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2026 Oscar Predictions: The Unsung Heroes of the Best Actor Race
When Benny Safdie won Best Director in Venice, all of the pundits and critics either shrugged or shook their heads. ...
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2026 Oscars: What Five Best Actor Contenders Will Get Nominated? [POLL]
The Best Actor race is stacked. In general, of late, a Best Actor nomination doesn't necessarily match Best Picture. Here ...
2026 Oscar Predictions – Promising Best Actor Contenders
Hollywood has shifted its priorities away from actor-driven content. Last year, for instance, all five of the Best Actress contenders ...
2025 Oscars: Best Actor Narrows to Three – Fiennes, Brody and Chalamet
The Best Actor race has traditionally been among the most important drivers of the Best Picture race. That has changed ...
2025 Oscar Predictions: Does Best Actor or Best Actress Drive It?
Best Picture has not revolved around an exceptional male hero as much as it used to, last year's winner notwithstanding. ...
2024 Oscar Predictions — Best Actor Is a Tight Race Between Cillian Murphy and Paul Giamatti
The year began with a strong performance by Bradley Cooper that looked like it might be the one he finally ...
Andrew Scott On Adam’s Anger When Coming Out to Mum in ‘All Of Us Strangers’
Queer people always worry about coming out to someone. It could be your lover, some of your friends, your distant ...
2024 Oscars – What Drives a Best Actor Winner?
For most of the years I wrote about the Oscars (going on a ghastly 23 or so by now — ...
Oscars 2024: Good As Gold’s First Look at the Actors
A couple weeks ago, I kicked off my Oscars 2024 (also known as the 96th Academy Awards) predictions with a ...
Oscar Nomination Predictions
Best Picture
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1.
95%One Battle After Another
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2.
90%Sinners
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3.
90%Hamnet
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4.
90%Marty Supreme
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5.
90%Sentimental Value
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6.
85%Frankenstein
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7.
82.5%The Secret Agent
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8.
60%It Was Just an Accident
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9.
72.5%Bugonia
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10.
70%Train Dreams
Best Director
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1.
90%Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
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2.
85%Ryan Coogler, Sinners
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3.
87.5%Chloe Zhao, Hamnet
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4.
57.5%Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value
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5.
50%Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme
Best Actor
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1.
85%Timothee Chalamet, Marty Supreme
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2.
85%Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another
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3.
77.5%Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent
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4.
75%Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon
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5.
75%Michael B. Jordan, Sinners
Best Actress
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1.
87.5%Jessie Buckley, Hamnet
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2.
85%Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
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3.
82.5%Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value
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4.
65%Emma Stone, Bugonia
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5.
47.5%Chase Infiniti, One Battle After Another
Best Supporting Actor
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1.
85%Stellan Skarsgard, Sentimental Value
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2.
82.5%Benicio Del Toro, One Battle After Another
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3.
82.5%Paul Mescal, Hamnet
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4.
72.5%Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein
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5.
72.5%Sean Penn, One Battle After Another
Best Supporting Actress
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1.
85%Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another
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2.
82.5%Amy Madigan, Weapons
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3.
70%Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value
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4.
70%Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners
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5.
35%Ariana Grande, Wicked: For Good
2026 Oscars: How Sinners Became the Underdog and Could Now Win
The critics gave a tongue bath to One Battle After Another for months. That's probably still your frontrunner, but one...
