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Timothee Chalamet wasn't on high enough alert for the Ides of March. The Marty Supreme lead had been on a fevered one-man mission to secure that Oscar he so desperately covets, only to undo all of his campaigning efforts by tacitly endorsing Matthew McConaughey's aggressively pro-AI views.

Hamnet has proven divisive, yet Jessie Buckley's scenery-chewing performance has made her a shoo-in for the Best Actress award. F1, essentially a 155-minute promo for Formula One, is a surprise Best Picture contender, as is Guillermo del Toro's tepidly-received sci-fi drama Frankenstein, starring Jacob Elordi. Wuthering Heights, incidentally, is shooting for the 2027 Oscars.

Brazilian political thriller The Secret Agent, which cleaned up at Cannes, Norwegian drama Sentimental Value, surreal black comedy Bugonia and railroad drama Train Dreams have each garnered universal acclaim from movie-goers, but – barring a shock of all shocks – realistically don't have the commercial heft to topple the likes of One Battle After Another, Sinners, Marty Supreme and Hamlet.

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Bugonia

F1

Frankenstein

Hamnet

Marty Supreme

One Battle After Another

The Secret Agent

Sentimental Value

Sinners

Train Dreams

Timothee Chalamet – Marty Supreme as Marty Mauser

Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another as Bob Ferguson

Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon as Lorenz Hart

Michael B. Jordan – Sinners as Elijah "Smoke" Moore / Elias "Stack" Moore

Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent as Armando Solimoes / Marcelo Alves / Fernando Solimoes

Jessie Buckley – Hamnet as Agnes Shakespeare

Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I'd Kick You as Linda

Kate Hudson – Song Sung Blue as Claire Sardina

Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value as Nora Borg

Emma Stone – Bugonia as Michelle Fuller

Benicio del Toro – One Battle After Another as Sensei Sergio St. Carlos

Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein as The Creature

Delroy Lindo – Sinners as Delta Slim

Sean Penn – One Battle After Another as Col. Steven J. Lockjaw

Stellan Skarsgard – Sentimental Value as Gustav Borg

Elle Fanning – Sentimental Value as Rachel Kemp

Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value as Agnes Borg Pettersen

Amy Madigan – Weapons as Gladys

Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners as Annie

Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another as Perfidia Beverly Hills

Robert Kaplow – Blue Moon

Jafar Panahi, Nader Saivar, Shadmehr Rastin and Mehdi Mahmoudian – It Was Just an Accident

Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme

Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier – Sentimental Value

Ryan Coogler – Sinners

Will Tracy – Bugonia (based on the film Save the Green Planet! by Jang Joon-hwan)

Guillermo del Toro – Frankenstein (based on the novel by Mary Shelley)

Chloe Zhao and Maggie O'Farrell – Hamnet (based on the novel by Maggie O'Farrell)

Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another (based on the novel Vineland by Thomas Pynchon)

Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar – Train Dreams (based on the novella by Denis Johnson)

Ryan Coogler – Sinners

Chloe Zhao – Hamnet

Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme

Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another

Joachim Trier – Sentimental Value

Ryan Coogler – Sinners

Voting is restricted to members of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), which include actors, writers, directors, film editors, cinematographers, costume designers, makeup artists, hairstylists, producers, casting directors, marketing and PR executives, and more.

In 2026, for the very first time, AMPAS members are required to have seen – or at least pretend to have seen – all of the films in a category in order to participate in the final round of voting.

It's extraordinary that this wasn't the case before, but it goes some way to explaining why the Oscars campaign trail has spiraled to the extent it has. Almost as much work seemed to go into marketing the Marty Supreme jacket as the film itself.

Javier Bardem, Maya Rudolph, Paul Mescal, Robert Downey Jr., Anne Hathaway, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kumail Nanjiani, Chase Infiniti, Will Arnett, Chris Evans, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Mikey Madison, Adrien Brody, Zoe Saldana and Kieran Culkin have been confirmed as presenters at the time of writing.

Miles Caton and Raphael Saadiq will give a rendition of “I Lied to You” from Sinners, while Ejae, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami will perform “Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters.

We're likely to get additional performances too, but at the time of publication they're tightly under wraps.