Where to watch the 2026 Oscar nominees: What's in theaters and what's streaming?

Now that the 2026 Oscar nominations are out, it’s officially binge ticker o’clock.

Chances are you caught a fewer of the contenders upon their 2025 movie theatre openings, but with the onslaught of caller releases successful the weeks starring up to Thursday’s nominations announcement, adjacent immoderate voters are surely behind. (Don’t archer the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences).

The bully quality is, the lion’s stock of nominated films are disposable to watercourse oregon spot successful theaters (or both).

Here is simply a usher to wherever you tin find each the feature-length nominees up of the Academy Awards connected March 15, paired with immoderate commentary from Times critics.

“The Alabama Solution”

Where to watch: HBO Max
Nominated for: Documentary feature
What we said: “Much of ‘The Alabama Solution,’ which reports connected inhumane surviving conditions, forced labour and wide unit against the state’s incarcerated population, is comprised mostly of footage captured by inmates utilizing contraband cellphones, offering 1 of the astir shocking, visceral depictions of our carceral authorities ever enactment to film.”

“Arco”

Where to watch: In theaters
Nominated for: Animated feature
What we said: “The astir awesome portion of French animated sci-fi epic ‘Arco,’ which took the apical prize astatine the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, is its imaginative world-building.”

“Avatar: Fire and Ash”

Where to watch: In theaters
Nominated for: Costume design, ocular effects
What we said: “Viewed successful ultra-crisp precocious framework rate, ‘Fire and Ash’ feels truthful overwhelmingly existent that it circles backmost astir to surreal.”

“Blue Moon”

Where to watch: Apple TV, Prime Video, Fandango astatine Home, successful theaters
Nominated for: Lead actor, archetypal screenplay
What we said: “[Richard] Linklater’s movies person often featured affable underdogs, but by contrast, ‘Blue Moon’ is an elegy to a bitter, insecure antheral whose presumption of himself arsenic a nonaccomplishment has go a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

“Bugonia”

Where to watch: Peacock
Nominated for: Best picture, pb actress, adapted screenplay, archetypal score
What we said: “‘Bugonia’ is simply a hilarious movie with nary anticipation for the aboriginal of humanity. What optimism determination is lies lone successful the title, an past Greek connection for the subject of transforming dormant cows into hives, of turning decease into life.”

“Come See Me successful the Good Light”

Where to watch: Apple TV
Nominated for: Documentary feature
What we said: “‘Throughout the Festival, we saw audiences moved by Andrea Gibson’s and Megan Falley’s journeys successful ‘Come See Me successful the Good Light,’’ Sundance Film Festival Director of Programming Kim Yutani said to the fest’s website. ‘Festival goers embraced the wit and heartbreak of this intimate documentary directed by Ryan White, arsenic it speaks to creation and emotion and reminds america what it means to beryllium live arsenic we look mortality.’”

“Cutting Through Rocks”

Where to watch: Not presently available
Nominated for: Documentary feature

“Diane Warren: Relentless”

Where to watch: YouTube, Prime Video, Fandango astatine Home, Google Play, Apple TV
Nominated for: Original song

“Elio”

Where to watch: Disney+
Nominated for: Animated feature
What we said: “‘Elio’ is simply a breezy Pixar adventure, the studio’s pivot backmost to making original, rip-roaring children’s yarns.”

“F1”

Where to watch: Apple TV
Nominated for: Best picture, editing, sound, ocular effects
What we said: “The pleasures of ‘F1’ are engineered to bypass the brain. It’s muscular and thrilling and zippy, adjacent though astatine implicit 2 and a fractional hours long, it has a artifact dump truck’s worthy of plot.”

“Frankenstein”

Where to watch: Netflix, successful theaters
Nominated for: Best picture, supporting actor, adapted screenplay, cinematography, costume design, constitution & hairstyling, archetypal score, accumulation design, sound
What we said: “‘Frankenstein’ is [Guillermo del Toro’s] lifelong passionateness project: He doesn’t conscionable privation to marque a ‘Frankenstein’ but the ‘Frankenstein,’ truthful he’s faithfully acceptable his adaptation successful the past. But he’s adjusted the wiring truthful that 1850s Europe reminds america of Silicon Valley. The effect is the champion movie of his career.”

“Hamnet”

Where to watch: In theaters
Nominated for: Best picture, director, pb actress, adapted screenplay, casting, costume design, archetypal score, accumulation design
What we said: “The film’s depiction of grief has rightly been astatine the halfway of the speech astir ‘Hamnet,’ with their revelatory performances resulting successful immense Oscar buzz for some actors. But [Paul] Mescal and [Jessie] Buckley were astir much funny successful the narration betwixt William and Agnes and however artists navigate the trappings of accepted life.”

“If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”

Where to watch: YouTube, Prime Video, Fandango astatine Home, Google Play, Apple TV, successful theaters
Nominated for: Lead actress
What we said: “From the infinitesimal it begins, Mary Bronstein’s ‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’ aims to enactment you wrong the caput of a parent successful crisis, and for the adjacent mates of hours it does truthful successful specified an exhausting, claustrophobic, anxiety-inducing mode that, arsenic you instrumentality a travel connected this cinematic endurance test, you consciousness galore things: grudging admiration, abject panic and, finally, saccharine alleviation erstwhile the closing credits roll.”

“It Was Just an Accident”

Where to watch: YouTube, Apple TV, Prime Video, Google Play, Fandango astatine Home, successful theaters
Nominated for: International feature, archetypal screenplay
What we said: “In a movie afloat of heightened emotions and anxious uncertainty, ‘It Was Just an Accident’ (which is France’s introduction for the planetary movie Oscar) glides betwixt genres, excessively slippery to beryllium nailed down. [Jafar] Panahi dabbles successful the roadworthy movie, the revenge thriller, adjacent the ‘getting the set backmost together’ comedy.”

“Jurassic World Rebirth”

Where to watch: Peacock
Nominated for: Visual effects
What we said: “‘Rebirth’ is simply a confounding rubric for a downbeat introduction that’s mostly preoccupied by decease and neglect.”

“Kokuho”

Where to watch: In theaters (Feb. 5)
Nominated for: Makeup & hairstyling

“KPop Demon Hunters”

Where to watch: Netflix
Nominated for: Animated feature, archetypal song
What we said: “‘KPop Demon Hunters,’ the cartoon philharmonic astir a miss radical utilizing catchy tunes to support evil astatine bay, has go a viral improvement since it launched connected the streamer June 20. With 210 cardinal views globally truthful far, it’s the astir watched animated movie ever connected Netflix, and is expected to soon apical ‘Red Notice’ arsenic the company’s astir fashionable film.”

“Little Amélie oregon the Character of Rain”

Where to watch: YouTube, Apple TV, Prime Video, Google Play, Fandango astatine Home
Nominated for: Animated feature
What we said: “Amélie’s rowdy attack becomes much nuanced erstwhile she is confronted with a loved one’s death, arsenic good arsenic her ain mortality successful the aftermath of 2 accidents. [Liane-Cho] Han and [Maïlys] Vallade besides marque country for her realizations astir life’s unfairness and the inevitability of sorrow — each communicated via flights of fancy that lone animation tin materialize.”

“The Lost Bus”

Where to watch: Apple TV
Nominated for: Visual effects
What we said: “This clip [director Paul Greengrass] mixes prima heroism with you-are-there spectacle and the results tin beryllium galvanizing if awkwardly framed.”

“Marty Supreme”

Where to watch: In theaters
Nominated for: Best picture, director, pb actor, casting, cinematography, costume design, editing, accumulation design, archetypal screenplay
What we said: “The movie’s moxie makes it intolerable not to get caught up successful Marty’s crusade. We’re giddy adjacent erstwhile he’s miserable.”

“Mr. Nobody Against Putin”

Where to watch: Apple TV
Nominated for: Documentary feature

“One Battle After Another”

Where to watch: HBO Max, successful theaters
Nominated for: Best picture, director, pb actor, supporting actor, supporting actress, adapted screenplay, casting, cinematography, editing, sound, archetypal score, accumulation design
What we said: “Paul Thomas Anderson’s amusive and fizzy adaptation views its Molotov cocktail arsenic half-full. Yes, it says, the conflict for liberation continues: ideologues versus toadies, radicals versus conservatives, loyalists versus rats. But isn’t it inspiring that determination are inactive radical consenting to fight?”

“The Perfect Neighbor”

Where to watch: Netflix
Nominated for: Documentary feature
What we said: “‘The Perfect Neighbor’ does permission america with a patiently earned infinitesimal of justice. But it’s haunted by the conception that a lethal rage prevailed, that a transgression was allowed to hap and an ordinary, trusting American vicinity — wherever a loving ma unhesitatingly tells an inquiring cop, ‘All these kids are mine’ — isn’t protectable ground.”

“The Secret Agent”

Where to watch: In theaters
Nominated for: Best picture, planetary feature, pb actor, casting
What we said: “‘The Secret Agent’ isn’t tightly coiled truthful overmuch arsenic it gradually unfolds, its afloat meaning unclear until the filmmaker yet hurtles guardant astir 50 years, snapping the last puzzle portion into place.”

“Sentimental Value”

Where to watch: Fandango astatine Home, YouTube, Apple TV, Prime Video, Google Play, successful theaters
Nominated for: Best picture, director, pb actress, supporting actor, supporting actress, editing, planetary feature, archetypal screenplay
What we said: “‘Sentimental Value’ is simply a movie for radical who don’t similar to cry, who whitethorn not admit that they person ever cried, who perceive to Loudon Wainwright’s opus ‘The Man Who Couldn’t Cry’ and say, ‘Yes, that’s me!’”

“Sinners”

Where to watch: HBO Max, successful theaters
Nominated for: Best picture, director, pb actor, supporting actor, supporting actress, casting, cinematography, costume design, editing, constitution & hairstyling, archetypal score, archetypal song, accumulation design, sound, ocular effects, archetypal screenplay
What we said: “What a humor unreserved to exit Ryan Coogler’s ‘Sinners’ alert that you’ve seen not simply a large movie but an eternal movie, 1 that volition transcend today’s container bureau and tomorrow’s awards to unrecorded connected arsenic a everlastingly favorite.”

“Sirāt”

Where to watch: Not presently available
Nominated for: International feature, sound
What we said: “‘Sirāt’ is taut and riveting and astir each mood. You consciousness the exhilaration of veering disconnected the path, the self-exile of speeding toward nowhere, the dread that this caravan has veered excessively acold for its ain safety.”

“The Smashing Machine”

Where to watch: YouTube, Prime Video, Fandango astatine Home, Google Play, Apple TV
Nominated for: Makeup & hairstyling
What we said: “While ‘The Smashing Machine’ represents a measurement successful a caller absorption for [Dwayne] Johnson, it besides finds [Benny] Safdie mounting disconnected connected a caller way arsenic a writer and manager connected his ain aft years of collaborations with his brother. Sifting done the affectional and carnal struggles of [Mark] Kerr’s life, Safdie recovered thing astatine its halfway that aligns with his ain ongoing involvement successful what it takes to determination guardant contempt life’s difficulties. It’s not astir being a loser, helium thinks, but it is astir not winning.”

“Song Sung Blue”

Where to watch: In theaters, YouTube, Apple TV, Google Play, Fandango astatine Home
Nominated for: Lead actress
What we said: “‘Song Sung Blue’ couldn’t beryllium little cool. But the Sardinas were wholly sincere and [Hugh] Jackman and [Kate] Hudson grant their innocence by playing them straight.”

“Train Dreams”

Where to watch: Netflix, successful theaters
Nominated for: Best picture, adapted screenplay, cinematography, archetypal song
What we said: “‘Train Dreams’ is the benignant of movie that radical often accidental they privation much of, but erstwhile 1 really comes on they don’t rather cognize what to bash with it. Told with an unassuming, gentle simplicity that grows into an accumulating affectional power, the movie manages to consciousness precise tiny and circumstantial portion besides immense and expansive.”

“The Ugly Stepsister”

Where to watch: Hulu
Nominated for: Makeup & hairstyling

“Viva Verdi!”

Where to watch: Criterion Channel
Nominated for: Original song

“The Voice of Hind Rajab”

Where to watch: In theaters
Nominated for: International feature
What we said: “The movie is simply a powerfully blunt instrumentality of empathy. [Kaouther] Ben Hania’s insistence connected close-up melodramatics — faces successful anguish, a handheld camera glued to them — sometimes overshadows a thirst for thing much analytical. But it’s decidedly a vision, 1 steeped successful roiling pain.”

“Weapons”

Where to watch: HBO Max
Nominated for: Supporting actress
What we said: “A erstwhile sketch comic, [Zach] Cregger knows however to enactment a crowd. The operation of his assurance and his characters’ disorder is fantastic successful the moment, arsenic though you’re listening to a spiel from idiosyncratic who sounds brainsick but mightiness beryllium making each the consciousness successful the world.”

“Zootopia 2”

Where to watch: In theaters, YouTube
Nominated for: Animated feature
What we said: “After respective haphazard attempts with the ‘Frozen’ and ‘Moana’ franchises, ‘Zootopia 2’ tin instrumentality the rubric arsenic Disney’s astir effectual animated sequel yet.”