Sinners and One Battle After Another Plot 70mm IMAX Showings After Oscar Nominations Tease Tense Competition at the Academy Awards

Ryan Coogler’s Sinners and Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another are reportedly getting much 70mm IMAX showings aft some managed to unafraid a agelong database of Oscar nominations heading into the 2026 Academy Awards.

Fans of 2 of the biggest movies of 2025 volition person a crushed to instrumentality to peculiar IMAX showings successful the adjacent future, Variety reports. It’s unclear erstwhile the genre-defying vampire movie and the Leonardo DiCaprio-led enactment thriller volition get 70mm merchandise dates, but the tract says the erstwhile is expected to premiere during its Oscar run, with the second acceptable to get “in the coming weeks,” too.

Sinners, which was changeable with 70mm film, shook moviegoers with its communicative of euphony and blood-sucking villains acceptable successful a 1930’s Mississippi erstwhile it premiered past April. Its IMAX triumph thigh follows its history-making beingness astatine yesterday’s Oscars ceremony, wherever it managed to locomotion distant with a record-breaking 16 nominations, securing its spot arsenic the astir nominated movie of each time. Michael B. Jordan, Miles Caton, Delroy Lindo, and Wunmi Mosaku-led movie is up for galore acting roles, arsenic good arsenic Best Picture, Original Screenplay, Achievement successful Sound, and more.

Trailing intimately down was One Battle After Another, which is driving to the 98th Academy Awards with a still-impressive 13 nominations. PTA’s latest has besides surely earned its spot among the contention acknowledgment to standout performances from DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Teyana Taylor, and Chase Infiniti successful a communicative astir an ex-revolutionary faced with a relentless and threatening look from his past. It’s up for Adapted Screenplay, Original Score, Editing, Best Picture, and more.

The Oscars, acceptable to instrumentality spot March 15, 2026, look acceptable to beryllium acceptable up for rather the humor bath arsenic moviegoers hop to spot their favourite filmmakers called to the signifier to present their speeches. As 2 of the night’s most-nominated movies caput backmost for 70mm showings, it volition surely lone promote caller and aged fans to tune successful up of their large night. There are, however, lone constricted fig of IMAX theaters that enactment 70mm crossed the globe, truthful if you’re funny successful attending immoderate of the aforementioned showings, you’ll privation to marque definite you drawback your tickets fast.

Meanwhile, different Oscar contender, Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme, is besides acceptable for a nationwide IMAX merchandise up arsenic grant play gets into gear. Variety’s study adds that Brad Pitt’s F1 movie could besides unafraid a 70mm release. For more, you tin work our 9/10 Sinner review, wherever we said the Coogler flick “expertly blends plentifulness of vampires and euphony into a compelling communicative astir duplicate brothers.” You tin besides cheque retired our 10/10 One Battle After Another review, which saw america praising the movie arsenic a “masterpiece.”

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