The 96th Academy Awards are rapidly approaching, which means you have a limited time to catch up on all of this year’s nominees. Luckily, just about all of them are available on streaming at this point, so from Poor Things to Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, you can watch it all. Observer has a list of all the nominees as well as predictions ahead of Hollywood’s biggest night, which takes place this Sunday, March 10th.
Emma Stone has had a career of varied roles, and Yorgos Lanthimos has made his fair share of weird movies, but none are as out there as their work in Poor Things. The movie revolves around Bella Baxter, a reanimated woman who must re-learn how to live her life. It’s a funny, feminist Frankenstein tale, packed with treatises on sex, autonomy and human nature. The film also features great supporting performances from the likes of Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe and Ramy Youssef. Poor Things streams on Hulu starting March 7th, and you can read Observer’s review here. Nominations: 11, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress
Most years, there’s one film that travels the long and winding road from Sundance to the Oscars, and Celine Song’s quietly beautiful Past Lives made the trek this time around. Breakout star Greta Lee plays Nora, a New York-based writer who still pines for the best friend she left back in South Korea as a child. This moving story about lost loves, be them romantic or platonic, is wholly original, without a single love triangle trapping in sight. Past Lives is streaming on Paramount with Showtime, and you can read Observer’s review here. Nominations: 2, for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay
Ridley Scott and his films are certainly no strangers to the Academy Awards, and the massive, bombastic Napoleon is no exception. This historical epic reimagines the life and times of Napoleon Bonaparte (Joaquin Phoenix), portraying his rise to political power and his complicated marriage to the aristocratic Joséphine (Vanessa........