2026 Oscar Predictions: The Awards Alchemist’s Updates With Festival Awards and Heading Into Critics Season
It’s November, and with that, we enter phase three of the race: critics’ awards. Last week, the Gotham nominations kicked things off, with other regional... Read More
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2026 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE and BEST DIRECTOR (October)
At the midpoint of AFI FEST, we’re winding down on the film festival season proper, making way for the awards-driven fests like SCAD Savannah, Santa... Read More
2026 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTOR (October)
All aboard! The October Best Actor race is chugging along and this month Joel Edgerton makes a major move in what feels like Netflix’s sleeper... Read More
2026 Oscar Predictions: BEST ACTRESS (October)
With the news that Warner Bros will be campaigning Chase Infiniti in Best Actress for One Battle After Another, she makes a solid first entrance... Read More
2026 Oscar Predictions: ANIMATED FEATURE (October)
It’s hard not to look at the existing and upcoming roster of animated films for 2025 and not feel like it’s one of the weakest... Read More
2026 Oscar Predictions: BEST CASTING (October)
The top 10 here remains the same but with some crucial movement, especially in the top 5 for Wicked: For Good and Wake Up Dead... Read More
2026 Oscar Predictions: DOCUMENTARY FEATURE and INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM (October)
Fifteen films in Documentary Feature and International Feature Film will be shortlisted for Oscar consideration on December 16. For doc precursors we have the nominations... Read More
2026 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (October)
Not much to change in Adapted although I do wonder if No Other Choice and Bugonia mining some similar, or at least adjacent, territory and... Read More
2026 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTOR (October)
As solid as a top 3 can be in almost any category this season, but I’m moving things around a bit. With One Battle After... Read More
2026 Oscar Predictions: SUPPORTING ACTRESS (October)
Supporting Actress has lost a contender for October in Chase Infiniti. The One Battle After Another ingenue has been announced to be campaigned as lead... Read More
Producers Guild Awards Nominations for Sports, Children’s and Short-Form Programs 
Wim Wenders to Lead 76th Berlin International Film Festival Jury 
2026 Oscar Predictions: ADAPTED SCREENPLAY and ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (December) 
San Diego Film Critics Society (SDFCS) Nominations: ‘One Battle After Another,’ ‘Sinners’ Lead