Obsession stalks the Oscar Award 2027.
Focus Features will campaign for the Oscar in different categories with its original project Obsessionthe horror hit of 2026, according to reports from Variety.
The studio will seek to land nominations in all categories in which the film can compete, highlighting the possibility of Inside Navarrette for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
Navarrete will campaign in this category during the next awards season. The young actress rose to fame this year with her convincing performance as Nikki in Obsession from the screenwriter and director Curry Barker.
Presumably Navarrete will be the compass that will spin the Focus Features campaign to Obsessionsince the actress has become one of the most talked about topics of the horror hit with her breakthrough performance, which already has her own intervention in Halloween Horror Nights. The Halloween event is hosted by Universal Studios Hollywood each year, taking place during select nights from September 3 to November 1, 2026. One of the guests at the party in 2026 is Freaky Nikki (she is not portrayed by the actress, but by someone else).
On top of that, Navarrete landed the role as Rogue in the reboot of X-Men which Marvel Studios is already preparing, as part of the integration of mutants into the MCU.
Along with Navarrette, Focus Features plans to push Barker as the unusual so-called “triple threat” in the film categories. best direction, original screenplay and editing. At the 2025 Oscar ceremony, Sean Barker triumphed in these same three categories with Anora (2024), which at the end of the night also won the award for best film (an award that he also shared as a producer).
It remains to be seen if the studio will choose to campaign to the Golden Globes under the drama category or the musical or comedy category. Contrary to what many might think, it is the studio that decides in which category their project will be considered for the Golden Globes, not the Hollywood Foreign Press organization (HFPA) itself.
These are all the categories in which Focus Features will pursue an Oscar nomination:
- Best Film
- Best Director (Curry Barker)
- Best Actress (Inde Navarrete)
- Best Actor (Michael Johnston)
- Best Supporting Actor (Cooper Tomlinson)
- Best Supporting Actress (Megan Lawless)
- Best Supporting Actor (Andy Richter)
- Guion Original (Curry Barker)
- Casting (Skyler Zurn)
- Production Design (Vivian Gray)
- Cinematography (Taylor Clemons)
- Costume Design (Blair James)
- Editing (Curry Barker)
- Makeup and Hair (Allie Shehorn)
- Sonido (YJ Gold, Ben Zarai)
- Banda Sonora Original (Rock Burwell)
Obsession exceeds $505 million dollars at the global box office, and is the first original film released in the 2020s to reach that milestone. The project was produced with a micro budget of just $750,000 dollarsand already collects more than 665 times the production cost.
Right now it is placed in fifth position in the ranking of the ten highest-grossing horror films in history at the global box office.
Obsession was acquired by Focus Features for $15 million at the 2025 Toronto Film Festival, thus becoming a highly profitable phenomenon. It is the studio's highest-grossing film of all time, and the biggest film acquisition for a film festival.
Other notable milestones: It's the movie highest-grossing original horror movie in historyand the highest grossing horror film of 2026; saw consecutive increases in its box office receipts during its first three weekends ($17.1 million in its first weekend, $23.9 million in its second weekend, $26.4 million in its third weekend), something that had not happened since the release of Spielberg's classic, E.T., in 1982.
In addition to a highly effective marketing campaignhe Word of mouth has been extremely positive. to Obsession.
Barker is one of the members of a new generation of filmmakers emerging from YouTube.
The plot of Obsessionfocuses on a boy's selfish and desperate longing for his platonic love, which triggers a sinister spell with the use of the “Willow of a Wish”, with which Niki (Navarrete) becomes irrationally obsessive until she becomes the shadow of Bear (Johnston). A seemingly harmless fantasy that turns into a disturbing nightmare.
Producers are James Harris, Haley Nicole Johnson, Christian Mercuri, and Roman Varis, with Teashop Productions, Under the Shell, Capstone Pictures. Executive producers include Jason Blum of BlumhouseLeonora Darby, Mark Lane, David Haring y Ruzanna Kegeyan.
Source: https://cine3.com/focus-features-oscars-obsession-inde-navarrete-nominacion-mejor-actriz/
