As we roll up the red carpet on Oscars 2026, here’s a guide to where all of the year’s nominated stars are headed next—from the set of a Martin Scorsese film to a third season of Euphoria.
Whether your favorite performer is poised to be back in the pop-culture conversation or planning to go into ghost mode until the Oscars 2027, here’s your guide on where to watch the 2026 acting-Oscar nominees and winners next.
BEST ACTOR Timothée Chalamet After losing the leading man Oscar for the second year in a row, Chalamet is wading back into familiar waters. He’ll reprise his role as Paul Atreides in a third Dune film, potentially return for an in-development Wonka sequel, and reunite with his A Complete Unknown director, James Mangold, for the Paramount Pictures action-thriller High Side. In that project, a crime drama that is being described as “Heat meets Hell or High Water,” Chalamet will play a former MotoGP racer who finds himself involved in bank robberies. Leonardo DiCaprio At any given time, DiCaprio has about a dozen projects in development, and his current slate includes work with director Michael Mann on Heat 2, a follow-up to the 1995 crime drama starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. But chief among his upcoming films is Martin Scorsese’s What Happens at Night, an adaptation of the 2020 ghost story novel from author Peter Cameron that began shooting last month. In his seventh feature collaboration with Scorsese, DiCaprio will join forces with Jennifer Lawrence, with the two playing a couple stranded in a deserted, snowy European town. They’ll star alongside Mads Mikkelsen, Jared Harris, and Patricia Clarkson in what is being billed as a “Gothic psychological horror thriller.” Ethan Hawke While getting ready for this year’s Oscars with Vanity Fair, Hawke laid out the rest of his 2026, which will include a 10th collaboration with his Blue Moon, Boyhood, and Before-trilogy director, Richard Linklater. “We’re finishing the script right now and really hope to make it this year,” he told VF of the 19th-century-set historical drama. “When I leave the Oscars, the next morning I’ll fly to do season two of The Lowdown in Tulsa through June. Then the second half of the year, I hope to do a new Richard Linklater film.” Michael B. Jordan He’s got a best-actor Oscar on his mantle for Sinners, but Jordan doesn’t appear to be resting on his laurels. Next up, Jordan stars in and directs Amazon MGM’s remake of The Thomas Crown Affair, scheduled for release in March 2027. “That was a big mountain to climb,” Jordan told VF’s Rebecca Ford on a recent episode of the Little Gold Men podcast. “And I think I did it well.” From there, Jordan is reportedly in talks to join F1 director Joseph Kosinski’s Miami Vice movie and has confirmed an in-development Creed IV. Wagner Moura There is plenty more of Moura to go around. Following his lead-actor nomination for Brazilian best-international-feature hopeful The Secret Agent, Moura is set to direct Last Night at the Lobster, his first English-language film, which he’s described as a “Christmas film” with a political bent. It will star fellow Oscar nominee Brian Tyree Henry, Emmy winner Elisabeth Moss, and Netflix wunderkind Sofia Carson. But first he’ll star opposite Alicia Vikander in the drama The Last Day, which is inspired by Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. BEST ACTRESS Jessie Buckley Once her starring turn in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s poorly reviewed The Bride! leaves theaters, Hamnet best-actress winner Buckley’s next big-screen foray will reportedly be Three Incestous Sisters. It’s an adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger’s best-selling novel, directed by Italian auteur Alice Rohrwacher from a script she wrote with Ottessa Moshfegh. The film is also expected to feature Buckley’s Lost Daughter costar Dakota Johnson, her fellow Irish actor Saoirse Ronan, and Josh O’Connor—the Romeo to Buckley’s Juliet during a 2021 National Theatre production. Rose Byrne She might have missed out on Oscar gold for her haunting portrayal of a mother on the brink in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, but Byrne is keeping busy with her new indie drama, Tow , and an upcoming Peacock series, The Good Daughter, costarring The White Lotus’s Meghann Fahy. Kate Hudson As mentioned above, Hudson is returning for a second season of her Mindy Kaling–cocreated Netflix basketball comedy, Running Point. When she’s not cohosting the popular podcast Sibling Revelry with her older brother, Oliver, the Song Sung Blue nominee will also headline Hello & Paris, a transatlantic romance film featuring Oscar winner Javier Bardem as Hudson’s love interest. Renate Reinsve Reinsve, who earned her first best-actress Oscar nomination for Sentimental Value, knows the value of seizing the moment. Her dance card is full of intriguing new titles: A24’s sci-fi horror Backrooms, Alexander Payne’s European film, Somewhere Out There, The Governesses opposite Lily-Rose Depp, and Fjord, which reunites Reinsve with her A Different Man costar Sebastian Stan. Emma Stone The two-time Oscar winner, nominated this year for starring in and producing Bugonia, isn’t halting her behind-the-camera work. Her Fruit Tree producing banner is behind a new Jesse Eisenberg musical comedy at A24, as well as a project at the same studio from Nathan Fielder, Stone’s costar in The Curse season one. Not long before the Academy Awards, it was announced that Stone would lead The Catch, a Universal Pictures romantic comedy reportedly expected to costar Chris Pine. Stone’s real-life husband and producing partner, Dave McCary, is set to direct, and the couple will produce. BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Benicio Del Toro He might have lost to his One Battle After Another costar Sean Penn, but Del Toro doesn’t stay still for long: He’ll appear in Jamie Foxx’s feature directorial debut, the basketball dramedy All-Star Weekend, then Reenactment, a thriller from his Reptile director, Grant Singer, with Cameron Diaz expected to costar. Jacob Elordi The first-time nominee can currently be seen playing the broody Heathcliff opposite Margot Robbie’s tempestuous Cathy in Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights. Next month he’ll be seen in Euphoria season three as toxic manchild Nate Jacobs following a yearslong hiatus. After that, Elordi will star in the Cormac McCarthy adaptation Outer Dark opposite Lily-Rose Depp, and he’ll also lead The Dog Stars, featuring Margaret Qualley and Josh Brolin. The latter film adds Ridley Scott to the list of major directors with whom Elordi has worked. Delroy Lindo The consummate character actor, who earned his long-awaited first Oscar nomination for playing Delta Slim in Sinners, plans to pull triple duty—as director, coproducer, and actor—for a film set in Jamaica, his mother’s birthplace. While viewers typically associate the region with “sea, sand, and sun,” Lindo told the Associated Press that he’s more interested in “sharing with audiences the spirituality that’s in the land and in the people.” But Lindo will first reunite with his Sinners costar Jack O’Connell in the upcoming blockbuster sequel Godzilla x Kong: Supernova, set for release in March 2027. Sean Penn When he won his third Oscar for playing a radical military man in One Battle After Another, Penn was not onstage at the Dolby Theatre—but likely headed to an actual war zone, according to The New York Times. Penn skipped the show because he was going to Europe, “where his plan as of late last week was to visit Ukraine,” two anonymous sources told the publication. A representative for Penn declined to comment to the Times. Penn, who previously won best actor for Mystic River in 2004 and Milk in 2009, has spent significant time in Ukraine since Russia’s 2022 invasion. And the actor’s passion for the cause doesn’t appear to be waning: His latest reported trip is the only news of what may be next for Penn until a new casting is announced. Stellan Skarsgård After earning an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of the patriarch of a fractured filmmaking family in Sentimental Value, Skarsgård is voicing the title character, a rat living in a city’s landfill, in the upcoming Swedish animated detective film Dante. BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Elle Fanning After securing her first Oscar nomination for playing an overzealous movie star in Sentimental Value, the youngest Fanning will star alongside Callum Turner and Pamela Anderson in the satirical thriller Rosebush Pruning, then play a young Effie Trinket in the blockbuster prequel The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping. Fanning will also soon lead the Apple TV series Margo’s Got Money Troubles , in which she plays a single mother who joins OnlyFans to make ends meet. Later down the line, she’ll reunite with her Beguiled costar Nicole Kidman for the A24 thriller series Discretion. But Fanning’s most exciting post-Oscars move might be joining forces with her older sister, Dakota, for a big-screen version of the beloved World War II–set novel The Nightingale. “When we were younger, we wanted to make sure that people saw us differently, and we wanted to give each other space to carve our own path,” Fanning told Vanity Fair last year. “But as adults, it’s been very fulfilling to merge.” Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas After signing with top talent agency CAA at the start of the year, this Norwegian breakout from Sentimental Value is headed back to the homeland for her next project. Lilleaas stars in Small Talk, which is being described as a “Christmas tragicomedy” based on Even Hafnor’s short film and play of the same name. Making Sentimental Value, in which she plays Agnes, the younger sibling to Renate Reinsve’s Nora, “made me hungrier for those kinds of roles,” Lilleaas told Variety, “more complex characters.” Amy Madigan The newly minted best-supporting-actress winner doesn’t appear to be slowing down. After playing Weapons’ terrifying Aunt Gladys, Madigan is headed toward the James Ponsoldt thriller Sponsor with Jason Segel, Justine Lupe, and John C. Reilly. She has also joined the Netflix limited-series adaptation of S.A. Cosby’s 2023 novel, All the Sinners Bleed, adapted by Black Panther cowriter Joe Robert Cole. And then there is The Ploughmen, a long-gestating neo-noir thriller directed by her husband, Ed Harris, with Bill Murray, Nick Nolte, and the couple’s one and only daughter, Lily Harris, attached to the cast, per IMDb. Wunmi Mosaku Following her acclaimed performance in Sinners, Mosaku is set to star alongside Idris Elba in the Apple thriller This Is How It Goes and appear in The Social Reckoning, Aaron Sorkin’s starry follow-up to The Social Network. The first film earned three Oscars in 2011. After sharing the screen with Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, and Jeremy Strong in that high-profile sequel, the expectant Mosaku will costar with Amanda Seyfried in The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd, a new film from actor Tim Blake Nelson, who both writes and directs the upcoming prison drama. Teyana Taylor Taylor didn’t win an Oscar for playing One Battle After Another’s political revolutionary Perfidia Beverly Hills, but she doesn’t stay down for long. Last year Taylor shared hopes of turning her music into a Broadway show, and her 2025 visual album, Escape Room, ultimately earned a Grammy nomination for best R&B album. She’ll also star in Kevin Hart’s next big-screen comedy, 72 Hours; return for a second season of Ryan Murphy’s All’s Fair; and make her feature-length directorial debut with Get Lite, a dance film starring Euphoria’s Storm Reid that’s slated for release in April of next year. Oh, and there’s the small matter of her enrollment in the Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts—Taylor one day dreams of opening her own restaurant. “I could never look at how busy I am and complain because it’s like, this is everything I ever prayed for, you got it now,” she told Vanity Fair earlier this year. “Ain’t no turning back.” Watch the Vanity Fair Oscar Party livestream—hosted by Quenlin Blackwell, Jake Shane, and Brittany Broski—directly after the Academy Awards at youtube.com/vanityfair on Sunday, March 15 at 10:30 p.m. ET and 7:30 p.m. PT.
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