Your Oscars questions answered: ‘The best film of the year hasn’t actually won best picture since 12 Years a Slave’

Who should win? Who’s been snubbed? Guardian film editor Catherine Shoard answers your Oscars questions Guardian writers have been making their pitches for best picture winner at the 98th Academy Awards in our Oscars hustings series. Has Chase Infiniti been snubbed? Should Train Dreams win for best cinematography? Who’s the bigger monster, Frankenstein’s or Marty Mauser? Guardian film editor Catherine Shoard answers your 2026 Oscars questions. Catherine has now finished answering your questions. Read the Q&A below. double quotation markThanks very much for all these really well-informed and thoughtful questions! I’ll try to get through as many as possible double quotation mark1. Vicious circle of looming industry collapse fueling studio timidity. 3. Combination of factors meaning that while blockbusters endure, funding has collapsed for the kind of low-to-mid-budget adult dramas which were still around 25 years ago, and which dominated awards conversations for the half century prior to that. And some movies are still really good. This has not been an especially good year, in my opinion, but there have been good years recently (hello 2023), and there will be more to come. Pl