Another month has come and gone, which means it’s time to look at the Oscar nominated and winning movies coming to Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu! July 2018 will feature the arrival of such Oscar winning films as 1995’s Best Picture Braveheart, Her, Jurassic Park, The Graduate, Dead Man Walking, Midnight in Paris and Finding Neverland.
Check out the list of Oscar winning and nominated films coming to Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu in July! All titles are available July 1 unless otherwise indicated.
Jurassic Park (1993)
“During a preview tour, a theme park suffers a major power breakdown that allows its cloned dinosaur exhibits to run amok.”
-Won Best Sound, Sound Effects Editing, and Visual Effects
Her (2013)
“In a near future, a lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with an operating system designed to meet his every need.” –available July 29
-Won Best Original Screenplay, Nominated for Picture, Original Score, Production Design, and Original Song (for “The Moon Song”)
Finding Neverland (2004)
“The story of J.M. Barrie’s friendship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan.”
–Won Best Original Score, Nominated for Actor for Johnny Depp, Adapted Screenplay, Art Direction, Costume Design, and Film Editing
Chocolat (2000)
“A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a small French village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community.”
-Nominated for Best Picture, Actress for Juliette Binoche, Supporting Actress for Judi Dench, Adapted Screenplay, and Origina Score
An Education (2009)
“A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.” –available July 22
-Nominated for Best Picture, Actress for Carey Mulligan, and Adapted Screenplay
Blue Valentine (2010)
“The film depicts a married couple, Dean Pereira (Ryan Gosling) and Cindy Heller (Michelle Williams), shifting back and forth in time between their courtship and the dissolution of their marriage several years later.” –available July 5
-Nominated for Best Actress for Michelle Williams
Gone Baby Gone (2007)
“Two Boston area detectives investigate a little girl’s kidnapping, which ultimately turns into a crisis both professionally and personally.” –available July 12
-Nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Amy Ryan
Bolt (2008)
“The canine star of a fictional sci-fi/action show that believes his powers are real embarks on a cross country trek to save his co-star from a threat he believes is just as real.” –available July 22
-Nominated for Best Animated Feature Film
Troy (2004)
“An adaptation of Homer’s great epic, the film follows the assault on Troy by the united Greek forces and chronicles the fates of the men involved.”
-Nominated for Best Costume Design
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
“A research team is sent to the Jurassic Park Site B island to study the dinosaurs there while another team approaches with another agenda.”
-Nominated for Best Visual Effects
The Graduate (1967)
“A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.”
-Won Best Director for Mike Nichols, Nominated for Picture, Actor for Dustin Hoffman, Actress for Anne Bancroft, Supporting Actress for Katharine Ross, Adapted Screenplay, and Cinematography
Dead Man Walking (1995)
“A nun, while comforting a convicted killer on death row, empathizes with both the killer and his victim’s families.”
-Won Best Actress for Susan Sarandon, Nominated for Director for Tim Robbins, Actor for Sean Penn, and Original Song (for “Dead Man Walkin'”)
Witness (1985)
“A young Amish boy is sole witness to a murder; policeman John Book goes into hiding in Amish country to protect him until the trial.”
-Won Best Original Screenplay and Film Editing, Nominated for Picture, Director for Peter Weir, Actor for Harrison Ford, Art Direction, Cinematography, and Original Score
Jaws (1975)
“A local sheriff, a marine biologist and an old seafarer team up to hunt down a great white shark wrecking havoc in a beach resort.” –available July 9
-Won Best Film Editing, Original Score, and Sound, Nominated for Picture
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
“A young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building, but her past threatens to get in the way.”
-Won Best Original Score and Original Song (for “Moon River”), Nominated for Actress for Audrey Hepburn, Adapted Screenplay, and Art Direction
Mulholland Drive (2001)
“After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.”
-Nominated for Best Director for David Lynch
Rabbit Hole (2010)
“Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.”
-Nominated for Best Actress for Nicole Kidman
Blazing Saddles (1974)
“In order to ruin a western town, a corrupt politician appoints a black Sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary.”
-Nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Madeline Kahn, Film Editing, and Original Song (for “Blazing Saddles”)
Street Smart (1987)
“A New York journalist lies when his fake story about a pimp describes a real pimp up for murder.”
-Nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Morgan Freeman
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
“A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become “real” so that he can regain the love of his human mother.”
-Nominated for Original Score and Visual Effects
All is Lost (2013)
“After a collision with a shipping container at sea, a resourceful sailor finds himself, despite all efforts to the contrary, staring his mortality in the face.”
-Nominated for Best Sound Editing
Angela’s Ashes (1999)
“Based on the best-selling autobiography by Irish expatriate Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick.”
-Nominated for Best Original Score
The Act of Killing (2013)
“A documentary which challenges former Indonesian death-squad leaders to reenact their mass-killings in whichever cinematic genres they wish, including classic Hollywood crime scenarios and lavish musical numbers.”
-Nominated for Best Documentary Feature
Waste Land (2010)
“On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro is Jardim Gramacho, the world’s largest landfill, where men and women sift through garbage for a living. Artist Vik Muniz produces portraits of the workers and learns about their lives.”
-Nominated for Best Documentary Feature
Braveheart (1995)
“When his secret bride is executed for assaulting an English soldier who tried to rape her, Sir William Wallace begins a revolt against King Edward I of England.”
-Won Best Picture, Director for Mel Gibson, Cinematography, Makeup, and Sound Effects Editing, Nominated for Original Screenplay, Costume Design, Film Editing, Original Score, and Sound
Dead Man Walking (1995)
“A nun, while comforting a convicted killer on death row, empathizes with both the killer and his victim’s families.”
-Won Best Actress for Susan Sarandon, Nominated for Director for Tim Robbins, Actor for Sean Penn, and Original Song (for “Dead Man Walkin'”)
Witness (1985)
“A young Amish boy is sole witness to a murder; policeman John Book goes into hiding in Amish country to protect him until the trial.”
-Won Best Original Screenplay and Film Editing, Nominated for Picture, Director for Peter Weir, Actor for Harrison Ford, Art Direction, Cinematography, and Original Score
Midnight in Paris (2011)
“While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée’s family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s everyday at midnight.”
-Won Best Original Screenplay, Nominated for Picture, Director for Woody Allen, and Art Direction
Hustle & Flow (2005)
“With help from his friends, a Memphis pimp in a mid-life crisis attempts to become a successful hip-hop emcee.”
-Won Best Original Song (for “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp”), Nominated for Actor for Terrence Howard
Rabbit Hole (2010)
“Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.”
-Nominated for Best Actress for Nicole Kidman
Street Smart (1987)
“A New York journalist lies when his fake story about a pimp describes a real pimp up for murder.”
-Nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Morgan Freeman
Before Midnight (2013)
“We meet Jesse and Celine nine years on in Greece. Almost two decades have passed since their first meeting on that train bound for Vienna.”
-Nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay
Election (1999)
“A high school teacher’s personal life becomes complicated as he works with students during the school elections, particularly with an obsessive overachiever determined to become student body president.”
-Nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
“A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become “real” so that he can regain the love of his human mother.”
-Nominated for Original Score and Visual Effects
Victoria & Abdul (2017)
“Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.” –available July 28
-Nominated for Best Costume Design and Makeup & Hairstyling
All is Lost (2013)
“After a collision with a shipping container at sea, a resourceful sailor finds himself, despite all efforts to the contrary, staring his mortality in the face.”
-Nominated for Best Sound Editing
Clear and Present Danger (1994)
“CIA Analyst Jack Ryan is drawn into an illegal war fought by the US government against a Colombian drug cartel.”
-Nominated for Best Sound and Sound Effects Editing
Sleepers (1996)
“After a prank goes disastrously wrong, a group of boys are sent to a detention center where they are brutalized. Over ten years later, they get their chance for revenge.”
-Nominated for Best Original Score
Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
“The story of the relationship between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his people, and two scientists who work together over the course of forty years to search the Amazon for a sacred healing plant.” –available July 20
-Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film