What to Watch on Sky: All the Best Picture Oscar Winners Available to Watch Now

For Hollywood, the award to beat all awards is the Best Picture win at the Academy Awards.

A ceremony that’s been held since 1927, the Oscar statues are seen as an emblem of the best of the best, with the films on Best Picture list being cemented in history as a result.

Luckily for you, Sky has dozens of the Best Pictures right at your fingertips – all you have to do is click.

And even if they’re not on Sky Cinema, even more are available on Paramount+, Netflix, Disney+ and HBO Max – all of which are available to Sky customers at no extra cost with the right package.

You can find out more about Paramount+ on Sky here, and Disney+, HBO Max and Netflix in our Ultimate Package here.

Once you’ve set those up, you can stretch your movie-loving muscles with any of the below. Happy viewing, cinema lovers!

Available now via Sky Cinema and HBO Max

Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Bob, a former revolutionary who is now a shadow of his former self. Living off-grid in the desert with his daughter Willa, his constant state of paranoia is proven to not be totally unfounded when she goes missing.

Bob is drawn back into his old world as he attempts to track her down, although, as things turns out, she is now much more capable than her old man...

One Battle After Another won six Academy Awards at the 2026 ceremony including Best Picture, Best Director for Paul Thomas Anderson, and Best Supporting Actor for Sean Penn.

Available now on Sky Cinema

Ani, a 23-year-old stripper and sex worker, thinks she’s landed the jackpot when she is introduced to 21-year-old Ivan: a fun-loving son of a Russian oligarch looking to waste his parents' money before heading off on his studies.

When a business deal turns into a full-blown romance and a whirlwind marriage in Vegas, Ani thinks she’s had her own Pretty Women moment – that is, until Ivan’s parents find out what he’s done, and send in their heavies to get the marriage annulled.

Now the pair must figure out if their romance is truly worth it, or if it’s about to blow up spectacularly as reality hits their rose-tinted world.

Anora won five Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actress and Best Original Screenplay and Best Director for creator Sean Baker.

Find out more about Anora here.

Available now on Disney+ via Sky

After the economic collapse of her small hometown in Empire, Nevada, widow Fern loses her job and home. Rather than stay where she is, she decides to hit the open road in a converted van.

Picking up small jobs to make ends meet along the way, Fern soon discovers a new side to life, forms bonds with fellow nomads, and discovers a level of resilience she never knew she had as she navigates the loss of her husband and her own self-discovery.

Nomadland won three Oscars at the 2021 ceremony – Best Picture, Best Director for Chloe Zhao, and Best Lead Actress for Frances McDormand.

Available now on Netflix via Sky

Inspired by the true-to-life events of the “Green Book” policy of America, Green Book follows the unlikely friendship that is formed between a Black concert pianist and his Italian American driver.

Set in 1962, Tony Vallelonga is hired to drive the acclaimed Don Shirley through the segregated and troubled American South on his performance tour. But with sundown laws, racism and discrimination still prominent, Tony soon needs to rely on the Green Book – a special guide for Black people about where they can and can’t go, in order to keep Don safe.

Now with a front row seat to what Black people have to do to get by in this world, Tony forms a bond with Don as they learn about each other over their racial divide.

Available now on Disney+, via Sky

Set in the early 1960s, Guilermo del Toro's The Shape of Water is a fantasy romance that follows a mute cleaning lady at a government lab as she forms an unlikely romantic bond with a strange aquatic creature that is being held captive. Staging a daring rescue, she frees the creature from its captors and hides it in her small apartment. But keeping its presence a secret proves to be challenging, and the government will stop at nothing to return in to the lab.

Available now on Netflix, via Sky

Ben Affleck stars in this political thriller based on a true story. During the Iran Hostage Crisis, CIA operative Tony Mendez launches a dangerous and risky rescue plan in order to retrieve the hostages being held in the US Embassy in Tehran.

Posing as a location scout for a big Hollywood sci-fi movie, Mendez uses the front to try and extract diplomats with his team posing as film crew.

But it’s only a matter of time until someone catches on, so the team needs to hold their nerve in order to succeed in their mission.

Available now on Paramount+, via Sky (free if you have Sky Cinema)

Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) makes the mistake of a lifetime when he discovers the horrific aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong while out hunting.

Rather than leave well-enough alone, his greed gets the better of him, and he flees with a bag of cash he finds on the scene – and soon he finds himself being hunted down by a psychotic contract killer (Javier Bardem) and an ageing Sheriff (Tommy Lee Jones) on a race against time.

Available now on Sky Cinema and NOW

While the full trilogy is available on our services now, it was the third and final film in the series that took home the Best Picture win at the 2003 Academy Awards.

Picking up with Frodo and Sam as they try to complete their quest to get the Ring to Mount Doom and destroy it for good, their conflicted guide, Gollum, makes his true motivations known.

Meanwhile, a battle for Middle Earth is brewing, with the Fellowship and their allies making a stand against the forces of the evil Sauron.

Available on Sky Cinema and NOW

An all-singing, all-dancing murder spectacular, Chicago brings the beloved musical to life on the big screen as Roxie Hart (Renée Zellweger) finds herself behind bars for allegedly killing off her lover. While there, she meets cabaret star Velma Kelly (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and soon the pair are fighting for the attention of hotshot defence lawyer Billy Flynn (Richard Gere) and the papers to get the stardom and freedom they crave.

Available on Paramount+ via Sky

Russell Crowe stars in this biographical drama of genius John Nash, a brilliant but socially withdrawn man whose life is upended with a battle with schizophrenia, forcing a balance between his intellect and his mental health.

Following his life starting as a Princeton graduate in the 1940s, A Beautiful Mind follows the highs and lows of John’s life as he finds love and eventually wins the Nobel Peace prize, all while trying to find ways to keep the hallucinations he suffers with at bay.

Available now on Netflix via Sky

The first of two consecutive wins led by Russell Crowe, Gladiator takes us back to ancient Rome in a historical epic about the price of vengeance. When Emperor Aurelius makes plans to have General Maximus Decimus Meridius succeed him on the throne rather than his son Commodus, a chain of events are triggered as Commodus fights for the power he thinks is his birthright, pushing Maximus out as a traitor. In turn, he becomes a gladiator to finally seek his vengeance.

Available now on Paramount+ via Sky

Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) is in the midst of a mid-life crisis. He has a daughter who hates him, a wife that’s cheating on him, and a job he hates. Desperate for some excitement, Lester heads on a journey of self-discovery and undertakes a sexual reawakening when he is introduced to his daughter’s new high school friend.

Available now on Disney+ via Sky

In this bittersweet love story from James Cameron, star-crossed lovers Rose DeWitt Bukater and Jack Dawson find themselves meeting on board the ill-fated Titanic in 1912. While Rose is in first class with her fiancé and mother, she’s trapped by society's expectations of her – including a potential marriage to the snobbish financier Cal Hockley. Jack, who won his third-class ticket in a last minute bet at the docks, lives a more free-spirited life, with dreams of becoming an artist. As the boat sets sail from England to America, the pair find themselves falling deeply in love – but with the “unsinkable” ship destined to meet a grisly end at the bottom of the ocean, will they be able to survive?

Available now on Paramount+ via Sky

An adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's novel of the same name, The English Patient follows the story of Laszlo de Almasy (Ralph Fiennes), who is looked after by nurse Hana (Juliette Binoche) in an Italian monastery after being badly burned in a plane crash during World War II. With little memory to who he is, the pair find themselves inexplicably connected.

Available on Disney+ via Sky 

In this epic historical drama starring Mel Gibson, Scottish warrior William Wallace takes centre stage as he leads a rebellion against oppressive English rule.

After suffering his own personal tragedy at the hands of the English forces, Wallace launches a mission for freedom and resistance.

However, as political and societal struggles bring everyone’s loyalties into questions, will Wallace’s bravery on the battlefields spearhead the movement – or will there be more sacrifices for him to make in the name of liberty and national pride?

Available now on Sky Cinema and NOW

In 18th century Vienna, composer Antonio Salieri finds himself consumed with jealousy and rage as young new musician Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart arrives in the city.

Soon caught up in the cultural whirlwind of Vienna’s high society, Mozart is praised as a genius – but Salieri, who feels displaced as a result, starts seeking ways to bring him down.

As Salieri’s rivalry becomes his obsession, this story sees the duo on a collision course that is sure to end in disaster, but will cement Mozart’s legacy forever.

Blending fact and fiction of the real-life Salieri and Mozart, this tale has since been remade into a five-part Sky Original series starring Will Sharpe and Paul Bettany.

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Available on Sky Cinema and NOW.

In this heartwarming comedy-drama, a mother and daughter’s unbreakable bond is put in the spotlight – as complicated as it may be.

Tracking the pair over the years of their lives, overprotective mother Aurora Greenway struggles to let go of her daughter, Emma.

As Emma grows up, marries and has a family of her own, the pair navigate life’s complications and hardships together.

Available on Disney+ via Sky.

This sports drama classic is based on a true story of Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams – two British Olympian hopefuls who have to overcome personal obstacles in order to compete in the 1924 Paris games.

While one is a devout Christian, the other is Jewish, and both face prejudice, discrimination and crises of faith in order to compete and achieve Olympic glory.

Available on Paramount+ via Sky

Set across two timelines, The Godfather Part II takes a step back with flashbacks to a young Vito Corleone (Robert Deniro), and how he started life in Sicily before establishing his crime family in New York City.

In the present timeline, Vito’s son Michael (Al Pacino) has taken over the family business and has plans to expand their empire to include Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Cuba – all while juggling a struggling marriage and a family falling apart.

The film won six Oscars and became the first sequel in history to take home the Best Picture honour at the Academy Awards. (There’s only been one other - Lord of the Rings: Return of the King).

Available on Paramount+ via Sky

When his crime partner is murdered by a ruthless crime boss, Johnny Hooker (Robert Redford) – a con man with a love for an elaborate scheme – joins forces with retired pro Henry Gondorff in order to bring those responsible to justice in their own special way. Naturally, things go terribly wrong in this caper, and soon they have to think on their feet.

Available on Paramount+ via Sky

In the first instalment of this much-loved gangster franchise, The Godfather Part I follows Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando), the unshakeable boss of the Corleone crime family, as he makes plans to hand the business over to his son, Michael (Al Pacinio), who isn’t too sure he wants to be part of his father’s criminal organisation. But sometimes destiny has a way of forcing your hand.

Available on Disney+ via Sky

In this neo-noir action thriller, New York detectives Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle and Buddy “Cloudy” Russo uncover a huge drugs operation between the French city of Marseille and New York City. Now they’re in a race against the clock and need to stop those responsible in their tracks before heroin floods the streets of Manhattan.

Available on Disney+ via Sky

Set against the backdrop of World War II, nun-in-training Maria is sent to work as a governess for the seven Von Trapp children in Austria.

Her perky demeanour soon brings joy to the strict and disciplined household, led by widowed patriarch Captain Von Trapp – whom she soon grows feelings for.

But the threat of war always looms over the country, leaving the family in danger.

The musical favourite starring Julie Andrews has become a family favourite.

Available now on Paramount+, via Sky

Audrey Hepburn stars as Eliza Doolittle in this musical tale of class and elevating yourself in the world. Henry Higgins, a rich and pompous phonetics professor, who takes on the bet of turning Cockney flower seller Eliza into a “presentable” member of society within six months via elocution lessons.

Available on HBO Max via Sky and NOW

In 1861, on the eve of the American Civil War, headstrong Scarlett O’Hara lives on a cotton plantation in Georgia with her sisters, her parents and their Black slaves. When she discovers Ashley Wilkes is set to marry, she takes it upon herself to profess her love to him before it’s too late – but her efforts catch the attention of Rhett Butler.

In the years that follow, as men are called to fight for the Confederacy, headstrong Scarlett navigates the complicated world of war-torn America and her position in society as she strives to ensure her and her family’s survival and comfortable lives.