Feb 8
From 'The Brutalist' and 'Emilia Pérez' to 'Queer' and 'Wicked,' Where to Watch This Year's Top Awards Movies
READ TIME: 11 MIN.
"Porcelain War" (1 Oscar nomination): In limited theaters
This documentary film about life during wartime focuses on Slava Leontyev, a Ukrainian ceramicist, his wife Anya Stasenko, and their friend painter/filmmaker Andrey Stefanov.
"The Seed of the Sacred Fig" (1 Oscar nomination): In very limited theaters, on VOD on Feb. 18
Widely considered one of the best films of the year, this Cannes gem (and Germany's Oscar submission) is a political thriller and domestic drama about Iran's authoritarian regime.
"September 5" (1 Oscar nomination): In theaters
This film is a tick-tock account of how the sports reporters at ABC covered the Munich Olympics hostage crisis live in 1972. It got an original screenplay nod.
"Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat" (1 Oscar nomination): Streaming on Kanopy
This documentary nominee looks at the situation around the 1961 assassination of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba.