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2026 Oscar Nomination Predictions

1/21/2026

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By Jacob Barlow-Jones
Greetings all, and welcome back to The Friendly Film Fan! I’m sure you all have many questions: where have we been? What have we been up to? Is a hot dog a sandwich (it’s not)? And finally, how are we coming back after all this time, not having written a proper review for anything since James Gunn’s Superman? What happened? You’ll find your answer below this text, courtesy of former French 75 revolutionary Bob Ferguson.
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​Needless to say, it’s been a somewhat rocky time for us over the past five months or so, but we are back, and it looks like just in the nick of time, because we are here to unveil our first and final Oscar nomination predictions piece of the season!
 
There’s so much up in the air with the film industry right now, and predicting whether Netflix will actually preserve the sanctity of theatrical exhibition for their new Warner Bros. properties in a few years’ time, or whether they will simply say that while they figure out how to get more eyes on their streaming service so they don’t have to commit to it, is anyone’s guess and almost impossible to predict this far out from a finalization of the acquisition. But you know what won’t be impossible to predict this year? Your Oscar ballot. Even if we weren’t public-facing about it, we've been studying the playing field all year long. Some things rose above as the year went on, some have all but dropped their races entirely. Whatever the case, if you’re looking to impress your friends and colleagues or just like that feeling you get when you’re right about something, we’ve got you covered. We’ll go through each individual category (including one new one) as we present our picks for what we think will land a spot, as well as three “wildcard” entries that could also move into poll position under the right circumstances. Here are The Friendly Film Fan’s official Oscar nomination predictions for 2026!
BEST PICTURE
Predicted Nominees:
  • Bugonia
  • Frankenstein
  • Hamnet
  • It Was Just an Accident
  • Marty Supreme
  • One Battle After Another
  • The Secret Agent
  • Sentimental Value
  • Sinners
  • Train Dreams
Wildcard(s):
  • F1
  • Sirât
  • Weapons
 
Nine of these ten seem fairly certain. A Palme d’Or winner, a Cannes darling, a Netflix “indie,” a literally Shakespearean drama, the weird one, the classical monster movie, the one carried (though not entirely) by a showstopper performance, the frontrunner of the season, and the contemporary musical (which doubles as a monster movie) seems like a fairly well-formed lineup for the Best Picture category, and only one thing remains: to find that tenth spot. This is where my previous advice from the Costume Design category comes in full force: never underestimate the Brazilians. Despite both F1 and Weapons putting up solid showings with PGA, and at least the former having a solid shot to make it in this ten, I’ve selected The Secret Agent as my number ten prediction.
 
BEST DIRECTOR
Predicted Nominees:
  • Chloé Zhao, Hamnet
  • Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme
  • Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
  • Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value
  • Ryan Coogler, Sinners
Wildcard(s):
  • Guillermo Del Toro, Frankenstein
  • Jafar Pahani, It Was Just an Accident
  • Kleber Mendonça Filho, The Secret Agent
 
Best Director is one of the other major categories where an out-of-nowhere international contender can show up just as easily as any of the expected five, but even with Joachim Trier not showing up in the DGA five, with Sentimental Value appearing amongst the PGA ten, I have a somewhat hopeful feeling that he does indeed make the lineup this year. Who the international contender turns out to be is anybody’s guess, and there remains a distinct possibility that there is no international feature director who appears amongst these five nominees with Guillermo Del Toro taking that DGA spot, but for now, I believe that even subtler direction can still be recognized, especially with performances this good across the board.
 
BEST ACTRESS
Predicted Nominees:
  • Jessie Buckley, Hamnet
  • Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
  • Chase Infiniti, One Battle after Another
  • Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value
  • Emma Stone, Bugonia
Wildcard(s):
  • Cynthia Erivo, Wicked: For Good
  • Kate Hudson, Song Sung Blue
  • Amanda Seyfried, The Testament of Ann Lee
 
How great is it that Chase Infiniti is going to garner herself an Oscar nomination for her feature film debut? She deserves every bit of awards love she gets, but as has been the case all season, this is a Buckley v. Byrne race, with Buckley firmly in the lead following a career of terrific work leading up to her turn as Agnes in Hamnet. What worries me here, though, is the presence of Kate Hudson in the SAG lineup, and what that might mean if Renate Reinsve is indeed snubbed for a nomination spot in her favor. Reinsve turned in some of the most impressive work of her career this year, and although it’s a quieter performance than her turn in The Worst Person in the World, it’s all the more powerful for it. And if the Academy feels any love at all for The Testament of Ann Lee, it should show up for the film’s well-deserving lead, Amanda Seyfried.
 
BEST ACTOR
Predicted Nominees
  • Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme
  • Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another
  • Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon
  • Michael B. Jordan, Sinners
  • Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent
Wildcard(s):
  • Lee Byung-hun, No Other Choice
  • Joel Edgerton, Train Dreams
  • Jesse Plemons, Bugonia
 
Wagner Moura needed to win the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama to stay in this race at all, and win it he did, cementing his place amongst at least the seven possible Best Actor contenders, even if he may be on the bubble and in definite danger of missing the nod. Still, Fernanda Torres didn’t have a SAG nod to her name and managed to wiggle into the Lead Actress lineup last year without a worry, so there’s a non-zero chance Moura takes the same path, especially with the level of international support he’s received. What I’m hoping is that Joel Edgerton’s quiet turn in Train Dreams somehow manages to make it into the lineup, even if it is at the expense of one of Ethan Hawke’s best performances in years. It’s unlikely that happens, but hey, what if?
 
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Predicted Nominees:
  • Ariana Grande, Wicked: For Good
  • Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value
  • Amy Madigan, Weapons
  • Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners
  • Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another
Wildcard(s):
  • Odessa A’zion, Marty Supreme
  • Elle Fanning, Sentimental Value
  • Gwenyth Paltrow, Marty Supreme
 
The SAG nod for Ariana Grande – a recognition they did not give to her castmate Cynthia Erivo this time around – is the only indicator outside of the below-the-line categories that Wicked: For Good has anything to hold onto. That said, with Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas sure to find justice for her SAG snub with a nomination here, the battle for last place appears to be between Grande and Odessa A’zion, whose career is enjoying a sharp rise at the moment. Currently, I am giving the edge to Grande, who manages to hold onto at least some of what she brought to the table in the first Wicked film, albeit a pale imitation, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see A’zion swoop in to leave Wicked: For Good relegated only to the tech fields.
 
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Predicted Nominees:
  • Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein
  • Paul Mescal, Hamnet
  • Sean Penn, One Battle After Another
  • Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value
  • Benicio Del Toro, One Battle After Another
Wildcard(s):
  • Miles Caton, Sinners
  • Delroy Lindo, Sinners
  • Adam Sandler, Jay Kelly
 
Perhaps the single easiest of the acting races to predict in terms of who makes the lineup, Best Supporting Actor remained an open and shut case for months…until SAG elected to nominate Miles Caton over Stellan Skarsgård in their rush to exclude any international nominees from their newly-named Actor Awards. Nonetheless, with a Golden Globe win already under his belt, and what appears to be a vote-splitting opportunity with the One Battle boys duking it out, Skarsgård appears to be unaffected by the SAG snub and poised to take the lead in this category once more (the Jacob Elordi win at Critics Choice notwithstanding). Truthfully, the bottom two wildcard selections here are more for padding than anything as Miles Caton is the clear number six for this category, but stranger nominations have come out of absolutely nowhere.
 
BEST CASTING
Predicted Nominees:
  • Hamnet
  • Marty Supreme
  • One Battle after Another
  • Sentimental Value
  • Sinners
Wildcard(s):
  • Frankenstein
  • The Secret Agent
  • Weapons
 
The newest category to be added to the Oscars lineup takes the nomination count from the 23 categories it had been shrunk down to when the sound categories collapsed back to a full 24 (and soon to be 25 with the introduction of the Best Stunts category, which will debut with the 100th anniversary of the awards). Given that this is the first year of its inclusion, there’s not a lot of precedent to rely on for predicting what the nominee field is likely to look like. The closest one can come at the moment is to focus largely on performance ensembles – especially those with deep benches (a look at the SAG Ensemble nominees is helpful here) – and try to game it out from there. My one hope for this category is that the international community comes through for Sentimental Value in the way that SAG refused to; barring that, we’re probably looking at a five for five SAG to Oscars transfer. (I like Frankenstein, but do we really need it here too?)
 
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Predicted Nominees:
  • Arco
  • Elio
  • KPop Demon Hunters
  • Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
  • Zootopia 2
Wildcard(s):
  • In Your Dreams
  • A Magnificent Life
  • Scarlet
 
In recent years, animation has sadly become somewhat of a weaker category, with easier to predict wins and easier to predict nominations than ever. That trend continues this year as KPop Demon Hunters looks to dominate both this and the Original Song categories, but what films surround it are also largely unsurprising. Disney’s now highest grossing animated film of all time, Zootopia 2, would be the reasonable second place finisher, with the studio’s Pixar entrant rounding out the lineup in fifth place behind two far more interesting nominees in Arco and Little Amélie. Netflix’s other animated film this year, In Your Dreams, as well as A Magnificent Life, and Sony’s Scarlet, occupy the wildcard slots because, well, something has to, and The Bad Guys 2 – while certainly worthy of some kind of recognition – just doesn’t have the juice to push through the pack.
 
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
Predicted Nominees:
  • It Was Just an Accident (France)
  • The Secret Agent (Brazil)
  • Sentimental Value (Norway)
  • Sirât (Spain)
  • The Voice of Hind Rajab (Tunisia)
Wildcard(s):
  • Belen (Argentina)
  • No Other Choice (South Korea)
  • Left-Handed Girl (Taiwan)
 
Even more than Best Picture, the most anticipated question of nominations morning seems to be whether Neon will be able to go five for five across the entirety of the International Feature category, a feat no studio (at least none that I’m aware of) has managed to achieve since the category’s introduction. If this were any other Academy, I might be inclined to say this would absolutely not happen, as this category always contains a wildcard that even I don’t see coming much of the time. However, given how calculated Neon has become at awards campaigning, it’s not safe to bet against them…which is exactly what I’m going to do. This may be the only opportunity for The Voice of Hind Rajab – a docu-drama about a Palestinian child calling out for rescue under Israeli fire – to reach the international audience it needs to succeed, and since the Academy has snubbed Park Chan-wook before and we’re due for at least one major blunder in the nominations, I think No Other Choice is the sacrificial lamb here. Perhaps Netflix is the one to oust the South Korean contender with the Taiwanese Left-Handed Girl, but either way, it could well be the case that a full decade passes before we see a Park Chan-wook film among this category’s lineup again.
 
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Predicted Nominees:
  • The Alabama Solution
  • Cover-Up
  • My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 – Last Air in Moscow
  • The Perfect Neighbor
  • 2000 Meters to Andriivka
Wildcard(s):
  • Apocalypse in the Tropics
  • Come See Me in the Good Light
  • Mr. Nobody Against Putin
 
Keeping up with the documentary feature contenders throughout the year has been something I’ve prided myself on, but even during my most prolific years of documentary viewing, there’s either been plenty of entrants to the shortlist that I haven’t seen or plenty of docs I have seen that then didn’t make the cut. Luckily, many of these – like their short form counterparts – are also accessible through various streaming services or YouTube, so they’re relatively easy to see. Also, like so many categories this year, there are about four nominees that feel like concrete certainties, and one that could go basically anywhere else. I’ve selected The Alabama Solution as the fifth film, given that Netflix already has The Perfect Neighbor in the mix (so Apocalypse in the Tropics feels redundant if the Academy is trying to spread the love) and Apple has yet to land one of their documentary acquisitions in this category going as far back as 2020. Come See Me in the Good Light is easily their strongest candidate yet, and it has widespread support, so there’s a genuine shot for it to get in, but that Apple stat is hard to ignore with an HBO doc waiting in the wings.
 
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Predicted Nominees:
  • Frankenstein
  • Marty Supreme
  • One Battle after Another
  • Sinners
  • Train Dreams
Wildcard(s):
  • Hamnet
  • Nouvelle Vague
  • Sirât
 
Hamnet missing the ASC nod this year dealt a crushing blow to Lukas Zal, whom many considered to be firmly in the mix after having been snubbed for his transcendent work on The Zone of Interest, a film which continues to grow more and more relevant as time continues to move forward. It’s not impossible that the Academy elects to nominate him anyway, given Hamnet’s otherwise strong showing, but it seems more likely that the Academy actually goes five for five with the ASC nominees this year, breaking recent precedent of a four for five success rate. As for the win, we’ll have to see how the rest of the season goes, but in my eyes, it’s still Sinners vs. Train Dreams.
 
BEST FILM EDITING
Predicted Nominees:
  • Stephen Mirrione and Patrick J. Smith, F1
  • Affonso Gonçalves and Chloé Zhao, Hamnet
  • Ronald Bronstein, Marty Supreme
  • Andy Jurgensen, One Battle After Another
  • Michael P. Shawver, Sinners
Wildcard(s):
  • Evan Schiff, Frankenstein
  • Kim Sang-bun and Kim Ho-bin, No Other Choice
  • Olivier Bugge Coutté, Sentimental Value
 
Sometimes the film with the most editing wins this category (Ford v Ferrari), sometimes it does actually go to the best edited film of the year (Everything Everywhere All at Once); in both cases, there’s strong support for both F1 and One Battle After Another, and without the ACE Eddie nominations in hand (those will be revealed next Tuesday), what surprises may be in store are anybody’s guess. For the moment, this is what I think it looks like heading into tomorrow’s announcement.
 
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Predicted Nominees:
  • Tamara Deverell, Frankenstein
  • Fiona Crombie, Hamnet
  • Jack Fisk, Marty Supreme
  • Hannah Beachler, Sinners
  • Nathan Crowley, Wicked: For Good
Wildcard(s):
  • Dylan Cole and Ben Procter, Avatar: Fire and Ash
  • Florencia Martin and Anthony Carlino, One Battle after Another
  • James Price, Prue Howard, & Sarah Carter, Bugonia
 
It will forever remain strange to me just how weak Avatar: Fire and Ash appears this year when compared to the certainty with which The Way of Water entered the race in 2023. Granted, it had been twelve years since the first Avatar, so a sequel that looked as good as Way of Water did with all its new technology and design work was always going to make a strong showing in the tech categories, but Fire and Ash being on the bubble even without that length of a wait still feels wrong. Nevertheless, on the bubble it is, and anyone who’s still predicting a showing for Fantastic Four: First Steps here – even in the wildcards – should keep in mind that much of the industry seems more passionate about Bugonia than previously thought.
 
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Predicted Nominees:
  • Malgosia Turzanska, Hamnet
  • Kate Hawley, Frankenstein
  • Colleen Atwood, One Battle after Another
  • Ruth E. Carter, Sinners
  • Paul Tazewell, Wicked: For Good
Wildcard(s):
  • Lindsay Pugh, Hedda
  • Miyako Bellizzi, Marty Supreme
  • Rita Azevedo, The Secret Agent
 
Costume Design is another slightly tricky category this year, as there are about seven viable candidates, two of which possess a sincere chance at knocking Hamnet out of its spot. Given how the industry appears to adore the film, I’m reticent to remove it from the lineup, but if it were to fall, I believe it would be to Lindsay Pugh’s work in Hedda, which features a more formal style in its costuming. I know this is where many are placing their Testament of Ann Lee or Kiss of the Spider-Woman hopes, but given how both of these were entirely ignored through every shortlist, it's a safe bet to say the Academy likely isn’t giving them any more thought, justifiably or not. What they may be giving thought to, however, is The Secret Agent, as an increasingly international Academy just witnessed it win two Golden Globes, including one for Best Actor (Wagner Moura). There’s only one rule with this new Academy in major categories: never underestimate the Brazilian contingent.
 
BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
Predicted Nominees:
  • Frankenstein
  • One Battle after Another
  • Sinners
  • The Smashing Machine
  • Wicked: For Good
Wildcard(s):
  • Kokuho
  • Marty Supreme
  • Nuremberg
 
Once more, thank god for shortlists; if it weren’t for the Academy’s willingness to share what was in contention for some of these below-the-line categories, I’d have forgotten The Alto Knights and The Ugly Stepsister even released this past year (not that either of them has a shot here, but it’s good to see the latter recognized). That said, there’s also plenty of room for a wildcard move in this category as well. The Academy loves prosthetic work, and while The Smashing Machine features plenty of the more subtle makeup they love to recognize, it doesn’t feature a fat suit; Nuremberg does, and if any of the old Academy still has any power, the Churchill rule should apply here as well. Of course, there’s always a possibility that Kokuho – the Tom Cruise-backed international contender this year from Japan – springs a surprise on us as well.
 
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Predicted Nominees:
  • Frankenstein
  • Hamnet
  • Marty Supreme
  • One Battle after Another
  • Sinners
Wildcard(s):
  • Bugonia
  • F1
  • Wicked: For Good
 
Original score is a tricky one; last year, Challengers was snubbed in favor of Wicked: For Good, which I suppose featured a decent bit of original scoring for the film, but most of it sounded like renditions of the Broadway show score anyway, and personally I’d like to not repeat that mistake, so I am hoping with everything in me that Daniel Lopatin’s score for Marty Supreme doesn’t hit a Challengers snag this year. That said, there’s plenty of room for some wildcard madness this time around, so don’t be shocked if Wicked: For Good features as am undeserved repeat.
 
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
Predicted Nominees:
  • “Dear Me,” Diane Warren: Relentless
  • “The Girl In The Bubble,” Wicked: For Good
  • “Golden,” KPop Demon Hunters
  • “I Lied To You,” Sinners
  • “Train Dreams,” Train Dreams
Wildcards:
  • “Dream As One,” Avatar: Fire and Ash
  • “Last Time (I Seen The Sun),” Sinners
  • “No Place Like Home,” Wicked: For Good
 
And now we come to the category no one actually cares about, but which everyone gets at least one thing right with: a Diane Warren or Diane Warren-adjacent song will keep showing up here until she gets her damn Oscar, locking out more deserving candidates. Of course, it’s possible that “Dear Me” falls at the feet of either Sinners or Wicked: For Good, both of which feature at least one original song already firmly in the mix, but I doubt any of these wildcards have the strength in campaigning to take down the single entrant that almost never misses.
 
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Predicted Nominees:
  • Jang Joon-hwan and Will Tracy, Bugonia
  • Maggie O’Farrell and Chloé Zhao, Hamnet
  • Guillermo Del Toro, Frankenstein
  • Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
  • Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar, Train Dreams
Wildcard(s):
  • Park Chan-wook, Lee Kyoung-mi, Jahye Lee, & Don McKellar, No Other Choice
  • Rian Johnson, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
  • Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox, Wicked: For Good
 
You’ll notice in many of these races that between three and four spots are more-or-less locked up by a few heavyweight candidates, while spots four and five are up for grabs between two or three films with some true wildcards waiting in the wings. Such is also the case with Adapted Screenplay, which is a two-way battle for spot five between Will Tracy’s script for Bugonia (currently in the lead with some WGA support) and Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice, which to me should be a layup candidate. For the moment, I’ve chosen Bugonia as the safe bet, but don’t be surprised to see No Other Choice show up here if the Academy isn’t going to blank it like they did Decision to Leave a few years ago.
 
BEST ORIGNAL SCREENPLAY
Predicted Nominees:
  • Jafar Pahani, It Was Just an Accident
  • Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme
  • Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt, Sentimental Value
  • Ryan Coogler, Sinners
  • Eva Victor, Sorry, Baby
Wildcard(s):
  • Robert Kaplow, Blue Moon
  • Kleber Mendonça Filho, The Secret Agent
  • Zach Cregger, Weapons
 
The original screenplay category seems fairly likely to throw a huge curveball our way as Zach Cregger’s Weapons made its way onto a couple of key shortlists. That said, I’m not sure I see it making a large dent here, even if Amy Madigan is all but guaranteed to secure herself a nomination. Still, of the wildcard picks, I think it would be the likeliest to knock Sorry, Baby out of contention, even if I’m not-so-secretly praying that won’t happen. Julia Roberts seems to think highly of Eva Victor’s film. Why shouldn’t the Academy?
 
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Predicted Nominees:
  • Avatar: Fire and Ash
  • F1
  • The Lost Bus
  • Superman
  • Wicked: For Good
Wildcard(s):
  • Frankenstein
  • Jurassic World Rebirth
  • Sinners
 
Every time a new Avatar film releases, this race is over before it begins, but it is still fun to predict what will by riding alongside it, and my big swing this time around comes in the form of Paul Greengrass’ Paradise fire drama, The Lost Bus, which features some thoroughly convincing effects that I believe everyone is underestimating. Of course, there’s always the chance that Frankenstein takes either that spot or the Wicked: For Good one (boy, that movie sank in the rankings quick, huh), but for now, this is where I’m at.
 
BEST SOUND
Predicted Nominees:
  • F1
  • Frankenstein
  • One Battle after Another
  • Sinners
  • Sirât
Wildcard(s):
  • Avatar: Fire and Ash
  • Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
  • Wicked: For Good
 
And now we come to the part of the predictions where people actually start paying attention. Best Sound isn’t especially tricky until one gets into that fifth slot, for which I would personally nominate Avatar: Fire and Ash, but which most sound guilds gave to Mission: Impossible (even the Cinema Audio Society didn’t recognize Avatar). There’s certainly a likelihood that the Tom Cruise action film – which could be the last of its kind – holds onto that sound nod all the way through tomorrow morning, but given the widespread support for Oliver Laxe’s desert rave drama Sirât across a multitude of shortlists and its likelihood of showing up in at least one other major category in this piece, I’ve elected to call the nomination race in its favor.
 
BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT
Predicted Nominees:
  • Ado
  • Beyond Silence
  • The Boy with White Skin
  • Rock, Paper, Scissors
  • The Singers
Wildcard(s):
  • Amarela
  • Butcher’s Stain
  • Two People Exchanging Saliva
 
Even amongst the short form categories, this is the most difficult one to predict. Only two of these films are widely available, so those are the only two I’ve seen. Extremist is the first, which I don’t believe has the juice to push past the eight other contenders listed, but Two People Exchanging Saliva – the second one I’ve seen – would be an inspired choice to bump up from wildcard into the main nominee package.
 
BEST ANIMATED SHORT
Predicted Nominees:
  • Autokar
  • Butterfly
  • Cardboard
  • Éiru
  • Forevergreen
Wildcard(s):
  • Playing God
  • Retirement Plan
  • Snow Bear
 
Butterfly seems like the easy frontrunner in this category, given how stunningly
Butterfly seems like the easy frontrunner in this category, given how stunningly painted it is while also featuring a poignant storyline, but for my money, I’d like to see the adorable Snow Bear or the existentially dreadful Playing God jump up from the wildcard slots into the main pack. Is that just because they’re some of the only ones I’ve been able to see? The answer isn’t “no,” but they are also quality films.
 
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Predicted Nominees:
  • All the Empty Rooms
  • Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
  • Classroom 4
  • Bad Hostage
  • Last Days on Lake Trinity
Wildcard(s):
  • All the Walls Came Down
  • Cashing Out
  • The Devil Is Busy
 
By far the most difficult categories to predict each year are the Shorts; they’re not usually widely accessible during the year, and we know so little about how they’re made and distributed that keeping up with what rises through the ranks is more or less impossible; thank god for the Shortlists the Academy drops each year to help us nail down which ones we should focus on, and which ones we no longer need to track. This yearThis year, most of the documentary short films from the shortlist were actually fairly easy to see; some are still streaming exclusives, like the Netflix frontrunner All the Empty Rooms, but many others – such as The Devil is Busy and Last Days on Lake Trinity – are widely accessible on YouTube just by searching the title. Inevitably, at least one of the shortlisted films that are not widely accessible makes the cut, so this year I’ve put Bad Hostage in that slot (although I did see it last year as part of the IDA awards).
 
 
What do you think of our predictions? Is there anything we’re underestimating? Overestimating? Which films would you like to see get some love tomorrow morning? Let us know in the comments section below, and thanks for reading!
 
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