From Frankenstein (2025) to Call Me By Your Name (2017), here are the best Oscar winning movies streaming on Netflix.
When Guillermo del Toro first tried to get Frankenstein made, Hollywood said no. For decades, the project sat in development hell—too dark, too expensive, too strange. He made Pan’s Labyrinth, The Shape of Water, Pinocchio, and won Oscars along the way. Then Netflix said yes. The result is one of the finest films of 2025, and it leads a remarkable slate of Oscar-winning movies currently streaming on the platform.
The 98th Academy Awards ceremony was a night of surprises, emotional speeches, and memorable moments. As always, there were a few upsets and snubs, along with some well-deserved wins. But that conversation is for another day. For now, let’s count down some of the best Oscar-winning (and nominated) movies available for streaming from the comfort of your couch.
With so much to choose from, the selection can feel overwhelming. So, we’ve done the work for you, curating some of the best, across genres and eras. A few are familiar. Some are overlooked. One—Train Dreams —didn’t win a single Oscar despite four nominations, but we’ve included it anyway. From Alfonso Cuarón’s deeply personal Roma to Wes Anderson’s pocket-sized masterpiece The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, from the brutal trenches of All Quiet on the Western Front to the sun-drenched Italian summer of Call Me By Your Name, the lineup has something for all movie fiends.
Note: These Oscar-winning films were streaming on Netflix as of March 22, 2026. So get watching before they disappear.
Best Oscar Movies on Netflix
1. Frankenstein (2025)
Guillermo del Toro has spent his entire career arguing that monsters are where cinema, at its most unguarded, tells the truth. That the creatures society rejects reveal more about human nature than the people doing the rejecting. Frankenstein is that argument made flesh. Oscar Isaac plays Victor as a man undone not by ambition but by vanity, a scientist so consumed by the need to prove himself to a world that doubts him, that he forgets to consider what he owes to what he creates. Jacob Elordi’s Creature, assembled from the bodies of soldiers and condemned to regeneration, unable to die, is something genuinely new: terrifying and heartbreaking in the same breath, a figure whose tragedy is not that he was made, but that he was made and then abandoned. Del Toro has been trying to make this film for decades. The wait, it turns out, was worth every year.
3 Oscars: Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling
2. Train Dreams (2025)
With four Oscar noms and sadly no wins, Train Dreams is our only exception to this list and strongly recommended. Clint Bentley’s poignant adaptation of Denis Johnson’s novella follows Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton), a day laborer who builds railroads in the early 20th-century Pacific Northwest. Spanning decades, it traces a life shaped as much by love and loss as by a world steadily shifting around him.
Unhurried and deeply felt, Train Dreams asks only that its audience sit with it. Edgerton gives one of his most restrained and affecting performances—weathered, inward, and rich with what remains unsaid. Cinematographer Adolpho Veloso frames the vast, open landscapes with breathtaking beauty, making Robert’s solitude feel simultaneously immense and intimate.
4 Oscar Nominations: Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Original Song
3. The Only Girl in the Orchestra (2024)
A pioneering female musician navigates the rigid, male-dominated world of classical music. The documentary unfolds with quiet intensity, chronicling the journey of a woman breaking into a space where she was never meant to belong. The film doesn’t rely on grand speeches or forced drama; instead, it lets the weight of exclusion settle in the pauses, in the glances exchanged between musicians, in the rehearsals where her presence is an anomaly.
The storytelling is restrained but effective, capturing both the isolation of being the first and the quiet defiance required to stay. Archival footage, personal reflections, and intimate concert moments blend seamlessly, allowing the subject’s experience to speak for itself.
1 Oscar: Best Documentary Short Film
4. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023)
Wes Anderson’s The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar is a meticulously crafted, self-aware adaptation of Roald Dahl’s short story. Benedict Cumberbatch plays Henry Sugar, a wealthy man who learns to see without using his eyes—first for profit, then for something greater. Anderson’s signature style is on full display: static framing, deadpan delivery, and sets that shift like pages turning in a book.
Dev Patel, Ben Kingsley, and Ralph Fiennes fit perfectly into this finely tuned world. At just 39 minutes, the film is both playful and reflective, a meditation on greed and transformation wrapped in dazzling, storybook-like visuals. A small film with big ideas, that lingers.
1 Oscar: Best Live Action Short Film
5. Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022)
Pinocchio, the classic 1883 story by Carlo Collodi, has had numerous cinematic adaptations. But most versions boasted a light-hearted adventurous tone. Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio is darker and transplants the tale to Mussolini’s Italy. The stop-motion animated version, as usual, follows the adventures and struggles of the magical wooden boy Pinocchio, who is brought to life by toymaker Geppetto.
Pinocchio is one of Del Toro’s passion projects. Apart from painstakingly conceiving each frame of this stop-motion brilliance, Del Toro excels in balancing the joyous and melancholic tone.
1 Oscar: Best Animated Feature
6. All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
German filmmaker Edward Berger’s All Quiet on the Western Front is less an adaptation than a brutal, unrelenting plunge into the horrors of war. Based on Erich Maria Remarque’s 1929 novel, the film follows Paul (Felix Kammerer), an eager young recruit who, like so many of his generation, is seduced by visions of heroism and patriotism. Lying about his age, he enlists, swept up in the feverish nationalism of wartime Germany.
Reality, of course, has other plans. What follows is an excruciating descent into the trenches, where idealism is shredded as quickly as the bodies around him. Berger stages war not as a grand spectacle but as a cold, mechanical process of destruction, where soldiers are swallowed whole by mud, metal, and despair. The production design and cinematography reinforce this bleakness. Every frame is soaked in a palette of ashen grays and deep browns, trapping us alongside Paul in a world stripped of glory.
4 Oscars: International Feature, Cinematography, Original Score, Production Design
7. The Power of the Dog (2021)
Written and directed by Jane Campion and adapted from Thomas Savage’s 1967 eponymous novel, this cerebral, psychological drama traces the transformation of a maker of paper flowers, a gentle spirit, an effeminate whipping boy, a surgeon in the making and a protector of his mother into a top dog.
Profoundly nuanced, The Power of the Dog rises beyond its cinematic canvas. It is a deep, psychological exploration of our basic underpinnings, our raw, unrequited desires and our inability to deal with them, and our seeking of deliverance. The film nabbed a whopping 12 Oscar nominations, winning only one.
1 Oscar: Best Director
8. If Anything Happens I Love You (2020)
Some films tell a story; others leave a bruise. In just 12 devastating minutes, this Oscar-winning animated short distills grief to its rawest, most unshakable form—a portrait of two parents navigating the hollow, echoing space left behind by their daughter, a victim of a school shooting.
The animation is stark and restrained—no elaborate detail, no distracting flourish. The absence of color mirrors the absence that now defines these parents’ lives. No words are spoken, and none are needed. The pain is in the movement, the silence, the empty spaces.
This isn’t a film about politics or policy. It’s about the void left behind, the way time warps around grief, stretching endlessly while refusing to let go.
1 Oscar: Best Animated Short Film
9. My Octopus Teacher (2020)
The bond between a human and another sentient being takes tenderness to a subliminal level. It explores the limits of your sensitivity and fills you with a warm afterglow that refuses to go away.
One of the most fascinating documentaries that I have seen in a long, long time, My Octopus Teacher is an astonishing and elevating tale of a filmmaker’s friendship with an octopus that’s replete with many enduring life lessons.
This superlative and surreal documentary took about ten years to make and is brilliantly shot by underwater cameraman Roger Horrocks who makes the treasures of the ocean come alive.
My Octopus Teacher is not a film. It is a life-affirming force that will impact you so profoundly that a part of you deep within will change forever.
1 Oscar: Best Documentary Feature
10. Roma (2018)
This is the story of Mexico City in the 1970s, of Cuaron’s childhood and the maid that brought him up, and the sisterhood of two women, even with the attendant hierarchy of class, who realize that they are ultimately alone in this world. Roma is an absolute classic that will grow on you. Like vine and slow time.
Initially I was unnerved by its tepid pace and ultra-realistic unfolding but once you get the design, you begin to appreciate the subtle and sublime touches that draw you in. At once mellow, at once intense, it feels like real life and is languorously and aesthetically shot.
3 Oscars: Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Foreign Language Film
11. Call Me By Your Name (2017)
Luca Guadagnino’s splendid adaptation of André Aciman’s novel revolves around 17-year old Elio Perlman (Timothee Chalamet). The narrative unfolds in Northern Italy during the summer of 1983. The Perlman family is spending the vacation at their villa. Soon, the sensitive Elio falls in love with a handsome American college graduate Oliver (Armie Hammer), who is hired as his archaeologist professor father’s research assistant.
Apart from Chalamet and Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg’s performance as Elio’s father is a real stand-out.
Towards the end, Stuhlbarg delivers a magnificent speech to Chalamet’s Elio about romance, attraction, and parental love. The film promises warm moments while detailing the tranquility and agony of first love.
1 Oscar: Best Adapted Screenplay
12. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Inglourious Basterds will always have a special place in my heart. It was the first Tarantino film I ever watched as a young, adolescent teen. At the time, it confused me when Tarantino decided to change the course of history with this movie; today I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Tarantino managed to take two of the most tragic, horrifying moments in human history, World War II and the Holocaust and mold them in his own fun, bloody vision. All the props go to Christoph Waltz who stole the show with his performance of ‘The Jew Hunter’, Hans Landa.
1 Oscar: Best Supporting Actor (Christoph Waltz)
13. The Aviator (2004)
Howard Hughes built empires and then slowly lost his mind inside them. Scorsese’s biopic catches him at the height of both—the movies, the planes, the power—and watches the unraveling with quiet, unblinking attention. DiCaprio, in his second collaboration with Scorsese, doesn’t play Hughes as a cautionary tale. He plays him as a man who genuinely cannot help himself, which is a far more unsettling thing to watch. To prepare, DiCaprio spent time with someone living with OCD and with actress Jane Russell, who had worked with the real Hughes. The research shows. The OCD sequences, particularly the film’s closing moments, are less performance than possession. It earned DiCaprio his first lead-role Oscar nomination, though he ultimately lost to Jamie Foxx. One of the great acting performances of its decade, still underrated.
5 Oscars: Best Supporting Actress, Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Art Direction
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1 Oscar: Best Original Screenplay
Conclusion
There we are! If you’re done with these, watch Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story (2019) and David Fincher’s Mank (2020). And if you’re looking ahead, Yorgos Lanthimos’s darkly comic Bugonia, starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons, lands on Netflix on April 26, 2026.
