All 10 Best Picture Oscars 2026 nominations ranked and where to stream them

The 98th Academy Awards take place on Sunday evening

The 98th Academy Awards are set to take place in Hollywood this Sunday evening. Once again, 10 movies are up for the Best Picture Oscar, with Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another being the bookies' favourite unless there's an upset from Ryan Coogler's Sinners. I've watched all of the nominees and ranked them and you may not even have heard of my No 1.

This Brazilian film follows Wagner Moura's Armando, a former professor caught up in political difficulties during the country's military dictatorship. Although critically acclaimed, this almost three-hour "thriller" offers almost no thrills and a ton of boredom. The Secret Agent is nominated for four Oscars, including Best Actor for Moura and Best International Feature Film.

The big screen adaptation of the 2020 novel of the same name follows Paul Mescal's Shakespeare and his wife Agnes (Jessie Buckley) getting together, having kids and then dealing with the grief of losing their son Hamnet via the play Hamlet. It's heavy stuff, just a shame it's incredibly dull and self-indulgent, despite the subject matter. This Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes-produced Hollywood luvvie snoozefest is nominated for eight Oscars, including Best Director for Chloé Zhao, and Buckley will win Best Actress.

Brad Pitt stars in Formula One's paint-by-numbers repeat of Top Gun Maverick with the same writer, director and producer. A feature-length Apple advert, we're somewhat surprised this made the Academy Award cut. F1 is up for four Oscars, including Best Visual Effects.

This Norwegian drama stars Stellan Skarsgård as an estranged film director father, who reunites with his two daughters. When the actress of the two declines his offer to lead his latest feature, he hires Elle Fanning's American movie star instead. The hype around this one is slightly overblown and although there is some worthy acting here; it's just alright. Up for nine Oscars, including both Fanning and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleas, Skarsgård was the shoo-in for Best Supporting Actor but it looks likely to go to Sean Penn for One Battle After Another.

Guillermo del Toro's classic take on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein presents the macabre fantasy tale from both the perspective of Oscar Isaac's Dr Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi's Frankenstein's monster. Overlong and squeamish, Frankenstein is up for nine Oscars, including Best Supporting Actor for Elordi.

Set on the Texas-Mexico border, Leonardo DiCaprio and Teyana Taylor star as revolutionaries Bob and Perfidia Beverly Hills, who raid sites holding illegal immigrants in cages, rob banks to fund their cause and bomb government buildings. Flash forward 16 years, and single father Bob is raising their daughter Willa when former comrades get in contact and a whirlwind begins with Leo running around in a dressing gown with a rifle, desperately trying to charge his phone. Paul Thomas Anderson's black comedy is decent but has been massively overhyped by being hailed as one of the greatest films ever made. To make such a declaration so early amounts to nothing more than cringe. Up for 13 Oscars, One Battle After Another is expected to be the big winner of the night with 14-time nominee Anderson (who has never won) likely to pick up three Academy Awards on the night for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Ryan Coogler's 1930s Southern vampire horror is incredibly ambitious, with Michael B Jordan playing twin brothers. Very much a film of two halves, the first is grounded in 1930s Mississippi, before the second half, when the fangs come out amid themes of music appropriation. Sinners is nominated for a record-breaking 16 Oscars, including Best Director for Coogler and Best Actor for Jordan's dual role.

Yorgos Lanthimos' fourth collaboration is another surreal treat that keeps you guessing to the end. In a reverse alien abduction, Jesse Plemons' conspiracy theorist kidnaps Emma Stone's CEO, suspecting she's UFO royalty. Literally jaw-dropping, Bugonia is up for four Oscars, including Best Actress for Stone, her seventh nod to date, breaking the record for the youngest woman (37) with that many nominations.

Josh Safdie's comedy-drama is Forrest Gump meets Uncut Gems. Timothée Chalamet stars as a 1950s ping-pong champion who also happens to be a terrible person. Marty will throw anyone and everyone under the bus to meet his goals. An incredible satire of the American success myth. Up for nine Oscars, including Best Original Screenplay, Chalamet could bag his first Academy Award for Best Actor here. In fact, with three nods to date, he's the youngest actor (30) to have three Oscar nominations since Marlon Brando back in 1954.

Based on the 2011 novella of the same name, Joel Edgerton stars as Robert Grainier, a day labourer in the American West at the start of the 20th century and follows his life across 80 years. A beautifully-captured Netflix period drama that's largely been overlooked. It's a meditation on life, suffering and beauty in all things, this underrated modern classic will fill your soul. Train Dreams is also up for four Oscars, including Best Cinematography.

The 98th Academy Awards take place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on Sunday, March 15 and will be broadcast in the UK on ITV1 and ITVX from 10:15pm.