The nominees for the 2014 Academy Awards were announced this week and as my cousin Jennifer and I were discussing the nominees, we mentioned our curiosity as to which ones are already available to view at home (whether on DVD/Blu-Ray or instant streaming). There are quite a few. Unfortunately, all of the big contenders (films with four or more nominations) are unavailable for now, but three of the biggest movies (Captain Phillips, Dallas Buyers Club, Gravity) will be available for home viewing before the Oscars air on March 2. I'm missed all of those in the theatre, so I'll be taking advantage of that.
Realistically, I'm not going to make it out to more than one or maybe two movies between now and the awards, so (based on nomination count) I'm going to shoot for seeing American Hustle and maybe 12 Years a Slave. There's a rumor that Nebraska will be released in February. Most of the remaining major nominees are projected to be released in March or April.
So here they are in order of nominations. I didn't include any of the films in the Short categories, because they're always difficult to find. I'll update this list as more dates become available.
Already Available
- Blue Jasmine (Actress, Supporting Actress, Orig. Screenplay)
- The Grandmaster (Score, Costume Design)
- Despicable Me 2 (Animated, Song)
- The Great Gatsby (Costume Design, Production Design)
- The Lone Ranger (Makeup/Hairstyling, Visual Effects)
- All Is Lost (Sound Editing)
- The Act of Killing (Documentary Feature)
- Before Midnight (Adapted Screenplay)
- The Broken Circle Breakdown (Foreign - Belgium)
- The Croods (Animated)
- Cutie and the Boxer (Documentary Feature)
- Dirty Wars (Documentary Feature)
- Ernest & Celestine (Animated)
- The Hunt (Foreign Feature - Denmark)
- Iron Man 3 (Visual Effects)
- Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (Makeup/Hairstyling)
- The Lone Ranger (Makeup/Hairstyling, Visual Editing)
- Prisoners (Cinematography)
- The Square (Documentary Feature)
- Star Trek: Into Darkness (Visual Effects)
- 20 Feet From Stardom (Documentary Feature)
Coming Soon
- Captain Phillips (Picture, Supporting Actor, Adapted Screenplay, Editing, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing) - 01/21
- Dallas Buyers Club (Picture, Actor, Supporting Actor, Orig. Screenplay, Editing, Makeup/Hairstyling) - 02/04
- Gravity (Picture, Director, Actress, Score, Cinematography, Editing, Production Design, Visual Effects, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing) - 02/25
See it in the Theatre
- American Hustle (Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Supporting
Actor, Supporting Actress, Orig. Screenplay, Costume Design, Editing,
Production Design)
- 12 Years a Slave (Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Adapted Screenplay, Costume Design, Editing, Production Design)
- Nebraska (Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actress, Orig. Screenplay, Cinematography)
- Her (Picture, Orig. Screenplay, Song, Score, Production Design)
- The Wolf of Wall Street (Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actor, Adapted Screenplay)
- Philomena (Picture, Actress, Adapted Screenplay, Score) - 03/04
- The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Visual Effects, Sound Mixing, Sound Editing,
- August: Osage County (Actress, Supporting Actress)
- Frozen (Animated Feature, Song) - 03/18
- Inside Llewyn Davis (Cinematography, Sound Mixing)
- Lone Survivor (Sound Mixing, Sound Editing)
- Alone Yet Not Alone (Song)
- Book Thief (Score) - 03/11
- The Invisible Woman (Costume Design)
- Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (Song) - 03/18
- The Missing Picture (Foreign Feature - Cambodia)
- Omar (Foreign Feature - Palestinian Territories)
- Saving Mr. Banks (Score)
- The Wind Rises (Animated) - 05/22
