The 2026 Academy Awards are finally here and you can read all of ScreenRant's reviews of each Best Picture nominee from One Battle to Sinners.
Published Mar 14, 2026, 5:00 PM EDT
Graeme Guttmann is the Deputy News Editor for ScreenRant, overseeing the News and Interview & Events team for film and television. He began at ScreenRant in 2020 as a freelancer. He has interviewed talent from various films and series, including Jennifer Coolidge, Mikey Madison, Emma Roberts, and more.
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The Oscars are finally here after what has felt like a particularly lengthy 2026 awards season. By the time the ceremony airs on March 15, one of the Best Picture nominees will be over 14 months old and, since then and amidst the seemingly endless amount of precursor ceremonies and parties, the discourse has devolved into bad faith debates about Timothée Chalamet's opinions on ballet and opera and Best Actress frontrunner Jessie Buckley's feelings on cats.
All of that will cease to matter when the little gold men are finally handed out on Sunday evening, though, leading up to the big prize of Best Picture. It's a race that has long felt like a two-picture competition, and precursors have continued to prove that as crticis group and guilds ping-pong between Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another and Ryan Coogler's Sinners. Before you watch the ceremony, though, you can read all of ScreenRant's reviews of each Best Picture nominee below:
Bugonia
Review: Emma Stone & Jesse Plemons Reach New Heights In Yorgos Lanthimos' Audacious Thriller
Total Nominations: 4
Other Nominations: Best Actress, Adapted Screenplay, Original Score
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Main Cast: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, Alicia Silverstone
ScreenRant's Thoughts: In his fifth collaboration with Emma Stone, director Yorgos Lanthimos decides to get weird again by remaking Save The Green Planet. The results are nothing less than extraordinary, with Stone delivering another high-wire act of a performance, deploying her character's corpo-doomspeak to mask a much more sinister secret. What results is a bonkers descent into paranoia and delusion that is as entertaining as it is horrifying.
F1
Review: This Adrenaline-Fueled Sports Drama Will Change Your Mind About F1 Racing If You Weren't Already A Fan
Total Nominations: 4
Other Nominations: Visual Effects, Film Editing, Sound
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Main Cast: Brad Pitt, Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, Javier Bardem, Tobias Menzies, Shae Whigham
ScreenRant's Thoughts: This high-octane racing drama is blockbuster filmmaking done right. Joseph Kosinski developed a new method of filming so he could capture the Formula 1 races the way he wanted, and he does it so that audiences feel like they are right in the car with Brad Pitt's Sonny Hayes.
Frankenstein
Review: Guillermo del Toro’s Modern Gothic Adaptation Is A Masterclass In Atmosphere
Total Nominations: 9
Other Nominations: Best Supporting Actor, Cinematography, Costume Design, Make-up and Hairstyling, Original Score, Production Design, Sound, Adapted Screenplay
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Main Cast: Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordia, Mia Goth, Christoph Waltz
ScreenRant's Thoughts: Guillermo del Toro's utterly lavish adaptation of the iconic Mary Shelley novel contains a tour de force performance from Jacob Elordi (rightfully nominated for Best Supporting Actor) and the director's passion for the source material can be felt in every moment of the film.
Hamnet
Review: A Visually Stunning And Emotionally Gripping Shakespearean Tale
Total Nominations: 8
Other Nominations: Best Actress, Best Director, Casting, Costume Design, Original Score, Production Design, Adapted Screenplay
Director: Chloé Zhao
Main Cast: Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, Joe Alwyn, Jacobi Jupe, Noah Jupe
ScreenRant's Thoughts: Chloé Zhao's adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's novel is a tearjerker in the classic sense, with an incomparable performance from its star, Jessie Buckley. Told through the naturalistic imagery Zhao has become known for, the director trades the American southwest for 16th century England to tell a gut-wrenching tale about motherhood, grief, and overcoming great loss.
Marty Supreme
Review: Timothée Chalamet Soars in Josh Safdie's Sports Drama
Total Nominations: 9
Other Nominations: Best Director, Best Actor, Original Screenplay, Casting, Cinematography, Production Design, Editing, Costume Design
Director: Josh Safdie
Main Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A'Zion, Kevin O'Leary, Tyler Okonma
ScreenRant's Thoughts: Josh Safdie's live-wire tale about unfiltered ambition and destruction left in the wake of hubris features an all-time great performance from Timothée Chalamet. Marty Supreme is a movie that truly fires on all cylinders, from Daniel Lopatin's anachronistic synth-laced score to Josh Safdie's frenetic direction and a supporting cast that makes every moment come to life.
One Battle After Another
Review: Leonardo DiCaprio & Paul Thomas Anderson Unite For A Virtuosic, Prescient Triumph
Total Nominations: 12
Other Nominations: Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor (2x), Best Supporting Actress, Adapted Screenplay, Casting, Cinematography, Editing, Original Score, Production Design, Sound
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Main Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Chase Infiniti, Teyana Taylor, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall
ScreenRant's Thoughts: Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another is nothing short of a masterpiece, a film about revolution, the cost of that, and what it means to keep fighting in the face of seemingly insurmountable forces. A loose adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's Vineland, One Battle After Another is the work of a man at the peak of his craft.
The Secret Agent
Review: Mesmerizing Brazilian Thriller Plays With Genre & Our Expectations Of What It Should Be
Total Nominations: 4
Other Nominations: Best International Feature, Best Actor, Casting
Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Main Cast: Wagner Moura, Tânia Maria, Udo Kier, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Gabriel Leone, Thomás Aquino, Robério Diógenes
ScreenRant's Thoughts: The Secret Agent is a slippery film, one that defies genre as it looks at one man's life under the Brazilian military dictatorship. Featuring a disembodied leg, a father-son assassin duo, and a reverence for cinema that oozes off the screen, Kleber Mendonça Filho's layered film untangles the political and emotional turmoil of what it means to live at a time of great upheaval.
Sentimental Value
Review: Joachim Trier's Brilliant Drama Is The Best Film Of Cannes So Far
Total Nominations: 8
Other Nominations: Best International Feature, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress (2x), Best Supporting Actor, Original Screenplay, Editing
Director: Joachim Trier
Main Cast: Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, Inga Ibdsdotter Lilleas, Elle Fanning
ScreenRant's Thoughts: Joachim Trier's achingly tender drama about love and art is anchored by a quartet of stunning performances, all recognized by the Academy this year. Sentimental Value feels like a culmination of the work Trier has done so far in his career, examining the relationship between creation and family as two daughters try to process the return of their absentee father and reckon with lingering resentment and trauma that was left in his wake.
Sinners
Review: Ryan Coogler's Exquisite Vampire Horror Is Already One Of The Best Films Of The Year
Total Nominations: 16
Other Nominations: Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Original Screenplay, Casting, Cinematography, Editing, Costume Design, Makeup and Hairstyling, Original Score, Original Song, Production Design, Sound, Visual Effects
Director: Ryan Coogler
Main Cast: Michael B. Jordan, Miles Caton, Hailee Steinfeld, Jack O'Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Delroy Lindo, Jayme Lawson, Li Jun Li
ScreenRant's Thoughts: Ryan Coogler's vampire horror saga defied odds to become the most nominated film of all time at the Academy Awards with 16 nominations, and it's easy to see why. Sinners is a lush and violent story that, from its starting point in the 1930s Mississippi, reaches through time for an exploration of faith, culture, and racial identity that transcends genre.
Train Dreams
Review: Joel Edgerton's Western Drama Is Stunning To Behold & Yet I Just Couldn't Fall In Love With It
Total Nominations: 4
Other Nominations: Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Original Song
Director: Clint Bentley
Main Cast: Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones, Kerry Condon, William H. Macy, Will Patton
ScreenRant's Thoughts: Clint Bentley's lyrical adaptation of Denis Johnson's novella contains Joel Edgerton's greatest performance to date. Its story is quite simple, following the life of a man in the Pacific Northwest from beginning to end, but in its simplicity, it reveals a much more complex and profound meditation on life and the way in which its unexpected turns shape us, for better and worse.
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