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40+ Golden Globe Award-Winning Movies on Netflix

These Golden Globe award-winning movies on Netflix are part of a great list of movies to watch during awards season or any time of year. They’re only one genre of Award-Winning Movies on Netflix.

What Are the Golden Globe Awards?

“The Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association … recognizing excellence in film and television.

The annual ceremony at which the awards are presented is a major part of the film industry’s awards season, which culminates each year in the Academy Awards. (Source)

The Golden Globes are part of “awards season,” which kicks off with celebs who start partying on Thursday night and enjoy festivities leading up to the awards show, which airs live on Sunday night.

My friend Corinne at Wondermom Wannabe has a great list of Party AppetizersParty Bingo, and a list of Nominees if you want to make an event out of this with your family, too.

These Golden Globe Award-winning movies on Netflix include everything from comedy-drama, crime-drama, and romance to true stories. These are great selections to add to your Netflix list.

What better way to celebrate Golden Globes weekend than by binge-watching Netflix? All the titles listed are currently on Netflix, but that is subject to change without notice.

Golden Globe Award-Winning Movies on Netflix

Marriage Story

Marriage Story is a gripping film about Charlie and Nicole, a couple going through a bitter divorce. Written and directed by Noah Baumbach, the movie will stay with you long after the end credits roll. | Stream on Netflix

Django Unchained
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio (Actors)

Django: Unchained

Winner of 2 Academy Awards including Best Original Screenplay. With the help of his mentor, a slave-turned-bounty hunter sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal plantation owner. | Stream on Netflix

The Hateful Eight
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh (Actors)

The Hateful Eight

In The Hateful Eight, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth and his fugitive Daisy Domergue, race towards the town of Red Rock. | 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

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The Life Ahead

A Holocaust survivor running a daycare business forms an unlikely friendship with a bitter street kid when she takes him in after he robs her. | Stream on Netflix

Nocturnal Animals

Reading her ex-husband’s violent novel manuscript destabilizes gallery owner Susan’s life, upending her present while digging up their past. | Stream on Netflix

The Trial of the Chicago 7

What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.

Tick, Tick… Boom!

On the brink of turning 30, a promising theater composer navigates love, friendship, and the pressure to create something great before time runs out. | Stream on Netflix

Bodyguard

After helping thwart a terrorist attack, a war veteran is assigned to protect a politician who was the main proponent of the very conflict he fought in. | Stream on Netflix

I Care A Lot.

A court-appointed legal guardian defrauds her older clients and traps them under her care. | Stream on Netflix

The Queen’s Gambit

In a 1950s orphanage, a young girl reveals an astonishing talent for chess and begins an unlikely journey to stardom while grappling with addiction. | Stream on Netflix

Forrest Gump
  • 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

 

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

House of Cards

Betrayed by the White House, Congressman Frank Underwood embarks on a ruthless rise to power. Blackmail, seduction, and ambition are his weapons | Stream on Netflix

 

Breaking Bad - Season 01
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Vince Gilligan (Director) - Vince Gilligan (Producer)

Breaking Bad

Diagnosed with terminal cancer, a high school teacher tries to secure his family’s financial future by producing and distributing crystal meth. | Stream on Netflix

The Crown

Based on historical events, this series dramatizes the story of Queen Elizabeth II and the political and personal events that shaped her reign. | Stream on Netflix

How to Train Your Dragon 2
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett, Gerard Butler (Actors)

How to Train Your Dragon 2

Hiccup, Toothless, and a mysterious dragon rider join forces to protect the island of Berk from a power-hungry warrior with a dragon army of his own. | Stream on Netflix

To continue this unit study, check out the How to Train Your Dragon Movie Study.

Seinfeld - Season 02 [Digital]
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Tom Cherones (Director) - Andrew Scheinman (Producer)

Seinfeld

The “show about nothing” is a sitcom landmark, with comic Jerry and his three sardonic friends finding laughs in both the mundane and the ridiculous. | Stream on Netflix

The Blind Side
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Quinton Aaron (Actors)

The Blind Side

A teen without a home finds success on and off the football field after he’s taken in by a determined mom and her affluent family. | Stream on Netflix

Grey's Anatomy Season 1
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Rob Corn (Director)

Grey’s Anatomy

Guided by a skillful team of dedicated doctors, Meredith Grey and her fellow interns struggle with life-and-death decisions at Seattle Grace Hospital | Stream on Netflix

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Squid Game

Hundreds of cash-strapped players accept a strange invitation to compete in children’s games. Inside, a tempting prize awaits — with deadly high stakes. | Stream on Netflix

Schitt's Creek Season 1 (Uncensored)
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Eugene Levy, Daniel Levy, Catherine O'Hara (Actors)

Schitt’s Creek

Still stuck in Schitt’s Creek, Johnny pursues some unusual business ventures, while Moira plunges into the local scene, and the kids look for work. | Stream on Netflix

Jane The Virgin, Season 1
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Melanie Mayron (Director)

Jane the Virgin

After vowing to remain chaste until marriage, Jane Villanueva learns she’s pregnant due to a medical slip-up and has to rethink her future. | Stream on Netflix

Arrested Development

It’s the Emmy-winning story of a wealthy family that lost everything and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together. | Stream on Netflix

Titanic
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane (Actors)

Titanic

On a doomed luxury liner, first-class passenger Rose finds a love to last a lifetime when she falls for penniless artist Jack just as disaster strikes. | Stream on Netflix
30 Rock Season 1
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Tina Fey, Tracy Morgan, Jack McBrayer (Actors)

30 Rock

Liz Lemon juggles the demands of running an NBC sketch comedy show with trying to fix her disaster of personal life and eating her night cheese. | Stream on Netflix

Zero Dark Thirty
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Jessica Chastain, Mark Strong, Joel Edgerton (Actors)

Zero Dark Thirty

In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the decade-long hunt for Osama bin Laden drives a determined CIA agent to follow her intuition to find him. | Stream on Netflix

Steel Magnolias
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine (Actors)

Steel Magnolias

Six women in a small Southern town share gossip and solve problems at the local beauty parlor, anchoring each other through life’s ups and downs. | Stream on Netflix

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Season 1
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Neurotic lawyer Rebecca bumps into her high school boyfriend on the street and pursues him across the country on a misguided quest for true love. | Stream on Netflix

Something's Gotta Give
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton, Keanu Reeves (Actors)

Something’s Gotta Give

Charming sexagenarian Harry meets his match in playwright Erica when he has a heart attack at her beach house during a romantic romp with her daughter. | Stream on Netflix

The Kominsky Method: Season 1
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Michael Douglas, Alan Arkin, Sarah Baker (Actors)

The Kominsky Mcthod

Acting coach Sandy Kominsky and best friend Norman Newlander keep each other laughing as they navigate the ups and downs of getting older. | Stream on Netflix

Sherlock Holmes (2009)
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams (Actors)

Sherlock Holmes

The game is afoot for an eccentric detective who must use his brains and brawn to track down a nefarious nemesis with the help of his partner. | Stream on Netflix

The Departed
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson (Actors)

The Departed

Two rookie Boston cops are sent deep undercover — one inside the gang of a charismatic Irish mob boss and the other double-crossing his own department. | Stream on Netflix

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The Hateful Eight: Extended Version 

Trapped at a stagecoach stop as a storm rages outside, two bounty hunters and an outlaw face a gallery of rogues. Features never-before-seen footage.  | Stream on Netflix

Girl, Interrupted
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea Duvall (Actors)

Girl, Interrupted

After a breakdown, Susanna enters a mental institution against her wishes. Inside, she meets an irresistible patient who stirs up all kinds of trouble. | Stream on Netflix

The Fighter
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams (Actors)

The Fighter

To forge his own shot at greatness, a struggling boxer must overcome the will of his manager’s mother and the long shadow of his famous older brother. | Stream on Netflix

Guns of Navarone, The
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn (Actors)

The Guns of Navarone

During World War II, British forces launch an attack designed to take out the massive Nazi cannons that guard a critical sea channel.  | Stream on Netflix

Apocalypse Now
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen (Actors)

Apocalypse Now Redux

Reedited and remastered with 49 minutes of extra footage, this drama follows an Army captain’s risky mission into Cambodia to kill a renegade colonel. | Stream on Netflix

Argo (2012)
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin (Actors)

Argo

A CIA agent poses as the producer of a sci-fi film as part of an outrageously daring mission to rescue six American diplomats from Iran. | Stream on Netflix

Big Eyes
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Danny Huston (Actors)

Big Eyes

A shy artist struggles to step out of the shadow of her bombastic husband who passes off her exceptional work as his own. | Stream on Netflix

Vice
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Christian Bale (Actor)

Vice

With his formidable wife Lynne by his side, Dick Cheney gains power and shrewdly manipulates the U.S. vice presidency with explosive global consequences. | Stream on Netflix

Darkest Hour
  • Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
  • Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lily James (Actors)

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

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