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Oscars 2026 priority watchlist

My personal watchlist for the Oscars 2026, thanks to Variety and Next Best Picture. The list starts off with Variety's first blind predictions and NBP's list of early contenders for 2026's nominees in the feature length categories (except for Original Song). After that I update whenever Variety releases and updates their predictions (top 20 in Best Picture, top 10 in all other categories) until the actual unseen nominees remain.

Latest update: May 19

NOTE: it's a personal watchlist, so whenever I see a film from this list, it will be removed.

  • The Bride!
  • Marty Supreme
  • Song Sung Blue
  • Avatar: Fire and Ash
  • Ella McCay
  • Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
  • Hamnet
  • Zootopia 2
  • Wicked: For Good
  • Jay Kelly
  • Bugonia
  • Deliver Me from Nowhere
  • Good Fortune
  • After the Hunt
  • TRON: Ares
  • Anemone
  • Roofman
  • The Smashing Machine
  • Michael
  • One Battle After Another
  • Caught Stealing
  • The Fantastic Four: First Steps
  • Superman
  • F1 The Movie
  • Elio
  • Materialists
  • Rosemead
  • How to Train Your Dragon
  • The History of Sound
  • Sentimental Value
  • Eleanor the Great
  • Highest 2 Lowest
  • The Phoenician Scheme
  • Die My Love
  • A Magnificent Life
  • Nouvelle Vague
  • Eddington
  • Blue Moon
  • Sorry, Baby
  • Kiss of the Spider Woman
  • Train Dreams
  • Endless Cookie
  • Ann Lee
  • At the Sea
  • The Ballad of a Small Player
  • The Collaboration
  • The Drama
  • Eternity
  • Father Mother Sister Brother
  • Frankenstein
  • Hedda
  • In the Blink of an Eye
  • In Your Dreams
  • Klara and the Sun
  • Late Fame
  • The Lost Bus
  • Mother Mary
  • No Other Choice
  • Wildwood