5 Oscar-winning Netflix movies to watch this weekend (February 27-March 1)

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If you’re looking for critically acclaimed titles old and new, you don’t need to stray too far. Netflix is home to a huge collection of award-winning movies, shows, and documentaries spanning multiple genres.

Next month, Netflix will have a film, Train Dreams, nominated for Best Picture at the 2026 Academy Awards. Before you sit down to watch the 98th Academy Awards, watch these Academy Award-winning films on Netflix this weekend.

Always Alice

A moving but essential film to see, Always Alice is a tragic drama about Dr. Alice Howland (Julianne Moore), a successful and highly intelligent linguistics professor who is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease in her early 50s after her memory slowly begins to fade. As her memory and self-esteem begin to fade, the film follows how the illness reshapes her relationships with her husband (Alec Baldwin) and children (Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth and Hunter Parrish), forcing them all to confront their new reality and deal with heartbreak and love amid the pain. The film is based on the book of the same name by Lisa Genova.

The film earned Moore an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance, as well as a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Critics’ Choice Movie Award.

Always Alice

Release date: December 5, 2014
Runtime: 101 minutes
Director: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland

Icarus

Icarus is a masterpiece of investigative storytelling and cinema. The documentary focuses on Bryan Fogel, an American filmmaker and top amateur cyclist who investigates the stealthy world of illegal doping in sport. But what begins as an attempt to expose the inadequacy of existing rules to catch athletes who use banned products to enhance their performance is slowly taking a dark turn. This occurs when Fogel connects with the head of the Moscow anti-doping laboratory, Grigory Rodchenkov, following the discovery of a state-sponsored program, with Rodchenkov fleeing Russia as a whistleblower.

The docufilm won Best Documentary Feature at the 90th Academy Awards.

Icarus

Release date: August 4, 2017
Runtime: 2h
Director: Bryan Fogel

If anything happens, I love you

If you like 2D animation and short films, this movie will be your cup of tea. Written and directed by Will McCormack and Michael Govier, If anything happens, I love you is a heartbreaking story of heartbreak. It tells the story of grieving parents dealing with the loss of their daughter, killed in an unfortunate tragedy. Using shadows as a metaphor for their sadness and regrets, this tragic short film is a lesson in animation and storytelling. It is inspired by another short film, Father and daughter.

If anything happens, I love you won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 93rd Academy Awards.

Ma Rainey’s black background

Ma Rainey’s black background is a powerful drama set over the course of an afternoon in a Chicago recording studio in the 1920s. It follows legendary blues singer Ma Rainey and her band as tensions rise during a recording session. Throughout the film, the band and Ma must do multiple takes amid issues such as equipment breakdowns and arguments, with stories from several members of the recording studio exploring issues of class and race. The film stars Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman in his final film role, Colman Domingo and Michael Potts.

At the 93rd Academy Awards, Ma Rainey’s black background won two Oscars (best makeup and hairstyling and best costume design). The film also received nominations for Best Actor for Boseman and Best Actress for Davis.

Rome

If you are a fan of black and white films, then Rome is a must-see that lives up to the expectations of an award-winning film. The Spanish historical film, set in the Colonia Roma neighborhood of Mexico City in the 1970s, follows Cleo, a Mixtec maid living in an upper-middle-class home. With political unrest brewing in the background, Cleo faces an unexpected pregnancy and tensions at the house where she works. With tensions surrounding her, the film explores how Cleo copes with her situation and connects with Sofía, the woman of the house.

Rome is created by Alfonso Cuarón and is a semi-autobiographical take on Cuarón’s upbringing. The film won three Academy Awards at the 91st Academy Awards, including Best Foreign Language Film, becoming the first Mexican film to win the award. Cuarón won Best Director and Best Cinematography.

Rome

Release date: December 14, 2018
Runtime: 135 minutes
Director: Alfonso Cuarón

To find other Academy Award-winning films on Netflix, you can navigate to the “Oscars Spotlight” genre when searching or find the “Oscar Nominee” or “Academy Award Winner” tag in the title thumbnails.