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5 underrated Oscar-winning movies you should stream right now

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We tend to overrate the value of winning an Academy Award. The more optimistic among Hollywood’s denizens believe it will confer upon their film a kind of immortality, but how many people today have seen John Ford’s How Green Was My Valley, which beat Citizen Kane for Best Picture in 1941, or 1967’s multi-Oscar-winning Doctor Dolittle, which features a love song to a seal?

The truth is, many great films have won Oscars and then faded into relative obscurity. While the films below may not be truly obscure, they offer a sample of the cinematic delights available to stream that are far from required viewing for most, despite their Academy wins. 

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