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Our guide includes every Best Picture nominee, plus the films behind each acting category contender.

Where to watch and stream 2026 Oscar-nominated movies, from Hamnet to Sinners

Our guide includes every Best Picture nominee, plus the films behind each acting category contender.

By Randall Colburn

Randall Colburn

Randall Colburn is a writer and editor at **. His work has previously appeared on *The A.V. Club, The Guardian, The Ringer*, and many other publications.

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Aging revolutionaries, blues-loving vampire slayers, and another tragic take on Frankenstein's monster headlined the 2026 Oscar nominations, a diverse and enticing array of films heavy on heartbreak and horror.

Ryan Coogler's crowd-pleasing *Sinners* led the pack, breaking the record for the most nominations for a single film in Oscars history with 16, including Best Picture and Best Director.

Not far behind was Paul Thomas Anderson's timely *One Battle After Another* with 13 nominations. Josh Safdie's pulse-pounding *Marty Supreme* and Joachim Trier's poignant *Sentimental Value* earned nine, while Chloé Zhao's gut-wrenching *Hamnet* brought in eight. And that's still just scratching the surface of this year's nominees.

You've got a lot of watching to do ahead of the Oscars' March 15 broadcast, and we're here to help. Below, see how to watch all of the 2026 Best Picture nominees, as well as the films that delivered some of the year's best performances.

Margaret Qualley and Ethan Hawke in 'Blue Moon'.

Sabrina Lantos/Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics

**Director:** Richard Linklater

Ethan Hawke commands the screen as famed lyricist Lorenz Hart, who regales the crowd at New York City's Sardi's after bailing on the opening night performance of *Oklahoma! *on Broadway, co-written his former collaborator Richard Rodgers. We know Hart's days are numbered, and his fevered reveries resound with both humor and horror as he watches the world pass him by.

Where to watch *Blue Moon*: Amazon Prime (to rent)**

Emma Stone in 'Bugonia'.

**Director:** Yorgos Lanthimos

The latest from Oscar darling Yorgos Lanthimos (*The Favourite, Poor Things*) finds Jesse Plemons' galaxy-brained conspiracy theorist kidnapping Emma Stone's Big Pharma CEO, believing her to be an alien intent on humanity's destruction. The oddball narrative touches on class tensions, paranoia, and polarization before building to one of the year's most memorable endings.

Where to watch *Bugonia*: Peacock

Damson Idris and Brad Pitt in 'F1'.

**Director: **Joseph Kosinski

*Top Gun: Maverick* director Joseph Kosinski linked up with Formula One and Brad Pitt for a high-octane tale about a past-his-prime racer who gets a second shot at glory with a fledgling franchise. "From a strictly visual perspective, *F1 *has no peer in its dedication to speed, movement, and visceral excitement," reads **'s review.**

Where to watch *F1*: Apple TV

Frankenstein

Jacob Elordi and Mia Goth in 'Frankenstein'.

Courtesy of Netflix

**Director: **Guillermo del Toro

After decades spent dreaming of adapting Mary Shelley's *Frankenstein*, Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro finally got the opportunity to do so with the help of stars Oscar Isaac, Mia Goth, and Jacob Elordi, the latter of whom generated acclaim as the tortured Creature. In del Toro's telling, the Creature is truly the story's mangled, beating heart.

Where to watch *Frankenstein*: Netflix

Jessie Buckley as Agnes in 'Hamnet'.

Agata Grzybowska/Focus Features

**Director: **Chloé Zhao

Paul Mescal plays a young William Shakespeare in *Hamnet*, but Zhao's adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's 2020 novel is really the story of Agnes (Jessie Buckley), Shakespeare's wife and the mother of his children. Young love gives way to the frustrations of family life and artistic sacrifices, building towards a loss befit for one of the playwright's famous tragedies.

Where to watch *Hamnet*: In theaters

Marty Supreme

Timothée Chalamet in 'Marty Supreme'.

**Director:** Josh Safdie

Timothée Chalamet has swagger to spare as Marty Mauser, a hotshot ping-pong prodigy and dedicated hustler in the early 1950s. As Marty dreams of greatness (and woos Gwyneth Paltrow's retired film star), he runs afoul of a wealthy pen magnate (Kevin O'Leary), a vicious gangster (Abel Ferrara), and a Japanese rival (Koto Kawaguchi), resulting in an odyssey every bit as anxious as previous Safdie joints like *Good Time *(2017) and *Uncut Gems *(2019).

Where to watch *Marty Supreme*: In theaters**

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If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

Rose Byrne in 'If I Had Legs I'd Kick You'.

Logan White/Courtesy of A24

**Director:** Mary Bronstein

Long-suffering mothers will either love or hate *If I Had Legs I'd Kick You*, an emotional and claustrophobic portrait of a woman (Rose Byrne) tending to a daughter with a mysterious illness while living out of a motel room after a strangely cosmic hole opens in her apartment ceiling.

Where to watch* If I Had Legs I'd Kick You*: Amazon Prime (to rent)

One Battle After Another

Leonardo DiCaprio and Benicio del Toro in 'One Battle After Another'.

Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures

**Director:** Paul Thomas Anderson

Anderson, the brilliant mind behind *Boogie Nights* (1997) and *Licorice Pizza* (2021), took inspiration from Thomas Pynchon's 1990 novel *Vineland* for *One Battle After Another*, a tale about an aging revolutionary (Leonardo DiCaprio) who's thrust back into the underground when his daughter (Chase Infiniti) is pursued by a military stooge (Sean Penn) with a long-simmering grudge.

Where to watch *One Battle After Another*: HBO Max

The Secret Agent

Wagner Moura in 'The Secret Agent'.

**Director:** Kleber Mendonça Filho

The exuberance of Carnival animates a country under military dictatorship in Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho's *The Secret Agent*, a movie as playful as it is disquieting. Wagner Moura is a revelation as an ordinary man just trying to live amid an authoritarian regime.

Whereto watch *The Secret Agent*: In theaters**

Sentimental Value

Renate Reinsve and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas in 'Sentimental Value'.

**Director:** Joachim Trier

Trier's follow-up to 2021's acclaimed *The Worst Person in the World* is *Sentimental Value*, which navigates the queasy intersection between family and art when an auteur filmmaker in the twilight of his career (Stellan Skarsgard) asks his estranged daughter (Renate Reinsve) to star in a film based on the life of his mother.

Where to watch *Sentimental Value*: Amazon Prime (to rent)

Michael B. Jordan as Smoke and Stack in 'Sinners'.

Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures

**Director: **Ryan Coogler

Michael B. Jordan plays twin brothers Smoke and Stack in a horror odyssey as indebted to Steve McQueen's *Lovers Rock* (2020) as it is Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's *From Dusk Till Dawn* (1996). But *Sinners* is very much its own story, with Irish vampires descending on a Black juke joint in 1932 Mississippi. (Be sure to stick around for the post-credits scene.)

Where to watch *Sinners*: HBO Max

Song Sung Blue

Kate Hudson and Hugh Jackman in 'Song Sung Blue'.

Sarah Shatz/Focus Features

**Director:** Craig Brewer

Based on a true story, *Song Sung Blue* stars Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson as mellifluous lovers who find success with a Neil Diamond tribute band before a series of tragedies puts their dreams on hold.

Where to watch *Song Sung Blue*: Amazon Prime (to rent)

Train Dreams

Joel Edgerton in 'Train Dreams'.

Courtesy of Netflix

**Director:** Clint Bentley

Adapted from Denis Johnson's 2011 novella, *Train Dreams* is a lyrical portrait of Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton), a logger in the American Northwest of the early 1900s who watches the frontier fade away across decades of hard labor.**

Where to watch *Train Dreams*: Netflix

Julia Garner and Josh Brolin in 'Weapons'.

Quantrell Colbert/Warner Bros. Pictures

**Director: **Zach Cregger

After traumatizing audiences with the nail-biting horror film *Barbarian* (2022), Zach Cregger recruited Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, and Amy Madigan for *Weapons*, a twisted ensemble piece about a classroom of children who all disappear on the same night.

Where to watch *Weapons*: HBO Max

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