Oscar winners: Where to watch the victorious films from the 2026 Academy Awards

The 98th Annual Academy Awards have wrapped up, meaning the 2026 awards season is officially over. It also means we now have a comprehensive list of quality films to catch up on. Where’s the remote?

In a refreshing change from previous awards seasons, many of this year’s Oscar winners are already available to stream here in Australia. If not already on the small screen, they’re ready to be enjoyed at your local cinema. As we bid adieu to the best season of all, here’s where to watch the year’s finest in film.

One Battle After Another

HBO Max

It’s not every awards season you’re able to immediately watch best picture winners from the comfort of your own couch. One Battle After Another is available to stream now on HBO Max, bringing Paul Thomas Anderson’s blistering political comedy-thriller to homes around the country.

The film – which follows a washed-up radical (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his teenage daughter (Chase Infiniti) as he’s forced back into action after a man from his past resurfaces – won the biggest prize of the night, best picture, as well as best director and adapted screenplay for Anderson (his first wins after a staggering 14 Oscar nominations). It also scooped best editing and the inaugural award for best casting. Finally, Sean Penn took home the statuette for best supporting actor for his appropriately unnerving performance as Colonel Lockjaw.

Sinners

HBO Max

Few could have predicted that a period film about vampires would become one of the biggest cinematic powerhouses of 2025. The gothic vampire horror, directed by Ryan Coogler (Black Panther), follows twin brothers (both masterfully played by Michael B. Jordan) in Jim Crow-era Mississippi as they open a juke joint for the Black community. Their plans, however, are disrupted when a young man’s powerful blues music attracts vampires, causing absolute carnage.

Jordan blew the competition (cough, Timothée Chalamet) out of the water by claiming the best actor Oscar on Monday. Sinners also won best cinematography, best original score via composer Ludwig Göransson, and best original screenplay for Coogler. This makes Coogler only the second black director to receive the coveted award, joining Jordan Peele, who won for Get Out in 2018.

Hamnet

In select cinemas and available to rent or buy on Apple TV, Prime Video and YouTube

Sometimes a good cry is all you need, and Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet certainly has you covered. Adapted from Maggie O’Farrell’s bestselling novel of the same name, the film shines a light on William Shakespeare’s fictionalised family life, namely his wife Agnes and her immense grief following the death of their son Hamnet, a loss that eventually inspires the Bard to write Hamlet.

As expected, Jessie Buckley came out on top, winning best actress for her sublime performance as Agnes.

Frankenstein

Netflix

Although Australia’s “it boy” Jacob Elordi didn’t clinch the win in the supporting actor race for his haunting role in Frankenstein, the film itself made major waves in the technical categories.

Guillermo del Toro’s gothic adaptation remained relatively faithful to Mary Shelley’s literary classic, following an egotistical genius who brings a monstrous creature to life, ultimately triggering his own downfall. Though the story itself did not receive altogether glowing reviews, its lavish, gothic aesthetic certainly did. It’s therefore perhaps unsurprising that it dominated the Oscars’ production categories, winning best make-up and hairstyling, costume design and production design.

Sentimental Value

Available to rent or buy on Apple TV, Prime Video or YouTube

Think “daddy issues”, but aesthetic. That’s the oversimplified gist of Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value. This much-celebrated film, which has been compared to the work of Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini, sees two estranged sisters reunite with their father, a fading auteur, as he attempts to cling to relevance by making another film.

It delivers plenty of what the title suggests paired with a few laughs. While Stellan Skarsgård didn’t manage to pick up the trophy for best supporting actor, the film did scoop the coveted best international feature award.

KPop Demon Hunters

Netflix

If you’re searching for something a little more light-hearted among the political revolutions and racist vampires, look no further. KPop Demon Hunters is a down-and-out good time with one of the catchiest soundtracks ever, even for people who aren’t into K-pop – trust me, its hit Golden didn’t win the best original song for nothing.

The family-friendly film, which also picked up best animated feature at the Oscars, follows the KPop demon-hunting girl group Huntrix as they battle a rival demon boy band. But little do they know, one of their very own members is half-demon herself.

F1

Apple TV

The Melbourne Grand Prix may have wrapped up just over a week ago, but that doesn’t mean you can’t return to the racetrack. Joseph Kosinski’s F1, a fictional sports drama about a washed-up driver (hello Brad Pitt) who exits retirement to help a struggling team, is available to stream for anyone missing the roar of the engine.

And roar this movie certainly does. According to Variety, the creators of the film wanted the audience to feel as if they were literally inside the car, so they worked with actual F1 teams to build real race cars that could carry the film’s recorders and transmitters. It clearly paid off – F1 came out victorious in the Academy’s sound category, beating out other heavyhitters like Sinners and One Battle After Another.

Weapons

HBO Max

With Sinners breaking the record for most Oscar nominations ever, and veteran actress Amy Madigan winning in the best supporting actress category, it has been quite the year for horror at the Oscars.

Madigan brought home the only award for Zach Cregger’s Weapons, a horror-mystery about a town searching for a classroom of students that inexplicably vanished at the same time one night. Madigan’s performance as witch-cum-child abductor Gladys is so unsettling and eerie, it’s no wonder she managed to beat stiff competition like Teyana Taylor and Elle Fanning.

All The Empty Rooms

Netflix

Created over several years, this short documentary is a harrowing but important watch. It picked up the award for best documentary short at the Oscars on Monday.

Directed by Joshua Seftel and featuring journalist Steve Hartman, All The Empty Rooms documents the untouched bedrooms of children killed in American school shootings. It aims to memorialise victims and demonstrate the pain mass shootings leave behind.

Another Netflix documentary was also in the running at the Oscars on Monday: The Perfect Neighbour, which was competing for best documentary feature. Though it didn’t win, it’s exploration of the consequences of “Stand Your Ground” laws in the US still makes it worth a watch.

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