I’d like to thank my hairdresser, God and the Academy for nominating 10 films that aren’t total embarrassments. Every contender for best picture comes with enough critical and/or commercial ...

The top Oscar race, for the moment, is more of a free-for-all than it has been in years. How can each of the 10 nominees make its case for votes? Here's our best guess.

Four of the 10 2025 Best Picture Oscar nominees showed up on IndieWire’s list of the Best Films of 2024, leaving a massive gulf between our take and the Academy’s on the other six.

The landscape for 2026's Best Picture Oscar is still going to evolve a lot in the next 10 months, so it's a bit too early to confidently say that Sinners will or will not win the top prize.

After the Oscars So White campaign of 2015, the makeup of the Academy changed, too. And most of the Best Picture winners over the past five years—Parasite (which also took the prize for Best ...