Tuesday, February 18th, 2025

Some are nomads, some are bloody games of poverty… 5 films on OTT, which created a stir at Oscars in the last 5 years

Nominations are being announced for the 97th Oscar Awards 2025. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has said that the Oscar nominations for 2025 will be announced on Thursday, January 23. Earlier this event was to be held on January 17, but it was postponed due to the fire in Los Angeles. This most prestigious award in the world of cinema has its own prestige. We Indians also hope that our films get nominations and awards in the ‘Best Foreign Language Feature’ category. However, today we will not talk about the Best Foreign Language films, but about those films which have received the ‘Best Picture’ award in the last 5 years. These are those films which won everyone’s hearts on the Oscar stage. The special thing is that these films are available on OTT and you can watch them sitting at home.

Oppenheimer – Geo Cinema

‘Oppenheimer’ was chosen Best Picture at the 96th Academy Awards. Directed by Christopher Nolan, the film is based on the life of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who helped develop the first nuclear weapon during World War II. The film is based on the 2005 biography ‘American Prometheus’ written by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. Killian Murphy plays the lead role of Oppenheimer in the film. Apart from this, she is also accompanied by Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek and Kenneth Branagh.

Held in the year 2024 oscar award‘Oppenheimer’ had received 13 nominations. The film won a total of 7 Oscar awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Cillian Murphy) and Best Supporting Actor (Robert Downey Jr.). Apart from this, this film has also received 5 Golden Globe Awards and 7 British Academy Awards. You can watch this film on OTT platform Jio Cinema.

Everything Everywhere Together – Sony Liv

‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ was chosen as the Best Picture at the 95th Oscar Awards for the year 2023. There is a lot in this film, released in the year 2022, which will surprise you. Made under the direction of Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, this film is not only a comedy-drama, it also has many elements like scientific-fantasy, martial arts, animation etc. Michelle Yeoh plays the role of Evelyn Kwan Wang in the film, who is a Chinese-American immigrant. During an IRS audit he/she learns that a powerful and dangerous being in the multiverse must be destroyed. he/she finds himself in several parallel universes simultaneously. The film also stars Stephanie Hsu, Ke Hui Kwan, Jamie Lee Curtis and James Hong.

This film received 11 nominations at the 95th Academy Awards, out of which it won 7. Apart from this, ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ also won 2 Golden Globe Awards, 5 Critics’ Choice Awards and a BAFTA Award. You can watch this film on OTT platform Sony LIV.

CODA – Apple TV

CODA has received the Best Picture trophy at the 94th Academy Awards for the year 2022. This is an excellent comedy-drama, whose writer-director is Cyan Hader. In the film, Emilia Jones plays the role of Ruby Rossi, the child of a deaf couple (CODA). Ruby is the only member of this family who can hear. She wants to become a singer. But amidst his/her desires is the family’s fishing business, which is sinking. The special thing is that the director has chosen deaf actors to play deaf characters in the film. he/she speaks with Emilia Jones using American Sign Language.

CODA received 3 nominations at the Oscar Awards and won all three. It received the awards for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay. This is the 7th film in the history of Oscar to achieve the feat of winning an award in every nomination. You can watch it on OTT on Apple TV.

Nomadland – Apple TV, Prime Video

American drama ‘Nomadland’ won the Best Picture award at the 93rd Oscar Awards. Its writer-director is Chloe Zhao. It is based on the 2017 non-fiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder. In the film, Frances McDormand plays a widow who leaves her life in Nevada and travels across America in her van as a nomad.

‘Nomadland’ received a total of 6 nominations at the 2021 Academy Awards. Out of these, it won 3 awards for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress. Chloé Zhao became the first Asian woman to receive the Oscar Award for Best Director. She is also the second woman director to win this trophy. You can watch this film on OTT on Apple TV and Prime Video.

Parasite – Sony Liv

Five years ago in 2020, ‘Parasite’ won the title of Best Picture at the 92nd Academy Awards. This is a great South Korean thriller-black comedy film. Bong Joon-ho is its director. Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yoo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik, Park So-dam, Jang Hye-jin, Park Myung-hoon and Lee Jung-eun have contributed their acting skills to the film. The story is about a poor family who intrudes into the lives of a rich family. This film also attacks greed and discrimination between rich and poor.

‘Parasite’ is the first non-English film to win the Oscar for Best Picture. Apart from this, it received a total of 4 Oscar awards including Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best International Feature Film. You can watch this film on OTT on Sony LIV.

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