All 4 Appearing Classes — Some Enjoyable By means of Traces & Connections – Weblog

by Nathaniel R

Elle Fanning made her performing debut reverse Sean Penn in I AM SAM (2001) – each are up for Supporting Oscars in March 2026

When we’re taking a look at Oscar trivia we’re typically targeted on people. Once that is performed it is enjoyable to widen the view a little bit and take into consideration the yr’s twenty nominated thespians as a unit. So listed here are some connections and percentages of be aware…

PREVIOUS COLLABS?

It’s all the time attention-grabbing to see if there are filmography connections between the twenty nominated actors, apart from the movies they’re nominated for this time round. This yr these earlier connections have been a little bit sparser than typical (or is that this simply our creativeness?) with solely Chalamet & Penn as actual connective tissue…

• Chalamet & DiCaprio… are each in: Don’t Look Up (2021)
• Chalamet & Skarsgard… as mortal enemies:  Dune Part One (2023) and Dune Part Two (2025)
• Chalamet & Fanning …as lovers: A Complete Unknown (2024)
• Chalamet & Del Toro … are each in: The French Dispatch (2021)
• Penn & Del Toro …. have a violent connection in: 21 Grams (2003)
• Penn & Fanning… as father and daughter (cameo): I Am Sam (2001)
• Penn & Madigan … are each in: Loved (1997)

PERCENTAGE STATS FOR FUN

Teyana Taylor’s lead single from “Escape Room” – the video featured fellow Oscar nominee LaKeith Stanfield

10% are Grammy nominees
Teyana Taylor and Timothee Chalamet have been each nominated on the Grammys this very season. Teyana was up for R & B Album for “Escape Room” and Chalamet was up for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media for A Complete Unknown. Neither of them gained however they MIGHT have the ability to console themselves with Oscar wins in March. 

10% of them are within the Marvel Cinematic Universe
That’d be Wunmi Mosaku (“Hunter B-15” by means of the Loki sequence) and Stellan Skarsgård (“Erik Selvig” by means of the Thor movies). Neither of them are scheduled to return in Avengers: Doomsday (2026).

10% are Tony nominees (and 20% have been on Broadway)
Not as a lot crossover as we typically get between the actors mediums. While 4 of the nominees have been on Broadway, solely Delroy Lindo (Joe Turner’s Come and Gone) and Ethan Hawke (Coast of Utopia) have truly been nominated for American theater’s prime prize.  Rose Byrne makes her second Broadway look after the Oscars within the play Fallen Angels so she might theoretically be a Tony nominee late this spring. Elle Fanning has additionally been on Broadway (Appropriate) however wasn’t Tony nominated.

20% are earlier Oscar winners
Benicio Del Toro (Traffic) and Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant) have each gained whereas Sean Penn (Mystic River and Milk), and Emma Stone (La La Land and Poor Things) have already gained twice. None are anticipated to triumph this yr however we cannot know for certain till the envelopes are opened. 

25% are former Emmy nominees
Six of the twenty have been up for the highest TV prize. That’d be Rose Byrne (Damages), Benicio Del Toro (Escape at Dannamora),  Elle Fanning (The Great), Michael B Jordan (Fahrenhet 451 – producing), Amy Madigan (Roe vs Wade), and Stellan Skarsgard (Chernobyl) however none of them have gained!

25-30% have launched an album
It’s no secret that artistic sorts like actors are sometimes multi-talented and have further artistic abilities. But except for Teyana Taylor who first got here to fame as a R&B singer this yr’s 20 stars are largely actors first. Six of the nominees have recorded albums — or perhaps 5 since Stellan Skarsgard claims to have recorded one as an adolescent however there’s solely proof of a single (pictured proper right here).

If you are curious in regards to the albums from our nominees right here they’re in chronological order.

• “A True Story” (1977) – Amy Madigan was the lead vocalist of the band “Jelly”
• “The Very Best of the Greatest Hits of Sua Mae” (2010) – Wagner Moura was the lead vocalist / guitarist for the band Sua Mae (‘Your Mother’)
• “VII” (2014) – Teyana Taylor’s debut
• “KTSE” (2018) – Teyana Taylor sophomore effort
• “The Album” (2020) – Teyana Taylor third album which was imagined to be her final since she introduced that she was retiring from her solo music profession.

• “For All Our Days That Tear the Heart” (2022) – Jessie Buckley’s collab album with Suede guitarist Bernard Butler. You can and also needs to take a look at her frankly superb vocals on the soundtrack to “Wild Rose”… which led to this collab album.
• “Glorious” (2024) Kate Hudson’s first studio album. But she has been a lead vocalist on soundtrack albums as nicely.
• “Escape Room” (2025) – Teyana Taylor. Grammy nomination Best R&B Album. For added movie-related enjoyable, we should always share that this album has tons of cameos from fellow actresses: Sarah Paulson, Niecy Nash, Jodie Turner-Smith, Issa Rae, Regina King, Jill Scott, Kerry Washington, and Taraji P Henson are all featured.

If you depend being closely featured on soundtrack albums the variety of nominees who’ve been “recording artists” jumps to 45% and also you’d want so as to add in Elle Fanning (lead vocalist on “Teen Spirit”), Emma Stone (lead vocalist on “La La Land”) and Timothee Chalamet (lead vocalist on “Wonka” and “A Complete Unknown”)

40% are Fire Signs
This yr Fire dominates the astrological charts of our nominees (largely the ladies!) whereas Water is the second most dominant ingredient with 35% of the nominees (largely the boys!). Earth (15%) and Air (10%) aren’t nicely represented this time round. The most dominate precise Zodiac image for the 98th crop of nominated actors is a tie between fiery Leos and watery Scorpios (with 20% of the nominees every from these indicators). There are not any Taurus or Libra sign-nominees this yr for performing however the different ten Zodiac indicators are all represented.

55% are first-time Oscar nominees
That have to be so thrilling for them.

Elle Fanning (with Jamie Bell) in ROSEBUSH PRUNING

55% have already accomplished filming on new motion pictures
Half of the nominees could possibly be eligible for Oscar nominations subsequent yr at the moment once more — not that each film / position places you into competition! Byrne, DiCaprio, Jordan, Lilleaas, Madigan, Skarsgard, and Stone don’t have any motion pictures (that we all know of) that will probably be prepared for launch in 2026 however a few of them are already filming 2027 motion pictures or are pivoting again to TV for the time being. The different half have motion pictures in post-production that ought to theoretically arrive in 2026: Benicio Del Toro (All Star Weekend), Delroy Lindo (Godzilla x Kong: Supernova), Elle Fanning (Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping and Rosebush Pruning), Ethan Hawke (The Weight and Tonight at Noon), Jessie Buckley (The Bride!), Jacob Elordi (The Dog Stars), Teyana Taylor (72 Hours), Timothee Chalamet (Dune Part Three), and Wagner Moura (The Last Day). The two nominees which have probably the most initiatives within the can already are Wunmi Mosaku (The Life and Death of Wilson Shedd, This is How It Goes, and The Social Reckoning) and Renate Reinsve (who has accomplished work on 4 Scandinavian movies Fjord, Butterfly, Almost There, X, and two English language efforts The Back Rooms and The Governesses). 

Of all these new initiatives if we have been placing any cash down we might wager that Hawke (The Weight) & Reinsve (Fjord) are the more than likely — no less than at this writing — to be “in conversation” subsequent season. Of course the overwhelming majority of their 2026 and a few of their 2027 slates have been in place earlier than the Oscar nominations so it will likely be the following mission they signal on to that will probably be most reflective of their freshly boosted standing in Hollywood. 

Amy Madigan and her greatest pal… photographed for the New York Times

60% are (confirmed) pet house owners
Overwhelming these stars have canine with Wagner Moura the one confirmed cat proprietor (although he additionally has a canine). But the Most Extremely Important Tidbits to emerge this awards season is  that Rose Byrne now has a pet bearded dragon named “Oscar” that her husband introduced residence on the day she gained the Golden Globe. I might discover no proof that Delroy, Inga, Jessie, Michael, Renate, Stellan, Teyana, or Wunmi have pets however the remainder of the nominated stars have furry (or scaled in Byrne’s case) companions.  

75% are Parents
While Chalamet, DiCaprio, Elordi, Fanning, and Jordan shouldn’t have youngsters, the remainder of the nominees do. Of the 31 kids of those nominees, nearly 26% of these name Stellan Skarsgard daddy!

100% are Oscar Nominees
Congratulations one final time to Wunmi, Wagner, Timothée, Teyana, Stellan, Sean, Rose, Renate, Michael, Leo, Kate, Jessie, Jacob, Inga, Ethan, Emma, Elle, Delroy, Benicio, and Amy. 

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