12 Years a Slave
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Oscar Nomination Predictions
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1.
100%One Battle after Another (Warner Bros.)
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2.
66.7%Sinners (Warner Bros.)
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3.
66.7%Hamnet (Focus Features)
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4.
66.7%Marty Supreme (A24)
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66.7%Sentimental Value (Neon)
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6.
66.7%Frankenstein (Netflix)
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66.7%Bugonia (Focus Features)
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66.7%The Secret Agent (Neon)
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66.7%Train Dreams (Netflix)
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66.7%F1 (Apple)
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100%One Battle after Another, Paul Thomas Anderson
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66.7%Sinners, Ryan Coogler
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3.
66.7%Marty Supreme, Josh Safdie
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4.
66.7%Hamnet, Chloé Zhao
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5.
66.7%Sentimental Value, Joachim Trier
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100%Timothée Chalamet in Marty Supreme
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2.
66.7%Leonardo DiCaprio in One Battle after Another
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3.
66.7%Michael B. Jordan in Sinners
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4.
66.7%Ethan Hawke in Blue Moon
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5.
66.7%Wagner Moura in The Secret Agent
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100%Jessie Buckley in Hamnet
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2.
66.7%Rose Byrne in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
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3.
66.7%Kate Hudson in Song Sung Blue
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4.
66.7%Renate Reinsve in Sentimental Value
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5.
66.7%Emma Stone in Bugonia
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100%Stellan Skarsgård in Sentimental Value
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2.
66.7%Benicio Del Toro in One Battle after Another
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3.
66.7%Jacob Elordi in Frankenstein
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4.
66.7%Delroy Lindo in Sinners
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5.
66.7%Sean Penn in One Battle after Another
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100%Teyana Taylor in One Battle after Another
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2.
66.7%Wunmi Mosaku in Sinners
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3.
66.7%Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas in Sentimental Value
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4.
66.7%Amy Madigan in Weapons
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5.
66.7%Elle Fanning in Sentimental Value
2026 Oscar Predictions: The Zealots Come For Timothee and Marty Supreme
Johnny Chaz has put together this beautiful montage on Best Picture and for a little while we can all just...
