The new weekend has arrived and even though the first day of Spring was last week, it really feels like Spring right now. We have not made a 5-Day Rounder for this week but we plan on doing things different on the Wkly Hit List. We continue to celebrate the 5th Anniversary of KlicKNet's flagship series, FakeTV Box, all year long; there's a new episode coming tonight at 7PM EST on YouTube talking about The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. But let's not forget that it's Friday, which means Flashback Friday and another classic episode from our show. This one is from the first time we talked about Super Nintendo World at the Universal Studios Theme Parks.
For our Inside Scoop this week, we're gonna talk about the Oscars, won this year at the 98th Annual Event and who might next year at the 99th Annual Event. If you remember two weeks ago, we made predictions on who win in each of the 24 categories, and we can now project that I only got eight winners right. To say that I thought I'd get more right would be an understatement, I had second thoughts on a few predictions; more on that later but first.
2026 Oscar Winners
- Bugonia
- F1
- Frankenstein
- Hammet
- Marty Supreme
- One Battle After Another (WON)
- The Secret Agent
Sinners(LOST)- Train Dreams
- Chloé Zhao – Hamnet
- Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme
- Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another (WON)
- Joachim Trier – Sentimental Value
Ryan Coogler – Sinners(LOST)
- Timothée 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 (WON)
- Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent as Armando Solimões / Marcelo Alves / Fernando Solimões
- Jessie Buckley – Hamnet as Agnes Shakespeare (WON)
- Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I'd Kick You as Linda
Kate Hudson – Song Sung Blue as Claire Sardina(LOST)- 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(LOST)- Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein as The Creature
- Delroy Lindo – Sinners as Delta Slim
- Sean Penn – One Battle After Another as Col. Steven J. Lockjaw (WON)
- Stellan Skarsgård – 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 (WON)
- Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners as Annie
- Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another as Perfidia Beverly Hills
- Blue Moon – Robert Kaplow
- It Was Just an Accident – Jafar Panahi; in collaboration with Nader Saïvar, Shadmehr Rastin, and Mehdi Mahmoudian
- Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie
- Sentimental Value – Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier
- Sinners – Ryan Coogler (WON)
- Bugonia – Will Tracy; based on the film Save the Green Planet! by Jang Joon-hwan
- Frankenstein – Guillermo del Toro; based on the novel by Mary Shelley
- Hamnet – Chloé Zhao and Maggie O'Farrell; based on the novel by Maggie O'Farrell
- One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson; based on the novel Vineland by Thomas Pynchon (WON)
- Train Dreams – Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar; based on the novella by Denis Johnson
- Arco
- Elio
- KPop Demon Hunters (WON)
- Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
Zootopia 2(LOST)
- It Was Just an Accident (France) – directed by Jafar Panahi
- The Secret Agent (Brazil) – directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho
- Sentimental Value (Norway) – directed by Joachim Trier (WON)
Sirāt (Spain) – directed by Oliver Laxe(LOST)- The Voice of Hind Rajab (Tunisia) – directed by Kaouther Ben Hania
- The Alabama Solution
Come See Me in the Good Light(LOST)- Cutting Through Rocks
- Mr Nobody Against Putin (WON)
- The Perfect Neighbor
- All the Empty Rooms (WON)
- Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
- Children No More: "Were and Are Gone"
The Devil Is Busy(LOST)- Perfectly a Strangeness
- Butcher's Stain – Meyer Levinson-Blount and Oron Caspi
- A Friend of Dorothy – Lee Knight and James Dean
- Jane Austen's Period Drama – Julia Aks and Steve Pinder
- The Singers – Sam A. Davis and Jack Piatt (WON)
- Two People Exchanging Saliva – Alexandre Singh and Natalie Musteata (WON TOO)
- Butterfly [fr] – Florence Miailhe [fr] and Ron Dyens
- Forevergreen – Nathan Engelhardt and Jeremy Spears
- The Girl Who Cried Pearls – Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski (WON)
- Retirement Plan – John Kelly and Andrew Freedman
- The Three Sisters – Konstantin Bronzit
- Bugonia – Jerskin Fendrix
- Frankenstein – Alexandre Desplat
- Hamnet – Max Richter
One Battle After Another – Jonny Greenwood(LOST)- Sinners – Ludwig Göransson (WON)
- "Dear Me" from Diane Warren: Relentless – Music and lyrics by Diane Warren
- "Golden" from KPop Demon Hunters – Music and lyrics by Ejae, Mark Sonnenblick, 24, Ido, and Teddy Park (WON)
- "I Lied to You" from Sinners – Music and lyrics by Raphael Saadiq and Ludwig Göransson
- "Sweet Dreams of Joy" from Viva Verdi! – Music and lyrics by Nicholas Pike
- "Train Dreams" from Train Dreams – Music by Nick Cave and Bryce Dessner; lyrics by Nick Cave
- F1 (WON)
- Frankenstein
- One Battle After Another
Sinners(LOST)- Sirāt
- Hamnet – Nina Gold
- Marty Supreme – Jennifer Venditti
- One Battle After Another – Cassandra Kulukundis (WON)
- The Secret Agent – Gabriel Domingues
Sinners – Francine Maisler(LOST)
- Frankenstein – Production Design: Tamara Deverell; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau (WON)
- Hamnet – Production Design: Fiona Crombie; Set Decoration: Alice Felton
- Marty Supreme – Production Design: Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Adam Willis
One Battle After Another – Production Design: Florencia Martin; Set Decoration: Anthony Carlino(LOST)- Sinners – Production Design: Hannah Beachler; Set Decoration: Monique Champagne
- Frankenstein – Dan Laustsen
- Marty Supreme – Darius Khondji
- One Battle After Another – Michael Bauman
- Sinners – Autumn Durald Arkapaw (WON)
Train Dreams – Adolpho Veloso(LOST)
- Frankenstein – Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel, and Cliona Furey (WON)
- Kokuho – Kyoko Toyokawa, Naomi Hibino, and Tadashi Nishimatsu
Sinners – Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine, and Shunika Terry(LOST)- The Smashing Machine – Kazu Hiro, Glen Griffin, and Bjoern Rehbein
- The Ugly Stepsister – Thomas Foldberg and Anne Cathrine Sauerberg
- Avatar: Fire and Ash – Deborah L. Scott
- Frankenstein – Kate Hawley (WON)
- Hamnet – Malgosia Turzanska
- Marty Supreme – Miyako Bellizzi
Sinners – Ruth E. Carter(LOST)
- F1 – Stephen Mirrione
- Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie (LOST)
- One Battle After Another – Andy Jurgensen (WON)
- Sentimental Value – Olivier Bugge Coutté
- Sinners – Michael P. Shawver
- Avatar: Fire and Ash (WON)
- F1
- Jurassic World Rebirth
- The Lost Bus
- Sinners
I was so sure that Zootopia 2 would win Best Animated Feature Film simply because it made over $1.8 Billion at the Box Office making it was second-highest-grossing animated film of all time, but obviously the Global Phenomenon of 2025 was KPop Demon Hunters and they rightfully deserve it. I should not have picked Marty Supreme to win Best Film Editing or Train Dreams for Best Cinematography, my guts should have gone with One Battle After Another and Sinners as they were the clear favorites during the Oscars all night two weeks ago. Hopefully, I'll remember next year to pick the favorites for most categories like Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Original Score.
Speaking of next year, some might be wondering right now who is going to win at the 99th Annual Oscars. Entertainment Weekly has come up with some "Super Early 2027 Oscars Contenders" with some of the biggest names in the Acting Business like Amy Adams, Tom Cruise, Timothée Chalamet, Octavia Spencer, and Anne Hathaway. Furthermore, the films that Entertainment Weekly that believes could contend for an award are The Odyssey coming to theaters this Summer. Directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Lupita Nyong'o, Charlize Theron, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, and even Zendaya, this could walk away with the most Oscars in 2027. Then there's Wild Horse Nine directed by Martin McDonagh and starring John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, and Steve Buscemi, Martin McDonagh has won an Oscar in 2005 for Best Live Action Short Film, he's been nominated for Best Original Screenplay three times, Best Director twice, and Best Picture twice, so maybe Wild Horse Nine will be his golden ticket to success.
Klara and the Sun is written, produced, and directed by Taika Waititi, but according to EW, the real contender outta this film is Amy Adams who has yet to win an Oscar and she'll likely be nominated for Best Supporting Actress in 2027. The Social Reckoning directed by Aaron Sorkin and starring Mikey Madison, Jeremy Strong, and Jeremy Allen White is "a companion piece to The Social Network (2010); based on the events surrounding the 2021 Facebook leak by whistleblower Frances Haugen, which was covered in The Wall Street Journal's article series and eight-part podcast The Facebook Files (2021)." If The Social Network could win three Oscars in 2011, imagine the kind of luck The Social Reckoning will next year, Mickey Madison could win another one at age 27; today's her birthday by the way.
I really gotta wrap things up, so lemme just tell the others movies that EW thinks can win an Oscars next year, there's: Digger starring Tom Cruise, Dune: Part Three which has a Christmas Date with Avengers: Doomsday this December, Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day, Michael starring Jafaar Jackson as his famous uncle Michael Jackson, and Disney/Pixar's Toy Story 5 who could break the losing streak of Disney when it comes to Best Animated Feature Film. If I could take a guess, I'd day that Disney's Hexed will get a nomination next year, it depends on how good the story of this Original Animated Film will be when it comes to theaters on Thanksgiving. I also predict that we'll see more actors and filmmakers of color nominated than we saw last year, maybe Jenna Ortega will get her first at only 24 years of age. Well folks, fasten your seatbelts because the 2026 film season will soon kick into high gear this Spring, through the Summer and Fall, and all the way into Winter, be on the look out at all times.
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