“The Secret Agent”, “Tropical Apocalypse” and the short film “Amarela” are on the pre-nomination lists for the 2026 Oscars | I &

Featured Wagner Mourathe film shot in Recife enters the fray with some of the season’s highlights, such as “Sentimental value“, “It was just an accident“, “The only way out“, “Sirat“, “Hind Rajab’s voice“.

In addition to Best International Film, the Academy announced pre-nominees in 11 other categories. And “The Secret Agent” isn’t the only Brazilian name on the list. “Apocalypse in the tropics“, Since Petra Costais one of the pre-finalists in the best documentary competition. The Paulist Adolphe Veloso is also on the shortlist for the best direction of photography for work in “Form dreams“. In addition to them, the short “YELLOW” is also pre-selected.

Brazilian DNA is also present in the documentary “Yanuni“, co-production between Germany, Brazil, Canada, the United States and Australia.

This is the third time this century that Brazil has appeared on the list of Oscar pre-nomines in the international cinema category. “The year my parents went on vacation“, in 2007, and “I’m still here“, last year, other national productions reached the milestone.

If “The Secret Agent” was nominated in the best international film category, Brazil will again have films nominated in two consecutive years for the first time since “What is this, buddy?” And “Central Brazil“received consecutive nominations in 1998 and 1999.

The list of pre-nominees for the 2026 Oscar

Best International Film

• “The Secret Agent” (Brazil)
• “Sentimental value” (Norway)
• “It was just an accident” (France)
• “The only way out” (South Korea)
• “Sirat” (Spain)
• “The Voice of Hind Rajab” (Tunisia)
• “The Sound of Falling” (Germany)
• “The Left-Handed Girl” (Taiwan)
• “Palestine 36” (Palestine)
• “Belén” (Argentina)
• “All That Remains of You” (Jordan)
• “Homebound” (India)
• “The President’s Cake” (Iraq)
• “Kokuho” (Japan)
• “Late Shift” (Switzerland)

• “The Alabama Solution”
• “Apocalypse in the tropics”
• “Coexistence, my ass!”
• “Come see me in the right light”
• “Cover”
• “Tracing the rocks”
• “Popular tales”
• “Hold Liat”
• “Mr. Nobody against Putin”
• “Mistress Dispeller”
• “My Unwanted Friends: Part 1 – Last Air in Moscow”
• “The perfect neighbor”
• “Seeds”
• “2000 meters to Andriivka”
• “Yanuni”

Best cinematographic direction

• “Ballad of a Player”
• “Bugonia”
• “Die, my love”
• “F1”
• “Frankenstein”
• “Hamnet”
• “Supreme Marty”
• “New wave”
• “One battle after another”
• “Sentimental value”
• “Sinners”
• “Sirat”
• “Song sung in blue”
• “The sound of falling”
• “Shaping dreams”
• “Bad Guy: Part 2”

Best Casting Direction

• “Frankenstein”
• “Hamnet”
• “Supreme Marty”
• “One battle after another”
• “The Secret Agent”
• “Sentimental value”
• “Sinners”
• “Sirat”
• “The evil hour”
• “Bad Guy: Part 2”

Best Makeup and Hairstyle

• “The Great Knights”
• “Frankenstein”
• “Kokuho”
• “Supreme Marty”
• “Nuremberg”
• “One battle after another”
• “Sinners”
• “Heart of a Fighter – The Smashing Machine”
• “The ugly stepsister”
• “Bad Guy: Part 2”
• Better sound
• “Avatar: Fire and Ashes”
• “F1”
• “Frankenstein”
• “Mission: Impossible – The Final Success”
• “One battle after another”
• “Sinners”
• “Sirat”
• “Springsteen: Save Me from the Unknown”
• “Superman”
• “Bad Guy: Part 2”

• “Avatar: Fire and Ashes”
• “Bugonia”
• “Captain America: Brave New World”
• “Diane Warren: Relentless”
• “F1”
• “Frankenstein”
• “Hamnet”
• “Hedda”
• “Dynamic house”
• “Jay Kelly”
• “Supreme Marty”
• “Nuremberg”
• “One battle after another”
• “Sinners”
• “Sirat”
• “Shaping dreams”
• “Tron: Ares”
• “Truth and Betrayal”
• “Wake Up Dead Man: A Mystery at Knives Out”
• “Bad Guy: Part 2”

• “As Alive as You Need Me to Be,” “Tron: Ares”
• “Dear Me,” “Diane Warren: Relentless”
• “Dream As One”, “Avatar: Fire and Ashes”
• “Drive”, “F1”
• “Die to Live”, “Billy Idol Should Be Dead”
• “The Girl in the Bubble”, “Wicked: Part 2”
• “Golden”, “K-Pop Warriors”
• “The highest 2 the lowest”, “Class struggle”
• “I lied to you”, “Sinners”
• “The Last Time (I Saw the Sun)”, “Sinners”
• “No Place Like Home”, “Wicked: Part 2”
• “Our Love”, “The Ballad of Wallis Island”
• “Salty then sour then sweet”, “Come see me in the right light”
• “Sweet dreams of joy”, “Viva Verdi!” »
• “Train Dreams”, “Train Dreams”

• “Avatar: Fire and Ashes”
• “The Electric State”
• “F1”
• “Frankenstein”
• “Jurassic World: New Beginning”
• “The Lost Bus”
• “Sinners”
• “Superman”
• “Tron: Ares”
• “Bad Guy: Part 2”

• “Teen”
• “YELLOW”
• “Beyond the Silence”
• “The white-skinned boy”
• “Butcher’s stain”
• “Butterfly on a Wheel”
• “Daddy’s not home.”
• “Extremist”
• “A friend of Dorothy”
• “Jane Austen’s period drama”
• “Tights”
• “The pearl comb”
• “Rock, paper, scissors”
• “The singers”
• “Two people exchanging saliva”

Best Animated Short Film

• “Coach”
• “Butterfly”
• “Cardboard”
• “Eiru”
• “Evergreen”
• “The Girl Who Created Beads”
• “Hurikán”
• “I died in Irpin”
• “Night boots”
• “Playing God”
• “The Ghost of the Quinta”
• “Retirement plan”
• “The shyness of trees”
• “Snow Bear”
• “The Three Sisters”

Best Documentary Short Film