Steven Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story’ Disney+ Streaming Debut Date Announced!

One of the hardest things to accomplish around Oscar season is trying to catch up and see all the films up for the Best Picture Award, well have no worries. Just in time for The Academy Awards Ceremony, Disney+ Steven Spielberg are making sure you get a chance to get all you views in before teh film industries big night.

Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-nominated West Side Story will makes its streaming debut on Disney+ in the U.S. and most international countries on March 2, the streamer announced today.

The film, which has pulled in a whopping seven Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Supporting Actress (Ariana DeBose).! So of course they want to get as many people seeing the film to offer a better reason as to why it has been granted such an well deserved honor.

The movie features a screenplay by Tony Kushner, and stars, in addition to DeBose, Ansel Elgort (Tony); Rachel Zegler (Maria)l David Alvarez (Bernardo); Mike Faist (Riff); Brian d’Arcy James (Officer Krupke); Corey Stoll (Lieutenant Schrank); Josh Andrés Rivera (Chino); and Rita Moreno (Valentina).

In addition, an ABC one-hour special called Something’s Coming: West Side Story – A Special Edition of 20/20’ is available to stream on Disney+ now.

West Side Story will launch in Taiwan on March 9 and Japan on March 30.