Oscars 2026: Where & How To Watch Every Best Picture Nominee
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It’s revision time!
The 2026 Oscar nominees are in – and we have to admit, we haven’t seen (or, dare we say, heard of) every film up for a gong. Alas it happens every year – but I do admittedly feel smug to have seen half of the Best Picture nominees. And that’s where the conversation really lies: Best Picture. This is the Academy Awards’ most prestigious prize, awarded to some of cinema’s most noteworthy flicks in the Awards’ century-long history, across genres. Think The Godfather (1972), Casablanca (1943), Titanic (1997), Rocky (1976), Gladiator (2000) and more recently Parasite (2019), Oppenheimer (2023) and Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022).
At the 98th Academy Awards, 10 films are up for Best Picture. They are:
- Bugonia (Focus Features)
- F1 (Apple)
- Frankenstein (Netflix)
- Hamnet (Focus Features)
- Marty Supreme (A24)
- One Battle after Another (Warner Bros.)
- The Secret Agent (Neon)
- Sentimental Value (Neon)
- Sinners (Warner Bros.)
- Train Dreams (Netflix)
While the Academy rewatches and votes for its favourite, we will all be waiting with bated breath to see who comes out on top. (As Brits, we have to put our faith in Hamnet, the spellbinding adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel of the same name.)
If you’d like to decide on a winner for yourself, we’ve gathered where and how you can watch all of 2026’s Best Picture nominees before the winner is revealed on Sunday 15 March.
Oscar Best Picture 2026: Stream The Nominees
Bugonia
An English-language remake of the 2003 South Korean film Save the Green Planet!, this wacky flick marks the fourth collaboration between director Yorgos Lanthimos and actress Emma Stone, following The Favourite (2018), Poor Things (2023) and Kinds of Kindness (2024). Stone bagged the Oscar for Best Actress for her performance in Poor Things, and she is nominated again for Bugonia, which also marks Lanthimos’ second collaboration with Jesse Plemons, who co-starred in Kinds of Kindness though was snubbed for the Oscar nom in Bugonia despite his chilling performance. He stars as a conspiracy-obsessed man with an ailing mother who becomes convinced the glamorous CEO of a major company (Stone) is an alien intent on destroying Earth. What left to do but kidnap her and torture the information out of her?
Available to rent across platforms.
F1
Apple TV earns its third Best Picture nomination with its high octane F1 movie, anchored by Brad Pitt. (In 2021, CODA won and in 2023 Killers of the Flower Moon missed out to Oppenheimer.) Also nominated for Best Editing, Sound and Visual Effects, this film stars Pitt as Sonny Hayes who returns to Formula One racing after a 30 year absence to help a former teammate – much to the dismay of hotshot rookie Joshua Pearce (Damson Idris). Kerry Condon, Javier Bardem and Tobias Menzies also star.
After a cinematic debut, F1 has been exclusively available to stream with an Apple TV, though it is available to rent across other platforms.
Frankenstein
Netflix has had a contending film in the Oscar Best Picture category every year since 2019 – but it has never taken home the top gong. In 2026, Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is one of two films flying the flag for the streamer, with the director previously bagging the prize for The Shape of Water (2017). Of course, Frankenstein is a tale as old as time – one Del Toro previously described as a ‘dream project’. Oscar Isaac is the titular doctor, who creates a monstrous Creature, played by Jacob Elordi (nominated for Best Supporting Actor). They’re joined by Felix Kammerer as William Frankenstein, Victor’s younger brother, and his fiancee Lady Elizabeth Harlander (Mia Goth), whom Victor is in love with.
Again, Frankenstein had a cinema run, but is now available to stream with a Netflix subscription.
Hamnet
The only British film in the running for Best Picture this year is Hamnet, Chloé Zhao’s nature-focused adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s bestselling novel of the same name, which bagged the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2020. It tells the tale of William Shakespeare’s (Paul Mescal) oft forgotten son who died age 11 in 1596, and whose legacy of grief is thought to imbue many of the bard’s plays after the fact. But the focus is really on his wife, Agnes Hathaway, who remains home while he journeys to the London stage.
Hamnet was released in UK cinemas in January, so it isn’t available to stream just yet, but you can still catch it on the big screen.
Marty Supreme
Independent film and TV production company A24 has set itself apart in recent years for producing stellar modern arthouse films, including recent Best Picture nominees (and winners) like Room (2015), Moonlight (2016; winner), Lady Bird (2017), Minari (2020), Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022; winner), The Zone of Interest (2023) and Past Lives (2023). This year it’s Josh Safdie’s sports comedy-drama Marty Supreme, led by Timothée Chalamet in the title role, who also finds himself nominated for Best Actor for the third time in his short career. Relentlessly high-octane and in the works for almost a decade, the film is all about the titular table tennis champ and his drive to popularise the sport.
Marty Supreme landed in UK cinemas on Boxing Day, so it isn’t available to stream just yet – but you can still catch it on the big screen.
One Battle After Another
Legendary director Paul Thomas Anderson has been putting out stellar films since 1996 – but One Battle After Another is his highest grossing to date. Over the course of his career, PTA has also gathered 14 Oscar noms, but he has never actually won a gong. Will 2026 be his year? One Battle After Another is a black comedy action thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro and more, centring on an ex-revolutionary (DiCaprio) forced back into his former combative lifestyle when he and his daughter find themselves under the pursuit of a corrupt military officer. It might not sound like it on paper, but it is laugh out loud funny.
One Battle After Another is available to rent across platforms.
The Secret Agent
One of two non-English language films up for Best Picture this year, The Secret Agent (O Agente Secreto) is a Brazilian neo-noir historical political thriller that premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival to immediate acclaim. There, lead star Wagner Moura bagged the Best Actor award, which he is nominated for again at the Oscars. Director Kleber Mendonça Filho likewise bagged Best Director at Cannes, though he isn’t up for the same gong at the Oscars. The film centres on former professor Armando (Moura) who attempts to flee persecution and resist the authoritarian regime in the midst of the Brazilian military dictatorship.
The Secret Agent will land in UK cinemas on 20 February 2026.
Sentimental Value
And the second non-English language film comes from Norway – though there is a touch of English sprinkled in. Sentimental Value is Joachim Trier’s sixth feature film and most successful at the Oscars to date, bagging nine nominations across acting and technical categories (his 2021 romantic dramedy The Worst Person in the World bagged two nominations). Visually stunning and life affirming, Sentimental Value also stars Trier’s highest profile actors on an international stage – Swede Stellan Skarsgård and American Elle Fanning – alongside Norwegians Renate Reinsve, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas and Anders Danielsen Lie (the former four are all nominated in the acting categories). Reinsve and Lilleaas star as sisters Nora and Agnes who reunite with their estranged father Gustav (Skarsgård) in the wake of their mother’s death. Gustav is a renowned film director ready to embark on his next big project – his most autobiographical to date – and he wants theatre actress Nora to star. But when she turns him down, he brings in the American Rachel Kemp (Fanning) instead.
Sentimental Value landed in UK cinemas on Boxing Day so it isn’t available to stream just yet – but you can still catch it on the big screen.
Sinners
Ryan Coogler’s southern gothic horror Sinners is not just the most nominated film at the 98th Academy Awards, but the most nominated film in the awards’ history, gathering 16 nods. Best known for directing Black Panther (2018), Coogler is no stranger to the Oscars, with his films having picked up four gongs to date. Set in 1932 Mississippi, Sinners centres on twin brothers Smoke and Stack (both Michael B Jordan), whose plan to open a blues club is curtailed by a lurking evil force amid Jim Crow tensions. Hailee Steinfeld, Delroy Lindo, Jack O’Connell and Wunmi Mosaku all also star, the latter British star gaining her first ever Oscar nomination (for Best Supporting Actress) in the process.
Sinners is available to rent across streaming platforms.
Train Dreams
Netflix’s second Best Picture nomination this year is Train Dreams, Clint Bentley’s 2025 adaptation of Denis Johnson’s 2011 novella of the same name. Both chart the long, arduous and changing life of logger Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton) against the expansion of early 20th‑century America. Felicity Jones, Kerry Condon and William H. Macy also star in a film marrying the physical grit of labour with an emotional reckoning about love, loss and the world moving on around you. Expect gorgeous views of the Pacific Northwest, plus narration by Will Patton’s narration.
Train Dreams is available to stream on Netflix.
The 98th Academy Awards will take place on Sunday 15 March 2026 at Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatre. oscars.org
