2026 Oscar Best Film Editing Predictions

Tracking my evolving predictions for Film Editing throughout Awards Season.
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Film Editing

*Updated 01.16.2025

In the Spotlight

1

Sinners (Michael P. Shawver)

▲ 1🔒

2

F1: The Movie (Stephen Mirrione, Patrick J. Smith)

▲ 3 🔒

3

One Battle After Another (Andy Jurgensen)

▼ 2 🔒

4

Hamnet (Affonso Gonçalves, Chloé Zhao)

—🔒

5

Marty Supreme (Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie)

▼ 2

On the Fringe

6

Frankenstein (Evan Schiff)

▲ 1

7

Wicked: For Good (Myron Kerstein, Tatiana S. Riegel)

▼ 1

In the Mix

8

Sentimental Value (Olivier Bugge Coutté)

—

9

A House of Dynamite (Kirk Baxter)

—

10

No Other Choice (Kim Sang-bum, Kim Ho-bin)

—

Long Shots

11

Bugonia (Yorgos Mavropsaridis)

—

12

Avatar: Fire and Ash (John Refoua, Stephen E. Rivkin, James Cameron, Nicolas De Toth)

—

13

Weapons (Joe Murphy)

—

14

It Was Just an Accident (Amir Etminan)

—

15

The Perfect Neighbor (Viridiana Lieberman)

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The table updates as the awards season shifts – my ADHD and OCD won’t let it sit still. The leaderboard below stays put; it’s the Top 7 I locked in at the start of the month.

Leaderboard graphic showing the top 7 Best Film Editing contenders for the 2026 Oscars (Jan 2026

Leaderboard graphic showing the top 7 Best Film Editing contenders for the 2026 Oscars.