Oscar 2026 | With Avatar and Wicked, see finalists for the effects award

A Academia today revealed the finalists for the special effects award for the Oscar 2026. With emphasis on Avatar: Fire and Ash, Wicked: Parte 2 e Sinners, see the 20 films in the final stretch for indication below.

• Avatar: Fire and Ash
• Captain America: Brave New World
• The Electric State
• F1: The Movie
• Fantastic Four: Getting Started
• Frankenstein
• How to Train Your Dragon
• Jurassic World: Rebirth
• Lilo & Stitch
• The Lost Bus
• Mickey 17
• A Minecraft Movie
• Mission: Impossible – The Final Hit
• Predator: Wildlands
• The Survivor
• Sinners
• Superman
• Thunderbolts*
• Tron: Ares
• Wicked: Parte 2

The finalists will be revealed on January 22, along with nominees from the other categories of the next edition of the Oscar. Stay tuned on Omelet so you don’t miss anything!

Avatar: Fire and Ash premieres on December 19, 2025. A four-year hiatus will separate it from Avatar 4which hits theaters on December 21, 2029. The last film in the saga scheduled, Avatar 5 Its release date is scheduled for December 19, 2031.

With this, the last Avatar It will come out 22 years after the original in 2009, if the dates are kept.

Last release of the franchise, Avatar: The Path of Water resumed the story of Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) and his beloved Neytiri (Zoë Saldaña) on the planet of Pandora.

Many years after the events of the first film, the two have formed a family and find themselves in the position of defending the planet from a new human invasion.