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Multiple conversations with Academy voters all throughout this week have revealed a race far more unpredictable than the pundits\u2019 consensus suggests. While some categories appear locked, others are poised for the kind of upheaval we haven\u2019t seen since 2003, when \u201cThe Lord of the Rings: Return of the King\u201d dominated, but nominations surprised across multiple categories, such as Keisha Castle-Hughes<\/a>, Samantha Morton<\/a>, Djimon Hounsou<\/a>, Shohreh Aghdashloo<\/a> and Marcia Gay Harden<\/a>, along with a rare lone director nomination for another Brazilian auteur, Fernando Meirelles<\/a>).<\/p>\n Here are some of the revelations learned this week from voters:<\/p>\n The \u201cF1\u201d factor<\/p>\n Joseph Kosinski<\/a>\u2019s \u201cF1<\/a>\u201d from Apple<\/a> Original Films is very well-liked among voters and feels like a viable entry in the best picture race. The old Academy guard loves it. Voters repeatedly describe it as \u201cgreat\u201d and \u201cgood old-school entertainment,\u201d the kind…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As of 5 p.m. Pt, Oscar nomination voting is officially closed. Multiple conversations with Academy voters all throughout this week have revealed a race far more unpredictable than the pundits\u2019 consensus suggests. While some categories appear locked, others are poised for the kind of upheaval we haven\u2019t seen since 2003, when \u201cThe Lord of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2238339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2238338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Oscar-Voting-Closes-Revelations-Behind-Anonymous-Ballots-and-the-Surprises.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2238338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2238340,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238338\/revisions\/2238340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2238339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2238338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2238338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2238338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}