Oscar Predictions - Megan Lachinski - Next Best Picture

Sunday, October 4, 2026

Megan Lachinski

✍️🎙️ Next Best Picture

@meganlachinski

Best Picture

12:20 AM

1	1	The Odyssey Universal \| Christopher Nolan
2 1	2 1	La bola negra Netflix \| Javier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo
3 1	3 1	Wild Horse Nine Searchlight \| Martin McDonagh
4 1	4 1	Dune: Part Three Warner Bros. \| Denis Villeneuve
5 1	5 1	The Debut A24 \| Jesse Eisenberg
6	6	Project Hail Mary Amazon MGM \| Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
7 1	7 1	Obsession Focus Features \| Curry Barker
8 2	8 2	All of a Sudden Neon \| Ryusuke Hamaguchi
9 3	9 3	The Invite A24 \| Olivia Wilde
10 6	10 6	I Play Rocky Amazon MGM \| Peter Farrelly

Best Director

Sep 6

1	1	Martin McDonagh Wild Horse Nine
2	2	Christopher Nolan The Odyssey
3	3	Javier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo La bola negra
4	4	Denis Villeneuve Dune: Part Three
5	5	Olivia Wilde The Invite

Best Actress

Sep 26

1	1	Julianne Moore The Debut
2	2	Sandra Hüller Rose
3	3	Inde Navarrette Obsession
4 1	4 1	Olivia Wilde The Invite
5 1	5 1	Renate Reinsve Fjord

Best Actor

Oct 2

1	1	Andrew Scott Elsinore
2	2	John Malkovich Wild Horse Nine
3 2	3 2	Robert Pattinson Primetime
4 1	4 1	Tom Cruise Digger
5 1	5 1	Pedro Pascal Behemoth!

Best Supporting Actress

Sep 26

1	1	Anne Hathaway The Odyssey
2	2	Penélope Cruz La bola negra
3	3	Sandra Hüller Project Hail Mary
4	4	Samantha Morton The Odyssey
5	5	Tao Okamoto All of a Sudden

Best Supporting Actor

Sep 19

1	1	Paul Giamatti The Debut
2	2	Sam Rockwell Wild Horse Nine
3	3	Guy Pearce Ink
4 1	4 1	John Leguizamo The Odyssey
5 1	5 1	Guitarricadelafuente La bola negra

Best Adapted Screenplay

Aug 15

1	1	La bola negra Javier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo, Alberto Conejero \| Netflix
2	2	Project Hail Mary Drew Goddard \| Amazon MGM
3	3	The Odyssey Christopher Nolan \| Universal
4	4	Ink James Graham \| Netflix
5	5	All of a Sudden Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Léa Le Dimna \| Neon

Best Original Screenplay

Sep 7

1	1	Wild Horse Nine Martin McDonagh \| Searchlight
2 2	2 2	Obsession Curry Barker \| Focus Features
3 2	3 2	The Debut Jesse Eisenberg \| A24
4 2	4 2	Club Kid Jordan Firstman \| A24
5 3	5 3	Fjord Cristian Mungiu \| Neon

Best Casting

Sep 23

1	1	The Odyssey John Papsidera \| Universal
2 1	2 1	Wild Horse Nine Sarah Halley Finn \| Searchlight
3 4	3 4	La bola negra Eva Leira, Yolanda Serrano \| Netflix
4	4	The Debut Douglas Aibel \| A24
5	5	I Play Rocky Rick Montgomery \| Amazon MGM

Best Animated Feature

Sep 24

1	1	Wildwood Fathom \| Travis Knight
2	2	Ray Gunn Netflix \| Brad Bird
3	3	Forgotten Island Universal \| Januel Mercado, Joel Crawford
4	4	Toy Story 5 Disney \| Andrew Stanton
5 1	5 1	Iron Boy SPC \| Louis Clichy

Best Documentary Feature

Sep 10

1	1	You Can See Everything A24 \| Nathan Fielder, Lance Oppenheim
2 1	2 1	American Doctor Watermelon \| Poh Si Teng
3	3	NAZA
4 2	4 2	Once Upon a Time in Harlem Neon \| William Greaves, David Greaves
5	5	Rehearsals for a Revolution SPC \| Pegah Ahangarani

Best International Feature Film

Sep 7

1	1	La bola negra
2	2	All of a Sudden
3 1	3 1	Minotaur
4 1	4 1	Coward
5 1	5 1	Rose

Best Cinematography

Jul 15

1 2	1 2	Dune: Part Three Linus Sandgren \| Warner Bros.
2 1	2 1	The Odyssey Hoyte van Hoytema \| Universal
3 1	3 1	Project Hail Mary Greig Fraser \| Amazon MGM
4 1	4 1	Werwulf Jarin Blaschke \| Focus Features
5	5	La bola negra Gris Jordana \| Netflix

Best Costume Design

Sep 3

1	1	The Odyssey Universal
2	2	Dune: Part Three Warner Bros.
3	3	The Devil Wears Prada 2 20th Century
4	4	Werwulf Focus Features
5	5	Sense and Sensibility Focus Features

Best Film Editing

Sep 6

1	1	The Odyssey Jennifer Lame \| Universal
2	2	Dune: Part Three Joe Walker \| Warner Bros.
3	3	Project Hail Mary Joel Negron \| Amazon MGM
4	4	Ink Fin Oates \| Netflix
5 1	5 1	Wild Horse Nine Mikkel E.G. Nielsen \| Searchlight

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Jul 31

1	1	Werwulf Focus Features
2	2	Digger Warner Bros.
3	3	The Odyssey Universal
4	4	Clayface Warner Bros.
5	5	Dune: Part Three Warner Bros.

Best Production Design

Oct 3

1	1	Dune: Part Three Patrice Vermette, Shane Vieau \| Warner Bros.
2	2	The Odyssey Ruth De Jong, Larry Dias \| Universal
3 4	3 4	La bola negra Roger Bellés, Judit Ferrer \| Netflix
4 1	4 1	Project Hail Mary Charles Wood, John Bush \| Amazon MGM
5	5	Digger Anna Pinnock, Dennis Gassner, Richard L. Johnson \| Warner Bros.

Best Original Score

Oct 2

1	1	The Odyssey Ludwig Göransson \| Universal
2	2	Dune: Part Three Hans Zimmer \| Warner Bros.
3 1	3 1	Project Hail Mary Daniel Pemberton \| Amazon MGM
4 1	4 1	The Debut Emile Mosseri \| A24
5 1	5 1	Behemoth! James Newton Howard, Alan Silvestri, Brandon Roberts, Michael Abels, Emily Bear, Lukas Frank, Michael Giacchino, Henry Jackman, Nami Melumad \| Searchlight

Best Original Song

Sep 6

1	1	This City May Have Chewed Me Up (But It Hasn’t Spit Me Out) The Debut
2 1	2 1	La Nieve La bola negra
3 5	3 5	By Any Means By Any Means
4 1	4 1	I Knew It, I Knew You Toy Story 5
5 4	5 4	Runway The Devil Wears Prada 2

Best Sound

Sep 19

1	1	Dune: Part Three Warner Bros.
2	2	Project Hail Mary Amazon MGM
3	3	The Odyssey Universal
4	4	Disclosure Day Universal
5 1	5 1	La bola negra Netflix

Best Visual Effects

Aug 2

1	1	Project Hail Mary Amazon MGM
2	2	Dune: Part Three Warner Bros.
3	3	The Odyssey Universal
4 2	4 2	Whalefall 20th Century
5 1	5 1	Godzilla Minus Zero GKIDS