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• Sinners

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  Best Actor in a Leading Role - Michael B. Jordan, Cinematography - Autumn Durald Arkapaw, Original Score - Ludwig Goransson, Original Screenplay - Ryan Coogler (2026): Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Weapons

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  Best Actress in a Leading Role - Amy Madigan (2026): When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.

• The Substance

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  Best Makeup and Hairstyling - Pierre-Olivier Persin, Stéphanie Guillon, and Marilyne Scarselli (2025): Elisabeth Sparkle is a former A-lister fired from her fitness TV show by studio head Harvey. Taking a gamble on an experimental new injection, she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Get Out

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  Best Original Screenplay - Jordan Peele (2018): A young black man visits his white girlfriend's parents for the weekend, where his simmering uneasiness about their reception of him eventually reaches a boiling point.

• Sweeney Todd. The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

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  Best Art Direction - Dante Ferretti & Francesca Lo Schiavo (2008): The legendary tale of a barber who returns from wrongful imprisonment to 1840s London, bent on revenge for the rape and death of his wife, and resumes his trade while forming a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sleepy Hollow

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  Best Set Decoration - Rick Heinrichs and Peter Young (2000): Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate the decapitations of three people; the culprit is legendary apparition The Headless Horseman.

• Death Becomes Her

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  Best Visual Effects - Ken Ralston, Doug Chiang, Douglas Smythe, & Tom Woodruff Jr. (1993): When a fading actress learns of an immortality treatment, she sees it as a way to outdo her long-time rival.

• Dracula

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  Best Costume Design, Sound Effects Editing, and Makeup (1993): The centuries old vampire Count Dracula comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker's fiancée Mina Murray and inflict havoc in the foreign land.

• The Silence of the Lambs

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  Best Picture, Actor in a Leading Role, Actress in a Leading Role, Directors, and Screenplay (1992): A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Misery

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  Best Actress in a Leading Role - Kathy Bates (1991): After a famous author is rescued from a car crash by a fan of his novels, he comes to realize that the care he is receiving is only the beginning of a nightmare of captivity and abuse.

• Beetlejuice

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  Best Makeup - Ve Neill, Steve LaPorte, and Robert Short (1989): The spirits of a deceased couple are harassed by an unbearable family that has moved into their home, and hire a malicious spirit to drive them out.

• The Fly

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  Best Makeup - Chris Walas & Stephan Dupuis (1987): A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.

• Aliens

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  Best Visual Effects and Sound Effects Editing (1987): Decades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.

• An American Werewolf in London

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  Best Makeup - Rick Baker (1982): Two American college students on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.

• Alien

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  Best Visual Effects - H.R. Giger (1980): The crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin.

• The Omen

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  Best Original Score - Jerry Goldsmith (1977): Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil's own son?

• Jaws

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  Best Original Score, Film Editing, & Sound (1976): When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Cape Cod, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.

• The Exorcist

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  Best Screenplay and Best Sound (1974): When a young girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.

• Rosemary's Baby

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  Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Ruth Gordon (1969): A young couple trying for a baby moves into an aging, ornate apartment building on Central Park West, where they find themselves surrounded by peculiar neighbors.

• Phantom of the Opera

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  Best Cinematography & Interior Decoration (1944): An acid-scarred composer rises from the Paris sewers to boost his favorite opera understudy's career.