2026 Oscar Predictions
Updated April 10th, 2025
1. Deliver Me From Nowhere
Bruce Springsteen's journey crafting his 1982 album Nebraska, which emerged as he recorded Born in the USA with the E Street Band. Based on Warren Zanes' book.
2. Bugonia
Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
3. Hamnet
The story of Agnes - the wife of William Shakespeare - as she struggles to come to terms with the loss of her only son, Hamnet. A human and heart-stopping story as the backdrop to the creation of Shakespeare's most famous play, Hamlet.
4. Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Benoit Blanc returns for his most dangerous case yet.
5. The Life of Chuck
A life-affirming, genre-bending story based on Stephen King's novella about three chapters in the life of an ordinary man named Charles Krantz.
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6. Wicked: For Good
Follows Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West and her relationship with Glinda, the Good Witch of the North. The second of a two-part feature film adaptation of the Broadway musical.
7. The Ballad of a Small Player
When his past and his debts start to catch up with him, a high-stakes gambler laying low in Macau encounters a kindred spirit who might just hold the key to his salvation.
8. Frankenstein
Dr. Pretorius tracks down Frankenstein's monster, who is believed to have died in a fire forty years before, in order to continue the experiments of Dr. Victor Frankenstein.
9. Highest 2 Lowest
Adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's 1963 crime thriller.
10. Caught Stealing
Burned-out ex-baseball player Hank Thompson unexpectedly finds himself embroiled in a dangerous struggle for survival amidst the criminal underbelly of 1990s New York City, forced to navigate a treacherous underworld he never imagined.
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