Key Highlights
- This year’s ceremony, hosted by SNL alum Ego Nwodim, features a Best Feature film category that includes Oscar Best Picture nominee — Netflix’s Train Dreams, which is up for four total Oscars including Adapted Screenplay, Score and Cinematography.
- Related Stories News Spirit Awards Nominations: ‘Train Dreams’, ‘The Plague’, ‘Sorry, Baby’, ‘Twinless’ & ‘Peter Hujar’s Day’ In Best Feature Race Below The Line 2026 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Oscars, Guilds, Tonys & More At the Spirits, it’s joined in the marquee Best Feature race by Janus Films’ Peter Hujar’s Day, which leads all nominees this year with five; IFC’s The Plague; A24’s Sorry, Baby and Roadside Attractions’ Twinless.
- Watch on Deadline Netflix leads all platforms with 18 nominations, followed by last year’s noms leader A24 with 10.
- Other Oscars-Spirits crossovers to watch for today: Rose Byrne in Best Performance for If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Adolpho Veloso in Cinematography for Train Dreams, Come See Me in the Good Light and The Perfect Neighbor in Documentary and The Secret Agent (Brazil) and Sirāt (Spain) in International Film.
- Last year, Anora won a trio of Spirit Awards — Best Feature, Best Director for Sean Baker and Best Actress for Mikey Madison — all categories in which the pic would end up repeat winning at the Oscars.
