Lewis Pullman and Danielle Brooks announcing the nominees for Best Picture during the 98th Oscar Nominations Announcement at Samuel Goldwyn Theater on January 22, 2026 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
AT OSCAR TIME, I LIKE TO DO a little service journalism. Part of that service entails giving you the leg up on the competition in your office Oscar pool, hence my chat with Katey Rich and Christopher Rosen from the Ankler on this morning’s podcast. Check it out, you’ll have a good time:
The other element of this service journalism is helping you prioritize your viewing by ranking the potential Best Picture winners in order and letting you know where you can watch them. Here are the ten nominees:
The only of the ten I have yet to watch, The Secret Agent, is still in theaters. So you’ll have to find an arthouse playing it. Good luck! In the whole Dallas area there is one theater showing it once a day. I imagine it’ll get a re-release here following the nominations for best picture and best actor, and it should hit video on demand soon. But I can’t rank this one as I haven’t watched it yet. I hear it’s good! Looking forward to carving out the nearly three hours it will take to watch it.
Mia Goth and Oscar Isaac in Frankenstein. (Courtesy Netflix via MovieStillsDB)
