From left, Robert de Niro, Al Pacino and Ray Romano star in a scene from The Irishman. Pacino was nominated for an Oscar for best supporting actor for his role in the film. Photo: Netflix
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The Irishman, Marriage Story … Netflix gets 24 Oscar nominations – but will the streaming giant win the best-picture award?
This year, the streaming service has more nominations than any of the traditional movie studios it’s up against
Netflix gained 24 Oscar awards on Monday, including six for Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story, starring Scarlett Johansson (right), Adam Driver, and with Laura Dern (left). Still from Marriage Story: Netflix via AP
After years of building up its slate of original movies and swaying acclaimed directors like Alfonso Cuarón and Martin Scorsese, Netflix gained 24 Oscar nominations on Monday, more than any of the traditional movie studios it’s up against.
They include best picture nominations for Scorsese’s The Irishman, which scored 10 nominations, and Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story, which nabbed six.
The streaming giant has come a long way since 2014, when it scored its first Oscar nomination for documentary feature for The Square. Netflix made huge strides last year with 15 nominations, buoyed by Cuarón’s Roma, which The New York Times reported it spent up to US$20 million on for its Oscar campaign. The movie was nominated for best picture and won three trophies, but lost the biggest prize of the night to Green Book.
Filmmaker Alfonso Cuarón, left, and Yalitza Aparicio on the set of Roma. Cuaron was nominated for an Oscar for best director for his work on the film. Photo: Netflix
With two players in the best-picture race this year, Netflix’s chances might be even greater at securing the coveted best-picture award. Even if it doesn’t win, its ascension from one nomination in 2014 to a leading 24 nods six years later speaks to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science’s embrace of the streaming giant.
A big chunk of that success can be attributed to Netflix’s vice-president of film, Scott Stuber, who has helped usher the streamer into the awards conversation. He embraced the role in 2017; that same year, Netflix won its first Oscar for best documentary short subject for The White Helmets. A year later, it won the Oscar for best documentary feature for Icarus. It’s up for that award again this year – twice – for American Factory and The Edge of Democracy.
“Scott has found, and continues to find, a balance between the traditional Hollywood model and Netflix’s innovations,” Baumbach, the Marriage Story director, told Business Insider. “He also does what he says he’s going to do. I’ve never been let down by Scott.”
The chart below shows how dramatically the number of Netflix’s Oscar nominations has grown since 2014:
Netflix’s Oscar nominations have skyrocketed in the past seven years. Photo: Business Insider
This article originally appeared in Business Insider.