13 Oscar-Winning Movies On Netflix: Dune Chapter 2, Pulp Fiction

From Dune: Chapter 2 (2024) to Pulp Fiction (1994), here are the best Oscar winning movies on Netflix. 

The 97th Academy Awards ceremony was a night filled with surprises, emotional speeches, and memorable moments. As usual, there were a few upsets and snubs, along with some well-deserved wins. But that discussion is for another day. For now, let’s count down some of the best Oscar winning movies available for streaming from the comfort of your couch. With a ton of options to pick from, the options can feel overwhelming. So, we’ve done the work for you, curating some of the best films across genres and eras.

From classics like Schindler’s List to modern gems such as Call Me By Your Name, this lineup has something for all movie fiends. Note: These Oscar-winning films were streaming on Netflix as of March 15, 2025. So get watching before they disappear.

Best Oscar Movies on Netflix

1. The Only Girl in the Orchestra (2024)

A pioneering female musician navigates the rigid, male-dominated world of classical music. The documentary unfolds with quiet intensity, chronicling the journey of a woman breaking into a space where she was never meant to belong. The film doesn’t rely on grand speeches or forced drama; instead, it lets the weight of exclusion settle in the pauses, in the glances exchanged between musicians, in the rehearsals where her presence is an anomaly.

The storytelling is restrained but effective, capturing both the isolation of being the first and the quiet defiance required to stay. Archival footage, personal reflections, and intimate concert moments blend seamlessly, allowing the subject’s experience to speak for itself.

1 Oscar: Best Documentary Short Film

2. Dune: Chapter 2 (2024)

Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two delivers a satisfying conclusion to the first novel, picking up with Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) and his mother Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson) integrating into the Fremen society. As Paul embraces his prophesied role, he leads a rebellion against House Harkonnen and the Emperor. The film’s grand scale is evident in its desert landscapes and intense battle sequences, notably Paul’s awe-inspiring sandworm ride.

Villeneuve’s direction remains faithful to the source material, balancing intricate world-building with compelling character development. Read Dune: Chapter 2 review here.

In India, the film is streaming on JioHotstar.

2 Oscars: Best Sound, Best Visual Effects

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3. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023)

4. Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022) 

Pinocchio, the classic 1883 story by Carlo Collodi, has had numerous cinematic adaptations. But most versions boasted a light-hearted adventurous tone. Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio is darker and transplants the tale to Mussolini’s Italy. The stop-motion animated version, as usual, follows the adventures and struggles of the magical wooden boy Pinocchio, who is brought to life by toymaker Geppetto.

Pinocchio is one of Del Toro’s passion projects. Apart from painstakingly conceiving each frame of this stop-motion brilliance, Del Toro excels in balancing the joyous and melancholic tone.

1 Oscar: Best Animated Feature

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5. All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)

German filmmaker Edward Berger’s All Quiet on the Western Front is less an adaptation than a brutal, unrelenting plunge into the horrors of war. Based on Erich Maria Remarque’s 1929 novel, the film follows Paul (Felix Kammerer), an eager young recruit who, like so many of his generation, is seduced by visions of heroism and patriotism. Lying about his age, he enlists, swept up in the feverish nationalism of wartime Germany.

Reality, of course, has other plans. What follows is an excruciating descent into the trenches, where idealism is shredded as quickly as the bodies around him. Berger stages war not as a grand spectacle but as a cold, mechanical process of destruction, where soldiers are swallowed whole by mud, metal, and despair. The production design and cinematography reinforce this bleakness—every frame soaked in a palette of ashen grays and deep browns, trapping us alongside Paul in a world stripped of glory.

4 Oscars: International Feature, Cinematography, Original Score, Production Design

6. The Power of the Dog (2021)

Written and directed by Jane Campion and adapted from Thomas Savage’s 1967 eponymous novel, this cerebral, psychological drama traces the transformation of a maker of paper flowers, a gentle spirit, an effeminate whipping boy, a surgeon in the making and a protector of his mother into a top dog.

Profoundly nuanced, The Power of the Dog rises beyond its cinematic canvas. It is a deep, psychological exploration of our basic underpinnings, our raw, unrequited desires and our inability to deal with them, and our seeking of deliverance. The film nabbed a whopping 12 Oscar nominations, winning only one.

1 Oscar: Best Director

7. If Anything Happens I Love You (2020)

There are films that tell a story, and then those that leave a bruise. In just 12 devastating minutes, this Oscar-winning animated short distills grief to its rawest, most unshakable form—a portrait of two parents navigating the hollow, echoing space left behind by their daughter, a victim of a school shooting.

The animation is stark and restrained—no elaborate detail, no distracting flourish. The absence of color mirrors the absence that now defines these parents’ lives. No words are spoken, and none are needed. The pain is in the movement, the silence, the empty spaces.

This isn’t a film about politics or policy—it’s about the void left behind, the way time warps around grief, stretching endlessly while refusing to let go.

1 Oscar: Best Animated Short Film

8. My Octopus Teacher (2020)

The bond between a human and another sentient being takes tenderness to a subliminal level. It explores the limits of your sensitivity and fills you with a warm afterglow that refuses to go away.

One of the most fascinating documentaries that I have seen in a long, long time, My Octopus Teacher is an astonishing and elevating tale of a filmmaker’s friendship with an octopus that’s replete with many enduring life lessons.

This superlative and surreal documentary took about ten years to make and is brilliantly shot by underwater cameraman Roger Horrocks who makes the treasures of the ocean come alive.

My Octopus Teacher is not a film. It is a life-affirming force that will impact you so profoundly that a part of you deep within will change forever.

1 Oscar: Best Documentary Feature

9. Roma (2018)

This is the story of Mexico City in the 1970s, of Cuaron’s childhood and the maid that brought him up, and the sisterhood of two women, even with the attendant hierarchy of class, who realize that they are ultimately alone in this world. Roma is an absolute classic that will grow on you. Like vine and slow time.

Initially I was unnerved by its tepid pace and ultra-realistic unfolding but once you get the design, you begin to appreciate the subtle and sublime touches that draw you in. At once mellow, at once intense, it feels like real life and is languorously and aesthetically shot.

3 Oscars: Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Foreign Language Film

10. Call Me By Your Name (2017)

Luca Guadignino’s splendid adaptation of Andre Aciman’s novel revolves around 17-year old Elio Perlman (Timothee Chalamet). The narrative unfolds in Northern Italy during the summer of 1983. The Perlman family is spending the vacation at their villa. Soon, the sensitive Elio falls in love with a handsome American college graduate Oliver (Armie Hammer), who is hired as his archaeologist professor father’s research assistant.

Apart from Chalamet and Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg’s performance as Elio’s father is a real stand-out.

Towards the end, Stuhlbarg delivers a magnificent speech to Chalamet’s Elio about romance, attraction, and parental love. The film promises warm moments while detailing the tranquil and agony of first love.

1 Oscar: Best Adapted Screenplay

11. The Dark Knight (2008)

The Dark Knight not only changed the landscape of superhero movies, it is also possibly the greatest movie of the last 20 years. Christopher Nolan’s sequel to Batman Begins transcended genres. Corruption has reached its peak in Gotham City and the people have been pushed to the brink by one man: The Joker.

I don’t need to tell you about Heath Ledger’s performance here, but hell, I’ll do it again. Ledger gave us the best portrayal of the character till date, as well as one of the greatest cinematic performances of all time. Period.

Apart from Ledger’s borderline psychotic performance, everything else about this movie was just about perfect, from action sequences to the progressive narrative.

2 Oscars: Best Supporting Actor (Ledger), Best Sound Editing

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12. Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Inglourious Basterds will always have a special place in my heart. It was the first Tarantino film I ever watched as a young, adolescent teen. At the time, it confused me when Tarantino decided to change the course of history with this movie; today I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Tarantino managed to take two of the most tragic, horrifying moments in human history, World War II and the Holocaust and mold it in his own fun, bloody vision. All the props go to Christoph Waltz who stole the show with his performance of ‘The Jew Hunter’, Hans Landa.

1 Oscar: Best Supporting Actor (Christoph Waltz)

13. Pulp Fiction (1994)

Pulp Fiction is the kind of movie that grabs you from the first scene and never lets go. Tarantino throws out the traditional three-act structure and gives us a mix of stories that loop, overlap, and collide in ways that shouldn’t work—but do. The film is packed with unforgettable characters: John Travolta’s Vincent Vega, a hitman with a taste for European fast food, Samuel L. Jackson’s Bible-quoting Jules, Uma Thurman’s magnetic Mia Wallace, and Bruce Willis as a boxer trying to outrun his past.

The dialogue is sharp, the violence sudden, and the humor dark. It’s stylish, unpredictable, and effortlessly cool. Nearly 30 years later, it’s still one of the most exciting films ever made.

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1 Oscar: Best Original Screenplay

Conclusion

There we are! If you’re done with these, watch Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story and Jordan Peele’s Get Out.