2026 Predictions (99th Oscars)

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Appears on Three Lists Appears on Two Lists Appears on One List Wesley Lovell Pete Patrick Thomas LaTourrette

Best Picture

WLPPTL The Adventures of Cliff Booth
WLPPTL Cry to Heaven
WLPPTL Digger
WLPPTL Disclosure Day
WLPPTL Dune: Part Three
WLPPTL Fatherland
WLPPTL Fjord
WLPPTL No One Cares
WLPPTL The Odyssey
WLPPTL Project Hail Mary
WLPPTL Saturn Return
WLPPTL Sense and Sensibility
WLPPTL The Social Reckoning
WLPPTL Tuner
WLPPTL Wild Horse Nine

Best Animated Feature

WLPPTL The Cat in the Hat
WLPPTL Forgotten Island
WLPPTL Hexed
WLPPTL Hoppers
WLPPTL Minions & Monsters
WLPPTL Ray Gunn
WLPPTL Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom
WLPPTL Toy Story 5
WLPPTL Wildwood

Best Directing

WLPPTL Alejandro G. Iñárritu – Digger
WLPPTL Martin McDonagh – Wild Horse Nine
WLPPTL Christian Mungiu – Fjord
WLPPTL Christopher Nolan – The Odyssey
WLPPTL Pawel Pawlikowski – Fatherland
WLPPTL Steven Spielberg – Disclosure Day
WLPPTL Denis Villeneuve – Dune: Part Three

Best Actor

WLPPTL Tom Cruise – Digger
WLPPTL Matt Damon – The Odyssey
WLPPTL Ryan Gosling – Project Hail Mary
WLPPTL Rami Malek – The Man I Love
WLPPTL John Malkovich – Wild Horse Nine
WLPPTL David Oyelowo – Clarissa
WLPPTL Sam Rockwell – Wild Horse Nine
WLPPTL Sebastian Stan – Fjord

Best Actress

WLPPTL Rachel Brosnahan – Saturn Return
WLPPTL Daisy Edgar-Jones – Sense and Sensibility
WLPPTL Cynthia Erivo – Prima Facie
WLPPTL Sandra Hüller – Fatherland
WLPPTL Helen Mirren – A Talent for Murder
WLPPTL Julianne Moore – No One Cares
WLPPTL Sophie Okonedo – Clarissa
WLPPTL Renate Reinsve – Fjord
WLPPTL Michelle Williams – A Place in Hell

Best Supporting Actor

WLPPTL Riz Ahmed – Digger
WLPPTL Antonio Banderas – Tony
WLPPTL Steve Buscemi – Wild Horse Nine
WLPPTL Paul Giamatti – No One Cares
WLPPTL John Goodman – Digger
WLPPTL Dustin Hoffman – Tuner
WLPPTL John Malkovich – Wild Horse Nine
WLPPTL Charles Melton – Saturn Return
WLPPTL Guy Pearce – Ink
WLPPTL Sam Rockwell – Wild Horse Nine
WLPPTL Jeremy Strong – The Social Reckoning
WLPPTL Tom Sturridge – The Man I Love

Best Supporting Actress

WLPPTL Caitriona Balfe – Sense and Sensibility
WLPPTL Emily Blunt – Disclosure Day
WLPPTL Penélope Cruz – The Invite
WLPPTL Emma D’Arcy – Digger
WLPPTL Elizabeth Debicki – The Adventures of Cliff Booth
WLPPTL Mariana di Girolamo – Wild Horse Nine
WLPPTL Ayo Edebiri – Clarissa
WLPPTL Daisy Edgar-Jones – A Place in Hell
WLPPTL Claire Foy – Ink
WLPPTL Anne Hathaway – The Odyssey
WLPPTL Sandra Hüller – Digger
WLPPTL Scarlett Johansson – Paper Tiger
WLPPTL Parker Posey – Wild Horse Nine

Best Original Screenplay

WLPPTL Digger
WLPPTL Fatherland
WLPPTL Fjord
WLPPTL No One Cares
WLPPTL A Place in Hell
WLPPTL Saturn Return
WLPPTL Tuner
WLPPTL Wild Horse Nine

Best Adapted Screenplay

WLPPTL The Adventures of Cliff Booth
WLPPTL All of a Sudden
WLPPTL The Black Ball
WLPPTL Dune: Part Three
WLPPTL Minotaur
WLPPTL The Odyssey
WLPPTL Project Hail Mary
WLPPTL Sense and Sensibility
WLPPTL The Social Reckoning

Best Casting

WLPPTL The Adventures of Cliff Booth
WLPPTL Clarissa
WLPPTL Cry to Heaven
WLPPTL Digger
WLPPTL Disclosure Day
WLPPTL Fatherland
WLPPTL Fjord
WLPPTL The Odyssey
WLPPTL The Social Reckoning
WLPPTL Wild Horse Nine