Now’s the time to brush up on your World War I history. All Quiet on the Western Front has been nominated for 9 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best International Feature Film. Edward Berger’s German-language adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s 1929 novel joins Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, The Sea Beast, BARDO (A False Chronicle and a Handful of Truths), Blonde, The Elephant Whisperers and The Martha Mitchell Effect as this year’s Netflix nominees for the 95th Academy Awards. 

Haven’t had a chance to watch? Don’t sweat it. The ceremony airs March 12 at 5 PM PST/8 PM EST so you’ve got plenty of time to catch up on your viewing. Ahead, you can find all the 2023 Oscar-nominated movies streaming on Netflix, with a handy guide to the categories they’ll be competing in. Envelope, please!

All Quiet on the Western Front

 

Nominated for: Best Sound, Best Original Score, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best International Feature Film, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Production Design, Best Cinematography, Best Visual Effects, Best Picture

Summary: When 17-year-old Paul joins the Western Front in World War I, his initial excitement is soon shattered by the grim reality of life in the trenches. 

Edward Berger’s adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s 1929 novel of the same name marks the first reimagining of this story by a German director. “Our view of war is dominated by sorrow and shame, by devastation and guilt,” he told Netflix. Nothing positive remains, not the tiniest spark of heroism. I found making our history, our background and our attitude to war the driving force behind a film a great challenge. And I thought that this very specific German perspective may well be of interest to people in other countries too. Especially at the moment.” 

In February, All Quiet on the Western Front won a record-breaking 7 BAFTAs, including best picture, beating out Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon for the most awards received by a foreign language film. 

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All Quiet on the Western Front

2h 28m   R   2022

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Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

 

Nominated for: Best Animated Feature Film  

Summary: Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro reinvents the classic story of a wooden puppet brought to life in this stunning stop-motion musical tale that took more than two years to film. 

“Guillermo had always wanted to make Pinocchio, but he didn’t want to do the Pinocchio we’ve all seen before,” character animator Georgina Hayns told Tudum. “He was looking for a new take.” 

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Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

2h 1m   PG   2022

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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

 

Nominated for: Best Adapted Screenplay

Summary: World-famous detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) heads to Greece to peel back the layers of a mystery surrounding a tech billionaire and his eclectic crew of friends. 

While penning the screenplay for this sequel to Knives Out, director Rian Johnson looked to Agatha Christie, the grand dame of murder mysteries, for inspiration. “Every single time, she found a way into [the whodunit] that felt unique and fresh, and you could tell it was challenging her creatively,” he previously told Tudum.

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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

2h 21m   PG-13   2022

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BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

 

Nominated for: Best Cinematography

Summary: An acclaimed journalist and documentarian goes on an epic introspective journey to reconcile with the past, the present and his identity. Academy Award–winning director Alejandro G. Iñárritu takes the audience on an unconventional deep dive into one man’s psyche in his first film since The Revenant.  

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BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

2h 39m   R   2022

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Blonde

 

Nominated for: Best Actress in a Leading Role

Summary: This fictional portrait of Marilyn Monroe (Ana de Armas) boldly reimagines the tumultuous private life of the Hollywood legend — and the price she paid for fame.

De Armas gave her all to this difficult and demanding performance — so much so that she started dreaming of the Hollywood legend at night. Her goal in inhabiting Marilyn was to show a side of her that the public hadn’t seen before.

“What’s interesting was deconstructing that character of Marilyn Monroe and talking about the woman that she was and what she was feeling when those iconic moments were happening,” de Armas told Tudum. “That’s what the movie’s trying to do. It’s going through all these images that we have so integrated and memorized and giving them a whole different meaning, reinterpreting what was going on for her.”

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Blonde

2h 47m   NC-17   2022

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The Sea Beast

 

Nominated for: Best Animated Feature Film

Summary: When a young girl stows away on the ship of a legendary sea monster hunter, they launch an epic journey into uncharted waters — and make history to boot. Get to know the movie’s scene-stealing cutie, Blue, in this exclusive interview. 

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The Sea Beast

1h 59m   PG   2022

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The Martha Mitchell Effect

Nominated for: Best Documentary Short Film

Summary: This documentary profiles the Cabinet wife who spoke out during Watergate — and the Nixon administration’s campaign to gaslight her into silence. Learn the true story, 50 years later. 

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The Martha Mitchell Effect

0h 40m   PG   2022

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The Elephant Whisperers

Nominated for: Best Documentary Short Film 

Summary: Bomman and Bellie, a couple in south India, devote their lives to caring for an orphaned baby elephant named Raghu, forging a family like no other.

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0h 41m   PG   2022

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