With the advent of Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu and more comes many options to watch Oscar Best Picture winners online with your streaming subscriptions.
Almost every Best Picture winner at the Oscars is available to rent or purchase online, but there are also a surprising amount of these films available for streaming online free with your subscription. Listed below are links to where you can watch Oscar Best Picture winners free of charge as long as you have a paid account. Options are subject to change due to license expirations, but this list will be updated monthly.
*Updated for May 2018*
2017: The Shape of Water (N/A)
2016: Moonlight (Amazon Prime)
2015: Spotlight (Netflix)
2014: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (N/A)
2013: 12 Years a Slave (N/A)
2012: Argo (N/A)
2011: The Artist (N/A)
2010: The King’s Speech (N/A)
2009: The Hurt Locker (Amazon Prime)
2008: Slumdog Millionaire (N/A)
2007: No Country for Old Men (N/A)
2006: The Departed (N/A)
2005: Crash (Amazon Prime, Starz)
2004: Million Dollar Baby (N/A)
2003: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Starz)
2002: Chicago (HBO Go/HBO NOW)
2001: A Beautiful Mind (Showtime Anytime)
2000: Gladiator (Starz)
1999: American Beauty (Starz)
1998: Shakespeare in Love (Cinemax)
1997: Titanic (N/A)
1996: The English Patient (Cinemax)
1995: Braveheart (N/A)
1994: Forrest Gump (N/A)
1993: Schindler’s List (Netflix)
1992: Unforgiven (Cinemax)
1991: The Silence of the Lambs (HBO Go/HBO NOW)
1990: Dances with Wolves (Cinemax)
1989: Driving Miss Daisy (Cinemax)
1988: Rain Man (N/A)
1987: The Last Emperor (Film Struck)
1986: Platoon (Starz)
1985: Out of Africa (N/A)
1984: Amadeus (N/A)
1983: Terms of Endearment (Showtime Anytime)
1982: Gandhi (N/A)
1981: Chariots of Fire (N/A)
1980: Ordinary People (Tubi TV)
1979: Kramer vs. Kramer (N/A)
1978: The Deer Hunter (Cinemax)
1977: Annie Hall (N/A)
1976: Rocky (Hulu, Epix)
1975: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (N/A)
1974: The Godfather Part II (Netflix)
1973: The Sting (N/A)
1972: The Godfather (Netflix)
1971: The French Connection (HBO Go/HBO NOW)
1970: Patton (N/A)
1969: Midnight Cowboy (N/A)
1968: Oliver! (N/A)
1967: In the Heat of the Night (Starz)
1966: A Man for All Seasons (Film Struck)
1965: The Sound of Music (N/A)
1964: My Fair Lady (N/A)
1963: Tom Jones (Film Struck)
1962: Lawrence of Arabia (Hulu, Film Struck)
1961: West Side Story (HBO Go/HBO NOW)
1960: The Apartment (N/A)
1959: Ben-Hur (Film Struck)
1958: Gigi (Film Struck)
1957: The Bridge on the River Kwai (Film Struck)
1956: Around the World in 80 Days (N/A)
1955: Marty (Film Struck)
1954: On the Waterfront (Film Struck)
1953: From Here to Eternity (Film Struck)
1952: The Greatest Show on Earth (N/A)
1951: An American in Paris (Film Struck)
1950: All About Eve (N/A)
1949: All the King’s Men (N/A)
1948: Hamlet (Film Struck)
1947: Gentleman’s Agreement (N/A)
1946: The Best Years of Our Lives (N/A)
1945: The Lost Weekend (N/A)
1944: Going My Way (N/A)
1943: Casablanca (Film Struck)
1942: Mrs. Miniver (N/A)
1941: How Green Was My Valley (N/A)
1940: Rebecca (N/A)
1939: Gone with the Wind (Amazon Prime)
1938: You Can’t Take It With You (N/A)
1937: The Life of Emile Zola (N/A)
1936: The Great Ziegfeld (N/A)
1935: Mutiny on the Bounty (Film Struck)
1934: It Happened One Night (N/A)
1933: Cavalcade (N/A)
1932: Grand Hotel (Film Struck)
1931: Cimarron (N/A)
1930: All Quiet on the Western Front (N/A)
1929: The Broadway Melody (N/A)
1928: Wings (N/A)