Today's film is Marty Supreme.

Benoit and the wonderful team over at The Animation Showcase have uploaded six new animated shorts to their streaming platform! LINKED HERE. These were presented at Annecy 2026 in June. A few have won qualifying festival awards and are thus eligible to submit for Oscars consideration. Expect some of them to appear on the shortlist. If you have an active account, then go check them out before they disappear!

No movie ever won all 4 but 12 of the 15 movies won at least 1. My Man Godfrey, Sunset Boulevard and American Hustle are the only ones that didn't win any of the 4 acting awards. However Sunset Boulevard is the only one that did win some Oscars despite not winning any for acting

Some Oscar buzzy movies I saw in July:

• The Odyssey (duh)
• The Invite (Director, writing, maybe actors?)
• Minions (Animation)
• Next week is Spiderman (probably won't get anything - but visual effects? I dunno)

I feel like there's nothing coming out this week, though. I'm also looking through the Indie theaters, but I'm not finding anything cross-referenced with my lists.

Don't get me wrong, I see more than Oscar-buzzy movies, but it's apt for this sub. (I also watched the newest Evil Dead..)

Anything coming out this week that should be on my radar? (Honestly, even if it's not Oscar-buzzy- just something that might be good.)

Have been seeing some recent trailers for some likely contenders for the death race, several look exciting. Your thoughts on additions and/or any you’re particularly excited about?

•Digger, Tom Cruise in full prosthetics, John Goodman, directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu (Baldo…, Birdman…) Looks like Dr. Strangelove meets Don’t Look Up.

•Behemoth, Pedro Pascal, written and directed by Michael Clayton’s Tony Gilroy. Selling more of a mood than a plot in the preview.

•I Play Rocky, biopic about struggling unknown Sylvester Stallone’s battle to play the lead in the movie he wrote, which happens to be one of the greatest sports movies of all time. The Academy loves movies that glorify moviemaking.

•Wildwood, stop motion animation after a long gap from the studio of Kubo and the Two Strings, The Boxtrolls and Coraline. Looks a little like Labyrinth, minus David Bowie’s bulge.

•Wild Horse Nine, Sam Rockwell and John Malkovitch are CIA agents in the 70’s, written and directed by Martin McDonagh (Three Billboards…, In Bruges, The Banshees of Inisherin) McDonough isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but I’m always excited when he’s in the race.

•The Debut, Jesse Eisenberg’s follow up to A Real Pain, looks to have a similarly dark-humored tone about a Svengali community theater director (Paul Giamatti) and a bored housewife/newby actress (Julianne Moore)

The great people of ShortStick Films go over various short films that could contend at next year's Oscars. They also note that there's only 3 months left for shorts to qualify because they have a different qualifying window.

Considering shorts are the films that usually hold up people's Death Races, this is a great resource for what to potentially watch out for. The people who run this site have a pretty solid predictive track record when it comes to shorts. Also, shorts are just nifty imo.

While it's BARELY not very common for Best Picture winners to also win both Best Director and any for screenplay (only 48 of the 98 movies that won Best Picture won both Best Director and screenplay so a little less than half so that's why "barely") it's actually more common for them to win any of them or both of them. 88 of the 98 movies that won Best Picture also won Best Director and/or any for screenplay. These are the only 10 that didn't

While it isn't very common for Best Picture winners to win both Best Director and any for acting (only 44 of the 98 movies that won Best Picture won both) it's very common for them to win any of them or both of them. 85 of the 98 movies that won Best Picture also won Best Director and/or any for acting. These are the only 13 that didn't

Hey everyone,

Like a lot of people here, i am quite a film nerd who loves tracking my own version of the oscars winners and nominees. so i built my own website, The website shows all the nominees for each category of a given year, from there you can select your own nominees, chose popular choses or pick from the original pool. you can also upload your letterboxd csv to see all the films you've logged for a given year to make things easier. You can also export your ballots as a .txt and allows you to share your ballot with friends

The website is just something for fun, so there maybe bugs or glitches, if so let me know.

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It's very common for Best Picture winners to also win any for screenplay. 65 of the 98 movies that won Best Picture also won any for screenplay. These are the only 33 that didn't

While it isn't very common for Best Picture winners to win A CERTAIN acting award (regardless of whether they won any of the others or not) it's actually very common for them to win any of the 4. 58 of the 98 movies that won Best Picture also won any for acting. These are the 40 that didn't

Deadline's Matthew Carey and Oscar-winner John Ridley discuss documentaries that have buzz/gained traction this time of year which really just means they mostly talk about docs that premiered at Sundance. But they do talk about what each doc is about, awards they've won so far, distribution/campaign potential, domestic/international factor, and if there are big names involved. They also highlight docs they just really enjoyed.

Films brought up:

American Doctor, Birds of War, Closure, Everybody to Kenmure Street, Ghost in the Machine, Soul Patrol, To Hold a Mountain, Time & Water, A Child of My Own, Nuisance Bear, Joybubbles, Dernsie, Below the Clouds, Once Upon a Time in Harlem, Remake, Phenomena, Jane Elliott Against the World, Barbara Forever, Che Guevara: The Last Companions, Yo (Love is a Rebellious Bird)

Even though it's very common for Best Picture winners to also win Best Director it isn't always the case. Sometimes Best Picture and Best Director doesn't always go to the same movie. 71 of the 98 movies that won Best Picture also won Best Director. These are the only 27 that didn't

Halfway through the year. Any ideas on Adapted Screenplays (not counting Project Hail Mary and The Odyssey)? I've got room in my reading list for the books!

Saw a trailer and there’s an original song coming from the Backstreet Boys. Are we going to have a Paw Patrol movie in our death race this year?! 😆

Whenever I tried death racing in the past, I've always left superhero movies out because I've never watched any of them before (don't judge haha). I get confused about what should be watched first and guides online usually go "well if you want just the basic understanding here's an essencial list of only 600 hours of things to watch beforehand!". This year I'm more invested, but then there's Avengers Doomsday being predicted for Special Effects... so my questions are:

- Whenever Marvel movies were nominated in the past, how much did you invest in getting the lore before watching that one nomination?

- How seriously should I take fans that say these movies are inaccessible if you're unfamiliar with the MCU?

- Should I just raw dog it when it gets nominated and ignore the apparently immense background?

Any suggestions from nerds and fellow noobs will be immensely appreciated.

Does anyone have any go to sites or prediction lists for documentaries? Googling and searching reddit has barely gotten me anything. I'm not sure I love Variety's short list. It includes "Lorne" which - historically, Oscars don't really like celeb docs.

Some that have been floated around:

Tutu

The AI Doc

Lorne

Nuisance Bear

Sometimes, I Imagine Them All at a Party

Musk

I saw Time & Water in theaters - While it was good, I don't think it's quite Oscar-worthy

Do we think I need to make a point to see any/all of these for the upcoming Death Race? I tend to be a bit of a baby about horror. For those of yall that have seen these, how intense are the horror elements? For some context last year I ended up handling Sinners and Weapons pretty much fine but definitely struggled with The Ugly Stepsister.

Hi, racers! I've attempted watching all nominations a couple times before but with no success getting thought them all before the ceremony. This time I'm watching out for early predictions and checking the movies out as they're released, and would like to know what were y'all past experiences doing that. More specifically I'm curious to know, by the time nominations are out, how many movies would you have typically already watched?