Where to watch Oscar nominated films

It happens more and more often that the awards season knocks on our door and that most of us have not seen the nominated films and do not know where to find them. It applies to the David di Donatello, but it is also incredibly true for the Oscars, the most coveted recognition of cinema which loses spectators every year because it is now very clear that an ever-increasing slice of the public snubs the cinema to find refuge in streaming platforms, in series, in films that can be enjoyed comfortably from the sofa home. Not having seen the Oscar-nominated films – whose ceremony will be staged on the night between 12 and 13 March, visible in Italy on Sky – automatically puts us out of the magic circle of discussion, preventing us from explaining why we were rooting for a certain title instead of another and why our favorite actress deserved to get on stage at the Dolby Theater and show the Oscar to the photographers more than once other.

Retrieving the main films selected by the Academy and ready to battle it out on the most glittering night in Hollywood is, therefore, extremely crucial for cinephiles, but also for all those who have no intention of being caught unprepared by impressing their friends at the next dinner based of red wine and small talk, e we at Vanity Fair we are here to help you. From Everything Everywhere All at Oncethe film favorite to win the final after winning the SAG Award, to wonderful Tar which could, Michelle Yeoh permitting, give Cate Blanchett her third Oscar, passing through Elvis, one of the most talked about films of 2022, for the exciting Top Gun: Maverickone of the most successful sequels of the last twenty years, and for the far too underrated Blonde by Andrew Dominik, even finished among the nominees of the Razzie Awards, here’s where you can retrieve all the most important films in the running for the 2023 Oscars.

Top Gun: Maverick

Let’s face it: setting up a captivating and convincing sequel is practically impossible, which is why the operation attempted by Joseph Kosinski and Tom Cruise, who returned 36 years later in the role of the legendary and charming pilot Pete Mitchell, borders on a masterpiece. The film has, in fact, managed to convince everyone, both the public and the critics, competing for the Oscar for several categories, including Best Film (which will not win) and Best Adapted Screenplay.
WHERE TO SEE IT: the film is available on the platform Paramount+ come on Sky.

Elvis

Few films have managed to divide international critics like Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, who has chosen to tell the story of the King of Rock by embracing the artist’s entire life, from childhood to his death. Even if not everything worked out as it should have – Tom Hanks, for example, who got a Razzie nomination for worst actor thanks to the role of Elvis’s colonel-manager Tom Parker -, the thing that everyone agreed on is was undoubtedly the talent and charm of the young Austin Butler, nominated for best actor.
WHERE TO SEE IT: it’s available on all shopping platforms, from Chili to Apple, for a fee, and included on Infinity.

Aftersun

Charlotte Wells’ film is an intimate and complex portrait of the childhood of a little girl who, during a holiday in Turkey with her father, catches the first symptoms of an unease that at that moment she was too young to understand. Wonderful Paul Mescal, the actor launched by the series Normal People and ready to become a tout court star thanks to the sequel of Gladiator just ordered.
WHERE TO SEE IT: the film is available on MUBI

Blonde

Many have not understood it but, in our opinion, Andrew Dominik’s film inspired by the great novel by Joyce Carol Oates published by The Ship of Theseus presented in Venice is one of the most ruthless portraits of Marilyn Monroe that Hollywood has ever made. Great Ana De Armas who, unfortunately, will hardly be able to take home the Oscar.
WHERE TO SEE IT: on Netflix

Nothing new on the western front

It is the film that has hoarded awards at the BAFTA ceremony, the English Oscars, even if the critics and, above all, the public seem not to have noticed its existence. The German film directed by Edward Berger follows the story of Paul Bäumer, a young student who voluntarily enlists in the German imperial army and discovers, on the front, how desperate and terrible the reality of the First World War is.
WHERE TO SEE IT: the film, based on the novel of the same name by Erich Paul Remark, is available on Netflix.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Critics were divided over this Marvel sequel orphaned by its absolute protagonist Chadwick Boseman, who for us would have deserved the Oscar in absentia for his extraordinary performance in But Rainey’s Black Bottom. Hope, at this point, is all for Angela Bassett, who according to some could unleash her in the category of best supporting actress.
WHERE TO SEE IT: the film is available on Disney+.

The pupils

After failing Nostalgia by Mario Martone in the category of Best International Film – what was once called Best Foreign Film at the Oscars -, Italy competes at the Oscars for best short film thanks to the marvelous work by Alice Rohrwacher who, starting from a letter from Elsa Morante, puts standing a tender and at times cruel story with a cast that shines also thanks to Alba Rohrwacher and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.
WHERE TO SEE IT: is available on Disney+.

Argentina, 1985

The wonderful film directed by Santiago Miter is inspired by the true story of the prosecutors Julio Strassera and Luis Moreno Ocampo, who in 1985 dared to investigate and prosecute those responsible for the bloodiest phase of the Argentine military dictatorship. The result is a dramatic story with a splash of humor here and there that makes the film one of a kind.
WHERE TO SEE IT: is available on Prime Videos.

Pinocchio

Although it deviates far from the original plot written by Carlo Collodi, the motion picture version of this classic by Oscar-winning director Guillermo Del Toro is a very bitter reflection on life and on the relationship between parents and children that we really hope will bring home the ‘Oscar for best animated film.
WHERE TO SEE IT: on Netflix.

Oscar-nominated films in theaters

The spirits of the island

For us it is one of the best films ever released this year, which is why we really hope it takes home as many Oscars as possible – even if we fear that the heaviest one will win Everything Everywhere All at Once –. Let’s fall back, then, on the extraordinary and very powerful screenplay by director Martin McDonagh and, above all, on the interpretation of Colin Farrell who could finally win the first statuette of his career.

Everything Everywhere All at Once

After winning the SAG Award it seems certain that it will be this hipster version of a Marvel film that triumphs as best film of the year. Either for the originality of the plot, or for a promotional campaign that was accredited by the voters of the Academy thanks to the empathy and availability of the cast – Michelle Yeoh and Jamie Lee Curtis above all – and to the cleverness of the Daniels, the director duo.

Tar

Todd Field’s film is a surgical and biting portrait of the life of one of the most famous female conductors and composers of classical music, Lydia Tár, played brilliantly by Cate Blanchett who could be close to winning the third Oscar of her career.

The Whale

Darren Aronofsky’s dramatic and at times disturbing film had the merit of resurrecting the career of a forgotten actor like Brandan Fraser who, in the role of an obese homosexual man close to death, musters all the energy he has left to be close to his daughter teenager. If Hollywood likes stories of transformation and redemption so much, it would be the hope of many that Fraser would win the Oscar, but it is undoubtedly Colin Farrell who puts a spanner in his works.

The Fabelmans

Steven Spielberg’s most intimate and romantic film brought a tear to our eyes, and we really hope that more and more people will fall in love with Gabriel LaBelle, a Jewish actor who is absolutely perfect in lending the face of the director’s alter-ego, a rookie boy with a passion for the camera and for that fabulous and glittering world that is cinema.

Triangle of Sadness

If Ruben Östlund’s latest film, his first in English, manages to win the Oscar for best screenplay is certainly one of the most inviting bets of the most hardened cinephiles, fascinated by a film that has managed to represent to great effect and no holds barred the hypocrisies that pervade the rich and wealthy.

Avatar: the water way

It is likely that it will win the prizes in the technical categories, but it was still logical to expect to see the second chapter of the James Cameron saga at the Oscars, very close to the top of the highest box-office chart in the history of cinema, proving that the public is still willing to go in the living room to watch a story that would definitely miss if it were seen on the television at home.

Other Vanity Fair stories you may be interested in:

Oscars 2023: all the nominations (and there is also Italy)

Golden Globes 2023: all the winners

TÁR is magnificent and could be Cate Blanchett’s magnum opus

To receive the other cover of __Vanity Fair__(and much more), subscribe to Vanity Weekend.