20 Oscar Winners and Nominees to Stream on Kino Film Collection

In anticipation of the 98th Academy Awards®, we’re highlighting Oscar winners and nominees available to stream on Kino Film Collection. Spanning more than 70 years of cinema, these films represent the very best of international filmmaking, documentary storytelling, and classic Hollywood craft. From two Sophia Loren classics to the groundbreaking film that earned the first Best Director nomination for a woman, this collection showcases the enduring impact of Oscar-recognized cinema. With recent contenders like Mr. Nobody Against Putin and Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat joining the lineup, there’s never been a better time to explore these award-worthy films.

Mr. Nobody Against Putin (2026)

Nominee - Best Documentary Feature at the 2026 Academy Awards®

Mr. Nobody Against Putin is a riveting first-person exposé of Russia's wartime student indoctrination program told through the eyes and lens of a small-town primary school teacher who dared to challenge the program and expose the truth. Winner of the Sundance World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award.

Let's Get Lost (1988)

Nominee - Best Documentary Feature at the 1989 Academy Awards®

This portrait of the elusive jazz vocalist and trumpeter Chet Baker uses excerpts from Italian B movies, rare performance footage, and candid interviews from what turned out to be the last year of his life. Winner of the 1989 Critics Prize at the Venice Film Festival and nominated for an Academy Award, Let's Get Lost has become an important document of the life of a jazz legend.

The Sorrow and the Pity (1972)

Nominee - Best Documentary Feature at the 1972 Academy Awards®

Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary, The Sorrow and The Pity has been acclaimed as one of the most moving and influential films of all time. A triumph of humanist filmmaking, it is considered one of the most valuable achievements in the history of cinema and an epic account of France under the occupation of the Nazi regime during World War II.

Nowhere in Africa (2002)

Winner - Best Foreign Language Film at the 2003 Academy Awards®

A love story spanning two continents, this true tale of a Jewish family who fled the Nazi regime in 1938 for a remote farm in Kenya won the 2003 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Abandoning their once-comfortable existence in Germany, Walter Redlich, his wife Jettel and their five-year-old daughter each deal with the harsh realities of their new life as they learn to cherish their time in Africa.

Mephisto (1981)

Winner - Best Foreign Language at the 1982 Academy Awards®

The 1981 Academy Award-winning (Best Foreign Language Film) Mephisto concerns a passionate, but struggling actor (Klaus Maria Brandauer) who remains in Germany during the Nazi regime and reaps the rewards of this Faustian pact by finally achieving the stardom he has long craved. 

Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (1963)

Winner - Best Foreign Language Film at the 1965 Academy Awards®

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow is a sparklingly original comedy that casts Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren in three different stories set throughout Italy. In Naples, they are poor but resourceful, selling black market cigarettes on the streets. In Milan, Loren is costumed in Christian Dior and debates her preference for a Rolls-Royce or her husband. And in Rome, Mastroianni is an industry scion who helps Loren’s prostitute set a wavering priest back onto the spiritual plane. Witty and unforgettable, this gem from master filmmaker Vittorio de Sica (Marriage Italian Style) is picture-postcard beautiful and effortlessly hilarious.

Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat (2024)

Nominee - Best Documentary Feature at the 2025 Academy Awards®

This 2025 Oscar® nominee for Best Documentary Feature and Sundance award winner tells the story of the U.S. government's jazz ambassador program in Africa and the CIA's involvement with the assassination of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba. A provocative, real-life Cold War thriller, Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat intertwines jazz, espionage, and colonialism – uncovering a scandal whose urgency is still resonant in today's geopolitical climate.

Four Daughters (2023)

Nominee - Best Documentary Feature at the 2024 Academy Awards®

One of 2023’s most acclaimed releases, this riveting documentary by two-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania (The Man Who Sold His Skin) uses an audacious formal conceit to tell the story of Olfa Hamrouni and her four daughters. Attempting to answer the question of how and why the Tunisian woman’s two eldest were radicalized, Ben Hania reveals a complex history. We watch as the family relives key events in their lives with help from professional actors standing in for the missing girls. Four Daughters is a compelling portrait of five women and a unique and ambitious work of nonfiction cinema that pushes against the conventional boundaries of the documentary. 

Of Fathers and Sons (2018)

Nominee - Best Documentary Feature at the 2019 Academy Awards®

After his Sundance award-winning documentary Return to Homs (2013), Talal Derki returned to his Syrian homeland for Of Fathers and Sons, where he gained the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years. His camera focuses primarily on the children, providing an extremely rare insight into what it means to grow up with a father whose only dream is to establish an Islamic caliphate. Nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the Academy Awards, and Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for World Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival, Of Fathers and Sons is a work of unparalleled intimacy that captures the chilling moment when childhood dies and jihadism is born.

Angry Harvest (1985)

Nominee - Best Foreign Language Film at the 1986 Academy Awards®

Agnieszka Holland’s Oscar-nominated film is a beautifully acted tale of forbidden romance under Nazi occupation. In 1943 Poland, a wealthy farmer (Armin Mueller-Stahl) lives a quiet rural life until he discovers a married Jewish woman (Elisabeth Trissenaar) on the run. As he hides her and nurses her back to health, they grow closer, while death waits at their doorstep.

Fire at Sea (2016)

Nominee - Best Documentary Feature at the 2017 Academy Awards®

An Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Feature and the first nonfiction film to ever win the top prize at the Berlin International Film Festival, Fire at Sea takes place in Lampedusa, a remote Mediterranean island that has become a major entry point for refugees into Europe. Award-winning filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi masterfully juxtaposes these realities, providing a new understanding of the migrant crisis and the price of freedom. 

Camille Claudel (1988)

Nominee - Best Actress at the 1990 Academy Awards®

Nominee - Best International Feature at the 1990 Academy Awards®

This Oscar-nominated biography of iconic French sculptor Camille Claudel (Isabelle Adjani) is a tale of love, betrayal, and female empowerment. When her passion for the arts captures the attention of famed sculptor Auguste Rodin (Gérard Depardieu), she becomes his assistant. Camille hones her talent, but as their relationship grows intimate, she struggles to escape his oppressive shadow.

Trouble the Water (2008)

Nominee - Best Documentary Feature at the 2009 Academy Awards®

An Academy Award nominee and winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, this powerful documentary is at once horrifying and exhilarating. Trouble the Water takes you inside Hurricane Katrina by weaving an insider’s view with a mix of verité and in-your-face filmmaking. It is a redemptive tale of self-described street hustlers who become heroes, survive the storm, and then seize a chance for a new beginning. 

Colonel Redl (1984)

Nominee - Best Foreign Language Film at the 1986 Academy Awards®

Set in the lead up to WWI, Szabó's Cannes Grand Jury-winning Colonel Redl charts the rise of Alfred Redl to head of counter-intelligence of the Austro-Hungarian Army. His hidden homosexuality, however, is used against him by enemies of the state, putting both his professional standing and his country's security in dire straits. The film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film in 1985, the third of four such Academy Award nominations Szabó's films earned.

Seven Beauties (1976)

Nominee - Best Foreign Language Film at the 1977 Academy Awards®

Nominee - Best Director at the 1977 Academy Awards®

Nominee - Best Actor at the 1977 Academy Awards®

Nominee - Best Original Screenplay at the 1977 Academy Awards®

The Conformist (1970)

Nominee - Best Adapted Screenplay at the 1972 Academy Awards®

Set in Mussolini's Italy, The Conformist stars Jean-Louis Trintignant as a repressed man who joins the Fascists in an attempt to fit in. Adapted from the Alberto Moravia novel and newly restored from the original camera negative, Bernardo Bertolucci's masterpiece boasts an authentic Art Deco look created by production designer Ferdinando Scarfiotti, a score by the great Georges Delerue, and breathtaking color cinematography by Vittorio Storaro.

Marriage Italian Style (1964)

Nominee - Best Foreign Language Film at the 1966 Academy Awards®

Nominee - Best Actress in a Leading Role at the 1965 Academy Awards®

In this Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, Marcello Mastroianni co-stars as the irrepressibly carnal businessman Domenico, who discovers Sophia Loren's Filumena as a young prostitute. When he chooses to marry a young cashier instead of her, Filumena is furious, and resorts to a series of wild and hilarious ruses to win back his hand.

5 Broken Cameras (2011)

Nominee - Best Documentary Feature at the 2013 Academy Awards®

An extraordinary work of cinematic and political activism, this Academy Award-nominated film is a firsthand account of nonviolent resistance in a West Bank village threatened by Israeli settlements. Structured around the destruction of a succession of self-taught Palestinian cameraman Emad Burnat's video cameras, 5 Broken Cameras follows one family's evolution over five years of village turmoil.

Little Fugitive (1953)

Nominee - Best Original Screenplay at the 1954 Academy Awards®

Widely regarded as one of the most influential and enjoyable films of the American independent cinema, Little Fugitive is an utterly charming fable that poetically captures the joys and wonders of childhood. When a 7-year-old boy (Richie Andrusco) is tricked into believing he killed his older brother, he gathers his meager possessions and flees to New York’s nether wonderland: Coney Island. Upon and beneath the crowded boardwalk, Joey experiences a day and night filled with adventures and mysteries, resulting in a film that is refreshingly spontaneous and thoroughly delightful.

The Oscar (1966)

Nominee - Best Art Direction at the 1967 Academy Awards®

Nominee - Best Costume Design at the 1967 Academy Awards®

In this overheated camp-classic, Frankie Fane (Stephen Boyd) has clawed his way to the top of the Hollywood heap. As he prepares to win his first Oscar, his friend Hymie Kelly (Tony Bennett) reminisces about their life together and the people Frankie stepped on to make it there. Nominated for two Oscars and featuring cameos by Hollywood legends Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, and Joan Crawford.