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The 6Movies design

The archived capture of www3.6movies.net from January 2023 preserves the home page and its style sheet, built on a popular Bootstrap movie template, and both were measured closely. The header was a slim bar of deep plum, fixed to the top of the screen, holding a menu button, the logo and a plain white search box. The page itself was white, with dark text set in Montserrat at a light weight. Posters sat six to a row, each with a small badge in a fresh green gradient in the top corner, and under each poster came a bold title and a line with a golden-yellow rating chip, the year and the running time, or the season and episode count for a series. Section headings were set large in the same plum, a Trending block offered Movies and TV Shows tabs, and a description box with a plum border explained the site.

This 6Movies keeps all of those details and turns them to a new purpose. The green badge now says whether a title is a film or a series, the yellow chip shows the rating, and the description box introduces the guide. The logo is original: a white circle holding a plum 6, followed by the word movies.

The header

The plum header stays at the top of every page. On the left, a menu button opens a panel with every section, just as the original's menu opened its sidebar, and beside it sits the 6movies logo, which always leads home. Next comes the white search box, marked Enter keywords, ready for a title, an actor or a director. On wide screens a row of white links follows, Home, Films, TV Shows, Best Picture, International and A-Z, with the current page underlined, and on the right a My List button. On smaller screens the links move into the menu.

Latest

The home page opens with the Latest block, a grid of the most popular titles from 2024 and 2025, six to a row on a laptop. It is the quickest way to see what the most recent awards seasons have brought, from Conclave, Dune: Part Two and A Real Pain to One Battle After Another, Hamnet, Shōgun and The Studio. Each poster carries its green Film or Series badge, and the line beneath shows the rating, the year and the running time, or the seasons and episodes.

The description box

Below Latest sits the description box, framed in plum like the original. It introduces 6Movies in a sentence or two and offers four plum buttons for the main collections: Best Picture, International, TV Shows and Top rated. It is a small, clear doorway into the whole catalogue.

Trending

Next comes Trending, with a large plum heading and two tab buttons, Movies and TV Shows, in the soft grey pills of the original template. The grid below shows the most popular films in the catalogue, and the TV Shows block that follows shows the most popular series. Today they include Oppenheimer, Dune, Mad Max: Fury Road, Slow Horses, The Pitt and Hacks.

The title page

Every film and series on 6Movies has its own page, with the poster, the title, the year, the running time or seasons, the genres and the rating, followed by the story, the cast and the director or creators. Series pages add every season and episode with air dates. Next to the poster sits the country selector and the Watch now button, which opens the title on JustWatch for the country you choose. The how to watch guide walks through each step.

The Best Picture winners

Five Best Picture winners of the decade live on 6Movies. Spotlight follows the Boston Globe journalists who uncovered a cover-up in the Catholic Church, a quiet, gripping tribute to investigative reporting. Moonlight follows a young man in Miami at three stages of his life, and its win at the 2017 ceremony, after the wrong envelope led to La La Land being announced first, became one of the most famous moments in Oscar history. Nomadland follows a woman who takes to the road in a van after losing her job and her town, and made Chloé Zhao the second woman to win the Oscar for directing.

Everything Everywhere All at Once follows a laundromat owner who discovers she can jump between universes, and won seven Oscars, including acting prizes for Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis. Oppenheimer tells the story of the physicist behind the atomic bomb, and also won seven Oscars, including best director for Christopher Nolan and acting prizes for Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr. The Best Picture winners collection gathers them together.

A decade of nominees

The Best Picture nominees collection holds more than fifty films from the ceremonies of 2016 to 2025. The class of 2015 includes The Big Short, Bridge of Spies, Brooklyn, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Martian, The Revenant and Room. The class of 2016 includes Fences, Hell or High Water, Lion and Manchester by the Sea. The class of 2017 brought Darkest Hour, Dunkirk, Lady Bird, Phantom Thread, The Post and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

The class of 2018 includes BlacKkKlansman and Vice, and the class of 2019 brought Ford v Ferrari, The Irishman, Jojo Rabbit, Marriage Story and 1917. The class of 2020 brought The Father, Judas and the Black Messiah, Mank, Minari and The Trial of the Chicago 7, and the class of 2021 brought Belfast, Dune, King Richard, Licorice Pizza, Nightmare Alley, The Power of the Dog and West Side Story.

The class of 2022 includes All Quiet on the Western Front, Avatar: The Way of Water, The Banshees of Inisherin, Triangle of Sadness and Women Talking. The class of 2023 brought American Fiction, Anatomy of a Fall, Barbie, The Holdovers, Killers of the Flower Moon, Past Lives and The Zone of Interest, and the class of 2024 brought Conclave, Dune: Part Two, I'm Still Here and Nickel Boys. The Best Picture guide picks highlights from every year.

Great performances

Many titles on 6Movies are remembered for a single towering performance. Leonardo DiCaprio finally won his Oscar for The Revenant, Brie Larson won for Room, Casey Affleck won for Manchester by the Sea and Gary Oldman won as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour. Frances McDormand won for both Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and Nomadland, Anthony Hopkins won for The Father, Renée Zellweger won as Judy Garland in Judy and Brendan Fraser won for The Whale.

Supporting performances shine too: Mark Rylance in Bridge of Spies, Viola Davis in Fences, Allison Janney in I, Tonya, Regina King in If Beale Street Could Talk, Laura Dern in Marriage Story, Daniel Kaluuya in Judas and the Black Messiah, Ariana DeBose in West Side Story, Da'Vine Joy Randolph in The Holdovers and Kieran Culkin in A Real Pain all won Oscars.

The directors

Awards season is also a showcase for great directors. Christopher Nolan made Dunkirk and Oppenheimer, Denis Villeneuve made Sicario, Dune and Dune: Part Two, and Martin Scorsese made The Irishman and Killers of the Flower Moon. Steven Spielberg made Bridge of Spies, The Post and West Side Story, Paul Thomas Anderson made Phantom Thread, Licorice Pizza and One Battle After Another, and Greta Gerwig made Lady Bird and Barbie. Jane Campion won the Oscar for directing The Power of the Dog, Barry Jenkins made Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk, and Pablo Larraín made the portraits Jackie and Spencer.

From Europe, Pedro Almodóvar made Pain and Glory and Parallel Mothers, Ruben Östlund won the Palme d'Or twice with The Square and Triangle of Sadness, Joachim Trier made The Worst Person in the World and Sentimental Value, and Edward Berger made All Quiet on the Western Front and Conclave. Each title page lists its director, so you can follow a favourite filmmaker through the decade.

International winners

The International collection gathers films in languages other than English, and it includes many winners of the Oscar for best international feature. Son of Saul, from Hungary, follows a prisoner at Auschwitz over two days, The Salesman, from Iran, follows a couple whose lives are shaken after a break-in, and A Fantastic Woman, from Chile, follows a young woman grieving her partner. Another Round, from Denmark, follows four teachers who test a theory about happiness, with Mads Mikkelsen, All Quiet on the Western Front brings the German classic of the First World War to the screen, The Zone of Interest looks at Auschwitz from the garden wall of its commandant's home, and I'm Still Here follows a Brazilian mother searching for the truth after her husband is taken during the military dictatorship.

The collection also includes Shoplifters, Hirokazu Kore-eda's Palme d'Or winner about a makeshift family in Tokyo, Perfect Days, Wim Wenders's gentle portrait of a Tokyo toilet cleaner who finds joy in small routines, and Anatomy of a Fall, a French courtroom drama that won the Palme d'Or and the Oscar for original screenplay. Capernaum, Cold War, Io Capitano, The Quiet Girl, The Teachers' Lounge, Argentina 1985 and Godzilla Minus One, which won the Oscar for visual effects, complete a remarkable shelf. The international guide has more.

Animated favourites

Animation has its own place in awards season. Flow, from Latvia, follows a cat who survives a great flood on a boat with other animals, told entirely through images and sound, and it won the Oscar for best animated feature. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, a stop-motion retelling set in Mussolini's Italy, won the same Oscar two years earlier. The Wild Robot follows a robot who raises an orphaned gosling on a wild island, Klaus is a hand-drawn Christmas tale about the origins of Santa Claus, and Memoir of a Snail is a bittersweet Australian stop-motion story. The animated guide gathers them.

Drama series

The TV Shows collection gathers the most celebrated series of the decade. Succession follows the Roy family fighting over a media empire, and it won the Emmy for outstanding drama series three times. Shōgun follows an English navigator shipwrecked in feudal Japan and the lord who takes an interest in him, and its first season set a record for the most Emmys won by a single season of television. Andor brings a grounded spy story to the Star Wars universe, The Last of Us follows a smuggler and a teenage girl across a ruined America, and Slow Horses follows a team of disgraced British spies led by Gary Oldman's gloriously scruffy Jackson Lamb.

The Pitt follows a single shift in a Pittsburgh emergency room across each season and won the Emmy for outstanding drama in 2025. The Americans follows Soviet spies living as an ordinary American family in the 1980s, The Leftovers follows a town coping with the sudden disappearance of two percent of the world's population, and Mr. Robot follows a brilliant, troubled hacker. Superb crime drama comes from Ozark, MINDHUNTER, The Night Of and Fargo, each a masterclass in tension. The series guide picks the best starting points.

Comedy series

Television comedy had a golden decade. Schitt's Creek follows a wealthy family who lose everything and move to a small town they once bought as a joke, and in 2020 it became the first comedy to win all seven major Emmy categories in a single year. The Bear follows a young chef who returns to Chicago to run his late brother's sandwich shop, Hacks follows a legendary Las Vegas comedian and the young writer she reluctantly hires, and Abbott Elementary follows the teachers of an underfunded Philadelphia school in a warm mockumentary. The Studio, starring Seth Rogen as the new head of a Hollywood studio, won the Emmy for outstanding comedy in 2025.

Veep follows a hapless American vice president, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel follows a 1950s housewife who becomes a stand-up comedian, Only Murders in the Building follows three true-crime fans solving murders in their Manhattan apartment building, and What We Do in the Shadows follows vampire flatmates on Staten Island. The Good Place is a philosophical comedy about the afterlife, Barry follows a hitman who discovers acting, Atlanta follows two cousins in the city's music scene, and Reservation Dogs follows four Indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma.

Limited series

Limited series tell complete stories in a single season, and some of the best television of the decade takes this form. Mare of Easttown follows a small-town detective played by Kate Winslet, Watchmen reimagines the famous comic in modern Tulsa, and When They See Us tells the story of the five teenagers wrongly convicted in the Central Park jogger case. BEEF turns a road-rage incident into a darkly funny spiral, Adolescence follows a family after a thirteen-year-old is arrested, filmed with each episode in a single continuous shot, and Station Eleven follows a travelling theatre company after a pandemic. Dopesick, Unbelievable, Lessons in Chemistry and RIPLEY complete an outstanding shelf.

True stories

Awards season loves a true story, and 6Movies is full of them. Spotlight and The Post celebrate journalism, The Big Short explains the 2008 financial crash with wit, and Bridge of Spies follows a lawyer negotiating a prisoner exchange during the Cold War. Ford v Ferrari follows the engineers and drivers who took on Ferrari at Le Mans in 1966, First Man follows Neil Armstrong on the road to the Moon, and Air tells how a young basketball player and a sports company changed sneakers forever. Harriet follows Harriet Tubman, Loving follows the couple whose marriage changed American law, Till follows Mamie Till-Mobley's fight for justice for her son, and Rustin follows the organiser of the 1963 March on Washington.

King Richard follows the father of Venus and Serena Williams, Steve Jobs follows the Apple founder backstage at three product launches, Trumbo follows a screenwriter blacklisted in Hollywood, and Argentina 1985 follows the prosecutors who put a military junta on trial. September 5 follows a sports television crew during the 1972 Munich Olympics, NYAD follows a swimmer's attempt to cross from Cuba to Florida, and Sing Sing follows men in a prison theatre programme, several of them played by its real alumni.

War and history

Some of the most spectacular films of the decade look at history and war. Dunkirk tells the evacuation of 1940 from land, sea and air, 1917 follows two young soldiers across the Western Front in what appears to be a single continuous shot, and Darkest Hour follows Winston Churchill in the same crucial weeks. All Quiet on the Western Front brings the First World War to life with devastating force, Blitz follows a boy in wartime London, and Napoleon follows the French emperor from his rise to his fall. Da 5 Bloods follows Vietnam veterans returning to the jungle, and The Zone of Interest looks at the Holocaust with chilling restraint.

Great dramas

Many titles on 6Movies are intimate dramas about ordinary lives. Manchester by the Sea follows a man called home to care for his nephew, Marriage Story follows a couple through a divorce, and The Father shows dementia from the inside with astonishing craft. Past Lives follows two childhood friends from Seoul who meet again in New York decades later, Aftersun follows a young woman remembering a holiday with her father, and The Holdovers follows a grumpy teacher, a student and a cook spending Christmas at a New England boarding school in 1970. Minari follows a Korean family starting a farm in Arkansas, Belfast follows a boy in the Troubles of 1969, and Room follows a mother and her son finding the world outside.

Laughter in awards season

Comedy often wins hearts in awards season too. Jojo Rabbit is a bold satire about a boy in wartime Germany whose imaginary friend is a ridiculous Hitler, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery sends the detective Benoit Blanc to a billionaire's Greek island, and Barbie sends the famous doll into the real world with Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. The Banshees of Inisherin turns the end of a friendship on an Irish island into a darkly funny fable, American Fiction follows a frustrated novelist who writes a satire under a pen name, and Triangle of Sadness shipwrecks a crew of the super-rich. A Real Pain follows two cousins on a heritage tour of Poland, balancing laughter and grief.

Crime and thrillers

Crime and suspense fill some of the most gripping titles on 6Movies. Sicario follows an FBI agent pulled into the drug war on the Mexican border, Hell or High Water follows two brothers robbing banks in West Texas, and Uncut Gems follows a New York jeweller on a frantic run of bets, with a career-best Adam Sandler. Killers of the Flower Moon tells the story of the murders of Osage Nation members in 1920s Oklahoma, Nightmare Alley follows a carnival con man, and Conclave turns the election of a pope into a thriller of whispers and secrets. On television, The Night Of, MINDHUNTER, Fargo, Ozark, Poker Face and Killing Eve keep the tension high.

Science fiction and spectacle

Awards season has room for spectacle too. Mad Max: Fury Road won six Oscars for its thunderous desert chase, The Martian follows an astronaut stranded on Mars with only his wits and a sense of humour, and Dune and Dune: Part Two bring Frank Herbert's desert planet to breathtaking life. Avatar: The Way of Water returns to Pandora under the sea, Godzilla Minus One brings the famous monster to post-war Japan, and Frankenstein is Guillermo del Toro's long-dreamed version of the classic novel. Everything Everywhere All at Once shows how science fiction can also be a family comedy and a love story.

Music and performance

Music and performance run through many award winners. Judy follows Judy Garland's final concerts in London, Florence Foster Jenkins follows a wealthy socialite who dreams of singing opera, and The Color Purple brings the stage musical version of Alice Walker's novel to the screen. West Side Story is Steven Spielberg's vibrant new version of the classic musical, Being the Ricardos goes behind the scenes of I Love Lucy, and Mank follows the screenwriter of Citizen Kane. One Night in Miami... imagines a night in 1964 when Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Jim Brown and Sam Cooke met in a hotel room.

By year

The year collections make it easy to revisit a whole season at once. The 2015 to 2017 shelf holds the years of Spotlight, Moonlight and Lady Bird. The 2018 to 2020 shelf holds BlacKkKlansman, 1917 and Nomadland. The 2021 to 2023 shelf, the largest, holds Dune, Everything Everywhere All at Once and Oppenheimer, and the 2024 and 2025 shelf holds Conclave, Dune: Part Two, Shōgun and One Battle After Another.

The awards calendar

If you like to follow awards season as it happens, it helps to know the calendar. The season begins with the late-summer festivals of Venice, Telluride and Toronto, where many contenders premiere, after the Cannes festival in May has crowned its Palme d'Or. In winter come the critics' prizes, the Golden Globes, the guild awards and the BAFTAs, and the Oscars close the season in early spring. The Emmys honour television every autumn. The awards calendar guide sets it out step by step.

Subtitles and original voices

International award winners are best enjoyed in their original language, and subtitles make that easy. The major services offer subtitles in dozens of languages, many titles also have dubbed audio, and many add audio description and subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing. Every title page on 6Movies shows the original language, so you know before you press Watch now. The subtitles guide shows how to switch subtitles and audio tracks in the popular apps.

How Watch now works

Every title page carries a country selector and a Watch now button. Choose your country and press the button, and the title's page on JustWatch opens, listing the services that carry it where you live: subscriptions, free services with adverts and stores where you can rent or buy. Pick one and the title opens in that service's own player. Award winners often move between services as their fame grows, which is why 6Movies checks JustWatch each time rather than keeping a fixed list.

The services behind the guide

Netflix carries many award winners it produced itself, from The Irishman and Marriage Story to All Quiet on the Western Front and The Power of the Dog, in most countries. Max carries HBO series such as Succession, Hacks and The Last of Us in many regions, Disney+ and Hulu carry The Bear and Shōgun depending on your country, and Apple TV+ carries Slow Horses and The Studio. MUBI and other arthouse services carry many international winners, and Apple TV, Google TV and Prime Video rent and sell most films. The services guide gives a short tour.

Free ways to watch

There are legal ways to watch some award winners at zero cost. Free services with adverts such as Tubi, Pluto TV, The Roku Channel and Freevee carry a selection of acclaimed films in many countries, and library services such as Kanopy and Hoopla offer many international and independent winners free with a library card. When you press Watch now and choose your country, JustWatch shows any free options beside the paid ones. The free films guide has the details.

Apps and devices

Many of these films were made for the biggest screen you can find. 6Movies works in every modern browser, so you can browse on a phone or a laptop, and the films themselves play in each service's official app on your television. Fire TV, Google TV, Apple TV, Roku, PlayStation, Xbox and smart TVs all run the main apps, and casting sends a phone's picture to the TV in a couple of taps. The apps and devices guide covers each one.

My List

My List is your personal awards ballot. Press Add to My List on any title page to save it, and on the season pages of a series mark the episode you reached, which is handy for long series such as Veep, The Americans or Fargo. Many visitors use it to work through a whole year of nominees before the next ceremony.

The list stays in the browser where you made it, private to you and ready from the first click, with zero accounts to create. To bring it to another device, export it as a small file and import that file on the other side. The My List guide explains each step, and the My List button in the header opens your list from any page.

Finding a title

The search box in the header accepts titles, original titles, actors and directors, so Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy or Christopher Nolan will all lead to the same film. Press Enter for the full results page, where you can filter by type, genre and year. The menu opens every collection, and the A-Z index lists every title in alphabetical order. The finding a title guide has more tips.

The official 6Movies site

The official 6Movies site is easy to recognise: a plum header with a menu button and the white 6movies logo, a flat white search box, a white page with rows of six posters carrying green Film or Series badges and golden rating chips, a plum-bordered description box and a Trending block with Movies and TV Shows tabs. Every Watch now button leads to JustWatch and from there to the official services. Bookmark the home page to keep the right address close. The official site guide describes it in detail.

Streaming safely

A few good habits keep streaming safe. Install service apps only from Google Play, the App Store or your television's own store. Give every service its own strong password and switch on two-step sign-in. Before paying for anything, check that the address bar shows the real name of the service. 6Movies links to JustWatch, and JustWatch links to each official service, so every step stays on trusted ground. The safety guide has a short checklist.

Is 6Movies working?

If a page feels slow, try the quick test: open the home page, then any title page. If both load, 6Movies is up. A refresh, a cleared cache, another browser or another network fixes most slow pages. Films and series play on the streaming services, so their help centres answer playback questions. The site status guide lists the fixes in order.

Privacy

6Movies keeps very little. My List, your episode marks and your chosen country stay in your own browser. Posters, backdrops and production details come from TMDB, the community-built film and television database, and every Watch now link goes to JustWatch. The privacy page sets it all out in plain words.

How the catalogue is chosen

The 6Movies catalogue is chosen by hand from the awards seasons of 2015 to 2025: Best Picture nominees and winners, international and animated favourites, other films that shone in the season, and the most celebrated series of the decade. Sex-led titles are left to other guides, and some famous nominees appear on sister guides such as 1Flex, 1Tube and 67Movies instead, so each guide keeps its own character. The result is a shelf of films and series that critics, voters and audiences agreed were special.

The story of 6Movies

The name 6Movies has appeared on several addresses, and its best-preserved home, www3.6movies.net, filled its January 2023 front page with the awards-season films of that winter under a plum header on a white page. This 6Movies keeps the plum, the white page and the six-poster rows, and turns them into a guide to a whole decade of awards seasons, with every title linked to the services that carry it officially.

The art of the image

Awards season celebrates the craft behind the camera, and many titles on 6Movies won the Oscar for cinematography. Emmanuel Lubezki won for The Revenant, shot almost entirely in natural light, Roger Deakins won for 1917, with its illusion of a single unbroken shot, and Erik Messerschmidt won for the black-and-white Mank. Greig Fraser won for the desert vistas of Dune, James Friend won for the mud and fire of All Quiet on the Western Front, and Hoyte van Hoytema won for Oppenheimer, much of it shot on large-format film. These are films to watch on the biggest screen you have.

Music of the season

Great scores carry many of these films. Hans Zimmer won the Oscar for the thunderous music of Dune, Ludwig Göransson won for the pulsing strings of Oppenheimer, and Volker Bertelmann won for All Quiet on the Western Front, with its three-note motif that sounds like an alarm. Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk carry lush, aching scores by Nicholas Britell, who also wrote the famous theme of Succession. Music lovers can spend a whole evening simply listening to these soundtracks.

Comebacks and second acts

Some of the most moving stories of awards season happened off screen. Brendan Fraser returned to the spotlight and won the Oscar for The Whale, and Ke Huy Quan, a child star of the 1980s, won for Everything Everywhere All at Once decades after stepping away from acting. Jamie Lee Curtis won her first Oscar for the same film, and Kieran Culkin, who grew up on screen, won for A Real Pain. Their speeches were among the most joyful moments of their ceremonies.

An awards weekend

For a whole awards weekend, try this plan. On Friday night, start with a crowd-pleaser such as Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery or The Holdovers. On Saturday, set aside the afternoon for an epic such as Oppenheimer or Dune: Part Two, and end the evening with something intimate such as Past Lives. On Sunday, travel with an international winner such as Another Round or Perfect Days, and finish with the first episodes of Shōgun or The Bear. Mark everything in My List, and next weekend's ballot is ready.

From page and stage

Many award winners began as books or plays. Room adapts Emma Donoghue's novel, Brooklyn adapts Colm Tóibín's, The Power of the Dog adapts Thomas Savage's and Killers of the Flower Moon adapts David Grann's non-fiction bestseller. Fences adapts August Wilson's play, The Father adapts Florian Zeller's own stage drama, and The Whale adapts Samuel D. Hunter's. Dune and Dune: Part Two adapt Frank Herbert's great science fiction novel, Women Talking adapts Miriam Toews's novel, and Nickel Boys adapts Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize winner. Conclave adapts Robert Harris, and American Fiction adapts Percival Everett's satirical novel Erasure.

The new golden age of television

The series on 6Movies show how ambitious television has become. Many were made with the budgets and craft of big films: Shōgun recreated seventeenth-century Japan in painstaking detail, Andor built entire planets, and The Last of Us filled its ruined cities with lovingly designed decay. Others show how much a small story can hold: Somebody Somewhere follows a woman rediscovering her voice in a Kansas town, Colin from Accounts is a sweet Australian romantic comedy, and Ramy follows a young Muslim American balancing faith and modern life. Together they show that some of the finest storytelling of the decade happened on the small screen.

Portraits of real lives

Some of the most compelling films of awards season are portraits of famous people at a turning point. Jackie follows Jacqueline Kennedy in the days after her husband's assassination, and Spencer follows Princess Diana over one tense Christmas at Sandringham, both directed by Pablo Larraín. The Two Popes imagines conversations between Pope Benedict and the future Pope Francis, with Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce. I, Tonya tells the wild story of the figure skater Tonya Harding with dark humour, Molly's Game follows a former skier who ran high-stakes poker games, and Richard Jewell follows the security guard wrongly suspected after the 1996 Atlanta bombing. Each film offers a new way of seeing a story many people thought they already knew.

Stories of immigration and belonging

Several of the finest films on 6Movies are about belonging. Brooklyn follows a young Irish woman building a new life in 1950s New York, Minari follows a Korean family farming in Arkansas, and Past Lives follows a woman torn between two countries and two lives. Io Capitano follows two Senegalese teenagers on a perilous journey to Europe, Flee tells a refugee's story through animation, and The White Tiger follows a driver rising through Indian society. These films travel far and speak to anyone who has ever felt between two worlds.

Hollywood on Hollywood

Hollywood loves stories about itself, and awards season often rewards them. Mank follows the screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he writes Citizen Kane, Trumbo follows the blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo, and Being the Ricardos goes behind the scenes of a week on I Love Lucy. Judy follows Judy Garland in her final years, and on television The Studio turns the running of a modern film studio into sharp comedy. Empire of Light is a love letter to an old seaside cinema in 1980s England. Together they show how much the people who make films love the art form, flaws and all.

Short and sweet

Some masterpieces are short. Aftersun runs about an hour and a half, The Quiet Girl and EO are just as concise, and limited series such as Adolescence and BEEF tell complete stories in a handful of episodes. The running time and episode count under each poster make it easy to choose something that fits the evening you have.

Worth a rewatch

Award winners often reward a second viewing. The details of Everything Everywhere All at Once reveal themselves on a rewatch, the careful plotting of Conclave and Anatomy of a Fall looks different once you know the ending, and the quiet gestures of Past Lives and Aftersun grow richer each time. Keep your favourites in My List, and return to them whenever a new awards season makes you nostalgic for the last one. A second viewing is also the perfect moment to share a favourite with someone who missed it the first time: press Watch now together, settle in, and enjoy watching their reactions to the twists and turns you already know and love.

A growing ballot

6Movies grows with every awards season. As new nominees are announced and new series win their prizes, they join the Latest block and the year collections, and the Best Picture shelf grows by another class of films. Come back when the nominations are announced each winter, and let 6Movies show you where to watch the season's favourites. Whether you follow every ceremony live or simply want a reliably excellent film for tonight, the shelves are arranged to help: by award, by language, by year and by genre, with every title a single press away from the services that carry it officially and My List ready to hold your personal ballot for the seasons to come.

Festival favourites

Many titles on 6Movies began their journeys at the great festivals. At Cannes, the Palme d'Or went to The Square, Shoplifters, Triangle of Sadness and Anatomy of a Fall. At Venice, the Golden Lion went to Nomadland. At Toronto, where the audience award has become one of the best predictors of Oscar success, the People's Choice Award went to Room, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Jojo Rabbit, Nomadland, Belfast and American Fiction. Watching festival winners is a lovely way to follow the season from its very beginning.

Remarkable debuts

Some of the most moving films on 6Movies are first features. Aftersun was Charlotte Wells's debut, Past Lives was Celine Song's, American Fiction was Cord Jefferson's and Eighth Grade was Bo Burnham's. The Lost Daughter was the first feature directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, Sing Sing and Nickel Boys came from filmmakers with fresh, bold voices, and Lady Bird was Greta Gerwig's first film as sole director. Each one arrived with a clear, confident voice and went on to earn awards attention.

Women behind the camera

The decade saw a welcome rise in films directed by women reaching the heart of awards season. Chloé Zhao won the Oscar for directing Nomadland and Jane Campion won it for The Power of the Dog. Greta Gerwig directed Lady Bird and Barbie, Justine Triet directed Anatomy of a Fall, Sarah Polley won the Oscar for adapting Women Talking, Celine Song directed Past Lives and Charlotte Wells directed Aftersun. Nadine Labaki directed Capernaum and Jasmila Žbanić directed Quo Vadis, Aida?, two of the most powerful international films of their years.

Catching up before the Oscars

Many film lovers try to watch every Best Picture nominee before the ceremony. 6Movies makes it easy to do the same for past years. Open the Best Picture nominees collection, pick a year, save its films to My List, and watch them over a few weekends, from the crowd-pleasers to the demanding masterpieces. Then compare your own favourite with the Academy's choice. It is a fun way to see how tastes change, and a reminder that the winner is only the beginning of a great list.

Family picks

Awards season is often serious, but 6Movies has plenty for the whole family. The Wild Robot, Flow, Klaus and Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio are beautiful animated films for every age, The Martian is a thrilling and funny space survival story, and King Richard and Ford v Ferrari are inspiring true stories. Barbie and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery are bright entertainment for older children and grown-ups alike. Each title page shows the genres and the rating to help you choose.

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