{"id":218712,"date":"2026-03-13T22:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/218712\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:20:09","slug":"sacramento-tied-to-3-best-picture-oscar-nominees-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/218712\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento tied to 3 Best Picture Oscar nominees in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 98th Academy Awards<\/a> are set to be awarded this weekend, and Sacramento is well-represented among contenders for the top prize of the night.<\/p>\n

Three films in the running for Best Picture \u2014 \u201cSinners,\u201d \u201cMarty Supreme,\u201d and \u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d \u2014 all have various ties to the capital region.<\/p>\n

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said it plans to increase security at this year\u2019s awards ceremony<\/a> following reports that Iran may be planning retaliatory drone attacks on the California coast, according to PEOPLE.<\/p>\n

State and federal officials were in agreement Thursday that California faces no imminent threat<\/a>, but Oscars producers said in a news conference Wednesday that they \u201cwant everybody to feel safe and protected and welcome,\u201d PEOPLE reported.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what to know if you plan to root for Sacramento at this year\u2019s Oscars ceremony.<\/p>\n

\u2018Sinners\u2019<\/p>\n

One of the favorites for the Best Picture award, and a record-breaking nominee, has a strong Sacramento connection.<\/p>\n

\u201cSinners\u201d was directed by Ryan Coogler, a Sacramento State alum<\/a> and Northern California native. The renowned filmmaker \u2014 who has previously directed films like \u201cCreed,\u201d \u201cFruitvale Station\u201d and the \u201cBlack Panther\u201d movie series \u2014 received his first Best Picture Oscar nomination as a director this year.<\/p>\n

Coogler also received his first Best Director and Best Original Screenplay Academy Award nominations for \u201cSinners.\u201d The film was nominated for a record-breaking 16 Oscars in 2026.<\/p>\n

\"LOS LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – MARCH 01: (L-R) Ryan Coogler and Zinzi Coogler attend the 32nd Annual Actor Awards at Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall on March 01, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Emma McIntyre\/FilmMagic) Emma McIntyre FilmMagic \u2018Marty Supreme\u2019<\/p>\n

A Sacramento-area man provided vital support to the Josh Safdie-directed film \u201cMarty Supreme.\u201d<\/p>\n

The picture stars Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet, portraying a fictional table tennis player inspired by a real table tennis professional, Marty Reisman. Carmichael resident and competitive table tennis player Scott Gordon<\/a> was friends with Reisman and consulted as an expert on the sport for \u201cMarty Supreme,\u201d according to previous Bee reporting.<\/p>\n

\u201cMarty Supreme\u201d is up for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Cinematography.<\/p>\n

\"Scott Scott Gordon displays his archive of table tennis star Marty Reisman, including 16mm film, audiotapes and photographs, on Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, at home in Carmichael. Gordon served as a table tennis consultant for the upcoming film \u201cMarty Supreme,\u201d based on Reisman. PAUL KITAGAKI JR. pkitagaki@sacbee.com \u2018One Battle After Another\u2019<\/p>\n

The Leonardo DiCaprio and Teyana Taylor-starred movie garnered significant attention across the capital region after it was partially filmed in the area.<\/p>\n

To capture scenes around brutalist-style architecture, the film\u2019s production team spent 16 days in downtown Sacramento shooting<\/a> its opening sequence, according to previous Bee reporting.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d was nominated for 13 Academy Awards, the second-highest nominated film in 2026 behind only \u201cSinners.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Camera Camera operator Colin Anderson films a scene for director Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s film \u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d in Sacramento on Feb. 6, 2024. NATHANIEL LEVINE nlevine@sacbee.com <\/p>\n

The Academy Awards will be held Sunday, March 15 at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles. ABC will air the ceremony live<\/a> starting at 4 p.m. Pacific time, and Hulu will stream the awards on its platform for the first time ever.<\/p>\n

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Camila Pedrosa is a service journalism reporter at The Sacramento Bee. She previously worked as a summer reporting intern for The Bee and reported in Phoenix and Washington, D.C. She graduated from Arizona State University with a master\u2019s degree in mass communication.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 98th Academy Awards are set to be awarded this weekend, and Sacramento is well-represented among contenders for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[100205,100204,100202,121,123,122,100203,100206],"class_list":["post-218712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-marty-supreme-scott-gordon","tag-marty-supreme-table-tennis-carmichael-sacramento","tag-one-battle-after-another-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sinners-ryan-coogler-sacramento-state","tag-when-are-the-oscars-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}