Early Monday morning, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed the nominees for the 2021 Oscars, with eight movies vying for Best Picture. The winners will be announced during the Oscars ceremony that airs on ABC on April 25. For many loyal Oscar viewers, who enjoy checking out all the Best Picture nominees before the show, this is typically crunch time. Gotta see all those movies to know who should win, who got snubbed, and who exactly plays The Father. (It’s Anthony Hopkins.)

This year will be the same in many respects, but, given the disruption of the movie business and number of nominees that debuted exclusively streaming services, watching all the nominees isn’t as simple as driving up to your local theatre or stopping at a video store. Most of the nominees are available online in some capacity, but some require subscription services while others can be purchased online (often at a lofty price point). To help you make sense of it all, we put together this guide of where to find each movie.

Is it on a streaming service? It is not streaming in Australia yet. You can still catch Judas and the Black Messiah in select theatres, namely HOYTS and Cinema Nova.
Is it available to rent? Not yet.
What we think of it: “From beautifully shot scenes to electrifying performances, there’s plenty to love about Judas and the Black Messiah. Daniel Kaluuya as Fred Hampton is brilliant, but you’ve probably been hearing that for months already. His ability to morph into Hampton is incredible.”
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Is it on a streaming service? Yes, Mank was released on Netflix on December 4.
Is it available to rent? No, Mank is not available to rent on Amazon, iTunes, YouTube, or other platforms. It’s only available on Netflix.
What we think of it: “To get frustrated at Mank for all its nostalgia would also miss the point of what David Fincher is doing with this story, which on its surface is a quasi-biopic of Herman Mankiewicz (played by Gary Oldman), the screenwriter behind the Orson Welles masterpiece, Citizen Kane. Fincher’s latest is ultimately a movie about myth-making and the miniscule lines that exist between art and propaganda.”
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Is it on a streaming service? No, Minari is not available to stream in Australia yet.
Is it available to rent? Yes, Minari is available to rent on Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube, and other VOD platforms
What we think of it: “Lee Isaac Chung centres a child’s perspective in his emotional epic Minari, about a Korean family who moves to Arkansas, but the effect goes so far beyond something like ‘childlike wonder.’ In his semi-autobiographical, 1980s-set tale, Chung uses his stand-in, 6-year-old David (played by the incredibly adorable Alan Kim), as a way to unearth the contradictions and conundrums of assimilation. David’s viewpoint infuses everything that follows and makes Minari not just a very special movie, but a very funny one as well.”
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Is it on a streaming service? No, Promising Young Woman is not available to stream.
Is it available to rent? Yes, Promising Young Woman is available to rent on Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube, and other VOD platforms.
What we think of it: “Promising Young Woman uses aesthetics that usually get written off for being too feminine to its wily advantage, but the movie is anything but soft. Director Emerald Fennell has made something that’s angry and borderline cruel. Underneath all the candy hues and catchy tunes, it offers gut punch after gut punch.”
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Is it on a streaming service? Yes, The Trial of the Chicago 7 was released on Netflix on October 16.
Is it available to rent? No, The Trial of the Chicago 7 is not available to rent; it’s only on Netflix.
What we think of it: “The Trial of the Chicago 7, which Aaron Sorkin both wrote and directed, is both pure, uncut Sorkin and very good. It’s material that perfectly fits his bombast, but in this context, it’s expertly deployed.”
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