Earlier today, the Oscar nominations for the 98th Academy Awards were revealed. And as always, the big one is the Best Picture gong with 10 nominees. Check out what each film is about, whether it’s any good (or not) and where to watch them below.

F1 (Apple TV)

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. Check out our two star review here. F1 is up for four Oscars, including Best Visual Effects.

Bugonia (Rent or buy on Prime Video/Apple TV)

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, here’s our four star review. 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.

The Secret Agent (in select cinemas)

This Brazilian film follows Wagner Moura’s Armando, a former professor caught up in political difficulties during the country’s military dictatorship. The Secret Agent is nominated for four Oscars, including Best Actor for Moura and Best International Feature Film.

Train Dreams (Netflix)

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. Train Dreams is also up for four Oscars, including Best Cinematography.

Frankenstein (Netflix)

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, check out our three star review here. Frankenstein is up for nine Oscars, including Best Supporting Actor for Elordi.

Sentimental Value (in cinemas)

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; it’s alright. Up for nine Oscars, including both Fanning and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleas, Skarsgård winning Best Supporting Actor is probably the most shoo-in win of the entire race this year.

Hamnet (in cinemas)

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. Read our two star review for this Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes Hollywood luvvie snoozefest here. Nominated for eight Oscars, including Best Director for Chloé Zhao, Buckley will win Best Actress.

Marty Supreme (in cinemas)

The only film of the 10 we’d give 5 stars to, 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 American success myth. Up for nine Oscars, including Best Original Screenplay, Chalamet is very likely to 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.

One Battle After Another (Rent or buy on Prime Video/Apple TV)

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. Check out our four star review here. Up for 13 Oscars, One Battle After Another is expected to be the big winner of the night with 11-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.

Sinners (NOW)

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. Check out our four star review here. Sinners is nominated for a record-breaking 16 Oscars, including Best Director for Coogler and Best Actor for Jordan’s dual role.

The 98th Academy Awards take place on Sunday March 15, 2026.