How to Watch the Oscar Nominees Online Before It’s Too Late
If you want to get up to speed on this year’s impressive lineup of Academy Award–nominated films, you have just days left before the ceremony on March 2.
And you can do a lot of your watching online, without even a trip to video store.
Though not all of the pictures up for awards are legally available to stream online, there are plenty that you can see right now. At this second. While you’re at work. Check ’em out below.
(Please note: What you see below are not all the nominees of each category, just the ones that are available to stream. Check out the full list here.)
Best Picture
Captain Phillips: Watch it for $3.99 on Google Play or $4.99 on iTunes.
Dallas Buyers Club: Watch it for $4.99 on Google Play or $5.99 on iTunes.
Gravity: Watch it for $14.99 on Google Play or $19.99 on iTunes.
Nebraska:Watch it for $14.99 on Google Play, $14.99 on Amazon or $19.99 on iTunes.
12 Years a Slave: Watch it for $12.99 on Google Play, $14.99 on Amazon or $14.99 on iTunes.
Best Adapted Screenplay
Before Midnight: Watch it for $9.99 on Amazon.
Best Original Screenplay
Blue Jasmine: Stream it for $3.99 on Amazon.
Best Cinematography
The Grandmaster: Watch it for $3.99 on Amazon.
Prisoners: Watch it for $3.99 on Amazon.
Best Costume Design
The Grandmaster: Watch it for $3.99 on Amazon.
The Great Gatsby: Watch it for $3.99 on iTunes or $14.99 on Google Play.
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa: Buy it for $19.99 on iTunes or Google Play.
The Lone Ranger: Watch it for $4.99 on Amazon.
Best Original Song
Despicable Me 2: Watch it for $17.99 on iTunes or $4.99 on Google Play.
Best Production Design
The Great Gatsby: Watch it for $3.99 on iTunes or $14.99 on Google Play.
Best Visual Effects
The Lone Ranger: Rent it for $4.99 on Amazon.
Star Trek Into Darkness: Buy it for $14.99 on Amazon.
Iron Man 3: Buy it for $14.99 on Amazon.
Best Animated Feature
The Croods: Rent it for $4.99 on Google Play.
Despicable Me 2: Watch it for $17.99 on iTunes or $4.99 on Google Play.
Best Documentary Feature
The Act of Killing: Buy it for $12.99 on iTunes, rent it for $3.99 on Google Play, or stream it on Netflix.
Cutie and the Boxer: Stream it on Netflix, buy it for $14.99 on iTunes or rent it for $3.99 on Google Play.
Dirty Wars:Stream it on Netflix or rent it for $3.99 on Amazon.
The Square: Stream it on Netflix.
20 Feet from Stardom: Buy it for $14.99 on iTunes or rent it for $3.99 on Google Play.
Best Foreign Language Film
The Hunt: Stream it on Netflix or rent it for $3.99 on Amazon.
Best Animated Short
“Room on the Broom”: Buy it for $9.99 on iTunes.
Special thanks to canistream.it, where you can go to see more streaming options (including YouTube, Sony Entertainment Network, VUDU and the like). Now get watching.
This post is an updated version of a story that originally ran on Jan. 17.
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