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Four Indian titles, including Kannada blockbuster Kantara: A Legend - Chapter 1 and the Hindi movie Tanvi The Great, are among the 201 diagnostic films eligible to vie for the Best Picture grant astatine Oscars 2026, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced.
The Academy connected Thursday released the “Reminder List of Productions Eligible for the 98th Academy Awards”. The database of films that fulfill the eligibility criteria for information successful the wide categories, including Best Picture, is the measurement earlier the nominations that volition beryllium announced connected January 22.
Besides Rishabh Shetty's Kantara and Anupam Kher's directorial, the different 2 Indian productions are the multilingual animated movie Mahavatar Narsimha and Tamil rubric Tourist Family by first-time filmmaker Abishan Jeevinth.
Radhika Apte-starrer Sister Midnight, a Hindi connection UK-India co-production, has besides made it to the list.
In all, 317 diagnostic films are eligible for the 98th Academy Awards, the Academy said. Of these, 201 conscionable the further eligibility requirements required for information successful the Best Picture category.
Inclusion successful the reminder database does not warrant a nomination. Films indispensable inactive acquisition the Academy’s voting process.
To beryllium eligible for information successful the wide introduction categories, diagnostic films indispensable person opened successful a commercialized question representation theatre successful astatine slightest 1 of six US metropolitan areas -- Los Angeles County, New York City, the Bay Area, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth and Atlanta -- betwixt January 1 and December 31, 2025. They indispensable person besides completed a minimum qualifying tally of 7 consecutive days astatine the aforesaid venue, the Academy said.
For Best Picture consideration, films indispensable fulfil the wide eligibility criteria and taxable a confidential Academy Representation and Inclusion Standards Entry (RAISE) form. They are besides required to conscionable astatine slightest 2 of the 4 Academy inclusion standards, on with an expanded theatrical eligibility requirement, which includes a seven-day theatrical tally — consecutive oregon non-consecutive — successful 10 of the apical 50 US markets wrong 45 days of the film’s archetypal merchandise successful 2025.
In December 2025, the Academy unveiled its Oscars shortlists for 12 categories, including International Feature Film. Neeraj Ghaywan’s Homebound, India’s authoritative introduction to the Academy Awards this year, has made it to the database of 15 films shortlisted successful the category.
A full of 24 categories volition beryllium awarded astatine the 98th Oscars connected March 15. Each class has 5 nominees, but for Best Picture, which has 10.
Best Picture nominations are determined by eligible members from each 19 Academy branches. All rounds of Oscars voting are conducted done a concealed online ballot.
