Have an Arctic Blast! Here's where to stream Oscars' Best Picture nominees in your cozy home.

Staying at home this winter weekend? TBR has rounded up the Top 10 Best Picture Oscar nominees and where you can watch and stream them so you can enjoy from the comfort of home during the Arctic Blast of 2026.

THE 10 BEST PICTURE NOMINEES

SINNERS

This stylish vampire movie sucked up a record-breaking 16 Oscar nominations, the most of any film ever. Ryan Coogler’s (Black Panther, Fruitvale Station) slow-burn story leads to a barn-burner of a finale.

Where to watch: HBO Max or VOD to rent/buy

Nominated for: Best picture, director, actor, supporting actor, supporting actress, original screenplay, production design, costume design, cinematography, editing, makeup and hairstyling, sound, visual effects, score, song, casting.

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER

With 13 nominations, Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood, Boogie Nights) delivers one of the best sustained pieces of filmmaking — ever. It felt like one hour. At full volume, it’s about defying fascism and racism, but in quiet moments, it's a tender father-daughter story. Somehow it is both a thunderous thriller and intimate drama, switching gears with comic precision.

Where to watch: HBO Max or VOD to rent/buy

Nominated for: Best picture, director, actor, supporting actor, supporting actress, adapted screenplay, production design, cinematography, editing, sound, score, casting.

SENTIMENTAL VALUE

Director Joachim Trier’s (The Worst Person in the World) helms this Norwegian family drama with an exceptional ensemble cast. It is slow, character-rich and moving. The subtitles are free.

Where to watch: VOD to rent/buy

Nominated for: Best picture, director, actress, supporting actor, supporting actress (2), original screenplay, editing, international feature.

HAMNET

Director-writer Chloe Zhao's (Nomadland) adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel about Shakespeare’s son, Hamnet, earned eight Oscar nominations. This is not simply a film that “makes you cry.” It is a full sensory passage through love, family and mourning that ultimately opens into something rare and transcendent. Quite poetically, the theater is alive with power here. Hamnet is a story of loss that somehow bursts with life. A reminder that from unbearable grief can come lasting beauty. 

Where to watch: Currently in theaters, which is a must for this one.

Nominated for: Best picture, director (Chloé Zhao), actress (Jessie Buckley), adapted screenplay, casting, costume design, production design, original score.

FRANKENSTEIN

Director Guillermo del Toro’s (Shape of Water, Pans Labyrinth) sumptuous gothic take on Mary Shelley’s classic is alive in distinct design, and ranks as a major contender in all the craft categories.

Where to watch: Netflix

Nominated for: Best picture, supporting actor (Jacob Elordi), adapted screenplay, production design, costume design, cinematography, makeup and hairstyling, sound, score.

TRAIN DREAMS

Director Clint Bentley (Sing Sing, Jockey) brings us the story of logger Robert (Joel Edgerton), a would-be-forgotten everyman. More than telling this man's story, Bentley is intent on celebrating a life even if it’s a quiet one. This lyrical period piece blends breathtaking visuals with heartfelt storytelling.

Where to watch: Netflix

Nominated for: Best picture, adapted screenplay, cinematography, original song.

BUGONIA

Yorgos Lanthimos (Poor Things, The Favourite) reunites a third time with Emma Stone for a surreal journey that’s as funny as it is alien.

Where to watch: Peacock or VOD to rent/buy

Nominated for: Best picture, actress (Emma Stone), adapted screenplay, original score.

THE SECRET AGENT

A Brazilian political thriller with a powerful central performance by Wagner Moura. It has earned multiple nominations and has a leg up on all the international feature nominees.

Where to watch: In theaters now.

Nominated for: Best picture, best international feature, best actor (Wagner Moura), casting.

MARTY SUPREME

A24’s hyped hit starring Timothée Chalamet either impressed or exhausted the academy to gather nine nominations across acting, technical and major categories.

Where to watch: In theaters now. 

Nominated for: Best picture, actor (Timothée Chalamet), director (Josh Safdie), adapted screenplay, casting, costume design, cinematography, editing, production design.

F1

I’m not sure why the F1 this fun popcorn movie is in the top ten, but voters must agree that it’s high-octane and visually stunning, delivering on spectacle in an old-fashioned, Top Gun kind of way. It's on track to win editing and sound.

Where to watch: Apple TV or VOD to rent/buy

Nominated for: Best picture, editing, sound, visual effects.

Bonus: Best Documentary Features worth streaming right now

If you love peek-behind-the-scenes or secret camera footage, these nominees deliver gripping real life drama:

The Perfect Neighbor
Uses police bodycam footage to examine the killing of Ajike Ownes and the laws and biases at play.

Where to watch: Netflix

The Alabama Solution
Explores a troubling prison system through secretly recorded footage by incarcerated men.

Where to watch: HBO Max

Mr. Nobody Against Putin
A Russian teacher captures how propaganda and patriotism are instilled in children during wartime.

Where to watch: VOD to rent/buy

Come See Me in the Good Light

An intimate portrait of an artist at work set against political unrest.

Where to watch: Apple TV or VOD to rent/buy

To be or not to be; who gets Oscar noms this Thursday?

It’s almost time to dust off that movie watch list. Deep-picks Danielle Brooks (The Color Purple), Lewis Pullman (Thunderbolts) and the Academy announce its Oscars nominees across all categories Thursday morning, but you don’t have to wait around for the envelope. With a track record of 82.7% accuracy at predicting nominees, here are my picks for an Oscar race that’s poised to shower One Battle After Another, Sinners, Hamnet, Frankenstein and plenty more with love. It’s a year full of vampires, zombies, monsters and demon slayers and somehow I still have a few monster favorites.

Some things to watch for: 24% of Oscar voters live outside the U.S., sequels from Wicked to Avatar will have a bad morning and voters just love Guillermo del Toro. And Sinners may be the most nominated film in all of history if it gets to 15, given it definitely will take a nomination in a new category, Best Casting in addition to almost all categories. The record for the most Oscar nominations for a film in one year is 14 (All About Eve (1950), Titanic (1997), and La La Land (2016). Nominations for the 98th Academy Awards will be announced on Thursday, January 22, 2026, at 5:30 a.m. PT (8:30 a.m. ET).

The nominees will be:

Best Picture

1. Bugonia

2. Frankenstein

3. Hamnet

4. It Was Just an Accident 

5. Marty Supreme

6. One Battle After Another

7. Sentimental Value

8. Sinners

9. The Secret Agent

10. Train Dreams

Surprise: Weapons
Shocker: F1

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Best Director

1. Ryan Coogler (Sinners)

2. Jafar Panahi (It Was Just an Accident)

3. Guillermo del Toro (Frankenstein)

4. Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another)

5. Chloe Zhao (Hamnet)

Surprise: Josh Safdie (Marty Supreme)

Shocker: Joachim Trier (Sentimental Value)

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Best Actor

1. Timothee Chalamet (Marty Supreme)

2. Leonardo DiCaprio (One Battle After Another)

3. Michael B. Jordan (Sinners)

4. Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent)

5. Jesse Plemens (Bugonia)

Surprise: Ethan Hawk (BlueMoon) or Joel Edgerton (Train Dreams)
Shocker: Dwayne Johnson (The Smashing Machine)

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Best Actress

1. Jessie Buckley (Hamnet)

2. Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You)

3. Chase Infiniti (One Battle After Another)

4. Renate Reinsve (Sentimental Value)

5. Emma Stone (Bugonia)

Surprise: Kate Hudson (Song Sung Blue)
Shocker: Eva Victor (Sorry, Baby)

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Best Supporting Actor

1. Benicio Del Toro (One Battle After Another)

2. Jacob Elordi (Frankenstein)

3. Paul Mescal (Hamnet)

4. Sean Penn (One Battle After Another)

5. Stellan Skarsgard (Sentimental Value)

Surprise: Adam Sandler (Jay Kelly)
Shocker: Miles Canton (Sinners)

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Best Supporting Actress

1. Odessa A'zion (Marty Supreme)

2. Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas (Sentimental Value)

3. Amy Madigan (Weapons)

4. Wuni Mosaku (Sinners)

5. Teyana Taylor (One Battle After Another)

Surprise: Ariana Grande (Wicked: For Good)

Shocker: Elle Fanning (Sentimental Value)

Best Original Screenplay

1. It Was Just An Accident

2. Marty Supreme

3. Sentimental Value

4. Sinners

5. Weapons

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Best Adapted Screenplay

1. Bugonia

2. Frankenstein

3. Hamnet

4. One Battle After Another

5. Train Dreams

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Best Animated Feature

1. Arco

2. K-Pop Demon Hunters

3. Demon Slayer

4. Little Amélie or the Character of Rain

5. Zootopia 2

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Best Casting

1. Hamnet

2. Marty Supreme

3. One Battler After Another

4. Sinners

5. Sirat

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Best International Feature

1. It Was Just An Accident (France), Neon

2. No Other Choice (South Korea), Neon

3. Sentimental Value (Norway), Neon

4. Sirat (Spain), Neon

5. The Secret Agent (Brazil), Neon

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Best Documentary

1. 2000 Meters to Andriivka, PBS

2. The Alabama Solution, HBO

3. Apocalypse in the Tropics, Netflix

4. My Undesirable Friends, No distribution

5. The Perfect Neighbour, Netflix

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Best Cinematography

1. Frankenstein

2. Hamnet

3. One Battle After Another

4. Sinners

5. Train Dreams

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Best Production Design

1. Avatar: Fire & Ash

2. Frankenstein

3. Hamnet

4. Marty Supreme

5. Sinners

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Best Film Editing

1. F1

2. Hamnet

3. Marty Supreme

4. One Battle After Another

5. Sinners

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Best Score

1. Frankenstein

2. Hamnet

3. One Battle After Another

4. Sinners

5. Sirat

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Best Song

1. Dear Me (Diane Warren: Relentless)

2. Dream as One (Avatar: Fire & Ash)

3. I Lied to You (Sinners)

4. The Girl in the Bubble (Wicked: For Good)

5. Train Dreams (Train Dreams)

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Best Sound

1. F1

2. Frankenstein

3. One Battle After Another

4. Sinners

5. Sirat

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Best Costume

1. Frankenstein

2. Hamnet

3. Hedda

4. Sinners

5. Wicked: for Good

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Best Visual Effects

1. Avatar: Fire and Ash

2. F1

3. Frankenstein

4. Sinners

5. Lost Bus

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Best Documentary Short

1. All the Empty Rooms

2. All the Walls Came Down

3. Armed Only with a Camera

4. Cashing Out

5. The Devil is Busy

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Best Animated Short

1. Autokar

2. Butterfly (Papillon)

3. Cardboard

4. Eiru

5. The Girl Who Cried Pearls

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Best Live Action Short

1. Ado

2. Amerla

3. Beyond Silence

4. Butterfly on a Wheel

5. The Boy with White Skin

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Best Makeup & Hairstyling

1. Frankenstein

2. Kokuho

3. Sinners

4. The Smashing Machine

5. Wicked: for Good

5 Things To Watch For During Tonight's Golden Globes (and who will win)

The Golden Globes are a show that has always been a little questionable in purpose, intentionally messy in execution and yet somehow impossible to quit. For years, it hovered in the background as something you flipped to during NFL playoffs just to see gave a drunk speech. This year, withh a can't-miss host and a genuinely wild slate of nominees, the Globes might actually deserve your full attention again.

Spoiler alert. Here’s what to expect.

 

1. Nikki Glaser will wildly entertain and mildly disappoint and that’s okay

Nikki Glaser set an absurdly high bar last year. Ratings went up, critics were happy and the show briefly avoided extinction. Long story. That bar is now so high there’s basically no way she tops it, whether she plays it safe or swings harder. But here’s the thing. She is still the best awards show host working right now and even her off night is better than most people’s career highlights.

 

2. Horror is officially having a monster year

This may be the first time serious awards categories are openly embracing horror in a big way. We’re talking a vampire film as a major drama frontrunner, a zombie/witch film dominating supporting actress chatter and an actual monster performance putting Jacob Elordi in the supporting actor conversation. Animated horror even shows up with K Pop Demon Hunters. 

Horrifying Predictions:

Wins for Sinners 

Best Motion Picture Drama
Best Original Score
Box Office Achievement

Maybe Michael B. Jordan, Best Actor, 

Wins for Weapons

Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture: Amy Madigan

Wins for K Pop Demon Hunters
Best Animated Feature
Best Original Song Golden

3. International films are everywhere and yes, you will be reading subtitles

Non-English language films are no longer confined to their own corner. The newer voting body has made it clear they are paying attention to global cinema and it shows. Expect to hear titles like Sentimental Value, The Secret Agent, It Was Just an Accident, No Other Choice and Sirāt popping up in major categories. 

Predicted winners:
The Secret Agent
Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama: Wagner Moura

Sentimental Value
Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture: Stellan Skarsgård

It Was Just an Accident
Best Non English Language Film

If you see the room stand, here's why: Director Jafar Panahi has faced repeated arrests and imprisonment by Iranian authorities over the years for his filmmaking and political stance making the film’s themes resonate directly with reality.

4. The speeches absolutely matter this year

The Globes are looser, funnier and less formal than the Oscars which is exactly why the speeches matter so much. Even though the Globes share zero voters with the Academy, it’s impossible not to read these moments as momentum setters. If you remember last year, you remember Demi Moore and how a great speech can launch an awards run. A bad one can stop it cold. One of the tightest races this year is Actress, with Oscar frontrunners split across drama and comedy here. This is the speech to watch if you want clues.

Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama: Jessie Buckley, Hamnet
Best Actress in a Motion Picture Comedy or Musical: Rose Byrne for If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

5. Warner Bros will clean up

Despite my personal love for Hamnet and how it should be the filmaker choice of the year in any race where it's not up against One Battle, this looks like a huge night for Warner Bros. They have heavyweight contenders across multiple categories and the math is on their side.

Predictions:

One Battle After Another (Warner Brothers)
Best Motion Picture Comedy or Musical
Best Director
Best Screenplay
Potential Supporting wins for Teyana Taylor and Benicio Del Toro

Sinners (Warner Brothers)
Best Motion Picture Drama
Best Original Score
Box Office Achievement

Those are the five film things, but I forgot...

6. Yes there’s a podcast award now, and there will be television awards too

There will also be a podcast award for the first time ever. SmartLess feels like the time-earned, popular favorite while Good Hang with Amy Poehler has longtime Globes love. Either way you can expect a bit that makes watching live worth it. 

As for TV, most winners will echo Emmy season with one twist. Rhea Seehorn enters the conversation for Pluribus and likely wins, and for show it's up against The Pitt in a very tight race.

The Ten Buck Preview: The Golden Globes are back to being a genuinely fun night. Pour something good, make NFL the flipping channel, and enjoy the chaos.

Song Sung Blue

If you’re expecting a Neil Diamond biopic, you will be pleasantly surprised. This is the true story of a hard luck Milwaukee couple who performed Diamond tunes.

Hugh Jackman is perfectly cast, of course, as Mike the Diamond “interpreter” who eventually becomes a local legend with his better half, played by Kate Hudson. Hudson shines as Claire, whom Mike meets backstage at a state fair. Mike asks the Patsy Cline-wigged Claire, “You’re a blonde?” and she replies “Oh boy, am I”. Both actors fully commit to the roles and that’s the pure joy of this film. 

In theaters on Christmas Day, this film has a job to do for movie goers and it performs mostly on that. 

It breezily plays like a great night at a bar when the jukebox lands on “Sweet Caroline” and suddenly everyone is family. The tone is breezy, tuneful and built on smiles. I wan't hunting for awards here. I wanted a good time, and for most of its run the movie delivers exactly that.

Midway through, a sudden real-life twist threatens to turn the story into melodrama. I braced myself for eye rolling TV-movie territory, but the filmmakers pull off a smart rebound that keeps the spirit light and the tempo alive.

The stumble comes at the very end. A second tragic beat overlaps what should have been the film’s last pure, joyful performance. Instead of swaying, the audience is left waiting at the end of every single note for something bad to maybe happen. It was followed by a list of familiar tropes that drain the room just when it should be singing

What worked so well at the Freddie Mercury movie Bohemian Rhapsody, is that they altered the timeline a bit so that the movie ended on that inspiring Live Aid performance, leaving audiences exiting in bliss. Since they messed with Mike’s timeline anyway, this would have made this a crowd pleaser that might have reached its own cult status.

In a nutshell: A lot of fun, hitting most of the right notes. Adding an extra song at the end (i.e. Mamma Mia musicals) or blooper songs (i.e., Anyone But You) would have saved this film and probably have started a Tik Tok craze.

Where to see it: In theaters, starting Christmas Day. 

Would it be better with Olivia Colman: I'd cast her in a bar scene and just watch what happens. 

Award potential: Ripe for Golden Globes attention, but nothing more. Jackman and Hudson are perfect in their roles, but where it achieves best is not meant to be award territory.

The Ten Buck Review: Still your best bet for a fun film this season. Worth ten bucks. 

          After the film: Watch the original documentary for free here. 

 

Hamnet

The beauty of a tragic tale is how it takes hold of the heart and refuses to let go. Shakespeare understood that better than anyone.

The grief and mortality that shape the historical novel behind the film draw from Maggie O’Farrell’s own experiences living with the constant danger posed by her daughter’s life-threatening food allergy and anaphylaxis.

Chloé Zhao’s (Nomadland) adaptation of Hamnet understands loss not as something to conquer, but something to carry, with art offering a way to survive it. 

When a (spoiler-free) tragedy happens, William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal) turns to his work because it is the only place he believes his sorrow can go. Agnes Shakespeare (Jessie Buckley) endures by refusing to mute her pain or soften it for anyone else.

Jessie Buckley (Women Talking) gives Agnes, known more casually here and historically as Anne Hathaway, a raw and deeply physical presence. Her grief is loud, uncontained and impossible to ignore. Paul Mescal (Normal People, AfterSun) meets her intensity with restraint, playing a man who learns that creating art can both protect him and force him to face what he has lost.

This is not simply a film that “makes you cry.” It is a full sensory passage through love, family and mourning that ultimately opens into something rare and transcendent. Quite poetically, the theater is alive with power here. Hamnet is a story of loss that somehow bursts with life. A reminder that from unbearable grief can come lasting beauty.

In a nutshell: Brilliant. Devastating. Achingly beautiful. A profound act of empathy, Chloé Zhao’s finest work to date and another reminder of why art matters.

Where to see it: In theaters. Don't see it Christmas Day.

Would it be better with Olivia Colman? To thine own self be true.

Award potential: This film will be very competitive with Oscar noms ranging from Picture and Director to Actress and Supporting Actor to Max Richter’s score. It won’t tally as much as Wicked, Sinners and One Battle, which are eligible in everything including song, but it will be a big player in key categories. 

The Ten Buck Review: Worth ten bucks.

Jay Kelly

There is an expectation that comes with a new Noah Baumbach film (Frances Ha, The Squid and the Whale, Marriage Story). You sit down expecting something essential and maybe a little bruising. Jay Kelly arrives with that same promise and a tuxedo full of movie stars and for a while, it looks like it might be his leap into deliverying an elevated crowd-pleaser. Instead, it settles into something more modest and oddly charming. 

George Clooney plays Jay Kelly, one of the last movie stars who still believes in movie stars. He floats through life with an entourage, a displaced family and the kind of privilege that insulates you from ever needing to ask why any of it exists. Clooney is basically playing himself with a Cary Grant tilt, and the film knows it. At one point, a stranger on a train calls him out for exactly that. Clooney fires back like a silver screen relic, insisting that playing yourself is harder than it looks. The movie winks.

Somehow, and oddly, all at once everyone who orbits Kelly seems to quietly question why they are there and whether this life is enough. That is fertile Baumbach territory, but Jay Kelly keeps slipping between tones. One minute, it is a melancholy character study, the next it is a travelogue through Tuscany.

The best stretch is an out-of place middle section on a train rolling through Europe. Adam Sandler delivers another reminder that vulnerability is his secret weapon. This is not another against-type tough guy turn. He is open, fragile and quietly devastating. Laura Dern delivers her lines like an Aaron Sorkin classic. Greta Gerwig (his wife and collaborator), Emily Mortimer (co-screenrighter, BIlly Cruddup, Stacy Keach and the rest of the cast all deliver. It's fun in parts.

And yet, when the film finally asks you to care deeply about Jay Kelly, it runs into trouble. The ending aims for a poetic bookend to the opening shot, complete with a quote that wants to be immortal. It does not quite earn it. Jay remains too insulated, too entitled and too vaguely sketched for the emotional payoff to fully work. You enjoy watching him but you do not ache for he and his Hollywood life.

The comparison that hangs over the film is Sentimental Value, another 2025 film about a famous father and his daughters. That film knows exactly what it is building toward and sticks the landing. Jay Kelly prefers to wander, collecting moments instead of meaning.

In a nutshell: There is plenty to enjoy. The dialogue snaps. Tuscany looks incredible. The scenes, taken individually, are often wonderful.

Where to find it: Watch it in theaters or on Netflix.

Would it be better with Olivia Colman: Absolutely.

Awards potential: Golden Globe nominees Clooney and Sandler both have a shot as the Oscar nominees become 10 not 24, but Sandler feels like the real long-shot contender, especially in supporting actor. The screenplay by Baumbach and Emily Mortimer should also be in the conversation.

The Ten Buck Review: Not what we hoped from all this talent, but it's still worth ten bucks.

2025 in Film + What Best Pictures will Golden Globes choose tomorrow?

2025 has shaped up to be a terrific film year and thank you thank you, because after 2024 I needed this. Around this time a year ago, we were trying to convince ourselves that The Brutalist was a triumph. I adored the first half, then spent the second half wondering if I had wandered into the worst movie of the year by accident. Anora gave us the most trite entry in an auteur director’s collection and Emilia Pérez left me indiferente. I mean, The Substance made the top ten nominees for film that year.

This year, the energy is different. It's a director year. We get to cheer an auteur director delivering one of his finest works with Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another. Chloé Zhao doth dropped a gutting masterwork in Hamnet. Joachim Trier gifts us an emotionally rich family drama with Sentimental Value. And then there is the unforgettable Train Dreams, which you just have to see right now.

Even stranger, the monster corner of cinema has come to play at an A+ level in a genre I don't usually bother with. Ryan Coogler pulled off a vampire film with Sinners, and Guillermo del Toro brought Frankenstein to life. Meanwhile, Weapons came in screaming as a well-scripted zombie movie to complete the trifecta.

Extra exciting, we still have heavy hitters coming to theaters soon, from Marty Supreme to It Was Just an Accident to The Secret Agent. If last year’s nominee, A Complete Unknown, tried to sneak into this year’s top ten, it wouldn’t stand a chance. Sorry to Deliver Me From Nowhere, tough year for a rock biopic.

There were some big misses. Kathryn Bigelow’s House of Dynamite fizzled on a finale, Luca Guadagnino's After the Hunt got schooled and Coppola’s Megalopolis wandered. Still, this is unmistakably a top director year. Also did I mention there is another Avatar coming? Never ever count out James Cameron.

The Golden Globes announce their nominees tomorrow. It’s a new voting body, not your father’s Globes, but here are the films I expect to see on their list, in alphabetical order.

Best Picture, Drama (6)

Frankenstein (Netflix)
Hamnet (Focus Features)
It Was Just an Accident (Neon)
The Secret Agent (Neon)
Sentimental Value (Neon)
Sinners (Warner Bros.)

Fingers crossed: Train Dreams
Spoiler: Avatar: Fire and Ash
Surprise: Is This Thing On?


If you're missing some top dranas, it's because they are running as comedies. I hope you see the humor in that too.

Best Picture, Comedy or Musical (6)

Jay Kelly (Netflix)
Marty Supreme (A24)
No Other Choice (Neon)
One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.)
Wake Up Dead Man (Netflix)
Wicked: For Good (Universal Pictures)

Fingers crossed: If I Had Legs, I'd Kick You
Spoiler: Bugonia
Surprise: Song Sung Blue