The Best Picture Nominee’s and How to Watch Them
The Oscars are coming up and that means that a few films will have the chance to be crowned “Best Picture”.
Does that really mean whatever movie wins is the best movie of the year, probably not. Actually almost certainly not, but more often than not the film that does end up taking that crown is at least a good movie. Not always, but the vast majority of times.
That being said, the nominee’s for Best Picture are almost always a list of films that people should seek out and watch. Lots of these movies tell great stories in unique and interesting enough ways to convince you that movies are in fact not a dying art form doomed to be endlessly pillaged by companies like Disney and we are far from a world where the only movies that we see are superhero flicks. So I’ve complied a list of the nominee’s and and how you might watch them. I plan on watching all of them over the next month, and I highly recommend people watch at least a few of them. Don’t be like me and feel obligated to watch them before The Oscars though, you can hold off for a bit and wait to find out which ones you actually want to see, maybe your favorite film dork will give you recommendations for what to see? Who knows.
All of the best picture nominee’s can be seen in theaters so if that is your prefered method of movie watching and it’s safe to do so you can check your local listings for showtimes.
The easy to access ones.
Sound of Metal I The Trial of the Chicago 7 I Mank I Nomadland
These four nominees are available on popular streaming services and only require you to have a current subscription to said service. The Trial of the Chicago 7 and Mank are available for viewing on Netflix and since that is the most popular streaming service they should be the easiest to watch, unfortunately my gut instinct is that they’re both the least likely to be worthwhile films to even see, but make of that what you will.
Sound of Metal is available for Amazon Prime users, and due to the popularity of Prime I assume that makes this the next easiest to see.
Nomadland is available for Hulu subscribers, so non US based viewers… Tough break, maybe try a VPN?
Easy, but more expensive access
Promising Young Woman I The Father I Minari
These nominees are all still accessible online currently, but require you to pay for the rental or purchase of them before you can watch. Promising Young Woman is available on most platforms for the fairly affordable price of $5.99 for rental. Minari likewise can be found on most platforms, but requires you to put up $19.99 for the rental. The Father is only accessible on Amazon Prime and requires a payment of 19.99 for a rental making it the most difficult to access in this tier.
Only in theatres
Out of the 8 best picture nominated films this year, Judas and the Black Messiah is the only one that is not yet available for online viewing, so you’ll have to venture out of your house if you want to watch it. That also means I can point you in a simple direction to find it, it’s up to your local theatres to actually be showing it and for more rural movie goers finding theaters carrying Judas and the Black Messiah may prove to be a challenge. It should be available online in the near future though so sit tight if you are living in a high risk area for Covid.
So there is where you can find all of this years best picture nominees, as to if you should see them, well I’m working on that ok? I have things to do outside of talk about movies ya know?
