For avid movie fans, nothing is more exciting than watching an Academy Award-winning movie on Netflix. You can stream some of the best award-winning movies right from our own homes! Whether you are looking for a romantic drama or an action-packed adventure, there is something for every taste in this library of award-winning movies.
Academy Award-Winning Movies on Netflix
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law (Actors)
Road to Perdition
After a painful betrayal, a Depression-era enforcer goes on a remorseless quest to avenge his wife and son — against the man he thought was family. | Stream on Netflix
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode (Actors)
The Imitation Game
During World War II, a mathematician leads a team of cryptanalysts as they work feverishly to break the Germans’ notorious Enigma code. | Stream on Netflix
Marriage Story
Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Noah Baumbach directs this incisive and compassionate look at a marriage coming apart and a family staying together. | Stream on Netflix
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Lynnanne Zager, Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr. (Actors)
Jerry Maguire
Exhausted by the cynicism of his job, sports agent Jerry Maguire starts over with just one loyal client, finding love and a new outlook along the way. | Stream on Netflix
The Power of the Dog
A domineering but charismatic rancher wages a war of intimidation on his brother’s new wife and her teen son — until long-hidden secrets come to light. | Stream on Netflix
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale (Actors)
The Aviator
Unavailable on Basic with ads plan due to licensing restrictions. Eccentric mogul Howard Hughes plunges headlong into fame, aviation, and more as his whirlwind career evolves into a tormented journey in this biopic. | Stream on Netflix
Darkest Hour
As the threat of Nazi invasion looms, newly appointed British Prime Minister Winston Churchill rallies a nation to fight for its very survival. | Stream on Netflix
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Tom Hanks, Robin Wright Penn, Gary Sinise (Actors)
Tom Hanks is Forrest Gump
A gentle, friendly man navigates through the major events of the 1960s and ’70s while inspiring those around him with his perpetual optimism. | Stream on Netflix
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- KiKi Layne, Stephan James, Teyonah Parris (Actors)
If Beale Street Could Talk
Harlem of the ’70s comes alive in this story of pregnant Tish and her crusade to free her fiancé, Fonny, who’s in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. | Stream on Netflix
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart (Actors)
Still Alice
A professor with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease faces the pain of losing her sense of self while trying to live and love her family at the moment. | Stream on Netflix
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh (Actors)
The Hateful Eight
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, Javier Bardem (Actors)
Skyfall
When a serious menace threatens MI6, James Bond is on the case — putting aside his own life and personal issues to hunt and destroy the perpetrators. | Stream on Netflix
My Octopus Teacher
Apocalypse Now: Redux
Reedited and remastered with 49 extra minutes of footage, Francis Ford Coppola’s classic follows an Army captain’s risky mission to kill a rogue colonel. | Stream on Netflix
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams (Actors)
Brokeback Mountain
Two sheepherders in 1963 Wyoming become involved in an increasingly passionate affair, but hiding the relationship from their wives proves agonizing. | Stream on Netflix
Rocky
Rocky is a small-time Philadelphia boxer going nowhere, until an unbelievable shot to fight the world heavyweight champion lights a fire inside him. | Stream on Netflix
Two Distant Strangers
In this Oscar-winning short film, a man trying to get home to his dog becomes stuck in a time loop that forces him to relive a deadly run-in with a cop. | Stream on Netflix
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw (Actors)
The Sting
In this Oscar winner, a rookie grifter and veteran con man plan to fleece a homicidal racketeer through a phony racetrack scam in 1930s Chicago. | Stream on Netflix
If Anything Happens I Love You
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried (Actor)
Les Miserables
The musical version of Victor Hugo’s epic tale of love and sacrifice, first produced for the stage in 1985, now receives the big-screen treatment. | Stream on Netflix
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Tensions and temperatures rise at a Chicago music studio in 1927 when fiery, fearless blues singer Ma Rainey joins her band for a recording session. | Stream on Netflix
The Last Days
This Oscar-winning documentary recounts the harrowing stories of five Hungarian Jews who endured the horrors of the Holocaust and Hitler’s reign. | Stream on Netflix
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Montrail "Money" Brown, O.C. Brown, Bill Courtney (Actors)
Undefeated
An inspirational profile of an inner-city high school football team’s valiant effort to reach the school’s first-ever playoff game. | Stream on Netflix
American Factory
Roma
Oscar winner Alfonso Cuarón delivers a vivid, emotional portrait of a domestic worker’s journey set against domestic and political turmoil in 1970s Mexico. | Stream on Netflix
Mank
1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing wit and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish “Citizen Kane.” | Stream on Netflix
Period. End of Sentence.
In rural India, where the stigma of menstruation persists, women make low-cost sanitary pads on a new machine and stride toward financial independence.| Stream on Netflix
The White Helmets
As daily airstrikes pound civilian targets in Syria, a group of indomitable first responders risks their lives to rescue victims from the rubble. | Stream on Netflix
Icarus
In his Oscar-winning film, an American cyclist plunges into a vast doping scandal involving a Russian scientist — Putin’s most-wanted whistleblower. | Stream on Netflix
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