The Property Masters Guild released its nominees for the 2026 MacGuffin Awards on July 30. The Period Feature Film category landed with unusual force.
Five films compete: Ryan Coogler's Sinners, Josh Safdie's Marty Supreme, Wes Anderson's The Phoenician Scheme, Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein, and Scott Cooper's Deliver Me from Nowhere. Cooper's film traces the making of Bruce Springsteen's 1982 album Nebraska, with Jeremy Allen White as Springsteen.
The MacGuffin Awards honor prop masters, the craftspeople responsible for every physical object on screen. The award's name draws from the classic filmmaking concept of a story's central driving object. The guild's annual ceremony is scheduled for September 12 at the Paramount Theatre in Hollywood.
Marty Supreme is an A24 sports drama starring Timothée Chalamet as Marty Mauser, an obsessive table tennis player loosely based on American ping-pong champion Marty Reisman. It was released December 25, 2025. Del Toro's Frankenstein arrives from Netflix, starring Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi as the creature.
The Contemporary Feature Film category features One Battle After Another, Weapons, and Happy Gilmore 2. Fantasy and Sci-Fi nominees include Wicked: For Good, Avatar: Fire and Ash, How to Train Your Dragon, and Tron: Ares. On television, Fallout Season 2, Foundation Season 3, and Hacks Season 5 appear among their respective category nominees.
The ceremony is September 12. Venice announces its Golden Lion the same evening.
