Poll: Which 2026 Best Picture Oscar Nominee Would Work the Best and Worst on Broadway?

[NewYorkTheater]

Posted: 2/3/26 at 11:01pm

In a year when one of the ten Oscar nominees for best picture ends with scenes from one of the greatest plays ever written, another is about a theater actress and her film director father, and a third has a subject (and a title) that’s been on Broadway before, while several of the other nominated films feature car cashes or gun fights, it seems natural to wonder: Which of the ten movies would make the best stage play? The worst play? The best musical? Offer your opinion in the poll 

Poll: Which 2026 Best Picture Oscar Nominee Would Work the Best and Worst on Broadway

[uncageg]

Posted: 2/3/26 at 11:31pm

Interesting results.

[Mr. Wormwood]

Posted: 2/4/26 at 12:11am

Without seeing the results, my choices were exactly the same as the majority:

Best (Musical): Sinners
Best (Play): Hamnet
Worst (Play or Musical): F1

[Melissa25]

Posted: 2/4/26 at 9:13am

I know it is not nominated for best pic but I’d be interested in a chamber Off Broadway musical adapted from If I Had Legs I’d Kick You. 

 

[gibsons2]

Posted: 2/4/26 at 9:18am

Bugonia would be the easiest movie to turn into a stage play. Sinners would be a great musical, the original movie score is phenomenal. Not sure anything else would translate as well.

[Alex Kulak2]

Posted: 2/4/26 at 11:17am

gibsons2 said: "Bugonia would be the easiest movie to turn into a stage play. Sinners would be a greatmusical, the original movie score is phenomenal. Not sure anything else would translate as well."

I need Dave Malloy working on a Bugonia musical immediately.

[gibsons2]

Posted: 2/4/26 at 11:33am

Alex Kulak2 said: "gibsons2 said: "Bugonia would be the easiest movie to turn into a stage play. Sinners would be a greatmusical, the original movie score is phenomenal. Not sure anything else would translate as well."

I need Dave Malloy working on aBugonia musical immediately."

I would leave Bugonia a straight play, but only if directed by Sam Pinkleton, Marianne Elliott or Danya Taymor. Jaime Lloyd's interpretation can be great too.

[gibsons2]

Posted: 2/4/26 at 11:50am

Melissa25 said: "I know it is not nominated for best pic but I’d be interested in a chamber Off Broadway musical adapted from If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.

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Such a great movie. I was pretty positive Oscar is Jessie Buckley's, but after seeing Rose Byrne's performance I'm no longer sure. She was a much more realistic mother to me.

[MayAudraBlessYou2]

Posted: 2/4/26 at 1:04pm

While watching Bugonia, my husband and I turned to each other and said "this could be an amazing stage play." It would be quite easy to adapt and I'd actually love to see an eventual Broadway production. 

I haven't been able to get through Hamnet yet, which seems to be the winner here. But what I've seen so far is not super dialogue-heavy and really driven by Zhao's visual language. So I have a hard time seeing the stage version.

[KevinKlawitter]

Posted: 2/4/26 at 9:17pm

I haven't been able to get through Hamnet yet, which seems to be the winner here. But what I've seen so far is not super dialogue-heavy and really driven by Zhao's visual language. So I have a hard time seeing the stage version."

There's already a stage adaptation of the novel about to start a US tour, but AFAIK it's completely unrelated to Chloé Zhao's film outside of sharing source material.