Chances: Encanto is in a tight race with Luca and The Mitchells vs the Machines for Animated Feature, and with Beyoncé and Billie Eilish in Best Song. Should Miranda win, however, he will EGOT so stay on the lookout for that.

19.The Eyes of Tammy Faye - Where to Stream: HBO Max

What It's About: Tammy Faye (Jessica Chastain) and Jim Bakker, (Andrew Garfield) a pair of Midwestern Evangelicals rise to fame as Christian variety show hosts only to get embroiled in affairs, fraud, and excessive Diet Coke drinking.

Oscar Chances: It could easily take home the Makeup and Hairstyling as the movie leans heavily on Tammy Faye's increasingly garish eyeshadow.

20. Flee - Where to Stream: Rent it on Prime Video.

Nominations Received: Three - Best Animated Feature Film, Best Documentary Feature, and Best International Feature Film

What It's About: The animated documentary is also the Danish entry for Best International Feature Film. It tells the story of a gay Afghani refugee and his family as they attempt to flee from Afghanistan to Europe via Russia.

Oscar Chances: It is also the first film ever to be nominated in all three of these categories and faces the least competition in Best Documentary, where it is likely to win.

21.Four Good Days - Where to Stream: Hulu

Nominations Received: One - Best Original Song ("Somehow You Do" by Diane Warren)

What It's About: Glenn Close and Mila Kunis play a mother/daughter pair as the younger struggles with drug addiction and returns home begging for help in an attempt to get sober.

Oscar Chances: Diane Warren is a perennial nominee (and 13-time loser) in Best Song, so let's watch her give this another swing.

22. Free Guy - Where to Stream: Rent it on Prime Video

Nominations Received: One - Best Visual Effects

What It’s About: A non-playable character (Ryan Reynolds) inside a video game becomes sentient at the same time the game creators are trying to delete the game.

Oscar Chances: Such a delightful film, and so happy it is now "Oscar-nominated" even though it's unlikely to win

23.The Hand of God - Where to Stream: Netflix

Nominations Received: One - Best International Feature Film

What It's About: This coming-of-age saga, and the Italian Oscar submission, follows a teenage boy in Naples — played by Filippo Scotti (in one of the best performances from last year) — as he looks for meaning and purpose in a career, sex, and his family.

Oscar Chances: With Drive My Car and The Worst Person in the World in this category, it will certainly be an uphill battle for the win.

24.House of Gucci - Where to Stream: Rent it on Prime Video

Nominations Received: One - Best Makeup and Hairstyling

What It's About: Lady Gaga stars as Patrizia Reggiani, the woman who infiltrated the Gucci fashion empire only to be thrown out and have her husband assassinated in an act of revenge.

Oscar Chances: The Lady Gaga snub has my blood boiling. The Jared Leto snub is a blessing from above. Still shocked Lady Gaga didn't do an Original Song for this.

25.King Richard - Where to Stream: Rent it on Prime Video

Nominations Received: Six - Best Picture, Best Actor (Will Smith), Best Supporting Actress (Aunjanue Ellis), Best Film Editing, Best Original Song ("Be Alive" by Beyonce), and Best Original Screenplay.

What It's About: Venus and Serena Williams's dad (Will Smith), a nutty eccentric hellbent on his girls becoming tennis stars, challenges the white elitist establishment on his daughters' rise to fame.

Oscar Chances: Will Smith is the definitive frontrunner in Best Actor, but I’m much more interested in seeing if Queen B will win a much-deserved Oscar. She's got to break the James Bond stranglehold on the category, but I believe in her.

26.Lead Me Home - Where to Stream: Netflix

Nominations Received: One - Best Documentary Short Subject

What It's About: Shot in California, this short examines the rising population of unhoused individuals in the US, telling the stories of several of these subjects as they try to overcome a system set up to encourage their failure.

27. Licorice Pizza - Where to Stream: Currently in theaters. Buy tickets

Nominations Received: Three - Best Picture, Best Director (Paul Thomas Anderson), and Best Original Screenplay

What It's About: A child actor/entrepreneur (Cooper Hoffman) and an aimless twenty-something (Alana Haim) strike up an unlikely friendship as they roam around Los Angeles together in Paul Thomas Anderson's newest film.

Oscar Chances: Sort of interesting that the three categories it got nominations in are all PTA categories and it was blanked everywhere else. He's not winning Picture or Director, but maybe this could be his year to finally win an Oscar in Screenplay.

28.The Long Goodbye - Where to Stream: Vimeo.

Nominations Received: One - Best Live Action Short Film

What It's About: This British short starring Riz Ahmed takes a look at a family going about their daily life until an alt-right march shows up to their front door.

29. The Lost Daughter - Where to Stream: Netflix.

Nominations Received: Three - Best Actress (Olivia Colman), Best Supporting Actress (Jessie Buckley), and Best Adapted Screenplay

What It's About: In Maggie Gyllenhaal's directorial debut based on an Elena Ferrante novella, Olivia Colman plays a prickly professor on holiday who butts up against a family staying at the same resort as her.

Oscar Chances: Colman could easily win her second Oscar this year, but the Academy is sending some mixed signals. The Buckley nom is a surprise, but it missing Best Picture speaks to a weakness overall.

30. The Mitchells Vs. The Machines - Where to Stream: Netflix

Nominations Received: One - Best Animated Feature Film

What It’s About: A dysfunctional family full of klutzes somehow must save the world from a deadly robot attack in Netflix's bid for Best Animated Feature.

Oscar Chances: It's got a 98% on Rotten Tomatoes and seems to be Disney's only competition in the category.

31. No Time To Die - Where to Stream: Rent it on Prime Video.

Nominations Received: Three - Best Original Song ("No Time to Die" by Billie Eilish), Best Sound, and Best Visual Effects

What It's About: Daniel Craig's James Bond is out here trying to save the world from some kind of nanobot attack while looking dapper, drinking martinis, and chatting up the ladies.

Oscar Chances: Adele and Sam Smith won Oscars for the last two Bond songs. We shall see if Billie can make it three for three.

32. On My Mind - Where to Stream: Currently unavailable but will premiere later on Shorts.TV

Nominations Received: One - Best Live Action Short Film

What It's About: In this Danish short, a man has to sing a karaoke song for his wife immediately. You'll find out why.

33. Parallel Mothers - Where to Stream: Currently in theaters. Buy tickets

Nominations Received: Two - Best Actress (Penelope Cruz) and Best Original Score

What It's About: While not the Spanish submission for International Feature, Pedro Almodovar's latest film tells the story of two mothers giving birth on the same day, one of whom is played by Penelope Cruz.

Oscar Chances: For an under-the-radar foreign film that wasn't even submitted by Spain, two nominations is quite impressive.

34. Please Hold - Where to Stream: Currently unavailable but will premiere later on Shorts.TV

Nominations Received: One - Best Live Action Short Film

What It's About: In a sci-fi satire, a man falsely arrested and imprisoned by an automated system must attempt to fight through the computerized bureaucracy for freedom.

35. The Queen of Basketball - Where to Stream: The New York Times.

Nominations Received: One - Best Documentary Short Subject

What It's About: A New York Times Op-Doc production that tells the largely unknown story of Lusia Harris, an incredible basketball player who competed in the Olympics, was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, and was drafted into the NBA.

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