More Surefire Oscar Contenders Appear As Spielberg, Nolan And (Yes!) Minions Charm CinemaCon With Latest Epics


The search for surefire Oscar contenders at CinemaCon continues, and joining my list after the Universal presentation on Wednesday are The Odyssey, Disclosure Day, and — wait for it — Minions & Monsters. But more on the latter in a moment.

Christopher Nolan opened Universal’s CinemaCon presentation and Steven Spielberg closed it. If you were worried this exhibitors convention was going to be short on Oscar heat you can rest assured that the footage shown from their respective films, The Odyssey and Disclosure Day, both more than met the promise of helping to ignite the nascent 2026 movie awards season. That torch was already lit Tuesday with Warner Bros and its upcoming Alejandro G. Iñárritu-Tom Cruise dark comedy Digger, and Monday with The Social Reckoning at Sony’s kickoff.

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