Last month, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominations for the 2019 Oscars. There were the usual prestige drama nominations we've come to expect year in and year out, but there were also a few surprises like Black Panther becoming the first superhero movie to earn a Best Picture nomination.
In total, there were 51 feature films, documentaries and short films that were nominated for at least one Academy Award. That's a lot of great movies to watch.
Some of are still in theaters while others are already available to stream right from your home making catching up on some of the Oscar-nominated movies quite easy. Here's how to watch all of the Oscar nominated movies.
Black Panther
Nominations: Best Picture, Costume Design, Original Score, Original Song, Production Design (5)
"T'Challa, heir to the hidden but advanced kingdom of Wakanda, must step forward to lead his people into a new future and must confront a challenger from his country's past."
Where to watch:
BlacKkKlansman
Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Film Editing, Original Score, Adapted Screenplay (6)
"Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, CO, successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan branch with the help of a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader."
Where to watch:
Bohemian Rhapsody
Nominations: Best Picture, Best Actor, Film Editing, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing (5)
"The story of the legendary rock band Queen and lead singer Freddie Mercury, leading up to their famous performance at Live Aid (1985)."
Where to watch:
- Still in theaters
- iTunes
- Google Play
- Amazon Video
The Favourite
Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress (2), Cinematography, Film Editing, Costume Design, Production Design, Original Screenplay (10)
"In early 18th century England, a frail Queen Anne occupies the throne and her close friend, Lady Sarah, governs the country in her stead. When a new servant, Abigail, arrives, her charm endears her to Sarah."
Where to watch:
- Still in theaters
Green Book
Nominations: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Film Editing, Original Screenplay (5)
"A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South."
Where to watch:
- Still in theaters
- iTunes (2/19)
- Google Play (2/19)
- Amazon Video (2/19)
Roma
Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Foreign Language Film, Production Design, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Original Screenplay (9)
"A year in the life of a middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s."
Where to watch:
A Star is Born
Nominations: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Sound Mixing, Original Song (8)
"A musician helps a young singer find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral."
Where to watch:
- Still in theaters
- iTunes
- Google Play
Vice
Nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Original Screenplay, Film Editing, Makeup and Hair (8)
"The story of Dick Cheney, an unassuming bureaucratic Washington insider, who quietly wielded immense power as Vice President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways that we still feel today."
Where to watch:
- Still in theaters
Can You Forgive Me?
Nominations: Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Adapted Screenplay (3)
"When Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception."
Where to watch:
- Still in theaters
Isle of Dogs
Nominations: Animated Feature Film, Original Score (2)
"Set in Japan, Isle of Dogs follows a boy's odyssey in search of his lost dog."
Where to watch:
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Nominations: Animated Feature Film (1)
"Teen Miles Morales becomes Spider-Man of his reality, crossing his path with five counterparts from other dimensions to stop a threat for all realities."
Where to watch:
- Still in theaters
- iTunes (2/26)
- Google Play (2/26)
- Amazon Video (2/26)
Incredibles 2
Nominations: Animated Feature Film (1)
"The Incredibles hero family takes on a new mission, which involves a change in family roles: Bob Parr (Mr Incredible) must manage the house while his wife Helen (Elastigirl) goes out to save the world."
Where to watch:
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Nominations: Adapted Screenplay, Original Song, Costume Design (3)
"Six tales of life and violence in the Old West, following a singing gunslinger, a bank robber, a traveling impresario, an elderly prospector, a wagon train, and a perverse pair of bounty hunters."
Where to watch:
First Reformed
Nominations: Original Screenplay (1)
"A minister of a small congregation in upstate New York grapples with mounting despair brought on by tragedy, worldly concerns and a tormented past."
Where to watch:
The Wife
Nominations: Best Actress (1)
"A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature."
Where to watch:
At Eternity's Gate
Nominations: Best Actor (1)
"A look at the life of painter Vincent van Gogh during the time he lived in Arles and Auvers-sur-Oise, France."
Where to watch:
If Beale Street Could Talk
Nominations: Best Supporting Actress, Adapted Screenplay, Original Score (3)
"A woman in Harlem embraces her pregnancy while she and her family struggle to prove her fiancé innocent of a crime."
Where to watch:
- Still in theaters
Mary Poppins Returns
Nominations: Production Design, Original Score, Original Song, Costume Design (4)
"Decades after her original visit, the magical nanny returns to help the Banks siblings and Michael's children through a difficult time in their lives."
Where to watch:
- Still in theaters
Cold War
Nominations: Best Director, Cinematography, Foreign Language Film (3)
"In the 1950s, a music director falls in love with a singer and tries to persuade her to flee communist Poland for France."
Where to watch:
- Still in theaters
Never Look Away
Nominations: Cinematography, Foreign Language Film (2)
"German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime."
Where to watch:
- Still in theaters
Mary Queen of Scots
Nominations: Makeup and Hair, Costume Design (2)
"Mary Stuart's attempt to overthrow her cousin Elizabeth I, Queen of England, finds her condemned to years of imprisonment before facing execution."
Where to watch:
- Still in theaters
- iTunes (2/19)
- Google Play (2/19)
- Amazon Video (2/19)
First Man
Nominations: Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Production Design, Visual Effects (4)
"A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969."
Where to watch:
It's been over a year since the seventh season of HBO's Game of Thrones concluded, leaving fans in a lurch after a rousing cliffhanger ending. Now, the show is finally set to return, with multiple narrative threads still hanging in the balance.
Unfortunately, HBO hasn't said much about what to expect in the show's final season. In fact, the secrecy around the show has never been higher so as not to spoil what will surely be one of television's biggest events in history.
We do know a few production details about Game of Thrones Season 8, like the fact that it will only consist of six episodes. And, like the previous season, the upcoming episodes will feature content that goes beyond George R.R. Martin's books.
If you're a Game of Thrones fan, there's a lot to look forward to. If you're a Game of Thrones newbie, then you're in for a real treat. I almost envy folks who are just now taking an interest in the show, because they haven't had to wait an agonizing amount of time for the show to return.
Here's everything we know about Game of Thrones Season 8.
Game of Thrones Season 8 debuts on April 14
This one is easy. After months and months of playing it coy, HBO finally revealed that Game of Thrones Season 8 will debut on Sunday, April 14. Fans can expect the show's final episode to air on Sunday, May 19.
Here's the first (brief) footage
HBO has yet to release a proper trailer for the show. For now, fans have a short teaser and some photos to check out.
It'll consist of 6 episodes
The past few seasons have gotten shorter and shorter, and season 8 will be the series' shortest yet. As in, "only six episodes" short. Which sucks!
There's still so much story left and hearing that there are six more episodes means Game of Thrones will be over before we know it. However, there is some good news…
Those episodes will be long
Although HBO will only release six episodes, the episodes will be very long. We're talking the length of a feature film. Some episodes will be as short as 70 minutes while others will be over an hour and a half. So, even with a shortened season, fans will still get plenty of action and story beats before the final episode is over.
The short summary
I don't blame you if you don't want to watch the previous seven seasons of Game of Thrones, as there's a lot of content to watch. Binging all of those episodes would be a feat only elite athletes and committed couch potatoes could endure.
If you are starting fresh with season 8, you only need to know a few things. Basically, the show has been building toward a big war between the Night King and his undead army and the rest of the world. In the meantime, there's also been a war for the Iron Throne, with various dynasties creating alliances to take control.
Currently, Cersei Lannister rules the Iron Throne. Daenarys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke), otherwise known as Mother of Dragons, believes herself to be the rightful heir to that throne. However, Jon Snow is secretly the true heir, further complicating matters.
Jon will finally learn true parentage
The audience knowns Jon Snow's dirty secret, but he doesn't. And when he finally does learn who his real parents are, it's going to be very awkward now that he's becoming romantically involved with Daenerys.
Back in season 7, we finally learned that Jon wasn't the bastard child of Ned Stark (Sean Bean), but the son of Ned's sister Lyanna Stark (Aisling Franciosi) and Rhaegar Targaryen (Wilf Scolding).
Complicating matters is the fact that Rhaegar married Lyanna in secret, which not only means Jon isn't a bastard, but that he's the true heir to the Iron Throne. A few characters in Game of Thrones know Jon's true parentage, and it's only a matter of time before he finds out.
Now the question becomes: What will Jon Snow do once he finds out who he really is? The initial shock will no doubt give way to tension between him and Daenerys (his aunt and current girlfriend), who believes that she is the rightful heir to the Iron Throne.
Who is alive?
There are still dozens and dozens of people alive, but audiences really only need to know about half of them, because they're more crucial to the overarching war against the undead.
For all intents and purposes, there are three "teams" right now consisting of rulers, warriors, brothers, sisters, and everything in between.
Here are ten characters who will be very important in season 8:
- Jon Snow (Kit Harington)
- Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke)
- Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage)
- Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner)
- Arya Stark (Maisie Williams)
- Davos Seaworth (Liam Cunningham)
- Brienne of Tarth (Gwendoline Christie)
- Samwell Tarly (John Bradley)
- Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey)
- Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau)
Season 8 will feature the biggest battle ever
Game of Thrones has been slowly building to the Great War, which means fans can expect a pretty fantastic battle to unfold when it finally happens. Apparently, season 8's epic clash will make the Battle of the Bastards look tame by comparison.
Imagine season 8's battle like the one between the Avengers and Thanos, which was teased for several years before blowing the minds of viewers across the world. The Night King and his undead army have been marching toward Winterfell for several seasons now, and we'll finally see the living fight the dead.
For context, season six's Battle of the Bastards took an astonishing 25 days to film, and we all know how that turned out. HBO set a high bar with that battle, but we have confidence the show will leap that bar once the Night King arrives with his zombie dragon.
Get ready for the Cleganebowl
Another battle we're looking forward to seeing will be between brothers Sandor "The Hound" Clegane and Gregor "The Mountain" Clegane. Fans already got a brief taste of this battle during season seven's finale, when The Hound had a stare down with his brother during the Dragonpit meeting in King's landing.
While we have no confirmation a battle between the two brothers will take place, there's a good chance HBO will grant the wish of fans everywhere. The Mountain has tormented his brother—he burned The Hound's face when they were kids—and it's finally time for The Hound to get his revenge.
That being said, would revenge be a satisfying conclusion to The Hound's arc? He has gone from deranged warrior to more contemplative protector. The Mountain, meanwhile, isn't even technically a person anymore after being turned into a Frankenstein-like monster.
Cersei will (probably) die, but how?
This is a big one. It's all but confirmed that Cersei will die in the final season. As the series' most despised character, she definitely has it coming. But how she'll die is the question everyone wants answered.
One of the more popular theories believes that it will be Jaime who is Cersei's downfall. If you're a longtime Game of Thrones fan, hearing that Jaime might kill Cersei is shocking, but it also makes a lot of sense considering everything that's happened over the past few seasons.
In the show, a witch actually told a young Cersei that she would be killed by the "volanqar," which roughly translates to little brother in High Valyrian. As it turns out, Jaime is Cersei's little brother.
When the show started, Cersei and Jaime were inseparable. But now that Cersei has turned into the Mad Queen, Jaime might have no choice but to be the one who finally takes her down.
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