Oscar Nominations 2015: How to Watch Academy Award Nominees 'Gone Girl,' 'Boyhood' 'The Judge' and More Online Right Now
With the awards season under way and the reveal of the 2015 Oscar nominations last Thursday, on-demand Internet streaming media available providers -- Amazon, Hulu and Netflix -- have once again treated moviegoers with a horde of some of the latest Oscar-nominated films. Here's your chance to check out the biggest critically acclaimed films and commercial successes of the year at home. Get that coffee pot ready and get ready to binge.
Nominated for six Academy Award nominations -- Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Ethan Hawke), Best Supporting Actress (Patricia Arquette), Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Editing -- Richard Linklater's universally lauded coming-of-age drama film "Boyhood" (available on Amazon, iTunes), was shot intermittently over a 12-year period from May 2002 to October 2013, showing the growth of a Mason Evans, Jr. (Ellar Coltrane) and his older sister, Samantha (Lorelei Linklater) to adulthood.
Garnering nine Academy Award nominations including nods for Best Picture, Best Cinematography, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Makeup, Best Original Score, Best Costume Design, Best Editing and Best Production Design, auteur Wes Anderson's charmingly posh period adventure comedy, "The Grand Budapest Hotel" (Amazon, iTunes) will bring a smile to your face. The film follows Monsieur Gustave H. (Ralph Fiennes), a concierge who join forces with one of his lobby boy Zero Moustafa (Tony Revolori) to prove his innocence after he is framed for the murder of Madame Céline Villeneuve Desgoffe und Taxis, his elderly former flame.
British actress Rosamund Pike gives a mesmerizing performance as Amy Elliott-Dunne, an overachieving, world-famous writer and missing wife of Nick (Ben Affleck) in David Fincher's bone-chilling "Gone Girl" (Amazon, iTunes). Set in the Midwest, the film follows Nick as he tries uncovering the mystery of his missing bride and the events after.
Oscar winning film icon Robert Duvall made history this year when, at age 84, he became the oldest person ever-nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Academy Awards, with a nomination for the film "The Judge" (Amazon, iTunes). Directed by David Dobkin ("The Wedding Crashers"), the film follows a successful defense attorney (Robert Downey Jr.) forced to represent his father, a court judge who is implicated in a fatal hit and run fender-bender.
Nominated for Best Animated Feature this year, Laika's 3D computer-animated action fantasy film "The Boxtrolls" (Amazon, iTunes) and DreamWorks Animation's 3D computer-animated action fantasy film "How To Train Your Dragon 2" (Amazon, iTunes) will unleash the inner child. Snubbed from the Best Animated Feature category, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller's computer animated adventure comedy blockbuster "The Lego Movie" (Amazon, iTunes), nominated for Best Original Song ("Everything is Awesome") will entertain animation lovers and inspire head bobs with its insanely catchy theme song. If you're a big aficionado of music, "Lost Stars," the beautiful soft rock tune performed by Maroon 5 front man Adam Levine for the musical romantic comedy-drama film "Begin Again" by John Carney ("Once"), will soothe the soul.
Need visual eye candy? Check out Marvel/Disney's superhero reconnoiter thriller "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" (Amazon, iTunes), 20th Century Fox's "Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes" (Amazon, iTunes) and "X-Men: Days Of Future Past" (Amazon, Tunes) are up for Best Visual Effects. The action-packed Marvel/Disney space odyssey "Guardians Of The Galaxy" (Amazon, iTunes) is also nominated in that category and has picked up a nod in the Best Makeup category. If you're budding fashionista, Disney's "Maleficent" (Amazon, iTunes), nominated for Best Costume Design, is a your style go-to.
Frontrunner for Best Foreign Language Film, PaweÅ Pawlikowski.'s critically acclaimed drama "Ida" (Amazon, iTunes, Netflix), is also up for Best Cinematography. Following a young novice nun on the brink of taking her vows in 1960s Poland whom discovers her birth parents were victims of the Holocaust, the film has been called a masterpiece critics everwhere. But if you're less of a film buff and would love watching reality television or catching up detail-oriented new stories, check out the rest of the films up for Best Documentary: "Virunga" (Netflix), "Finding Vivian Maier" (Amazon, iTunes) and "Last Days In Vietnam" (Amazon, iTunes).
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