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The nominees for the 92nd Academy Awards were announced Monday, with “Joker” leading the way with 11 nominations and “The Irishman,” “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” and “1917” receiving 10 apiece. “1917” is still early in its theatrical run, but those three others are all available to stream, along with two more best picture nominees and a host of contenders for best animated feature, international feature, documentary and other categories. There’s less than a month until the ceremony on Feb. 9. Here’s a complete rundown of where to find nominees that are streaming, with links to our original reviews.
Here’s what happened at the Oscar nominations announcement. See a list of nominees. These were the snubs and surprises.
Best Picture Nominees
‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’
Nominated for: Best picture, director, actor, supporting actor, original screenplay, cinematography, costume design, production design, sound editing and sound mixing.
How to watch: Rent it on iTunes, Amazon, Vudu, Google Play and YouTube.
Quentin Tarantino’s evocation of 1969 Los Angeles clings to an era it doesn’t want to end, even if it has to rewrite history a little to do it. With the story of a fading western star (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his trusty stunt double (Brad Pitt), Tarantino accesses the period through a side door, allowing him the space to cruise top-down through the streets, hang out on Hollywood sound stages and follow the actress Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie) in the blissful days before the Manson family goes to Cielo Drive.
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‘Parasite’
Nominated for: Best picture, director, original screenplay, international feature, editing and production design.
How to watch: Coming to iTunes, Amazon, Vudu and Google Play on Tuesday.
A family of penniless con artists infiltrates the lives of a much wealthier family in Bong Joon Ho’s genre-straddling mix of dark comedy, nerve-jangling suspense and incisive social commentary. The less known about the intricacies of the plot going in, the better, since Bong has nested the many twists so meticulously. But as the two families grow more closely intertwined, their fates are tied up in duplicity, an uneasy tension between classes and one very big secret that’s primed to detonate.
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‘The Irishman’
Nominated for: Best picture, director, adapted screenplay, supporting actor (twice), cinematography, costume design, editing, production design and visual effects.
How to watch: Stream it on Netflix.
Based on Charles Brandt’s book “I Heard You Paint Houses,” the movie is about Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro), who claims to have worked as a hit man for the Bufalino crime family, and to have been responsible for the unsolved disappearance of the former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino). Yet the dubious facts of Sheeran’s “confession” are folded into a uniquely meditative Martin Scorsese gangster epic, which slows the metabolism of films like “Goodfellas” and “Casino” to reflect on death and the consequences of a sinful life.
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‘Joker’
Nominated for: Best picture, director, actor, adapted screenplay, cinematography, editing, costume design, makeup and hairstyling, original score, sound editing, and sound mixing.
How to watch: Buy it on iTunes, Amazon, Vudu, Google Play and YouTube.
Standing in stark contrast to the bright, can-do heroism of the Marvel Cinematic Universe — and going down a darker road than even its DC brethren, like the Christopher Nolan “Batman” series — “Joker” frames a villain’s origins as a grimy tale of urban alienation. As Arthur Fleck, a failed stand-up comedian who lives with his mother, Joaquin Phoenix more or less slaps clown makeup on Travis Bickle from “Taxi Driver,” though the director Todd Phillips lays some of the blame for Fleck’s psychosis on a broken social system.
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‘Marriage Story’
Nominated for: Best picture, original screenplay, actor, actress, supporting actress and original score.
How to watch: Stream it on Netflix.
Thirty years after “Kramer vs. Kramer” won best picture, the writer-director Noah Baumbach gets into the excruciating particulars of divorce, especially when child custody is at stake. Adam Driver stars as a New York theater director who’s left reeling when his wife (Scarlett Johansson), an actress trying to resume her Hollywood career, hires a skilled attorney (Laura Dern) and works to resettle their 8-year-old son in Los Angeles. The process gets uglier from there, but Baumbach cushions the blows with humor and sneaky optimism.
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Other Major Nominees
‘Pain and Glory’
Nominated for: Best international feature and actor.
How to watch: Coming to iTunes, Amazon, Vudu and Google Play on Tuesday.
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‘The Two Popes’
Nominated for: Best actor, supporting actor and adapted screenplay.
How to watch: Stream it on Netflix.
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‘Harriet’
Nominated for: Best actress and original song.
How to watch: Coming to iTunes, Amazon, Vudu and Google Play on Tuesday.
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‘Judy’
Nominated for: Best actress, and makeup and hairstyling.
How to watch: Rent it on iTunes, Amazon, Vudu, Google Play and YouTube.
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‘How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World’
Nominated for: Best animated feature.
How to watch: Stream it on Hulu. Rent it on iTunes, Amazon, Vudu, Google Play and YouTube.
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‘I Lost My Body’
Nominated for: Best animated feature.
How to watch: Stream it on Netflix.
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‘Klaus’
Nominated for: Best animated feature.
How to watch: Stream it on Netflix.
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‘Missing Link’
Nominated for: Best animated feature.
How to watch: Stream it on Hulu. Rent it on iTunes, Amazon, Vudu, Google Play and YouTube.
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‘Toy Story 4’
Nominated for: Best animated feature.
How to watch: Rent it on iTunes, Amazon, Vudu, Google Play and YouTube.
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‘American Factory’
Nominated for: Best documentary.
How to watch: Stream it on Netflix.
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‘The Cave’
Nominated for: Best documentary.
How to watch: Coming to iTunes, Amazon, Vudu and Google Play on Tuesday.
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‘The Edge of Democracy’
Nominated for: Best documentary.
How to watch: Stream it on Netflix.
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‘For Sama’
Nominated for: Best documentary.
How to watch: Stream it on PBS.
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‘Honeyland’
Nominated for: Best documentary and international feature.
How to watch: Rent it on iTunes, Amazon, Vudu, Google Play and YouTube.
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‘The Lighthouse’
Nominated for: Best cinematography.
How to watch: Rent it on iTunes, Amazon, Vudu, Google Play and YouTube.
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