2026 Oscar best-picture nominees: Where to watch in Canada | Canada Voices

Need to catch up on the 2026 Oscar nominees for best picture and more before the awards next Sunday? There’s still time, and almost all of them are available to stream or rent.

Here’s how to watch them in Canada.

Sinners (16 nominations)

Streaming on Crave. Available to rent on Apple TV or Prime Video.

This deeply personal film only Ryan Coogler could have made was a Globe critic’s pick. Sinners is a bluesy, vampire, gangster musical starring Michael B. Jordan in two roles. Vibrantly filmed, its surface pleasures alone are worth celebrating.

Read The Globe’s review: Ryan Coogler’s vampire thriller Sinners is a magnificently fiery dusk-till-dawn epic

One Battle After Another (13 nominations)

Streaming on Crave. Available to rent on Apple TV or Prime Video.

All in one, Paul Thomas Anderson creates a clever farce, frenetic thrill ride, poignant drama, buddy comedy – and the best film of 2025, according to Globe film editor Barry Hertz. The performances, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Teyana Taylor, Chase Infiniti and more, are excellent from lead to support.

Read The Globe’s review: Explosive epic One Battle After Another is the best film of the year

Sentimental Value (9 nominations)

Streaming on Prime Video. Available to rent on Apple TV.

There’s a cosmic, emotional scope to this Joachim Trier film about home, trauma and allowing oneself to be seen. At its heart is Stellan Skarsgård in some of his finest work in years as an acclaimed film director who picked work over family.

Read The Globe’s review: Sentimental Value examines what’s required for actors to play actors

Marty Supreme (9 nominations)

Available to rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.

Josh Safdie and his co-writer and editor Ronald Bronstein built an enormously entertaining, white-knuckle spectacle of ambition around a table tennis tale of ego. Timothée Chalamet gives his defining performance, making this a Globe critic’s pick.

Read The Globe’s review: Wonderfully chaotic epic Marty Supreme ping pongs its way into cinematic history

Frankenstein (9 nominations)

Streaming on Netflix.

A not-by-the-letter reading of Mary Shelley’s immortal story by the master of monsters, Guillermo Del Toro. There are no bolts in the head of this Frankenstein, starring Oscar Isaac and Jacob Elordi.

Read The Globe’s review: Frankenstein is an exquisite corpse of a movie

Hamnet (8 nominations)

Available to rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.

Chloé Zhao’s adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s prizewinning 2020 novel, starring Paul Mescal as William Shakespeare and Jessie Buckley as his wife, Agnes. It’s a fictional, speculative drama with basis in historical fact.

Read The Globe’s review: Ay, there’s more than a few rubs in Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet

Bugonia (4 nominations)

Streaming on Prime Video. Available to rent on Apple TV.

A chamber-piece gut punch from Yorgos Lanthimos that’s hard to shake. Loosely based on the 2003 Korean film Save the Green Planet!, the film follows an incel eco-terrorist (Jesse Plemons) and his neurodivergent cousin who kidnap CEO Michelle (Emma Stone).

Read The Globe’s review: In snide kidnapping comedy Bugonia, Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons are victims of their Yorgos Lanthimos affinity

Train Dreams (4 nominations)

Streaming on Netflix.

Clint Bentley’s adaptation of Denis Johnson’s novella is beautiful and tender. Set at the beginning of the 20th century in the Idaho Panhandle, a bearded, contemplative Joel Edgerton seems to live life simply because it’s there. What other choice does he have?

Read The Globe’s review: Train Dreams is one of the year’s most beautiful and tender films

F1 (4 nominations)

Streaming on Apple TV. Available to rent on Prime Video.

A long-ago F1 phenom (Brad Pitt) is approached by an old friend (Javier Bardem) about joining his flagging F1 team. It’s off to the races after that. Director Joseph Kosinski of Top Gun: Maverick fame offers, yes, a need for speed.

Read The Globe’s review: Racing epic F1 delivers days of thunder, nights of lightning

The Secret Agent (4 nominations)

Streaming on Mubi. Available to rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.

A stylish, slow burn thriller about radicals and mercenaries in 1977 Brazil. From filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho. Audiences will meet hit men, zombie legs, corrupt cops, a two-headed cat and a quiet man named Marcelo (Wagner Moura) who is running away from something.

Read The Globe’s review: Brazilian political thriller The Secret Agent is a scorching work of paranoia and resistance

Sirât (2 nominations)

Only in theatres, including upcoming showtimes at TIFF.

A father (Sergi López) searching for his teenage daughter with his 12-year-old son (Bruno Núñez Arjona). After arriving at a remote rave in southern Morocco, where they have no luck, they flee with a small caravan of dance ravers.

Read The Globe’s review: Sir​ât is a pulsating, techno-tinged odyssey through the desert

It Was Just an Accident (2 nominations)

Available to rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.

A dark yet wickedly funny, existential and very, very human look at the ripple effects from state violence in Iran, one that asks if forgiveness can ever be offered. In Farsi with subtitles, the entire project was an act of defiance from filmmaker Jafar Panahi.

Read The Globe’s review: Sly Iranian thriller It Was Just an Accident is a miracle of a movie

Blue Moon (2 nominations)

Streaming on Hoopla. Available to rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.

Ethan Hawke plays lyricist Lorenz Hart in a tragic look at the end of his life. It takes place at Sardi’s in 1943 after Hart’s longtime collaborator, the composer Richard Rodgers, has made it with his new songwriting partner, Oscar Hammerstein II.

Read more about Richard Linklater’s unconventional biopic Blue Moon.

KPop Demon Hunters (2 nominations)

Streaming on Netflix.

The smash hit follows the fictional K-pop girl group HUNTR/X as they fight demons. The soundtrack has topped the charts. In this world everyone is a fan. The music makes the movie.

Read more about how Netflix’s KPop Demon Hunters became Gen Alpha’s Frozen

If I had Legs I’d Kick You (1 nomination)

Streaming on Hoopla. Available to rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.

Mary Bronstein turned her own domestic nightmare into a raw and surreal cinematic expression of maternal exhaustion and madness. Anchored by an utterly fearless performance from Rose Byrne.

Read The Globe’s review: Rose Byrne’s raw intensity in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You will send you into the best kind of hysterics

Weapons (1 nomination)

Streaming on Crave. Available to rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.

At the movie’s heart is the disappearance of 17 third-graders from a single class in the middle of the night in a leafy Illinois town. Ring cameras catch them opening their front doors and rushing out, not to be seen again.

Read The Globe’s review: Unpredictable, half-cocked thriller Weapons is guilty of assault with a blunt object

Song Sung Blue (1 nomination)

Available to rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.

Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson centre the story of Mike and Claire Sardina, a struggling husband-and-wife Neil Diamond tribute act from Milwaukee. The movie is an adaptation of a 2008 documentary about the slightly batty couple.

Read The Globe’s review: Good times never felt so weirdly good in Neil Diamond cover-band romance Song Sung Blue