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With the 95th Academy Awards wrapped up, here’s an up-to-date guide to Netflix’s Oscars history, including an in-depth look at every award and nomination.

Netflix takes the Oscars seriously, with Insider reports that in 2022Netflix had a 40-person awards operation along with 15 consultants who split their time working on campaigns for the Emmys and, of course, the Oscars.

Of course, for some, Netflix’s inclusion in many of the awards for which it has been nominated has seen as controversial, given that Netflix has not fully embraced theatrical releases. That debate continues through 2023.

Some major awards still elude Netflix as of 2023, notably Netflix didn’t win Best Picture despite having eight total nominations in the category. Also, to date, Netflix has never won a best actor or actress award.


How many Oscar nominations has Netflix had?

In all, Netflix has collected 132 Oscar nominations in its history, with 2021 being the year in which it collected the most nominations with 36.

As a recap, here are all of Netflix’s Oscar nominations and latest wins broken down by how many years it’s been releasing movies:

netflix oscar wins nominations years

Netflix Oscar Winners and Nominations Over the Years

Let’s break down Netflix’s historic Oscar nominations by category:

  • Best image: 8 nominations – 0 wins
  • Best Director: 4 nominations – 2 wins
  • best Actor: 6 nominations – 0 wins
  • Best actress: 6 nominations – 0 wins
  • Best Supporting Actor: 6 nominations – 0 wins
  • Best Supporting Actress: 7 nominations – 1 win
  • Best Original Screenplay: 4 nominations – 0 wins
  • Best Adapted Screenplay: 9 nominations – 0 wins
  • Best International Feature Film: 4 nominations – 2 wins
  • Best Animated Feature Film: 6 nominations – 1 win
  • Best Animated Short Film: 2 nominations – 1 win
  • Best Documentary Feature: 11 nominations – 3 wins
  • Best Documentary Short Film: 12 nominations – 3 wins
  • Best Original Score: 6 nominations – 1 win
  • Best original song: 5 nominations – 0 wins
  • Best Sound / Best Sound Editing: 5 nominations – 0 wins
  • Best Production Design: 6 nominations – 2 wins
  • Best photography: 8 nominations – 3 wins
  • Best Costume Design: 4 nominations – 1 win
  • Best Makeup and Hairstyling: 4 nominations – 1 win
  • Best Film Editing: 5 nominations – 0 wins
  • Best visual effects: 3 nominations – 0 wins
  • Best Live Action Short Film: 1 nomination – 1 win

How many one-off Netflix originals have been nominated for an Oscar?

56 individual Netflix Original movies, shorts and documentaries They have been nominated for Oscars since 2014.

Here is the full list:

  • 13
  • A love song for Latasha
  • All calm on the west front
  • american factory
  • Audible
  • Bardo, false chronicle of a handful of truths
  • Blond
  • camp for cripples
  • Gives 5 bloods
  • don’t look up
  • End of the game
  • Eurovision Song Contest: The Fire Saga Story
  • extremes
  • Crystal Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
  • Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro
  • Heroin)
  • peasant elegy
  • I lost my body
  • icarus
  • if something happens i love you
  • klaus
  • guide me home
  • life surpasses me
  • Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
  • man
  • marriage story
  • muddy
  • my master octopus
  • In body and soul
  • On the moon
  • Period. End of sentence.
  • pieces of a woman
  • robin robin
  • Rome
  • strong island
  • The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
  • the edge of democracy
  • the elephant whisperers
  • The hand of God
  • the Irish
  • The life ahead
  • the lost daughter
  • The Martha Mitchell Effect
  • The Mitchells against the machines
  • the power of the dog
  • the sea beast
  • Square
  • The trial of the Chicago 7
  • the two popes
  • The White Helmets
  • Three songs for Benazir
  • tick, tick… BOOM!
  • two distant strangers
  • Virunga
  • What happened, Miss Simone?
  • Winter in Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom

List of all Netflix Oscars movies and documentaries

netflix oscar wins over the years

Pictured: All Quiet on the Western Front, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Power of the Dog, Rome

In all, Netflix Originals have collected 22 Oscarsthe most in 2021 with seven wins.

Netflix Oscar Awards 2023

  • All calm on the west front
    • Best International Feature Film
    • Best Achievement in Cinematography – James Friend
    • Best Achievement in Production Design – Production Design: Christian M. Goldbeck; Set Decoration: Ernestine Hipper
    • Best Original Score: Volker Bertelmann
  • Pinocchio by Guillermo del Toro
  • the elephant whisperers
    • Best Documentary Short

Netflix Oscar Awards 2022

  • the power of the dog
    • Best Director: Jane Campion

Netflix Oscar Awards 2021

  • if something happens i love you
  • Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
    • Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling: Sergio Lopez-Rivera, Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson
    • Best Achievement in Costume Design: Ann Roth
  • man
    • Best Achievement in Production Design
    • Best Achievement in Cinematography
  • my master octopus
  • two distant strangers
    • Best Live Action Short Film

Netflix Oscar Awards 2020

  • american factory
  • marriage story
    • Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role: Laura Dern

Netflix Oscar Awards 2019

  • Rome
    • Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
    • Best Achievement in Directing – Alfonso Cuarón
    • Best Achievement in Cinematography – Alfonso Cuarón
  • Period. end of sentence
    • Best Documentary Short

Netflix Oscar Awards 2018


Netflix Oscar Awards 2017

  • The White Helmets
    • Best Documentary Short

What has been your favorite Oscar-winning Netflix movie or documentary so far? Let us know in the comments below.