Like the past monthly shows, the sheer variety of everything new on Max in June is just as exciting as the last. Typically, Max tends to bring more and more A24 movies to the service as part of a deal it signed last year, but for this month, it's the Oscar-winning movies that are having their moment in the spotlight.
Max was our streaming service of the year in 2023 for its incredible catalog and the addition of these four Oscar winners is further proof of this. Three of the four are biopics, because the Academy loves biopics, but each has received Oscars in different areas, whether for her acting, her writing talent, or her visual effects.
With their big Oscar wins and positive critical acclaim, all four films have a good chance of making our list of the best Max movies. You can find full descriptions of our picks below, a perfect way to start planning your summer movie nights.
Oppenheimer (2023)
Director: Christopher Nolan
Execution time: 180 minutes
Age classification: R
Arriving to: June 18
Nolan's biographical thriller swept the 2024 Academy Awards, taking home seven Oscars, including Best Actor, Best Director and Best Picture. Cillian Murphy plays the protagonist, J. Robert Oppenheimer, inventor of the atomic bomb. Throughout the events of the film, we see every detail of Oppenheimer's process of creating nuclear weapons for World War II from his early days as a physics student to July 16, 1945, a day that altered the course of the history.
Judy (2019)
Director: Ruperto Gold
Execution time: 118 minutes
Age classification: PG-13
Arriving to: June 26th
In 2020, Renee Zellweger took home the Best Actress Oscar for her role as Hollywood icon Judy Garland. Set during the final months of Garland's life, the biopic follows her as she travels to London to perform a series of sold-out shows at the Talk of the Town club. During her stay in London, she meets musician Mickey Deans, a man who will become her fifth and last husband.
If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
Director: Barry Jenkins
Execution time: 119 minutes
Age classification: R
Arriving to: June 1st
Regina King is the reason for this film's Oscar recognition, taking home the Best Supporting Actress award in 2019 for her role as Sharon Rivers. Based on the novel of the same name by James Baldwin, expectant mother Tish (Kiki Layne) lives peacefully with her fiancé Alonzo (Stephan James) in the early 1970s in Harlem, New York. Her dream of having the perfect family is soon threatened when Alonzo is framed for a crime he did not commit. With the support of friends and family, Tish fights to clear her name before her child is born.
Milk (2008)
Director: Gus Van Sant
Execution time: 128 minutes
Age classification: R
Arriving to: June 1st
The third biopic on our list earned Sean Penn the Oscar for Best Actor and screenwriter Dustin Lance Black the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. Based on the inspiring true story of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk (Penn), the film follows Milk and his partner Scott Smith (James Franco) as they move to San Francisco from New York. Throughout the '70s, we see Milk make history as the country's first gay man to be elected to public office, but not everyone is happy with this change.
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