2026 Oscar Winner Predictions: Who Will Win Top Awards?

2026 Oscar winner predictions: Who will win top awards?

"One Battle After Another," "Sinners," Timothée Chalamet, and more enter a crowded Oscars race. EW shares predictions for who will win at the 2026 Oscars.2026 Oscar winners predictions: Who will win at the 98th Academy Awards? Netflix; A24; Warner BrosKey PointsThe 2026 Oscar nominations changed the state of the race. Now, see EW's winner predictions.Timothée Chalamet, Sinners, One Battle After Another, KPop Demon Hunters, and more are top conte…

The Academy got the nominees right. Will it get the winner wrong?

It is that time of year again: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has unveiled its nominations for the 98th Academy Awards, ushering in with them the annual ritual of online grievance and bickering about what the Academy has gotten right or wrong. This year’s Best Picture slate, however, is unusually impregnable. The 10 nominees are coherent, varied, and well-deserved. There are no glaring acts of political box-checking masquerading…

A Conservative’s Guide to the 2026 Best Picture Nominees

The outrage peddlers will tell you the Best Picture category is a wasteland. It isn't.

Nextgen Oscarwatcher: Key Takeaways from the Oscar Nominations

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Reddit Print Bluesky WhatsApp Threads Email Initial Takeaways from the 2026 Oscar Nominations A few days after the nominations dropped across the 25 major categories, we can finally step back, connect the dots, and start building a narrative (or several) about what it all really means. What does the Best Picture ten tell us? Does the old guard still carry real weight, or has the new guard reshaped the game? Is there st…

Oscars 2026: All 10 Best Picture Nominees Ranked

The time for predictions is over, and the nominees for the 98th Oscars are officially here. There were a few surprises, but most of the nominees played out the way they’d been expected to. Perhaps the most surprising nominee to make it into the Best Picture category is F1, which also received nominations for Best Editing and Best Sound. All ten of the Best Picture nominees are strong, worthy movies, but how do they stack up against one another? …