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How John Malkovich’s 30-Year Oscar Drought Could Finally End With ‘Wild Horse Nine’

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How John Malkovich’s 30-Year Oscar Drought Could Finally End With ‘Wild Horse Nine’
Sep 4, 2026 1:30pm PT How John Malkovich’s 30-Year Oscar Drought Could Finally End With ‘Wild Horse Nine’

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Clayton Davis

Chief Awards Editor

byClaytonDavis See All John Malkovich on the set of WILD HORSE NINE. Photo by Searchlight Pictures/Diego Araya Corvalán, Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2026 Searchlight Pictures. All Rights Reserved. Searchlight Pictures

John Malkovich could finally have an Oscar secret weapon, and his name is Martin McDonagh.

Wild Horse Nine,” the black comedy that bowed in competition at the Venice Film Festival — where it drew a 13-minute standing ovation — before turning up as Telluride’s surprise patron screening on Friday afternoon, drops a pair of CIA operatives onto Easter Island in the tense days before the 1973 Chilean coup, then lets the absurdity metastasize from there.

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