Best Academy Award-Winning Films on Netflix 2026
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Our pick of the best Academy Award-Winning Films on Netflix right now, ranked by audience rating out of the 64 titles in category code 51063. Tap any title for full details and where to watch.
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1. The Dark Knight (2008)
Rated 9/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 2008, 2h 32m. As Batman, Lt.
2. Schindler's List (1993)
Rated 8.9/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1993, 3h 15m. Oskar Schindler becomes an unlikely humanitarian, spending his entire fortune to help save 1,100 Jews from Auschwitz during World War II.
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
Rated 8.8/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 2001, 2h 58m. From the idyllic shire of the Hobbits to the smoking chasms of Mordor, Frodo Baggins embarks on his epic quest to destroy the ring of Sauron.
4. Inception (2010)
Rated 8.8/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 2010, 2h 28m. In this mindbending sci-fi thriller, a man runs an espionage business built around entering the subconscious of his targets to steal their thoughts.
5. GoodFellas (1990)
Rated 8.7/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1990, 2h 25m. This gripping gangster opus follows real-world mobster Henry Hill, who dreamed of making it big but landed in the Witness Protection Program instead.
6. Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Rated 8.6/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1991, 1h 58m. FBI trainee Clarice Starling ventures into a maximum-security asylum to pick the diseased brain of Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist turned cannibal.
7. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Rated 8.6/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1998, 2h 49m. Eight U.S.
8. Gladiator (2000)
Rated 8.5/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 2000, 2h 34m. Tapped for the throne after the death of the emperor, a Roman general instead finds himself condemned to die by the late ruler's power-hungry son.
9. The Departed (2006)
Rated 8.5/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 2006, 2h 31m. To take down Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own men to infiltrate it, not realizing the syndicate has done the same thing.
10. The Usual Suspects (1995)
Rated 8.5/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1995, 1h 46m. When five unacquainted crooks are hauled into a police station to appear in a criminal lineup, they decide to pull off a heist together.