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Netflix has pull in nine Oscar nomination for Best Picture since 2018 , but some of its awards - season rival are more suitable than others . The well out service of process ’s late glut of Academy Award nominations shows how they have developed their production branch over the years . Netflix ’s movies are beginning to grow in both influence and critical acclaim . They are yet to bring home the bacon the Oscar for Best Picture , but they have several other notable wins , let in Best Director and Best Foreign Language Film . Netflix has another contender in2024 ’s Best Picture Oscar airstream , althoughMaestrois a long snap for the ultimate prize .
The salmagundi of Netflix ’s best movies is staggering . Their Oscar candidate so far include a court dramatic event , a German war movie and a Western . Netflix is responsible for some of the most interesting original concepts in late years , and some howling adaptation of pop books too . Their record with original pic has been patchy , but their best deeds can stand shoulder - to - shoulder with any of the most critically - spat motion picture of the last few years . Netflix has n’t come through an Academy Award for Best Picture after nine nominations , but the cyclosis service will eventually win big if it proceed investing in large filmmakers .
Between military action - pack adventures , dramas , and comedy — all of which star A - list actors — , here are Netflix ’s most - watched moving picture of all time .
9Don’t Look Up (2021)
4 nominations.
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Adam McKay first spring up to prominence for his funniness partnership with Will Ferrell , and earn just as many plaudits by shifting train withThe Big ShortandVice . Do n’t Look Upis his endeavour to blend these two disparate styles in a way , using some cracking moments of farcical drollery to lampoon the political response to clime modification . Don’t Look Up ’s huge star - studded castpresents a hybridisation - section of a guild which ca n’t seem to awaken up to the reality of its impending day of reckoning . Don’t reckon Upis a frightened yell into the abyss , and McKay ’s disbelief face a blunt satire .
8The Trial Of The Chicago 7 (2020)
6 nominations.
Aaron Sorkin is most famous as a screenwriter , andThe Trial of the Chicago 7is one of just three movies he has also directed . Sorkin impart his negotiation and his actors a great platform to succeed . Sacha Baron Cohen is superb as counterculture revolutionary Abbie Hoffman , but he is n’t the only large performing artist in the cast . The Trial of the Chicago 7has been assault from both side of the political gangway for its portraiture of a real - life trial run , but the controversy only highlights Sorkin ’s message that America has historically clamber with the ramifications of gratuitous speech .
7Maestro (2023)
7 nominations.
Netflix ’s Best Picture contender this year has been wide hail as a display case for Bradley Cooper ’s gift as both an actor and theatre director , but Carey Mulligan is just as vital toMaestro ’s entreaty . Maestrois the biopic of American composer Leonard Bernstein , a man whose life was fill up with contradiction . Cooper ’s direction paint these contradiction in terms in broad cam stroke , using different facet ratio and colors to delineate between different chapters in Bernstein ’s life . Through it all , Cooper ’s love of Bernstein ’s music colors the intact picture . It ’s unlikely to win Best Picture this year , butMaestro ’s orchestral scenesare deserving watching .
6Mank (2020)
10 nominations. Winner of Best Cinematography and Production Design.
Mankis David Fincher ’s stylized retelling of the writing process forCitizen Kane . The story of Herman Mankiewicz grow one of the bully screenplays of all metre in a bedridden delirium has entered into Hollywood caption , even if it is n’t technically accurate . irrespective of its veracity , Mankis an entertaining peep behind the mantle of Hollywood ’s Golden Age . David Fincher ’s father spell the script forMankbefore his destruction , so the film is a labor of passion for the music director . Fincher use some of the hallmarks of Orson Welles in his shot composition and dramatic ignition .
5Marriage Story (2019)
6 nominations. Winner of Best Supporting Actress for Laura Dern.
LikeThe Squid and the Whale , Noah Baumbach’sMarriage Storydissects a divorce with forensic attention to contingent . The film begins with the knowledge that everything is going to terminate bitingly , but there are still reminders of the disco biscuit of passion . Even in courtrooms as clinical as doctor ’s offices , Baumbach injects the warmth of human connection , or the memory of it . Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson are both on top of their game , and they carry visually straight fit with the sheer power of their mien . They are credible both as lover and as adversaries .
4The Irishman (2019)
10 nominations.
Martin Scorsese ’s straggle mob biopicThe Irishmandrew hatful of attention for its radical use of CGI to permit its actors to play the same lineament at different ages . Over the decades , The Irishmanunfolds a compelling story of a motortruck number one wood who becomes a triggerman for the Italian mafia . There are here and now of great comedy , especially in Al Pacino ’s performance as Jimmy Hoffa , butThe Irishmanis mainly a tragedy about give way up an entire lifetime in service and receiving nothing in payoff . The Irishmanis Scorsese without any limits , although its 209 - minute runtime can be off - putt to some .
The digital Delaware - aging of the roll is a criticized facet of The Irishman , but it amplifies the primary themes of Scorsese ’s biographic crime dramatic play .
3All Quiet On The Western Front (2022)
9 nominations.
All Quiet on the Western Frontis the first German - language adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque ’s seminal World War I novel , and it translates the book ’s anti - war themes beautifully . All Quiet on the Western Frontfollows real eventswith a few fictional element , particularly in the characters . The battlefield scenes are filled with jaw - dropping effects , butsome ofAll Quiet on the Western Front ’s most powerful second take billet away from the trenches . One particularly haunting sequence follows soldier ’s uniform as they are strip from numb body on the battlefield , clean , mended , and sent back out for the young recruits .
2The Power Of The Dog (2021)
12 nominations. Winner of Best Director for Jane Campion.
The Power of the Doglooks like a Western , but such a rigid compartmentalisation endangerment obscuring its true nature as a grip psychological play . Benedict Cumberbatch and Jesse Plemons both deliver grotesque performances as two crony running a ranch together in Montana in the 1920s , but their relationship sour after one brother wed a charwoman from the local town . The Power of the Dogis about maleness and ego , and the dangerous game mankind play to exert power over one another . The Power of the Dog ’s shocking endingsends this simmer malevolence erupting to the surface .
1Roma (2018)
10 nominations. Winner of Best Foreign Language Film, Cinematography, and Best Director for Alfonso Cuarón.
Alfonso Cuarón ’s black and white masterpiece was Netflix ’s first Best Picture candidate , and it remain an unparalleled cinematic achievement for the streaming service of process . Romatells the fib of a live - in housemaid to a affluent family in Mexico City in the 1970s . have inspiration from his own childhood , Cuarón fillsRomawith both tragedy and humor . It ’s an ambitious film about every corner of the human experience , told through a class - conscious lens , but it supports its topic with gorgeous cinematography and some magnificent performances . Romawould have been a worthy Best Picture achiever , but it fall back out toThe Favourite .
