The Academy Awards are a few weeks away, so if you want to watch the nominees in theaters — as the movie gods intended — there is still time and opportunity. You’ll also have some extra added motivation this weekend as the documentary, live-action and animated Oscar-nominated short film programs arrive in theaters.
If you want to binge the contenders all in one place, Regal will present its Best Picture Film Festival from March 6 to 15, AMC will host a Best Picture Showcase on March 7 and 14, and Cinemark will offer Oscars Movie Week from March 9 to 15. At one of the city’s many stellar art-house cinemas, you can start your quest straight away. Here are a handful to consider, along with their current or upcoming film series.
Alamo Drafthouse
Financial District, 28 Liberty Street, Suite SC301, Manhattan; Downtown Brooklyn, 445 Albee Square West, Brooklyn; New Dorp, 2636 Hylan Boulevard, Staten Island; drafthouse.com.
This dine-in chain, based in Austin, Texas, is known for its brews, queso and screenings of cult classics, in addition to regular showings of new releases. A revived version of Kim’s Video has set up shop within the Manhattan location.
Nominees screening now: “Kokuho” (Brooklyn), “Sirat” (Manhattan), “The Ugly Stepsister” (Manhattan)
Also showing: John Woo’s “A Better Tomorrow,” March 1-3
Angelika Film Center
Angelika Film Center, 18 West Houston Street, Manhattan; Cinema 123 by Angelika, 1001 Third Avenue, Manhattan; Village East by Angelika, 181-189 Second Avenue, Manhattan; angelikafilmcenter.com.
The original Angelika Film Center is the downtown six-screen theater where you can catch art-house releases, while the subway rattles underneath. The brand name has also been appended to the Village East, whose main auditorium is a gorgeous old Yiddish stage theater. In addition to showing new releases, it hosts revival screenings, and like its uptown sibling, the Cinema 123, it is equipped to show 70-millimeter film.
Nominees screening now: “Hamnet” (Cinema 123, Village East), “Kokuho” (Angelika),“Sentimental Value” (Village East), “The Secret Agent” (Village East)
Also showing: Remembering Catherine O’Hara, which is screening “Best in Show” and “Beetlejuice” in tribute to the actress, Feb. 21-25 (Village East)
Brooklyn Academy of Music
30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn; bam.org.
At any given time in the main BAM building in Fort Greene, three out of four screens show new releases, while one holds retrospectives with compelling themes, stars, directors or all of the above. Occasional screenings take place at the BAM Harvey Theater a few blocks away.
Nominees screening now: Oscar-Nominated Shorts, “Hamnet,” “Sirat,” “The Secret Agent”
Also showing: Black Cuba, a series of Afro-Cuban films from the 1960s and ’70s, Feb. 20-26
Film at Lincoln Center
Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, 144 West 65th Street, and Walter Reade Theater, 165 West 65th Street, Manhattan; filmlinc.org.
Lincoln Center’s film arm, the hosting organization of the New York Film Festival, runs a year-round theater with one of the largest screens in town: the Walter Reade. There you can catch adventurous revivals and contemporary series. Across the street is the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, which houses two screens and a food-and-wine bar, Indie.
Nominees screening now: “It Was Just an Accident,” “Sirat,” “The Secret Agent”
Also showing: Rendez-Vous With French Cinema, March 5-15, which includes the U.S. premiere of Olivier Assayas’s “The Wizard of the Kremlin”
IFC Center
323 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan; ifccenter.com.
This Greenwich Village five-screen theater boasts four first-rate auditoriums (and one cubbyhole) and typically shows many more than five movies in a given week, usually with a short beforehand. Shows can start as early as 10 or 11 a.m. and, on the weekends, as late as midnight. The concession stand sells T-shirts that substitute directors’ names for those of heavy metal bands.
Nominees screening now: Oscar-Nominated Shorts, “Frankenstein,” “Mr. Nobody Against Putin,” “Sirat,” “The Perfect Neighbor,” “Train Dreams”
Also showing: Waverly Midnights: And the Oscar Goes To …, which offers late-night showings of past winners and nominees and one current contender, “The Ugly Stepsister,” through March 14
Nitehawk Cinema
Prospect Park, 188 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn; Williamsburg, 136 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn; nitehawkcinema.com.
These stylish dine-in theaters have several screens that show new releases and perennial favorites from brunch time to midnight-snack time. Both venues have bars.
Nominees screening now: Oscar-Nominated Shorts, “Sirat”
Also showing: A Man Under the Influence: 63 Days of Steven’s Selects, which pairs some of Steven Soderbergh’s favorite mind-bending films with cocktails made with a prized Bolivian liquor in celebration of his birthday, through April 15
Paris Theater
4 West 58th Street, Manhattan; paristheaternyc.com.
Once a go-to destination for French cinema and films with a literary pedigree, the Paris briefly closed in 2019, but then was leased by Netflix, which uses it for theatrical runs of its streaming titles and older movies intended to complement them. It’s one of the few remaining New York theaters with a balcony. Its Big & Loud festival in August serves up treats for fans of movie technology.
Nominees screening now: “Frankenstein,” “Train Dreams”
Also showing: Robert Altman’s 1975 epic “Nashville,” which was nominated for five Academy Awards, on Sunday
Quad Cinema
34 West 13th Street, Manhattan; quadcinema.com.
When this Greenwich Village theater opened in 1972, having four screens was unusual. After a renovation that gave it bigger, comfier seats, it reopened in 2017. An adjoining bar serves beer, wine and coffee.
Nominees screening now: “Sentimental Value,” “The Secret Agent”
Also showing: The Cold Front, featuring winter-themed films through Feb. 26; Melodrama March, which will include “All About My Mother” and “A Place in the Sun”
Roxy Cinema New York
2 Sixth Avenue, Manhattan; roxycinematribeca.com.
Located in the basement of the Roxy Hotel in Lower Manhattan, this screening room has enhanced its nostalgic charms with a new, modern Dolby Atmos sound system. The theater offers a mix of revivals (often on 35-millimeter film) and second-run programming, and is often the place to go to see titles few others screen.
Nominees screening now: “Marty Supreme,” “The Secret Agent”
Also showing: Drag the Oscars 2026, an Oscars viewing party on March 15
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