Ahead of Sunday’s
Academy Awards ceremony, judge for yourself from this year’s nominated films – nearly all of which are available to watch online
After the most arduously stretched-out awards season in history, the long-delayed Academy Awards will finally be handed out this weekend – and with them will come the annual commentary over their relevance (or not) to the filmgoing (or not) public. Oscar producers are bracing themselves for all-time low TV ratings, we are told, due to limited audience awareness of this year’s low-key crop of nominees.
Yet for those interested, it’s never been easier to do Oscar catchup viewing: all but four of the 40-odd features nominated for a golden statuette this year are available to watch online. Nomadland, Chloé Zhao’s ravishing best picture frontrunner, will join their ranks on Friday when it lands on Disney+, but in its absence, Mubi is streaming Zhao’s beautiful, formative docufiction debut Songs My Brothers Taught Me as useful prep work.