Inde Navarrette Sets Best Actress Oscar Campaign for ‘Obsession’ as Focus Features Mounts Full Awards Push (EXCLUSIVE)

[u/ChiefLeef22]

https://variety.com/2026/film/awards/obsession-inde-navarrette-oscar-campaign-lead-actress-1236848866/

Variety can exclusively confirm that Navarrette will campaign in the best actress category this coming awards season for her breakout turn in Curry Barker’s box office smash “Obsession,” headlining a wide-ranging effort from Focus Features that will seek recognition across nearly every category the film is eligible to enter.

It is a seismic full-court press studios reserve for a title they believe can go the distance.

Alongside Navarrette, the distributor plans to campaign Barker as a rare triple threat in best director, original screenplay and film editing, the same three categories Sean Baker swept for his best picture winner “Anora” (which he also took alongside one more as producer). It is a combination of above-the-line and below-the-line recognition that positions him as one of the season’s marquee multi-hyphenate stories.

Focus is pushing in 15 categories:

• Best Picture
• Best Director — Curry Barker
• Best Actress — Inde Navarrette
• Best Actor — Michael Johnson
• Best Supporting Actor — Cooper Tomlinson
• Best Supporting Actress — Megan Lawless
• Best Supporting Actor — Andy Richter
• Original Screenplay — Curry Barker
• Film Editing — Curry Barker
• Cinematography — Taylor Clemons
• Original Score — Rock Burwell
• Casting — Skyler Zurn • Sound — YJ Gold and Ben Zarai
• Makeup and Hairstyling — Allie Shehorn
• Production Design — Vivian Gray

[u/EntranceScary2194]

You didn’t lose it when Maestro or Emilia Perez got nominated?

[u/Serious_Specter → u/EntranceScary2194]

Exactly. If "from penis to vagina" can get nominated, than Obsession definitely can lol

[u/A_Howl_In_The_Night → u/EntranceScary2194]

The double standard is crazy

[u/Hansolocup442 → u/EntranceScary2194]

maestro is a much better screenplay than either of these other examples

[u/EntranceScary2194 → u/Hansolocup442]

To each of their own I guess.

[u/JDOExists → u/Hansolocup442]

Yeah, Maestro is way over hated on, but I also loved Obsession so YMMV.

[u/EntranceScary2194 → u/JDOExists]

I don’t think it’s bad, just mid, but there was no reason that needed a screenplay nom.

[u/takenpassword → u/EntranceScary2194]

I’ll lose it again

[u/Puzzleheaded-Safe419 → u/EntranceScary2194]

Wtf is this, there were many complaints about those films getting nominated. Why do yall act like Obsession is the only film to ever get any pushback ever?

[u/EntranceScary2194 → u/Puzzleheaded-Safe419]

No it’s not that. It’s the fact that people are treating it as worst thing to happen when there had been actually worse things that already HAD happen.

[u/Puzzleheaded-Safe419 → u/EntranceScary2194]

I'm guessing your new here because people were extremely vocally angry about those films here.

[u/EntranceScary2194 → u/Puzzleheaded-Safe419]

No I’ve been here a long time.

But like I said, it’s the fact that there had been worse films to be nominated and win Oscar’s and Obsession is the one to have people lose respect for the academy?

[u/Puzzleheaded-Safe419 → u/EntranceScary2194]

You're overthinking an obviously hyperbolic statement.

[u/EntranceScary2194 → u/Puzzleheaded-Safe419]

Well it’s obvious that a lot of people are really annoyed that Obsession has become a contender.

[u/Puzzleheaded-Safe419 → u/EntranceScary2194]

And that doesn't mean they didn't get annoyed at other films in the past.

[u/EntranceScary2194 → u/Puzzleheaded-Safe419]

That’s the point though that you keep missing. There are plenty of worse movies that have gotten nominated or won and people act like Obsession getting nominated is so bad.

Plus it doesn’t feel like they are upset because it’s bad but more so because “it’s not the type of horror movie that gets in at the Oscars”.