My 2026 Oscar Best Picture Rankings
Must See
Hamnet - A unique take on Shakespeare that explores the wife, love, and grief that inspired Hamlet, complete with powerhouse performances from adult and child actors alike.
Sentimental Value - (Foreign film) Two daughters deal with the return of their absentee, movie director father bent on retelling their lives via motion picture.
Watch it for the Culture
3. Frankenstein - Guillermo del Toro brings his unique aesthetic and take on the age-old tale, detailing the creation and evolution of the renowned monster.
4. Sinners - twin brothers in the Deep South try to establish a bar where passionate music reconnects with the past and draws out vampires in the night.
5. Marty Supreme - an irredeemable, self-serving narcissist attempts to take the ping pong world by storm while evading the responsibilities that await him at home.
6. F1 - an aging driver tries to prove he has what it takes in the white-knuckled racing world of F1 while holding off an upstart rookie teammate.
7. One Battle After Another - A now defunct and aged anarchist tries to protect his daughter from a relentless military soldier determined to cover up his interracial affair from the white nationalist brotherhood he’s attempting to join.
Don’t Bother
8. The Secret Agent - (Foreign film) Set in Brazil in the tumultuous 1970s, a professor tries to escape from a corrupt political regime while searching for evidence of his mother’s existence.
9. Train Dreams - A slow-paced telling of a woodcutter’s life with themes and plot points that don’t reconnect by movie’s end.
10. Bugonia - A conspiracy theorist kidnaps a CEO convinced they’re an alien hiding their agenda and harboring plans for his terminally ill mother.
