Hollywood traditionalists blanched this year when the streaming juggernaut Netflix managed to crack the Oscars’ best-picture race.

Next year, the company is poised to dominate that category.

Fielding a strong awards-season slate that includes Martin Scorsese’s crime epic “The Irishman” (opening in theaters on Friday); the Adam Driver-Scarlett Johansson dramedy “Marriage Story” (opening Nov. 6); and the crowd-pleasing “The Two Popes” (due at the end of November), Netflix has a viable path to three best-picture nominations in January — a rare feat for any studio, let alone one that has upended the way movies are distributed and seen.

Unlike the arty, black-and-white “Roma,” which won three Oscars for Netflix earlier this year but lost the top trophy to “Green Book,” the company’s new contenders are more mainstream, and each has a potential path to victory that can find precedent in a past best-picture winner.

“Marriage Story,” like “Kramer vs. Kramer,” is a contemporary film about divorce. “The Two Popes,” which asks Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce to enact a series of papal tête-à-têtes, recalls “The King’s Speech.”