{"id":474463,"date":"2026-03-14T02:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T02:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/474463\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T02:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T02:19:14","slug":"oscars-2026-predictions-who-is-the-favourite-to-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/474463\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscars 2026 predictions: Who is the favourite to win?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sm-text__text\">An eventful and unpredictable awards season reaches its finale on Sunday with the Oscars, Hollywood\u2019s biggest night of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Anticipating who might win is never easy and several races this year are too close to call.<\/p>\n<p>You can make an educated guess about the winners, but the joy of awards season is that nothing is ever 100% certain.<\/p>\n<p>If Academy voters love a particular film or actor, they\u2019re unlikely to be swayed by other awards ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p>That said, previous events in recent weeks, such as the Critics&#8217; Choice, the Golden Globes, Bafta Awards and Actor Awards, provide a valuable indicator of support and momentum.<\/p>\n<p>The Oscar winners are voted for by the members of the Academy &#8211; more than 11,000 professionals who work in the film industry.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a round-up of what the precursor events tell us:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An eventful and unpredictable awards season reaches its finale on Sunday with the Oscars, Hollywood\u2019s biggest night of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55,3496,3497,3495],"class_list":["post-474463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-visual-journalism","tag-visualjournalism","tag-vj"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}