The 98th Academy Awards kick off tonight, and the whole CoolCuration team has pooled our collective brainpower to produce our Oscars 2026 predictions across the four biggest categories. We've weighed up precursor awards, prediction market data, gut instinct and a healthy dose of wishful thinking to land on our picks. One of them goes firmly against the bookmakers. Read on to see where we're putting our (hypothetical) money, and we'll be back tomorrow with a follow-up to see how spectacularly right (or wrong) we were.

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