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March 6, 2026 
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Hey, movie fans!
We’re inching closer and closer to Oscar night. But a few other awards given out in the past week have helped to shake up the race in the homestretch.
On Saturday night, the Producers Guild of America awarded its top prize to “One Battle After Another,” which has been taking home laurels left and right this season. But then on Sunday, the biggest honor at the Screen Actors Guild’s Actor Awards went to “Sinners,” which generated momentum for that film in the approach to the final days of Oscar voting. That included a surprise win for Michael B. Jordan in the lead-actor category, defeating the front-runner, Timothée Chalamet from “Marty Supreme.” We’ll see what a difference this might have made when the Oscars air on March 15.
In other Oscar-related news, were you aware that a few of this year’s Oscar-nominated actresses got their starts in reality TV? The Projectionist, Kyle Buchanan, did some digging through the television archives of the aughts to uncover the shows that Jessie Buckley, Teyana Taylor and Emma Stone appeared on in their early years.
And speaking of other work from Oscar nominees, out in wide release this week is “The Bride!,” Maggie Gyllenhaal’s take on the classic monster, starring Buckley alongside Christian Bale. In her review, The Times’s chief film critic, Manohla Dargis, wrote, “It doesn’t always make sense tonally and intellectually, but the whole thing is energetic, handsome and stocked with enough expert, appealing performers to hold your interest through the rougher, less coherent passages.”
Also in theaters is the latest from Pixar, “Hoppers,” a comedy about a teenager who joins up with animals for an environmental mission. In her review, the movie critic Alissa Wilkinson wrote, “Mostly we are here for the emotional connection — also for the jokes, some of which fall flat but most of which are funny, occasionally with an edge.”
And lastly, let’s talk about last year’s best picture Oscar winner “Anorak.” I mean, “Amari.” I mean, what was it called again? The writer Matthew Huff uncovered a list that employees at Film at Lincoln Center have been keeping of all of the titles their patrons get wrong. Enjoy those errors, and enjoy the movies!
