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by hutchwp

Academy Awards 2026 – Full List of Nominees

Best picture

Bugonia
F1
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Train Dreams

Best directing

Chloé Zhao, Hamnet
Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme
Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value
Ryan Coogler, Sinners

Best actor

Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme
Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another
Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon
Michael B Jordan, Sinners
Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent

Best actress

Jessie Buckley, Hamnet
Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Kate Hudson, Song Sung Blue
Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value
Emma Stone, Bugonia

Best supporting actor

Benicio Del Toro, One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein
Delroy Lindo, Sinners
Sean Penn, One Battle After Another
Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value

Best supporting actress

Elle Fanning, Sentimental Value
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value
Amy Madigan, Weapons
Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners
Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another

Best original screenplay

Blue Moon
It Was Just an Accident
Marty Supreme
Sentimental Value
Sinners

Best adapted screenplay

Bugonia
Frankenstein
Hamnet
One Battle After Another
Train Dreams

Best animated feature film

Arco
Elio
KPop Demon Hunters
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
Zootopia 2

Best international feature film

The Secret Agent
It Was Just an Accident
Sentimental Value
Sirât
The Voice of Hind Rajab

Best documentary feature film

The Alabama Solution
Come See Me in the Good Light
Cutting Through Rocks
Mr Nobody Against Putin
The Perfect Neighbor

Best documentary short film

All the Empty Rooms
Armed Only With a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
Children No More: Were and Are Gone
The Devil Is Busy
Perfectly a Strangeness

Best animated short film

Butterfly
Forevergreen
The Girl Who Cried Pearls
Retirement Plan
The Three Sisters

Best live action short film

Butcher’s Stain
A Friend of Dorothy
Jane Austen’s Period Drama
The Singers
Two People Exchanging Saliva

Best casting

Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
The Secret Agent
Sinners

Best cinematography

Frankenstein
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Train Dreams

Best costume design

Avatar: Fire and Ash
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Sinners

Best film editing

F1
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sentimental Value
Sinners

Best makeup and hairstyling

Frankenstein
Kokuho
Sinners
The Smashing Machine
The Ugly Stepsister

Best production design

Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners

Best original score

Bugonia
Frankenstein
Hamnet
One Battle After Another
Sinners

Best original song

Dear Me, Diane Warren: Relentless
Golden, KPop Demon Hunters
I Lied To You, Sinners
Sweet Dreams of Joy, Viva Verdi!
Train Dreams, Train Dreams

Best sound

F1
Frankenstein
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Sirât

Best visual effects

Avatar: Fire and Ash
F1
Jurassic World Rebirth
The Lost Bus
Sinners

by hutchwp

Academy Awards Quiz 2020 – QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS – Just for fun

Before you read this, make sure you have a try at the original questions here.

ROUND ONE – NAME THE BEST FILM WINNER FROM THE DESCRIPTION

1. The King’s Speech
2. Green Book
3. Argo
4. The Shape Of Water
5. 12 Years A Slave
6. Moonlight
7. Spotlight
8. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
9. The Artist
10. The Hurt Locker

ROUND TWO – GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

1. Shrek, Spirited Away, Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-rabbit, Happy Feet, Rango, Spider-man: Into The Spider-verse

2. Donald Kaufman was a fictional brother in the film. He was the first fictional nominee that wasn’t a cover for a real person.

3. Jimmy Kimmel (2017 and 2018); Chris Rock (2016); Neil Patrick Harris (2015); Ellen DeGeneres (2014); Seth MacFarlane (2013)

4. Amour (2012).

5. Wings

6. One – Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood is the first to be nominated, although Pulp Fiction and Inglourious Basterds both receive Best Director nominations.

7. Adele Dazeem.

last five different presenters of the Academy Awards ceremony. (five points available)

8. Marlon Brando for The Godfather

9. Emma Thompson (Howard’s End in 1993 and Sense & Sensibility in 1996).

10. 57m

ROUND THREE – HAIKU FILM REVIEW

1. Avengers: Endgame
2. Pain and Glory
3. Klaus
4. Rocketman
5. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
6. Marriage Story
7. Little Women
8. Jojo Rabbit
9. Joker
10. The Irishman

by hutchwp

Academy Awards Quiz 2020 – QUESTIONS ONLY (JUST FOR FUN!)

ROUND ONE – NAME THE BEST FILM WINNER FROM THE DESCRIPTION

1. George VI overcomes a stutter.

2. Tony Lip escorts Don Shirley on a tour of southern USA.

3. The CIA use a fake sci-fi flick to rescue Americans from Tehran.

4. Elisa falls in love with The Amphibian Man.

5. Solomon Northup is conned and sold into slavery.

6. Three key stages of Chiron’s life are explored: youth, adolescence and early adult life.

7. A team at The Boston Globe investigate widespread child abuse by Roman Catholic priests.

8. Riggan Thomson attempts to write, direct and star in a new Broadway play.

9. An older silent film star falls in love with a young actress as she rises to the top of the changing film industry.

10. An Iraq War Explosive Ordnance Disposal team are targeted by insurgents.

ROUND TWO – GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

1. Name all six films that have won Best Animated Film at the Oscars that were not created by Pixar or Disney. (six points available)

2. What was unusual about the joint nominees for Best Adapted Screenplay for the 2002 film Adaptation?

3. Name the last five different presenters of the Academy Awards ceremony. (five points available)

4. Parasite follows in Roma’s footsteps as a foreign-language film nominated for Best Picture. Prior to Roma, what was the last film to achieve this?

5. Which film was the first to win Best Picture, at the first ceremony in 1928

6. How many of Quentin Tarantino’s films have been nominated for the Best Film Oscar?

7. What name did John Travolta use when he introduced Idina Menzel to sing at the 2014 Academy Awards?

8. Sasheen Littlefeather collected the Oscar for which Best Supporting Actor winner at the 1973 ceremony? Which film was the win for? (2 points available)

9. Who is the only person to win an Academy Award for acting and writing?

10. The 1998 ceremony had the highest ever viewing figures, as Titanic swept the board. How many live viewers were recorded in the USA that year? 27m, 57m 87m or 93m?

ROUND THREE – HAIKU FILM REVIEW

A firm favourite on this website is the haiku film review. The 100th will be posted tomorrow! To celebrate, this round includes ten recent haiku film reviews I’ve posted here. All you have to do is name the nominated film from this year’s ceremony based on the haiku.

Question One
Can the magic stones
Be used to reverse The Snap?
Thanos knows… wait! THOR!

Question Two
Salvador Mallo,
Through some flashbacks and meet ups,
Recalls life events

Question Three
Lazy, spoiled Jesper.
He’s been sent to Smeerensburg
To post some letters.

Question Four
Flamboyant grandeur
Makes musical biopic
Suitably “Elton”

Question Five
JJ’s tweaked vision
For episodes eight and nine
Crammed into one film

Question Six
Nicole and Charlie
Go through a horrid divorce.
It’s all pretty sad.

Question Seven
Greta’s fresh new take
On Alcott’s classic story
Proves its timelessness.

Question Eight
Jojo has a friend.
An imaginary friend.
Whose name is Adolf.

Question Nine
Stand-up party clown
Goes full-on Travis Bickle
Incites a riot

Question Ten
Robert, Al and Joe
Get weird CGI faces
For mobster epic