Watch Now: Oscar Nominees 2014
It's Oscar Week! Are you still working on seeing all the nominated films? We've compiled a list of many of the films included in this year's nominations available to watch right now on Amazon Instant Video, so that you can get comfy at home and get caught up before the winners are announced.
The 86th Annual Academy Awards are Sunday, March 2nd, 2014 on ABC, with the broadcast beginning at 7pm ET/4pm PT; here's our full list of the nominations.
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The 86th Annual Academy Awards are Sunday, March 2nd, 2014 on ABC, with the broadcast beginning at 7pm ET/4pm PT; here's our full list of the nominations.
(Note: Videos are only viewable by our U.S. users; iPad users must have the AIV app installed.)
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1.
12 Years a Slave
(2013)
In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. (134 mins.)
Director: Steve McQueen
2.
Dallas Buyers Club
(2013)
In 1985 Dallas, electrician and hustler Ron Woodroof works around the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need after he is himself diagnosed with the disease. (117 mins.)
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
3.
Nebraska
(2013)
An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize. (115 mins.)
Director: Alexander Payne
4.
Gravity
(2013)
A medical engineer and an astronaut work together to survive after a catastrophe destroys their shuttle and leaves them adrift in orbit. (91 mins.)
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
5.
Blue Jasmine
(2013)
A New York socialite, deeply troubled and in denial, arrives in San Francisco to impose upon her sister. She looks a million, but isn't bringing money, peace, or love... (98 mins.)
Director: Woody Allen
6.
Captain Phillips
(2013)
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years. (134 mins.)
Director: Paul Greengrass
7.
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. (109 mins.)
Director: Richard Linklater
8.
Frozen
(2013)
When the newly crowned Queen Elsa accidentally uses her power to turn things into ice to curse her home in infinite winter, her sister, Anna, teams up with a mountain man, his playful reindeer, and a snowman to change the weather condition. (102 mins.)
Director: Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee
9.
The Croods
(2013)
After their cave is destroyed, a caveman family must trek through an unfamiliar fantastical world with the help of an inventive boy. (98 mins.)
Director: Kirk DeMicco, Chris Sanders
10.
Despicable Me 2
(2013)
When Gru, the world's most super-bad turned super-dad has been recruited by a team of officials to stop lethal muscle and a host of Gru's own, He has to fight back with new gadgetry, cars, and more minion madness. (98 mins.)
Director: Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud
11.
The Broken Circle Breakdown
(2012)
Elise and Didier fall in love at first sight, in spite of their differences. He talks, she listens. He's a romantic atheist, she's a religious realist. When their daughter becomes seriously ill, their love is put on trial. (111 mins.)
Director: Felix van Groeningen
12.
The Great Beauty
(2013)
Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty. (142 mins.)
Director: Paolo Sorrentino
13.
The Hunt
(2012)
A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son's custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie. (115 mins.)
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
14.
Prisoners
(2013)
When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family? (153 mins.)
Director: Denis Villeneuve
15.
The Grandmaster
(2013)
The story of martial-arts master Ip Man, the man who trained Bruce Lee. (130 mins.)
Director: Kar Wai Wong
16.
The Great Gatsby
(2013)
A Midwestern war veteran finds himself drawn to the past and lifestyle of his millionaire neighbor. (143 mins.)
Director: Baz Luhrmann
17.
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
(2013)
86-year-old Irving Zisman takes a trip from Nebraska to North Carolina to take his 8 year-old grandson, Billy, back to his real father. (92 mins.)
Director: Jeff Tremaine
18.
The Lone Ranger
(2013)
Native American warrior Tonto recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid, a man of the law, into a legend of justice. (149 mins.)
Director: Gore Verbinski
19.
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. (106 mins.)
Director: J.C. Chandor
Stars: Robert Redford
20.
Iron Man 3
(2013)
When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution. (130 mins.)
Director: Shane Black
21.
Star Trek Into Darkness
(2013)
After the crew of the Enterprise find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one-man weapon of mass destruction. (132 mins.)
Director: J.J. Abrams
22.
The Act of Killing
(2012 Documentary)
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. (115 mins.)
Director: Joshua Oppenheimer, Anonymous
23.
Cutie and the Boxer
(2013 Documentary)
This candid New York love story explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of famed boxing painter Ushio Shinohara and his wife, Noriko. Anxious to shed her role as her overbearing husband's assistant, Noriko finds an identity of her own. (82 mins.)
Director: Zachary Heinzerling
24.
Dirty Wars
(2013 Documentary)
Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill is pulled into an unexpected journey as he chases down the hidden truth behind America's expanding covert wars. (87 mins.)
Director: Rick Rowley
25.
Twenty Feet from Stardom
(2013 Documentary)
Backup singers live in a world that lies just beyond the spotlight. Their voices bring harmony to the biggest bands in popular music, but we've had no idea who these singers are or what lives they lead, until now. (91 mins.)
Director: Morgan Neville
26.
The Book Thief
(2013)
While subjected to the horrors of World War II Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. In the basement of her home, a Jewish refugee is being sheltered by her adoptive parents. (131 mins.)
Director: Brian Percival