Where to Watch the Best Picture Field and Final Logistics Ahead of the Oscars 2026
The race to the Oscars 2026 has crystallized around 10 Best Picture nominees, and with the ceremony set for mid-March viewers are lining up where to stream, rent or buy each contender. Understanding where to watch the nominees, how they fared across awards shows and the Oscar-night logistics helps audiences prepare for March 15 and the broadcast presentation.
Best Picture nominees: the full list
Ten films are competing for Best Picture at the 98th Academy Awards: Bugonia, F1 (also styled F1 The Movie), Frankenstein, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, One Battle After Another, The Secret Agent, Sentimental Value, Sinners and Train Dreams. The group ranges from a Brazilian political thriller to gothic horror, sports dramas and intimate literary adaptations.
Rotten Tomatoes ranks The Secret Agent at the top with a 98% Tomatometer score and a critics consensus calling it a thematically rich, visually arresting political thriller that blends grindhouse stylization with biting social commentary. Other critics’ summaries in the awards-season round-up describe Ryan Coogler’s Sinners as a rip‑roaring fusion of visual storytelling and toe‑tapping music, Sentimental Value as a bracingly mature work marvelously acted across the board, Train Dreams as a gorgeous meditation on America anchored by Joel Edgerton, One Battle After Another as an epic screwball adventure that is both entertaining and thematically rich, and Marty Supreme as a propulsive epic showcasing Timothée Chalamet at his most charismatic.
Sinners' nominations and awards momentum
Sinners has emerged as the most‑nominated title in this year’s Oscar race, carrying a record‑smashing 16 Academy Award nominations. That tally surpassed the long‑standing record of 14 nominations held by Titanic, La La Land and All About Eve. Sinners also dominated other awards-season tallies: it topped the Critics' Choice Awards with 17 nominations and collected Golden Globe prizes for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement and Best Original Score.
Where to watch the nominees
Availability varies across the field. Bugonia, Yorgos Lanthimos’s dark comedy starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons, is currently streaming on Peacock. F1, the Grand Prix‑set sports film directed by Joseph Kosinski and starring Brad Pitt and Damson Idris, is available on Apple TV. Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, starring Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi, streams on Netflix. Hamnet, the Chloé Zhao adaptation starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, is available to rent or buy on Apple TV, Prime Video and most VOD platforms. Marty Supreme, Timothée Chalamet’s sports dramedy that also features Gwyneth Paltrow and Fran Drescher, can be rented or bought on Apple TV, Amazon and most VOD platforms. One Battle After Another, the Paul Thomas Anderson political dramedy starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn, is streaming on HBO Max. Sentimental Value, Joachim Trier’s family drama with Renate Reinsve and Stellan Skarsgård, is available to rent or buy on Apple TV, Amazon and most VOD platforms. Where to watch The Secret Agent and Train Dreams is unclear in the provided context. Where to watch Sinners is also unclear in the provided context.
Golden Globes, TIFF and other awards shaping expectations
Award wins and nominations have created momentum for several contenders. Hamnet won the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival and at the 2026 Golden Globe Awards took home Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. Marty Supreme received three Golden Globe nominations with Timothée Chalamet winning Best Actor. One Battle After Another was the most‑nominated film at the 2026 Golden Globes and took home Best Picture among other awards; that film also holds 13 Academy Award nominations. Sentimental Value received eight Golden Globe nominations, with Stellan Skarsgård winning Best Supporting Actor. Frankenstein and Marty Supreme each have nine Academy Award nominations, as does Sentimental Value; Hamnet is up for eight. Article‑level awards tallies and wins have been parsed across commentators and leaderboards as the Oscars approach. One Battle After Another additionally received a record‑setting seven nominations for the 2026 Actor Awards.
Oscars 2026 ceremony date, presenters and broadcast plans
The 98th Academy Awards ceremony will take place on March 15, starting at 7 p. m. ET/4 p. m. PT at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. The broadcast will air on ABC with streaming available on Hulu. Conan O’Brien returns to host for a second consecutive year; in a January interview he teased “a lot of possibilities” for show ideas and said many concepts come together late in the process. Nominees gathered at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills on Feb. 10 for the annual Oscars luncheon, where they took the official class photo and mingled in what organizers characterized as a reunion.
The Academy announced that last year’s winners Adrien Brody, Kieran Culkin, Mikey Madison and Zoe Saldaña will return to the stage as presenters. Executive producers Raj Kapoor and Katy Mullan revealed additional presenters including Javier Bardem, Chris Evans, Chase Infiniti, Demi Moore, Kumail Nanjiani and Maya Rudolph, and producers said more talent will be announced in the coming weeks. Following the nominations announcement on Jan. 22, Chris Connelly and Kelley Carter analyzed the biggest snubs and surprises, rounding out the conversation as the industry turns toward March 15.
What makes this notable is how the field’s streaming availability, awards haul and high nomination counts converge in the final weeks before the ceremony, shaping both viewing plans and expectations for the night at the Dolby Theatre.
