How to watch all the 2021 Oscar-nominated films in Canada

It's time to binge-watch these Oscar-nominated films ahead of the 93rd Academy Awards.
April 21, 2021 5:48 p.m. EST
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The Academy Awards will be handed out on Sunday, April 25 and, this year, history was made during the 2021 Oscar nominations

Nomadland director Chloé Zhao and Promising Young Woman director Emerald Fennel became the first two women ever to be nominated for Best Director at the same time. Zhao is the first-ever woman of colour to be nominated in the category.

But that's not the only category that broke records. Viola Davis was nominated for Actress in a Leading Role, which means she has earned her fourth Oscar nod, making her the most nominated Black actress ever. Minari's Steven Yuen also made history when he became the first Asian-American actor to be nominated in the Actor in a Leading Role category.

These history-making noms will be sure to have everyone tuning in this weekend to the 93rd Academy Awards (watch at 8pET/5pPT on CTV, CTV.ca and the CTV app) but you still have time to binge-watch the nominated movies and let the art speak for itself.

We've rounded up all the info you need on how to stream these Oscar-nominated films in Canada ahead of Sunday's awards ceremony.

Minari

What streaming service is Minari available on? 

Minari is available for rent on digital and on-demand platforms, including, Apple TV, Google Play, Amazon Prime Video, YouTube, Microsoft and the Cineplex Store.

What is Minari about and who is in it?

Minari takes place in 1983 and centers on a Korean family who moves to Arkansas after failing to make it in California. Jacob, the patriarch of the family, has an ambitious plan to purchase a farm in the middle of nowhere and take care of the land. The family struggles together to adapt to the isolation of rural Arkansas.

The film is directed by Lee Isaac Chung and the cast includes Steven Yeun, Alan S. Kim, Youn Yuh-jung, Yeri Han, Noel Kate Cho, Darryl Cox, Esther Moon, Ben Hall, Eric Starkey, Will Patton, Jacob Wade and James Carroll.

What is it nominated for?

Actor in a Leading Role (Steven Yeun), Actress in a Supporting Role (Youn Yuh-jung), Original Score, Original Screenplay, Directing (Lee Issac Chung) and Best Picture.

The Trial of the Chicago 7

What streaming service is The Trial of the Chicago 7 available on?

The Trial of the Chicago 7 is available to stream on Netflix.

What is The Trial of the Chicago 7 about and who is in it?

The Trial of the Chicago 7 is about a peaceful protest at the 1968 Democratic National Convention that turned into a violent clash with police and the National Guard. The organizers of the protest were charged with conspiracy to incite a riot and the trial that followed was one of the most notorious in history.

The film stars Sacha Baron Cohen, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Eddie Redmayne, Jeremy Strong, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Frank Langella, Mark Rylance and Alex Sharp.

What is it nominated for?

Actor in a Supporting Role (Sacha Baron Cohen), Cinematography, Film Editing, Original Song, Original Screenplay and Best Picture.

Mank

What streaming service is Mank available on?

Mank is available to stream on Netflix.

What is Mank about and who is in it?

Mank is based on the true story of screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz, or Mank, who is working on his masterpiece for Orson Welles, Citizen Kane in 1940. The film cuts back and forth between Mank writing Citizen Kane in 1940 and flashbacks to Mank's career in Hollywood in the 1930s.

The movie stars Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Arliss Howard, Tom Pelphrey, Sam Troughton, Ferdinand Kingsley, Tuppence Middleton, Tom Burke, Joseph Cross, Jamie McShane, Toby Leonard Moore, Monika Gossmann and Charles Dance.

What is it nominated for?

Actor in a Leading Role (Gary Oldman), Actress in a Supporting Role (Amanda Seyfried), Original Score, Costume Design, Sound, Cinematography, Directing (David Fincher), Makeup and Hairstyling, Production Design and Best Picture.

Judas and the Black Messiah

What streaming service is Judas and the Black Messiah available on?

Judas and the Black Messiah is available for rent on digital and on-demand platforms, including Amazon Prime VideoApple TV, Google Play, YouTube, Microsoft and the Cineplex Store.

What is Judas and the Black Messiah about and who is in it?

Judas and the Black Messiah is a biographical drama that chronicles the betrayal of Black Panther Party Illinois chairman Fred Hampton by FBI Informant William O'Neill in late-1960s Chicago.

It stars Daniel Kaluuya, Lakeith Stanfield, Jesse Plemons, Dominique Fishback, Ashton Sanders, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Lil Rel Howery, Algee Smith, Dominique Thorne and Martin Sheen. 

What is it nominated for?

Actor in a Supporting Role (Daniel Kaluuya and Lakeith Stanfield), Cinematography, Original Screenplay, Original Song and Best Picture.

Nomadland

What streaming service is Nomadland available on?

Nomadland is available to stream on Disney+.

What is Nomadland about and who is in it?

Nomadland is about a woman in her sixties who lost everything in the Great Recession. She decides to embark on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.

The film stars Frances McDormand, Dave Strathairn and real-life nomads Linda May, Swankie and Bob Wells as fictionalized versions of themselves.

What is it nominated for?

Actress in a Leading Role (Frances McDormand), Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Film Editing, Directing (Chloé Zhao) and Best Picture.

Sound of Metal

What streaming service is Sound of Metal available on?

Sound of Metal is available for rent on digital and on-demand platforms, including Apple TV, Google Play, the digital TIFF Bell Lightbox, Cineplex Store, YouTube, Amazon Prime Video and the Toronto Public Library.

What is Sound of Metal about and who is in it?

Sound of Metal is about a punk-metal drummer named Ruben who begins to experience intermittent hearing loss and thinks his music career is over. His girlfriend (and bandmate) Lou checks the recovering heroin addict into a sober house for the deaf but after being welcomed in the community, Ruben has to choose between the drive to reclaim the life he had before or his new equilibrium.

The film stars Riz Ahmed, Olivia Cooke, Paul Rici, Lauren Ridloff and Mathieu Amalric.

What is it nominated for?

Actor in a Leading Role (Riz Ahmed), Actor in a Supporting Role (Paul Raci), Sound, Original Screenplay, Film Editing and Best Picture.

Promising Young Woman

What streaming service is Promising Young Woman available on?

Promising Young Woman is available for rent on digital and on-demand platforms, including Apple TV,  Amazon Prime Video, YouTube, Google Play, and the Cineplex Store.

What is Promising Young Woman about and who is in it?

Everyone said Cassie was a promising young woman until a mysterious event abruptly derailed her future. But nothing in Cassie's life is what it appears to be. An unexpected encounter gives Cassie a chance to right the wrongs of the past in this film with a new take on revenge.

The film stars Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham, Alison Brie, Clancy Brown, Jennifer Coolidge, Laverne Cox and Connie Britton. 

What is it nominated for?

Actress in a Leading Role (Carey Mulligan), Directing (Emerald Fennell), Film Editing, Original Screenplay and Best Picture.

The Father

What streaming service is The Father available on?

The Father is available for rent on digital and on-demand platforms, including, iTunesGoogle Play, the Cineplex Store, Amazon Prime Video, the digital TIFF Bell Lightbox, and YouTube.

What is The Father about and who is in it?

The Father is about a man with dementia who slowly comes to grips with his increasing lack of independence. He refuses assistance from his daughter as he continues to age but he soon begins to doubt his loved ones and his own reality.

The film stars Sir Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman, Imogen Poots, Rufus Sewell, Olivia Williams, Mark Gatiss, Evie Wray and Ayesha Dharker.

What is it nominated for?

Actor in a Leading Role (Anthony Hopkins), Actress in a Supporting Role (Olivia Colman), Adapted Screenplay, Production Design, Film Editing and Best Picture.

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

What streaming service is Ma Rainey's Black Bottom available on?

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is available to stream on Netflix.

What is Ma Rainey's Black Bottom about and who is in it?

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is set in 1927 Chicago and is about artist Gertrude "Ma" Rainey and an ambitious trumpet player named Levee who is determined to bring a new sound to the stage.

The film stars Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman, Glynn Turman, Colman Domingo and Michael Potts.

What is it nominated for?

Actor in a Leading Role (Chadwick Boseman), Actress in a Leading Role (Viola Davis), Costume Design, Makeup and Hairstyling and Production Design. 

One Night in Miami...

What streaming service is One Night in Miami... available on?

One Night in Miami... is available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.

What is One Night in Miami... about and who is in it?

One Night in Miami... is a fictional depiction of four historical Black men -- Cassius Clay (soon to become Muhammad Ali), civil rights activist Malcolm X, singer Sam Cooke and football player Jim Brown -- coming together on February 25, 1964, to celebrate Clay's professional boxing win over Sonny Liston in a Miami hotel. It is inspired by true events such as Muhammad Ali's win and the civil rights movement led by Malcolm X, but their wide-ranging conversation about being successful Black men in the 1960s was imagined by playwright Kemp Power.

The film stars Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge, Leslie Odom, Jr. and Kingsley Ben-Adir.

What is it nominated for?

Actor in a Supporting Role (Leslie Odom Jr.), Original Song and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Hillbilly Elegy

What streaming service is Hillbilly Elegy available on?

Hillbilly Elegy is available to stream on Netflix.

What is Hillbilly Elegy about and who is in it?

Ron Howard's adaptation of the bestselling memoir from J.D. Vance focuses on middle America's white Appalachian community through the experiences of one multi-generational family as told by the youngest member, a Yale Law student forced to return to his hometown.

The film stars Glenn Close, Amy Adams, Gabriel Basso, Haley Bennett, Freida Pinto and Bo Hopkins.

What is it nominated for?

Actress in a Supporting Role (Glenn Close) and Makeup and Hairstyling.

Borat Subsequent Movie Film

What streaming service is Borat Subsequent Movie Film available on?

Borat Subsequent Movie Film is available to stream on Amazon Prime Video

What is Borat Subsequent Movie Film about and who is in it?

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, is about Borat, what life has been like since his first feature film, and how he has brought shame to his country. He is on a mission to change that by returning to America—this time in disguise—and he’s brought his daughter with him.

The movie stars Sacha Baron Cohen and Maria Bakalova.

What is it nominated for?

Actress in a Supporting Role (Maria Bakalova) and Adapted Screenplay. 

The United States Vs. Billie Holiday 

What streaming service is The United States Vs. Billie Holiday available on?

The United States Vs. Billie Holiday is available for rent on digital and on-demand platforms, including iTunesGoogle Play, YouTube,  and the Cineplex Store.

What is The United States Vs. Billie Holiday about and who is in it?

The United States Vs. Billie Holiday chronicles the life and career of singer Billie Holiday.

The film stars Andra Day, Leslie Jordan, Lawrence Washington, Natasha Lyonne, Trevante Rhodes, Dusan Dukic, Erik LaRay Harvey, Da'Vine Joy Randolph. Koumba Bail, Kate MacLellan, Kwasi Songui and Adriane Lenox.

What is it nominated for?

Actress in a Leading Role (Andra Day).

Pieces of a Woman

What streaming service is Pieces of a Woman available on?

Pieces of a Woman is available to stream on Netflix.

What is Pieces of a Woman about and who is in it?

Pieces of a Woman is about a Boston couple who were on the verge of parenthood until their lives changed drastically when a home birth ends in an unutterable tragedy. A young woman named Martha must navigate her grief over the loss of her baby while working through her unruly relationships with her husband Sean and her overbearing mother.

This film stars Vanessa Kirby, Shia LaBeouf, Molly Parker and Ellen Burstyn.

What is it nominated for?

Actress in a Leading Role (Vanessa Kirby).

Soul

What streaming service is Soul available on?

Soul is available to stream on Disney+.

What is Soul and who is in it?

Soul is about Joe Gardner, a middle school band teacher who finally gets his chance to perform jazz music on stage, but as he’s celebrating the new accomplishment, he falls down a manhole and ends up in a coma sending his soul to the Great Before.

The animated film stars Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Angela Bassett, Questlove, Phylicia Rashad and Daveed Diggs.

What is it nominated for?

Animated Feature Film, Sound and Original Score.

Watch The 93rd Academy Awards on CTV Sunday, April 25th at 8pET/5pPT. Ahead of the ceremony, catch the Oscars: Into The Spotlight pre-show at 6:30pET/3:30pPT on CTV.

 

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