Where to Stream the 2026 Oscar Nominees

The nominees for the 98th Academy Awards were announced on Thursday morning, with “Sinners” receiving a record-breaking 16 nominations and “One Battle After Another” not far behind with 13. Both of those films are currently streaming on HBO Max — it was a big year for the platform’s parent comedy, Warner Bros. — and are widely available for digital rental, along with the vast majority of nominees in major categories. Of the ten best picture contenders, only “Hamnet,” “Marty Supreme” and “The Secret Agent” are still exclusively in theaters, along with the animated feature nominee “Zootopia 2.”

Nearly every title should be available by the time the ceremony airs on March 15, but for now, here’s a complete rundown of where to find all the major awards hopefuls.

‘Sinners’

Nominated for: Best picture, director, actor, supporting actor, supporting actress, original screenplay, production design, costume design, cinematography, editing, makeup and hairstyling, sound, visual effects, score, song, casting.

How to watch: Stream it on Amazon Prime Video and HBO Max. Rent it on Amazon, Apple TV, Fandango at Home, Google Play and YouTube.

Having established himself as a Hollywood craftsman of the first order with hits like “Black Panther” and “Creed,” the writer-director Ryan Coogler combines his keen commercial instincts with a startlingly audacious treatment of racism and cultural appropriation in America. Before busting out into a no-holds-barred horror film about vampires laying siege on a juke joint, “Sinners” patiently evokes life in the Jim Crow south, as the Smoke Stack Twins (both played by Michael B. Jordan) return to their Mississippi hometown in 1932 after a lucrative stint working for the mob in Chicago. Recruiting from the local community, the twins invest their money and muscle into converting an abandoned sawmill into a lively road house, but their grand opening is disrupted by creatures of the night.

‘One Battle After Another’

Nominated for: Best picture, director, actor, supporting actor, supporting actress, adapted screenplay, production design, cinematography, editing, sound, score, casting.

How to watch: Stream it on HBO Max. Rent it on Amazon, Apple TV, Fandango at Home, Google Play and YouTube.

From its opening siege on a detention center at the United States-Mexico border, led by a leftist revolutionary group that calls itself the French 75, Paul Thomas Anderson’s rousing combination of political thriller, shaggy-dog comedy and large-format action spectacle feels uncannily like a movie of the moment. Loosely adapting Thomas Pynchon’s “Vineland,” Anderson casts Leonardo DiCaprio as a former French 75 munitions expert who’s been living on the lam and raising his daughter (Chase Infiniti) for the past 16 years. When a renewed push by the authorities arouses him from his stupor, “One Battle After Another” sends him on an odyssey through the underground, as a network of sympathetic operatives, like a karate sensei/community leader (Benicio Del Toro), shield him from an obsessed colonel (Sean Penn) and a shadowy right-wing organization.

‘Sentimental Value’

Nominated for: Best picture, director, actress, supporting actor, supporting actress, original screenplay, editing, international feature.

How to watch: Rent it on Amazon, Apple TV, Fandango at Home, Google Play and YouTube.

Continuing a run of literate, keenly observed dramas like “The Worst Person in the World” and “Oslo, August 31st,” the Norwegian director Joachim Trier gathers an exceptional ensemble cast for this story of a family whose long-simmering dysfunction gets processed into art. Stellan Skarsgard stars as the chief instigator, a notable filmmaker who resurfaces in the lives of his estranged daughters, one an actress (Renate Reinsve) with crippling stage fright and the other a historian (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas) with a more stable home life. When Skarsgard arrives with a new personal project, he’s forced to cast an American star (Elle Fanning) in a role he’d written for his actress daughter, but that doesn’t prevent old resentments and recriminations from bursting to the surface.

‘Frankenstein’

Nominated for: Best picture, supporting actor, adapted screenplay, production design, costume design, cinematography, makeup and hairstyling, sound, score.

How to watch: Stream it on Netflix.

In an almost inevitable addition to a career full of lush period fantasies like “Pan’s Labyrinth” and “The Shape of Water,” the director Guillermo del Toro’s sumptuous adaptation of the Mary Shelley novel emphasizes gothic atmosphere and the all-encompassing price of hubris. Hewing closely to the book, “Frankenstein” carefully details the events that lead Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Issac), the wayward son of a renowned doctor, to assume the godlike role of creating new life out of reanimated flesh. But the film gains in power once the Creature finally emerges from the laboratory and Jacob Elordi leverages his size and sensitivity into a performance that brings a tragic dimension to the classic monster.

‘Train Dreams’

Nominated for: Best picture, adapted screenplay, cinematography, song.

How to watch: Stream it on Netflix.

A poetic reverie on American progress in the early-to-mid 20th century, Denis Johnson’s 2011 novella isn’t an obvious candidate for adaptation, because of its taciturn hero and its reliance on descriptive language. But the director Clint Bentley (who wrote the screenplay with Greg Kwedar) and his star, Joel Edgerton, convert those limitations into assets, with Bentley emphasizing the visual splendors of a Pacific Northwest under construction and Edgerton lending quiet dignity to the role of a logger and seasonal laborer who carves out an unsteady life for himself in the forest. Combining intimacy and scope, the film celebrates one of the invisible men who built this country and reflects on the burdens and wonders of transformative change.

‘Bugonia’

Nominated for: Best picture, actress, adapted screenplay, score.

How to watch: Stream it on Peacock. Rent it on Amazon, Apple TV, Fandango at Home, Google Play and YouTube.

Since his breakthrough dark comedy “Dogtooth,” the Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos has frequently returned to the premise of characters who live in self-sustaining bubbles of delusion and misinformation. With “Bugonia,” his provocative English-language remake of the Korean film “Save the Green Planet!,” Lanthimos casts Jesse Plemons as a loner who believes that Michelle, the high-powered chief executive of a pharmaceutical company played with Type-A pugnacity by Emma Stone, is an alien plotting to destroy the earth. After he kidnaps her with the help of his autistic cousin (Aidan Delbis), the epic power struggle that commences oscillates between the desperate and the hilariously absurd, as most of the arguments Michelle makes for being human are dismissed as the clear machinations of an extraterrestrial.

‘F1’

Nominated for: Best picture, editing, sound, visual effects.

How to watch: Stream it on Apple TV. Buy it on Amazon, Fandango at Home, Google Play and YouTube.

True to a racing circuit known for its high-tech sleekness, ruthless efficiency and conspicuous wealth, “F1” is an impeccably machine-tooled blockbuster that’s faithful to the team dynamics and technical language of Formula One while customizing itself around Brad Pitt’s lead performance. In a young guy’s sport, the idea of a middle-aged driver returning to F1 after a 30-year absence seems absurd, but Pitt’s preternatural confidence allows him to play a brush hotshot and a seasoned mentor all rolled into one. The racing sequences are the film’s true star, however, and the director Joseph Kosinski captures the incremental grind of the F1 season, when cumulative success only arrives after small improvements and painful stretches of trial and error.

‘It Was Just an Accident’

Nominated for: Best original screenplay, international feature.

How to watch: Rent it on Amazon, Apple TV, Fandango at Home, Google Play and YouTube.

After periods of house arrest and imprisonment for running afoul of Iranian censors, the director Jafar Panahi made this deserving Palme d’Or-winner in secret with French producers, and his personal experience weighs heavily on its tale of oppression and retribution. The accident of the title brings an Azerbaijani auto mechanic, Vahid (Vahid Mobasseri), in touch with the peg-legged man (Ebrahim Azizi) he has strong suspicions was his chief tormentor in prison. But before Vahid can exact his revenge, he needs to confirm the man’s identity, leading him on a road trip that’s surprisingly funny and absurd before Panahi shifts gears toward an ending of scorching emotional intensity. The film confirms Panahi as not merely one of the world’s most courageous directors, but one of its best.

‘Blue Moon’

Nominated for: Best actor, original screenplay.

How to watch: Rent it on Amazon, Apple TV and Fandango at Home.

On the opening night of “Oklahoma!,” the new musical by his former partner Richard Rodgers (Andrew Scott), now writing with Oscar Hammerstein II (Simon Delaney), the brilliant lyricist Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke) slips away early to the after party at Sardi’s, holding court at the bar. Clinging precariously to his sobriety, Hart engages anyone who will listen with bitterly funny observations and memories of past triumphs like the song “My Funny Valentine,” while casting his affections out to men and women alike, chiefly a Yale art student (Margaret Qualley) who is less than half his age. Working again with Richard Linklater, his collaborator on the “Before” trilogy and “Boyhood,” Hawke projects the wit and soul of an artist whose mistakes have led to this sad reckoning.

‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’

Nominated for: Best actress.

How to watch: Rent it on Amazon, Apple TV, Fandango at Home, Google Play and YouTube.

Exercising the full spectrum of her talent as a comic and dramatic performer, Rose Byrne is the harried face of maternal ambivalence in “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” which bundles urgent conflicts in an ulcerous mass, but nonetheless finds room for welcome jabs of gallows humor. Byrne stars as a Long Island psychologist who’s mostly left alone to treat her daughter’s mysterious illness while also managing a patient (Danielle Macdonald) who’s abandoned her newborn child and a therapist (Conan O’Brien) who exudes the opposite of warmth. The writer-director Mary Bronstein sustains a tone of near panic from the start, but there’s variety, too, in performances like A$AP Rocky’s charismatic turn as Byrne’s unlikely friend at a flophouse motel.

‘Song Sung Blue’

Nominated for: Best actress.

How to Watch: Rent it on Amazon, Apple TV, Fandango at Home and Google Play.

Based on the true story of Mike and Claire Sardina, a Milwaukee couple whose Neil Diamond tribute band, Lightning and Thunder, was enough of a sensation that they opened for Pearl Jam in 1995, sounds like the stuff of an ingratiatingly offbeat romance and musical. While that’s true to an extent, the hardships that life threw at the Sardinas make this a triumph-over-adversity scenario that “Song Sung Blue” doesn’t try to sugarcoat, which gives the film a burnished soul to go along with the crowd-pleasing covers of “Sweet Caroline” and “Brother Love’s Travelling Salvation Show.” Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson are authentically Wisconsin as struggling musicians in separate acts — he’s a Don Ho impersonator, she’s Patsy Cline — who unite for a fruitful collaboration in art and life.

‘Weapons’

Nominated for: Best supporting actress.

How to watch: Stream it on HBO Max. Rent it on Amazon, Apple TV, Fandango at Home, Google Play and YouTube.

The writer-director Zach Cregger’s first feature, the sleeper hit “Barbarian,” revealed the grim secrets of a double-booked Airbnb. His follow-up turns on an even juicier hook: In the middle of the night, all but one student from the same elementary classroom disappear simultaneously, leaving the townspeople grief-stricken, puzzled and looking for answers. Suspicion naturally falls on the kids’ teacher (Julia Garner), who’s relatively new to the position, but the truth is far stranger and gnarlier than anyone could guess, bringing new characters like Amy Madigan’s blissfully deranged Aunt Gladys into the mix. As with “Barbarian,” Cregger loves to pull the rug out from under the audience, and his overlapping time structure gives him the opportunity to view key events from a range of perspectives. Plus, for a horror film, there’s a notable abundance of big laughs.