Oscar Predictions 2027: Telluride Reshapes the Best Picture Race as TIFF Lines Up Its Crowd-Pleasers — SkimNews
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- "Dune: Part Three" (Warner Bros.) remains Variety's predicted Best Picture winner with 12 projected nominations, though Denis Villeneuve's finale won't screen until December and "hangs over every projection between now and then."
- "The Odyssey" (Universal) leads all films with 15 projected nominations after its summer release has "not slipped an inch," though neither Nolan nor Villeneuve bothered to bring their films to the fall festivals.
- "Wild Horse Nine" (Searchlight Pictures) — Martin McDonagh's film featuring what Variety calls "the loosest, meanest work" of John Malkovich's late career — earned a Telluride ovation that put it "squarely in the thick of the race."
- "The Debut" (A24) drew the biggest applause at Telluride and now sits with seven projected nominations across picture, directing, acting, and screenplay categories.
- "You Can See Everything" (A24), a documentary by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim, could become the first documentary ever nominated for Best Picture in the 99-year history of the ceremony.
- Laika's "Wildwood", just announced as AFI Fest's opening night film, could become the first animated feature outside Disney's orbit to break into Best Picture — only "Beauty and the Beast," "Up," and "Toy Story 3" have ever done so, and all were Disney.
Why it matters: The 99-year wall between documentaries and Best Picture could finally crack, with A24's 'You Can See Everything' positioned to make Oscar history. Laika's 'Wildwood' could simultaneously end Disney's unbroken monopoly on Best Picture animated nominees — a precedent that has held since the category opened up, with A24 leading all studios at 18 projected nominations.
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