As we enter November, Netflix, Amazon and Hulu are all adding more titles to their ever-growing selection of movies. Among the new November titles are movies that either won or were nominated at the Oscars, including Best Picture winners like Dances with Wolves and The Departed. Other films that have won multiple Oscars that will now be available to stream include Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Usual Suspects and Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
This is also a big month for James Bond fans as most of the films in the series will begin streaming on Amazon and Hulu; various Bond films have been nominated at the Oscars over the years. You can also now stream Oscar-winning performances from Kate Winslet, Tilda Swinton, Viola Davis and Kevin Spacey, along with nominated performances by Jennifer Lawrence, George Clooney, Will Smith, Denzel Washington, Mark Wahlberg, Anna Kendrick, Vera Farmiga, Tom Wilkinson, Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Richard Dreyfuss, Michael Caine and Graham Greene.
All of the movies listed below are available starting November 1, unless indicated otherwise. Happy watching!
Michael Clayton (2007)
“A law firm brings in its ‘fixer’ to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multibillion-dollar class action suit.”
-Won Best Supporting Actress for Tilda Swinton, Nominated for Picture, Director for Tony Gilroy, Actor for George Clooney, Supporting Actor for Tom Wilkinson, Original Screenplay and Original Score
The Reader (2008)
“Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.”
-Won Best Actress for Kate Winslet, Nominated for Picture, Director for Stephen Daldry, Adapted Screenplay and Cinematography
Men in Black (1997)
“A police officer joins a secret organization that polices and monitors extraterrestrial interactions on Earth.”
-Won Best Makeup, Nominated for Art Direction and Original Music or Comedy Score
Field of Dreams (1989)
“An Iowa corn farmer, hearing voices, interprets them as a command to build a baseball diamond in his fields; he does, and the 1919 Chicago White Sox come.”
-Nominated for Best Picture, Adapted Screenplay and Original Score
The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
“A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he’s poised to begin a life-changing professional career.”
-Nominated for Best Actor for Will Smith
Dances with Wolves (1990)
“Lt. John Dunbar, exiled to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military.”
-Won Best Picture, Director for Kevin Costner, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Film Editing, Original Score and Sound, Nominated for Actor for Kevin Costner, Supporting Actor for Graham Greene, Supporting Actress for Mary McDonnell and Costume Design
The Departed (2006)
“An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.”
-Won Best Picture, Best Director for Martin Scorsese, Adapted Screenplay and Film Editing, Nominated for Supporting Actor for Mark Wahlberg
Fences (2016)
“A working-class African-American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to terms with the events of his life.”
-Won Best Supporting Actress for Viola Davis, Nominated for Picture, Actor for Denzel Washington and Adapted Screenplay — available 11/24
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
“The centuries old vampire Count Dracula comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker’s fiancée Mina Murray and inflict havoc in the foreign land.”
-Won Best Costume Design, Makeup and Sound Effects Editing, Nominated for Art Direction
Goldfinger (1964)
“Investigating a gold magnate’s smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve.”
-Won Best Sound Effects Editing
Thunderball (1965)
“James Bond heads to The Bahamas to recover two nuclear warheads stolen by SPECTRE agent Emilio Largo in an international extortion scheme.”
-Won Best Visual Effects
Up in the Air (2009)
“Ryan Bingham enjoys living out of a suitcase for his job traveling around the country firing people, but finds that lifestyle threatened by the presence of a potential love interest and a new hire.”
-Nominated for Best Picture, Director for Jason Reitman, Actor for George Clooney, Supporting Actress for Vera Farmiga, Supporting Actress for Anna Kendrick and Adapted Screenplay
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
“James Bond investigates the hijacking of British and Russian submarines carrying nuclear warheads, with the help of a K.G.B. Agent, whose lover he killed.”
-Nominated for Best Art Direction, Original Score and Original Song (for “Nobody Does It Better”)
The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
“A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he’s poised to begin a life-changing professional career.”
-Nominated for Best Actor for Will Smith
Crocodile Dundee (1986)
“An American reporter goes to the Australian outback to meet an eccentric crocodile poacher and invites him to New York City.”
-Nominated for Best Original Screenplay
Allied (2016)
“In 1942, a Canadian intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.”
-Nominated for Best Costume Design — available 11/10
The Cell (2000)
“An FBI agent persuades a social worker, who is adept with a new experimental technology, to enter the mind of a comatose serial killer in order to learn where he has hidden his latest kidnap victim.”
-Nominated for Best Makeup
Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
“A diamond smuggling investigation leads James Bond to Las Vegas, where he uncovers an evil plot involving a rich business tycoon.”
-Nominated for Best Sound
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
“Agent 007 is assigned to hunt for a lost British encryption device and prevent it from falling into enemy hands.”
-Nominated for Best Original Song (for “For Your Eyes Only”)
Live and Let Die (1973)
“007 is sent to stop a diabolically brilliant heroin magnate armed with a complex organization and a reliable psychic tarot card reader.”
-Nominated for Best Original Song (“for Live and Let Die”)
Moonraker (1979)
“James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle, and discovers a plot to commit global genocide.”
-Nominated for Best Visual Effects
Dances with Wolves (1990)
“Lt. John Dunbar, exiled to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military.”
-Won Best Picture, Director for Kevin Costner, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Film Editing, Original Score and Sound, Nominated for Actor for Kevin Costner, Supporting Actor for Graham Greene, Supporting Actress for Mary McDonnell and Costume Design
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
“A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten year old son, John Connor, from a more advanced cyborg.”
-Won Best Makeup, Sound, Sound Effects Editing and Visual Effects, Nominated for Cinematography and Film Editing
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
“The centuries old vampire Count Dracula comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker’s fiancée Mina Murray and inflict havoc in the foreign land.”
-Won Best Costume Design, Makeup and Sound Effects Editing, Nominated for Art Direction
The Usual Suspects (1995)
“A sole survivor tells of the twisty events leading up to a horrific gun battle on a boat, which began when five criminals met at a seemingly random police lineup.”
-Won Best Supporting Actor for Kevin Spacey and Original Screenplay
Fences (2016)
“A working-class African-American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to terms with the events of his life.”
-Won Best Supporting Actress for Viola Davis, Nominated for Picture, Actor for Denzel Washington and Adapted Screenplay — available 11/24
Men in Black (1997)
“A police officer joins a secret organization that polices and monitors extraterrestrial interactions on Earth.”
-Won Best Makeup, Nominated for Art Direction and Original Music or Comedy Score
Goldfinger (1964)
“Investigating a gold magnate’s smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve.”
-Won Best Sound Effects Editing
Thunderball (1965)
“James Bond heads to The Bahamas to recover two nuclear warheads stolen by SPECTRE agent Emilio Largo in an international extortion scheme.”
-Won Best Visual Effects
Up in the Air (2009)
“Ryan Bingham enjoys living out of a suitcase for his job traveling around the country firing people, but finds that lifestyle threatened by the presence of a potential love interest and a new hire.”
-Nominated for Best Picture, Director for Jason Reitman, Actor for George Clooney, Supporting Actress for Vera Farmiga, Supporting Actress for Anna Kendrick and Adapted Screenplay
Winter’s Bone (2010)
“An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact.”
-Nominated for Best Picture, Actress for Jennifer Lawrence, Supporting Actor for John Hawkes and Adapted Screenplay
Nixon (1995)
“A biographical story of former U.S. President Richard Milhous Nixon, from his days as a young boy, to his eventual Presidency, which ended in shame.”
-Nominated for Best Actor for Anthony Hopkins, Supporting Actress for Joan Allen, Original Screenplay and Original Score
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
“James Bond investigates the hijacking of British and Russian submarines carrying nuclear warheads, with the help of a K.G.B. Agent, whose lover he killed.”
-Nominated for Best Art Direction, Original Score and Original Song (for “Nobody Does It Better”)
Brother Bear (2003)
“When a young Inuit hunter needlessly kills a bear, he is magically changed into a bear himself as punishment with a talkative cub being his only guide to changing back.”
-Nominated for Best Animated Feature Film
Treasure Planet (2002)
“A Disney animated version of ‘Treasure Island.’ The only difference is that the film is set in outer space with alien worlds and other galactic wonders.”
-Nominated for Best Animated Feature Film
Mr. Holland’s Opus (1995)
“A frustrated composer finds fulfillment as a high school music teacher.”
-Nominated for Best Actor for Richard Dreyfuss
The Quiet American (2002)
“An older British reporter vies with a young U.S. doctor for the affections of a beautiful Vietnamese woman.”
-Nominated for Best Actor for Michael Caine
Crocodile Dundee (1986)
“An American reporter goes to the Australian outback to meet an eccentric crocodile poacher and invites him to New York City.”
-Nominated for Best Original Screenplay
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
“In New Jersey in 1935, a movie character walks off the screen and into the real world.”
-Nominated for Best Original Screenplay
Allied (2016)
“In 1942, a Canadian intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.”
-Nominated for Best Costume Design — available 11/10
Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
“A diamond smuggling investigation leads James Bond to Las Vegas, where he uncovers an evil plot involving a rich business tycoon.”
-Nominated for Best Sound
For Your Eyes Only (1981)
“Agent 007 is assigned to hunt for a lost British encryption device and prevent it from falling into enemy hands.”
-Nominated for Best Original Song (for “For Your Eyes Only”)
Live and Let Die (1973)
“007 is sent to stop a diabolically brilliant heroin magnate armed with a complex organization and a reliable psychic tarot card reader.”
-Nominated for Best Original Song (“for Live and Let Die”)
Moonraker (1979)
“James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle, and discovers a plot to commit global genocide.”
-Nominated for Best Visual Effects
The Rescuers (1977)
“Two mice of the Rescue Aid Society search for a little girl kidnapped by unscrupulous treasure hunters.”
-Nominated for Best Original Song (for “Someone’s Waiting for You”)
The Sword in the Stone (1963)
“A poor boy named Arthur learns the power of love, kindness, knowledge and bravery with the help of a wizard called Merlin in the path to become one of the most beloved kings in English history.”
-Nominated for Best Adaptation or Treatment Score