Sandra Hüller enters 2026 awards season with four film roles

German actress Sandra Hüller is positioned as a major contender for the 2026 awards season with four upcoming film releases. Her projects span major Hollywood blockbusters and international festival circuit dramas.

In mainstream productions, Hüller appears in Amazon MGM’s space odyssey ‘Project Hail Mary’ alongside Ryan Gosling and in the Alejandro G. Iñárritu-directed satire ‘Digger’, starring Tom Cruise. While ‘Project Hail Mary’ has garnered attention, early reactions to ‘Digger’ following Los Angeles and New York screenings have been mixed.

Additionally, Hüller stars in two period pieces: Paweł Pawlikowski’s ‘Fatherland’, a Cold War-era drama scheduled for October 23, and Markus Schleinzer’s ‘Rose’, a medieval-set film releasing on December 11. Due to recent changes in Academy rules allowing actors to be nominated in the same category for multiple films, Hüller could potentially receive multiple Best Actress nominations.