We are launching the Gold Derby predictions for Oscars 2027 nominations today! Even though Academy Awards nominees will not be announced for another six months, on Jan. 21, 2027, you have the chance to show off your forecasting skills. Click here to jump in and help set the extremely early odds and rankings for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Supporting Actor.
As we begin this new event, there are almost 70 contenders for Best Picture. We will update the predictions center weekly by adding, deleting, and changing movies, performers, and other categories as warranted. These updates will be made based on new information provided by the studios and campaigners. A movie and its contenders can only be added once it has a U.S. distributor and an approximate or firm release date in 2026. In a few months, we will add all of the other crafts categories, plus animation, documentary, international, and the shorts.
Among the many contenders are several potential first-time nominees alongside the usual suspects. Here are a few of the high-profile directors (previous Oscar winners and nominees and a few rising stars) who have films in contention this year:
- Pedro Almodóvar with Bitter Christmas (starring Leonardo Sharaglia and Barbara Lennie) for Warner Bros.
- Jesse Eisenberg with The Debut (starring Julianne Moore and Paul Giamatti) for A24.
- Peter Farrelly with I Play Rocky (starring Anthony Ippolito) for Amazon MGM.
- David Fincher with The Adventures of Cliff Booth (starring Brad Pitt) for Netflix.
- Tony Gilroy with Behemoth! (starring Pedro Pascal and Eva Victor) for Searchlight.
- Ryusuke Hamaguchi with All of a Sudden (starring Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto) for Neon.
- Sian Heder with Being Heumann (starring Ruth Madeley and Mark Ruffalo) for Apple Original Films.
- Alejandro G. Iñárritu with Digger (starring Tom Cruise and John Goodman) for Warner Bros.
- Greg Kwedar with Saturn Return (starring Charles Melton and Rachel Brosnahan) for Netflix.
- Phil Lord and Christopher Miller with Project Hail Mary (starring Ryan Gosling and Sandra Hüller) for Amazon MGM.
- Martin McDonagh with Wild Horse Nine (starring John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell) for Searchlight.
- Fernando Meirelles with Here Comes the Flood (starring Denzel Washington) for Netflix.
- Christopher Nolan with The Odyssey (starring Matt Damon and Tom Holland) for Universal.
- Pawel Pawlikowski with Fatherland (starring Sandra Hüller) for Mubi.
- David O. Russell with Madden (starring Nicolas Cage and Christian Bale) for Amazon MGM.
- Ridley Scott with The Dog Stars (starring Josh Brolin and Jacob Elordi) for 20th Century.
- Aaron Sorkin with The Social Reckoning (starring Mikey Madison and Jeremy Strong) for Sony.
- Steven Spielberg with Disclosure Day (starring Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor) for Universal.
- Denis Villeneuve with Dune: Part Three (starring Timothée Chalamet) for Warner Bros.
- Taika Waititi with Klara and the Sun (starring Jenna Ortega and Amy Adams) for Sony.
