Overview
- Focus Features announced on Wednesday, September 2, 2026 that it will campaign Inde Navarrette for Best Actress and submit Obsession in 15 Oscar-eligible categories.
- The studio is positioning director-writer-editor Curry Barker as a triple-threat contender for Best Director, Original Screenplay and Film Editing.
- Obsession has earned more than $505.6 million worldwide on an estimated $750,000 production budget, making it an unusually profitable micro-budget hit and the core rationale for the awards push.
- Focus and the filmmakers have not decided whether to enter the film at the Golden Globes as a drama or as a musical/comedy, and Navarrette’s new casting as Rogue in an X-Men film could complicate traditional awards-season duties.
- A lawsuit filed in August by executive producer Leonora Ann Darby alleges she was shut out of net-profit participation, and that ongoing legal dispute could carry reputational and financial consequences as the studio pursues awards visibility.