These Oscar-winning movies on Netflix are great to watch during Oscars weekend or any time of year. These Academy Award-winning movies on Netflix won awards for sound, costume design, makeup, music, and the Best Picture. They're only one genre of Award Winning Movies on Netflix.
The Oscars is a nickname for The Academy Awards, an annual American awards ceremony hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements in the United States film industry as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.
The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially called the Academy Award of Merit, which has become commonly known by its nickname “Oscar.” (Source)
The upcoming ceremonies are set to take place on February 28, 2021, and February 27, 2022.
The weekend known as “Oscars weekend” 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 Oscar Party Appetizers, Oscar Party Bingo, and a list of Oscar Nominees if you want to make an event out of this with your family, too.
These Academy 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 Oscars weekend than by binge-watching Netflix?
All the titles listed are currently on Netflix, but that is subject to change without notice.
18 OSCAR-WINNING MOVIES ON NETFLIX
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway (Actors)
My Fair Lady
When a Cockney flower girl takes elocution lessons from an aloof professor, he decides to introduce her to high society, transforming both their lives. | Stream on Netflix
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, James Franco (Actors)
Milk
Businessman and activist Harvey Milk fights the system — and becomes a target — as he makes history as California's first openly gay elected official. | Stream on Netflix
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Heath Ledger (Actors)
The Dark Knight
Billionaire Bruce Wayne must once again don the cape of his alter ego, Batman, when Gotham is threatened by new foes such as Catwoman and Bane. | Stream on Netflix
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh (Actors)
The Hateful Eight
Years after the Civil War, a bounty hunter and his captive are waylaid by a Wyoming blizzard and hole up in a way station with six dicey strangers.| Stream on Netflix
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Dances with Wolves
On the frontier, a Civil War soldier bonds with a Sioux tribe and adapts to their way of life, becoming their ally amid growing threats. | Stream on Netflix
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, 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
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio (Actors)
DJANGO
Accompanied by a German bounty hunter, a freed slave named Django travels across America to free his wife from a sadistic plantation owner. | Stream on Netflix
Marriage Story
Oscar-nominee Noah Baumbach directed this haunting and compassionate portrait of a family that sticks together despite an imploding marriage. | Watch on Netflix
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- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway (Actors)
Les Miserables
The musical version of Victor Hugo's epic tale of love and sacrifice, first produced for the stage in 1985, receives the big-screen treatment. | Stream on Netflix
Fiddler on the Roof
This adaptation of the musical chronicles the trials of a Jewish peasant, his wife, and their three strong-willed daughters in pre-revolutionary Russia. | Stream on Netflix
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- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Mwako Cumbuka, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco (Actors)
Moonlight
In a crime-infested Miami neighborhood, a gay African-American boy with a drug-addicted mother grows up with the help of a mentoring drug dealer. | Watch on Netflix
The Iron Lady
Margaret Thatcher, the first female prime minister of Britain, navigates a career destined to change the rules of leadership and politics. | Watch on Netflix
Mudbound
Two Mississippi families — one black, one white — confront the brutal realities of prejudice, farming and friendship in a divided World War II era. | Watch on Netflix
On Body and Soul
Two shy and socially awkward co-workers in Budapest form a special bond through a mysterious mystic connection that manifests in a dream. | Watch 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. | Watch on Netflix
Heroin(e)
This Oscar-nominated film follows three women — a fire chief, a judge and a street missionary — battling West Virginia's devastating opioid epidemic. | Watch on Netflix
Strong Island
The forces of family, grief and racial injustice converge in this Oscar-nominated documentary exploring the murder of filmmaker Yance Ford's brother. | Watch on Netflix
Undefeated
An inspirational profile of an inner-city high school football team's valiant effort to reach the school's first-ever playoff game. | Watch on Netflix
More Award-Winning Movies on Netflix
- Golden Globe Award Winning Movies on Netflix – The Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association … recognizing excellence in film and television.
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Tamanish
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