Predictions - January 2026
Pre Critics Choice, Pre Golden Globes, Pre SAG noms
Best Picture
1
One Battle After Another
Warner Bros.
--
2
Sinners
Warner Bros
↑ 3
3
Marty Supreme
A24
↑ 1
4
Hamnet
Focus Features
↓ 2
5
It Was Just an Accident
Neon
↑ 2
6
Frankenstien
Netflix
↑ 2
7
Sentimental Value
Neon
↓ 4
8
Train Dreams
Netflix
↑ 4
9
Avatar: Fire and Ash
20th Century Studios
--
10
The Secret Agent
Neon
↑ 8
11
Jay Kelly
Netflix
↓ 1
12
Bugonia
Focus Features
↓ 1
13
Blue Moon
Sony Pictures Classics
NEW
14
Wicked: For Good
Universal
↓ 8
15
Sirat
Neon
NEW
16
No Other Choice
Neon
↓ 3
Best Director
1
Paul Thomas Anderson
One Battle After Another
--
2
Chloe Zhao
Hamnet
--
3
Jafar Panahi
It Was Just an Accident
--
4
Ryan Coogler
Sinners
↑ 2
5
Joachim Trier
Sentimental Value
↓ 1
6
Josh Safdie
Marty Supreme
↓ 1
7
Guillermo del Toro
Frankenstien
↑ 1
8
Park Chan-wook
No Other Choice
↓ 1
9
Yorgos Lanthimos
Bugonia
--
10
Kleber Mendonca Filho
The Secret Agent
↑ 3
11
Oliver Laxe
Sirat
NEW
Best Actress
1
Jessie Buckley
Hamnet
--
2
Renate Reinsve
Sentimental Value
--
3
Rose Byrne
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
↑ 2
4
Amanda Seyfried
The Testament of Ann Lee
--
5
Emma Stone
Bugonia
↑ 1
6
Chase Infiniti
One Battle After Another
↑ 2
7
Cynthia Erivo
Wicked: For Good
↓ 4
8
Kate Hudson
Song Sung Blue
↓ 1
9
Tessa Thompson
Hedda
NEW
10
Eva Victor
Sorry, Baby
↑ 3
11
Jennifer Lawrence
Die, My Love
--
12
Julia Roberts
After the Hunt
↓ 3
Best Actor
1
Timothee Chalamet
Marty Supreme
--
2
Leonardo DiCaprio
One Battle After Another
--
3
Ethan Hawke
Blue Moon
--
4
Michael B. Jordan
Sinners
--
5
Wagner Moura
The Secret Agent
--
6
Geroge Clooney
Jay Kelly
↑ 1
7
Joel Edgerton
Train Dreams
↑ 5
8
Jesse Plemons
Bugonia
↓ 2
9
Will Arnett
Is This Thing On?
↓ 1
10
Oscar Isaac
Frankenstien
--
11
Lee Byung-Hun
No Other Choice
↑ 2
12
Dwayne Johnson
The Smashing Machine
↓ 2
13
Brendan Fraser
Rental Family
↑ 2
Supporting Actress
1
Amy Madigan
Weapons
↑ 8
2
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas
Sentimental Value
↑ 1
3
Teyana Taylor
One Battle After Another
↓ 1
4
Elle Fanning
Sentimental Value
--
5
Gwyneth Paltrow
Marty Supreme
--
6
Wunmi Mosaku
Sinners
↑ 2
7
Ariana Grande
Wicked: For Good
↓ 6
8
Emily Blunt
The Smashing Machine
↑ 3
9
Odessa A'zion
Marty Supreme
↓ 3
10
Regina Hall
One Battle After Another
↓ 3
Supporting Actor
1
Benicio del Toro
One Battle After Another
↑ 3
2
Stellan Skarsgard
Sentimental Value
↑ 1
3
Sean Penn
One Battle After Another
↓ 2
4
Paul Mescal
Hamnet
↓ 2
5
Jacob Elordi
Frankenstien
↑ 2
6
Adam Sandler
Jay Kelly
--
7
Miles Caton
Sinners
↑ 1
8
Delroy Lindo
Sinners
↓ 3
9
Andrew Scott
Blue Moon
NEW
10
Billy Crudup
Jay Kelly
NEW
Best Original Screenplay
1
Sinners
Ryan Coogler
↑ 3
2
It Was Just an Accident
Jafar Panahi
↓ 1
3
Sentimental Value
Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier
↓ 1
4
Marty Supreme
Josh Safdie, Ronald Bronstien
↓ 1
5
Jay Kelly
Emily Mortimer, Noah Baumbach
↑ 1
6
Blue Moon
Robert Kaplow
NEW
7
Sorry, Baby
Eva Victor
↓ 2
8
The Secret Agent
Kleber Mendonca Filho
--
9
Weapons
Zach Cregger
↑ 2
10
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
Mary Bronstien
--
11
The Testament of Ann Lee
Mona Fastvold, Brady Corbet
↓ 4
Best Adapted Screenplay
1
One Battle After Another
Paul Thomas Anderson
--
2
Hamnet
Chloe Zhao
--
3
Frankenstien
Guillermo del Toro
--
4
Bugonia
Will Tracy
--
5
Train Dreams
Greg Kewdar, Clint Bentley
↑ 1
6
No Other Choice
Park Chan-wook
↓ 1
7
Wicked: For Good
Winnie Holzman, Dana Fox
--
8
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Story
Rian Johnson
--
9
The Smashing Machine
Benny Safdie
--
Best Animated Feature
1
KPop Demon Hunters
--
2
Zootopia 2
--
3
Little Amelie or the Character of Rain
--
4
Arco
--
5
Elio
--
6
In Your Dreams
--
7
A Magnificent Life
↑ 1
8
Scarlet
↓ 1
9
The Bad Guys 2
--
Best International Feature
1
It Was Just an Accident
France
--
2
Sentimental Value
Norway
↑ 1
3
The Secret Agent
Brazil
↑ 1
4
No Other Choice
South Korea
↓ 2
5
Sirat
Spain
↑ 3
6
The Voice of Hind Rajab
Tunisia
--
7
The President's Cake
Iraq
↓ 1
8
Sound of Falling
Germany
↓ 1
9
Belen
Argentina
NEW
10
Left-Handed Girl
Taiwan
↓ 1
11
Late Shift
Switzerland
--
12
All That's Left of You
Jordan
NEW
13
Kokuho
Japan
NEW
14
Palestine 36
Palestine
NEW
15
Homebound
India
NEW
Best Original Score
1
Sinners
Ludwig Goransson
↑ 1
2
One Battle After Another
Jonny Greenwood
↓ 1
3
Hamnet
Max Ritcher
--
4
Frankenstien
Alexandre Desplat
--
5
Bugonia
Jerskin Fendrix
--
6
F1
Hans Zimmer
↑ 5
7
Marty Supreme
Daniel Lopatin
↓ 1
8
Sirat
David Kangding Ray
NEW
9
Train Dreams
Bryce Dessner
NEW
10
Jay Kelly
Nicholas Britell
--
11
Wicked: For Good
John Powell, Stephen Schwatz
↓ 3
Best Sound
1
F1
--
2
Sinners
↑ 1
3
One Battle After Another
↓ 1
4
Avatar: Fire and Ash
↑ 1
5
Wicked: For Good
↓ 1
6
Frankenstien
↑ 2
7
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
--
8
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
↑ 1
9
Superman
↑ 4
Best Production Design
1
Frankenstien
--
2
Sinners
↑ 3
3
Wicked: For Good
↓ 1
4
Hamnet
--
5
Sentimental Value
NEW
6
Avatar: Fire and Ash
↓ 3
7
Marty Supreme
↓ 1
8
One Battle After Another
↓ 1
9
The Testament of Ann Lee
↓ 1
10
Bugonia
↓ 1
11
The Phoenician Scheme
--
12
The Secret Agent
NEW
Best Cinematography
1
One Battle After Another
Michael Bauman, Paul Thomas Anderson
--
2
Frankenstien
Dan Lausten
--
3
Sinners
Autumn Durald Arkapaw
--
4
Hamnet
Lukasz Zal
↑ 1
5
Train Dreams
Adolpho Veloso
↑ 3
6
Marty Supreme
Darius Khondji
↓ 2
7
Bugonia
Robbie Ryan
--
8
Sirat
Mauro Herce
NEW
9
F1
Claudio Miranda
NEW
10
Sound of Falling
Fabian Gamper
--
11
Nouvelle Vauge
David Chambille
--
12
Wicked: For Good
Alice Brooks
↑ 2
Best Makeup & Hairstyling
1
Frankenstien
--
2
Sinners
↑ 4
3
The Smashing Machine
↓ 1
4
Wicked: For Good
↓ 1
5
One Battle After Another
NEW
6
Marty Supreme
↑ 5
7
The Ugly Stepsister
NEW
8
Kokuho
NEW
9
Nuremberg
NEW
10
The Alto Knights
NEW
Best Costume Design
1
Frankenstein
--
2
Wicked: For Good
--
3
Sinners
--
4
Hamnet
--
5
Hedda
↑ 4
6
The Testament of Ann Lee
↓ 1
7
Marty Supreme
↓ 1
8
One Battle After Another
↓ 1
9
Kiss of the Spider Woman
↓ 1
10
The Secret Agent
NEW
Best Film Editing
1
One Battle After Another
--
2
Marty Supreme
--
3
Sentimental Value
--
4
Sinners
↑ 1
5
Hamnet
↓ 1
6
No Other Choice
--
7
F1
↑ 6
8
It Was Just an Accident
↑ 1
9
Bugonia
↓ 2
10
Avatar: Fire and Ash
↓ 2
11
The Perfect Neighbor
NEW
Best Visual Effects
1
Avatar: Fire and Ash
--
2
Superman
--
3
F1
↑ 5
4
Frankenstein
--
5
Wicked: For Good
↓ 2
6
Sinners
↑ 3
7
TRON: Ares
--
8
Jurassic World Rebirth
NEW
9
The Lost Bus
NEW
10
The Electric State
NEW
Best Casting
1
One Battle After Another
NEW
2
Sinners
NEW
3
Marty Supreme
NEW
4
Sentimental Value
NEW
5
Hamnet
NEW
6
Frankenstein
NEW
7
Weapons
NEW
8
The Secret Agent
NEW
9
Sirat
NEW
10
Wicked: For Good
NEW
11
NEW
Best Original Song
1
"Golden"
KPop Demon Hunters
--
2
"I Lied to You"
Sinners
↑ 1
3
"The Girl in the Bubble"
Wicked: For Good
↓ 1
4
"Dear Me"
Dianne Warren: Relentless
--
5
"Train Dreams"
Train Dreams
↑ 1
6
"Last Time (I Seen the Sun)"
Sinners
↓ 1
7
"No Place Like Home"
Wicked: For Good
↑ 2
8
"Dream as One"
Avatar: Fire and Ash
NEW
9
"Drive"
F1
↑ 1
10
"Salt Then Sour Then Sweet"
Come See Me in the Good Light
↑ 1
11
"As Alive As You Need Me To Be"
TRON: Ares
NEW
Best Documentary Short
1
All the Empty Rooms
NEW
2
Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
NEW
3
All the Walls Came Down
NEW
4
Bad Hostage
NEW
5
Cashing Out
NEW
6
The Devil is Busy
NEW
7
Children No More: Were and Are Gone
NEW
8
We Were the Scenery
NEW
9
Classroom 4
NEW
10
Rovina's Choice
NEW
11
Perfectly a Strangeness
NEW
12
Last Days on Lake Trinity
NEW
13
Heartbeat
NEW
14
Chasing Time
NEW
15
On Healing Land, Birds Perch
NEW
Best Animated Short
1
Autokar
NEW
2
Eiru
NEW
3
Butterfly
NEW
4
Cardboard
NEW
5
Forevergreen
NEW
6
Snow Bear
NEW
7
The Girl Who Cried Pearls
NEW
8
Retirement Plan
NEW
9
Playing God
NEW
10
The Shyness of Trees
NEW
11
I Died in Irpin
NEW
12
Hurikan
NEW
13
The Three Sisters
NEW
14
The Night Boots
NEW
15
The Quinta's Ghost
NEW
Best Live-Action Short
1
Ado
NEW
2
Beyond Silence
NEW
3
The Boy with White Skin
NEW
4
Amarela
NEW
5
Butcher's Stain
NEW
6
Rock, Paper, Scissors
NEW
7
Two People Exchanging Saliva
NEW
8
The Singers
NEW
9
A Friend of Dorothy
NEW
10
Jane Austen's Period Drama
NEW
11
Extremist
NEW
12
Butterfly on a Wheel
NEW
13
Dad's Not Home
NEW
14
The Pearl Comb
NEW
15
Pantyhose
NEW