Gallery: 10 Oscar-Nominated Movies You Can Stream Right Now
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__*Boyhood* (2014)__ All eyes (and bets) are on Richard Linklater’s coming-of-age game-changer for Best Picture, which also snared five other nominations. (Expand the gallery for full writeups and where the movies are streaming.)
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__*Nightcrawler* (2014)__ It's surprising that Jake Gyllenhaal was left out of the Best Actor race, given the 30 pounds he shed to become a sociopathic paparazzo. But while *Nightcrawler* isn’t an easy watch, it’s one of the year’s most compelling films, as evidenced by Gilroy’s Best Original Screenplay nod.
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__*Ida* (2014)__ Warsaw-born, Britain-based director Pawel Pawlikowski earned a rare double nomination for his film about a soon-to-be nun who must come to grips with her identity when she learns about buried family secrets related to the Holocaust.
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__*The Judge* (2014)__ Strong performances—especially the one that put Robert Duvall in the race for Best Supporting Actor—are really the only thing that stand out in this cliché-ridden story of a small town boy-turned-big city lawyer who comes home to investigate whether his estranged father (the titular judge) is indeed guilty of murdering a local scumbag.
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__*Virunga* (2014)__ Streaming giant Netflix continues to prove it has the clout to dominate all forms of entertainment with this politically-charged documentary, produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, about the park rangers who risk their lives to protect the endangered mountain gorillas who call Africa’s Virunga National Park home.
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__*Gone Girl* (2014)__ Ben Affleck’s manhood may have nabbed most of the headlines in the early press for David Fincher’s adaptation of Gillian Smith’s bestselling marital mystery, but it’s former Bond Girl Rosamund Pike who's responsible for the film’s sole nomination (Best Leading Actress).
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__*Last Days in Vietnam* (2014)__ Rory Kennedy’s engrossing and often troubling documentary chronicles the American soldiers who risked their lives—and the possibility of being charged with treason—to help more than 135,000 South Vietnamese allies escape in the 24 hours leading up to the fall of Saigon.
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__*Finding Vivian Maier* (2014)__ One of the world's great street photographers lived and worked in obscurity; then, in 2007, pieces of her work were discovered in Chicago by historian John Maloof, who co-directed and produced this investigation of her life with Charlie Siskel.
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__*Begin Again* (2014)__ Writer-director John Carney proved that he could mix music and romance in Oscar-winning ways with 2006’s *Once*, and now he's putting that formula to the test.
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__*The Grand Budapest Hotel* (2014)__ Wes Anderson’s latest ode to quirky characters and pastel colors is co-leading the Oscar pack—alongside Alejandro González Iñárritu’s *Birdman*—with nine nominations.
