All Quiet on the Western Front, Tár, RRR: Here's where to watch Oscar-nominated films online

Replete with spellbinding multiverses, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” topped the 95th Academy Awards nominations with 11 nods. Elsewhere, stories of friendship and family permeated 2022 cinema and the nominations this year, as did big-budget blockbusters.
Some of the nominated films are still in theatres but many are also available online to stream now. Here’s where you can find many of the movies vying for Oscar glory on March 12.

The A24-produced indie Everything Everywhere All at Once which earned 11 Oscar nominations, has been a critical success and crowd-pleaser since it came out last spring. The film is nominated for Best Picture and Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, Stephanie Hsu and Jamie Lee Curtis received nods for their performances. Yeoh, Quan and Hsu carry a mind-bending multiverse story about a Chinese American family’s disconnection and how they find each other again through the existence of other versions of themselves. The film is available for streaming on Paramount+ and available for digital renting.

Securing nine nominations, incuding Best Picture and nods for Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson and Kerry Condon, “The Banshees of Inisherin” tells a tale of the ebbs and flows of the friendship between Farrell’s Pádraic and Gleeson’s Colm while highlighting haunting Irish landscapes. It can be streamed on Disney+ Hotstar, HBO Max and rented on YouTube and Amazon.

All Quiet on the Western Front, an unflinching German-language adaptation of a classic antiwar novel about life and death in the World War I trenches, is nominated for best picture and a slew of 8 other Oscars. The film is available to stream on Netflix.

In Elvis, Baz Luhrmann’s vision transforms the relatively unknown former child actor Austin Butler into the King of Rock n Roll. The unconventional biopic which earned 8 nominations, tells the life of Elvis Presley from the perspective of his former manager, Colonel Tom Parker, played by Tom Hanks. Butler snagged a best actor nomination and the film received a nod for best picture and director. The film is available to stream on HBO Max, Prime Video and available for rent on YouTube.

Steven Spielberg’s most personal film yet documents the joys and ultimate perils that fragment the Fabelman family forever. In a love letter to film and his family, Spielberg allows viewers to see behind his passion for film and his search for the meaning of family and life. Spielberg is nominated for Best Director and his film is nominated for Best Picture, while Michelle Williams up for Best Actress. The 8-time nominated film is available to rent and purchase on Apple TV, Youtube and Amazon.

Cate Blanchett plays a renowned conductor, Lydia Tár. As the titular character, she is cunning, talented and on too high of a pedestal to fall — but she does. “Tár," which is nominated for Best Picture and Best Actress among five other categories, deals with the dichotomy between power and art and takes on the culture wars dominating politics and popular discourse. It is available for rent and purchase on Amazon and Apple TV and is streaming exclusively on Peacock.

Thirty-six years after the original, Top Gun: Maverick is nominated for Best Picture. Tom Cruise reprises his role as “Maverick,” taking on a leadership and mentor role for supporting cast members Miles Teller and Glen Powell. The film that is up for 6 Oscar nominations, is available on Paramount+ and Prime Video.

Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund has created a prickly social satire examining race, wealth, social class and inequality and secured a Best Director nomination among three other nods in the process. It stars the late Charlbi Dean and Harris Dickinson as a model/influencer couple who end up on a sponsored yacht trip with other wealthy guests. Chaos ensues when the yacht gets stuck in the middle of a storm and the guests end up on a deserted island. The film later focuses on maid-turned-ringleader Abigail, played by Dolly De Leon. The film is nominated for Best Picture and it is available to rent on YouTube, Apple TV and Amazon.

Brendan Fraser receives a Best Actor nod for his portrayal of Charlie, the 600-pound central character of The Whale. Charlie is a father, an English teacher and has terminal health issues that give him a life expectancy of a week. In that week, he attempts to bond with his estranged daughter. The film is based on and adapted from the off-Broadway play by Samuel D. Hunter and also earned a best supporting actress nod for Hong Chau. The film which is up for three Oscars this year, is available for purchase on YouTube and Amazon.

The decades-old child’s tale Pinocchio gets retold through the lens of Guillermo Del Toro's dark mind. Chipping away from the Disney musical, this on carves in themes of fascism, relationship and loss. The cast includes Christoph Waltz, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton and Ewan McGregor and it is nominated for Best Animated film. The film is available to stream on Netflix.

'Argentina, 1985' that is tipped to take the Best International Film award, establishes the 1985 Trial of the Juntas, a historic moment for Argentina that helped launch the country’s democratic future after seven years of military dictatorship. Director Santiago Mitre shaped the classic political thriller into a story about preserving history and the years it takes to receive justice. The film is available to stream on Prime Video.

S.S. Rajamouli’s three-hour maximalist action epic RRR that is one of the country's most expensive and top-grossing films of all time is up for an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song. The film stars N.T. Rama Rao Jr. and Ram Charan as revolutionaries fighting against the British colonialists in 1920. The film, topped Netflix’s streaming charts over the summer and is still available to watch there.