Oscars 2026: an ‘unusually alive’ race and a night in transition
The Hindu
Explore the electrifying Oscars 2026 race, featuring standout films, baffling nominations, and memorable performances amid a cinematic transition.
The Oscars are upon us. At a time when we are bemoaning the death of cinema and theatres, this has been an electrifying year for the movies. The race feels unusually alive, led by two prizefighters that are bonafide milestones: the satirical thriller One Battle After Another and the horror masterwork Sinners. It is rare to find two breathtaking classics — two proper all-time great movies — arriving at once, each defiantly reshaping our expectations of the big-screen film.
Leonardo DiCaprio in a scene from One Battle After Another
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Ryan Coogler’s Sinners is loud, mythic and entirely uninterested in modesty. It throws images at us with the giddy confidence of a director who knows how vast his canvas can be.
Where Sinners is thunder, Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another is a symphony. The performances are more fiery, the direction more sensational, the cinematography jaw-dropping, and the music discordant, staying with you as you leave the theatre and doomscroll through bleak headlines. Coogler’s blockbuster may leave a greater imprint on the culture, but One Battle features a maestro at his very peak. It deserves it all.
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