The Nominations for the Oscars 2026 have finally been announced, which means Hollywood’s biggest night is just around the corner.
2025 was an emblematic year for cinema – of the crowd pleaser sinners at gothic horror Frankenstein and the elegiac beauty of dream train some of the best movies in recent memory have come out in the last year.
But which of the Best Picture nominees should you see first? Watch with us is here to help.
We’ve picked three of the nominees you should check out this weekend, where to see them and why.
With the recent announcement of the 2026 Oscar nominations, awards season has officially begun. Fortunately for streaming fans, the vast majority of 2025 Academy Award nominees, from record-breaking horror film Sinners to Brad Pitt racing drama F1, are available to stream on Netflix, HBO Max, Hulu and more. To help the cinema (…)
‘Sinners’ (2025)
Twin gangsters Elijah “Smoke” and Elias “Stack” Moore (both played by Michael B. Jordan) return to their Mississippi Delta roots after making a splash with Al Capone in Chicago. Before they can tie up loose ends with their old flames, Mary (Hailee Steinfeld) and Annie (Wunmi Mosaku), build a juke joint for the local black community. While the brothers were putting the finishing touches on the Juke Club, an Irish vampire, the charismatic Remmick (Jack O’Connell), lurks nearby, and when he hears the infectious blues music emanating from the club, he can’t help but want to join.
After the Academy Awards nominations were announced this week, sinners it held a new record: the most Oscar nominations for a film, with a whopping sixteen nominations. In short, sinners it lives up to its hype: it’s a surprisingly well-made, mature film with an exciting and intelligent script and a unique blend of genres. With its excellent performances, writing, cinematography, set design and infectious music, sinners it’s a great movie to watch over and over again.
current sinners now on HBO Max.
“Sentimental Value” (2025)
In front of their mother, the Nora brothers (Renate Reinsve) and Agnes (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas) have an awkward reunion with their estranged father, the once renowned veteran director Gustav Borg (Stellan Skarsgård). Afterwards, Gustav invites Nora to lunch to make an unusual request: he wants her to star in his next film. Nora vehemently rejects him, so Gustav casts a wide-eyed young American actress named Rachel Kemp (Elle Fanning). As Nora and Agnes navigate their father’s renewed presence in their lives, they must contend with him and Rachel filming in their childhood home.
This deeply felt character drama from the Danish-Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier explores the tense relationship between personal history and creative expression, through themes of family dynamics, inherited trauma, and memory, especially as it manifests through something like the physical walls of a home. Led by stellar performances across the board (no wonder most of the cast were Oscar-nominated!). sentimental value will tug at your heartstrings with nuance and care.
Rent or buy sentimental value on Prime Video.
‘Bugonia’ (2025)
Conspiracy-obsessed Teddy Gatz (Jesse Plemons) and his dark cousin Don (Aidan Delbis) kidnap a high-powered executive named Michelle Fuller (Emma Stone), operating under the belief that he is an alien sent to destroy Earth. Teddy and Don hold Michelle hostage in the basement of their house, shaving her head and smearing her body with antihistamine cream to prevent her from communicating with her home planet. As Michelle tries to bargain for her freedom, a hidden connection between her and Teddy is finally discovered as the young man sinks deeper into anger and paranoia.
2025 has been a great year for movies, and thanks to live streaming, you can catch up with all the major award contenders and crowd favorites that defined the year. Between its original and licensed content, Netflix has a particularly great list of 2025 movies to watch from the comfort of your home. This week, (…)
Yorgos Lanthimos’ The creative partnership with Stone is just the gift that keeps on giving, with bugonia marking the fourth collaboration between the actress and the Greek director, and possibly their best? Although this could be up for debate, the fact that bugonia is more than worthy of its multiple Oscar nominations isn’t it. An English remake of the Korean film Let’s save the green planet!, Bugonia is a funny, intelligent and idiosyncratic satire of the madness of modern society, with captivating direction and perhaps Stone’s best performance to date.