Oscar Nominations 2026: The Full List of Academy Award Nominees

The 98th Academy Awards nominations arrived on January 22, 2026. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced nominees across all 24 categories that morning. Best Casting joined as the first new competitive category in years. Casting directors get their first-ever Oscar recognition with this new award.

Ryan Coogler’s Sinners leads with a record-breaking 16 nominations, the most for any single film in Oscar history. Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another follows with 13 nods.

The ceremony happens March 15, 2026 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Conan O’Brien hosts.

Oscar Nominations 2026: The Complete List of Academy Award Nominees

The Academy selected nominees across 24 categories on January 22, 2026. Best Casting debuts this year as the first new category in decades. Best Picture features 10 nominees. All other categories have 5 nominees each.

Best Picture

• Bugonia
• F1
• Frankenstein
• Hamnet
• Marty Supreme
• One Battle After Another
• The Secret Agent
• Sentimental Value
• Sinners
• Train Dreams

Best Director

• Paul Thomas Anderson — One Battle After Another
• Ryan Coogler — Sinners
• Josh Safdie — Marty Supreme
• Joachim Trier — Sentimental Value
• Chloé Zhao — Hamnet

Best Actor

• Timothée Chalamet — Marty Supreme
• Leonardo DiCaprio — One Battle After Another
• Ethan Hawke — Blue Moon
• Michael B. Jordan — Sinners
• Wagner Moura — The Secret Agent

Best Actress

• Jessie Buckley — Hamnet
• Rose Byrne — If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
• Kate Hudson — Song Sung Blue
• Renate Reinsve — Sentimental Value
• Emma Stone — Bugonia

Best Supporting Actor

• Benicio Del Toro — One Battle After Another
• Jacob Elordi — Frankenstein
• Delroy Lindo — Sinners
• Sean Penn — One Battle After Another
• Stellan Skarsgård — Sentimental Value

Best Supporting Actress

• Elle Fanning — Sentimental Value
• Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas — Sentimental Value
• Amy Madigan — Weapons
• Wunmi Mosaku — Sinners
• Teyana Taylor — One Battle After Another

Best Original Screenplay

• Blue Moon — Robert Kaplow
• It Was Just an Accident — Jafar Panahi; script collaborators: Nader Saïvar, Shadmehr Rastin, Mehdi Mahmoudian
• Marty Supreme — Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie
• Sentimental Value — Eskil Vogt & Joachim Trier
• Sinners — Ryan Coogler

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Bugonia — Will Tracy
• Frankenstein — Guillermo del Toro
• Hamnet — Chloé Zhao & Maggie O’Farrell
• One Battle After Another — Paul Thomas Anderson
• Train Dreams — Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar

Best Animated Feature

• Arco
• Elio
• Kpop Demon Hunters
• Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
• Zootopia 2

Best International Feature Film

• The Secret Agent — Brazil
• It Was Just an Accident — France
• Sentimental Value — Norway
• Sirāt — Spain
• The Voice of Hind Rajab — Tunisia

Best Documentary Feature

• The Alabama Solution
• Come See Me in the Good Light
• Cutting Through Rocks
• Mr. Nobody Against Putin
• The Perfect Neighbor

Best Casting (New Category)

• Hamnet — Nina Gold
• Marty Supreme — Jennifer Venditti
• One Battle After Another — Cassandra Kulukundis
• The Secret Agent — Gabriel Domingues
• Sinners — Francine Maisler

Best Cinematography

• Frankenstein — Dan Laustsen
• Marty Supreme — Darius Khondji
• One Battle After Another — Michael Bauman
• Sinners — Autumn Durald Arkapaw
• Train Dreams — Adolpho Veloso

Best Film Editing

• F1 — Stephen Mirrione
• Marty Supreme — Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie
• One Battle After Another — Andy Jurgensen
• Sentimental Value — Olivier Bugge Coutté
• Sinners — Michael P. Shawver

Best Production Design

• Frankenstein — Tamara Deverell; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau
• Hamnet — Fiona Crombie; Set Decoration: Alice Felton
• Marty Supreme — Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Adam Willis
• One Battle After Another — Florencia Martin; Set Decoration: Anthony Carlino
• Sinners — Hannah Beachler; Set Decoration: Monique Champagne

Best Costume Design

• Avatar: Fire and Ash — Deborah L. Scott
• Frankenstein — Kate Hawley
• Hamnet — Malgosia Turzanska
• Marty Supreme — Miyako Bellizzi
• Sinners — Ruth E. Carter

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

• Frankenstein — Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel, Cliona Furey
• Kokuho — Kyoko Toyokawa, Naomi Hibino, Tadashi Nishimatsu
• Sinners — Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine, Shunika Terry
• The Smashing Machine — Kazu Hiro, Glen Griffin, Bjoern Rehbein
• The Ugly Stepsister — Thomas Foldberg, Anne Cathrine Sauerberg

Best Original Score

• Bugonia — Jerskin Fendrix
• Frankenstein — Alexandre Desplat
• Hamnet — Max Richter
• One Battle After Another — Jonny Greenwood
• Sinners — Ludwig Goransson

Best Original Song

• “Dear Me” — Diane Warren: Relentless (Music and Lyric by Diane Warren)
• “Golden” — Kpop Demon Hunters (Music and Lyric by EJAE, Mark Sonnenblick, Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seo and Teddy Park)
• “I Lied To You” — Sinners (Music and Lyric by Raphael Saadiq and Ludwig Goransson)
• “Sweet Dreams Of Joy” — Viva Verdi! (Music and Lyric by Nicholas Pike)
• “Train Dreams” — Train Dreams (Music by Nick Cave and Bryce Dessner; Lyric by Nick Cave)

Best Sound

• F1 — Gareth John, Al Nelson, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Gary A. Rizzo, Juan Peralta
• Frankenstein — Greg Chapman, Nathan Robitaille, Nelson Ferreira, Christian Cooke, Brad Zoern
• One Battle After Another — José Antonio García, Christopher Scarabosio, Tony Villaflor
• Sinners — Chris Welcker, Benjamin A. Burtt, Felipe Pacheco, Brandon Proctor, Steve Boeddeker
• Sirāt — Amanda Villavieja, Laia Casanovas, Yasmina Praderas

Best Visual Effects

• Avatar: Fire and Ash — Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, Daniel Barrett
• F1 — Ryan Tudhope, Nicolas Chevallier, Robert Harrington, Keith Dawson
• Jurassic World Rebirth — David Vickery, Stephen Aplin, Charmaine Chan, Neil Corbould
• The Lost Bus — Charlie Noble, David Zaretti, Russell Bowen, Brandon K. McLaughlin
• Sinners — Michael Ralla, Espen Nordahl, Guido Wolter, Donnie Dean

Best Animated Short Film

• Butterfly — Florence Miailhe and Ron Dyens
• Forevergreen — Nathan Engelhardt and Jeremy Spears
• The Girl Who Cried Pearls — Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski
• Retirement Plan — John Kelly and Andrew Freedman
• The Three Sisters — Konstantin Bronzit

Best Live Action Short Film

• Butcher’s Stain — Meyer Levinson-Blount and Oron Caspi
• A Friend of Dorothy — Lee Knight and James Dean
• Jane Austen’s Period Drama — Julia Aks and Steve Pinder
• The Singers — Sam A. Davis and Jack Piatt
• Two People Exchanging Saliva — Alexandre Singh and Natalie Musteata

Best Documentary Short Film

• All the Empty Rooms — Joshua Seftel and Conall Jones
• Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud — Craig Renaud and Juan Arredondo
• Children No More: “Were and Are Gone” — Hilla Medalia and Sheila Nevins
• The Devil Is Busy — Christalyn Hampton and Geeta Gandbhir
• Perfectly a Strangeness — Alison McAlpine

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Most Nominated Films: Oscar Nominations 2026

Warner Bros. dominated the 2026 Oscar nominations. Ryan Coogler’s Sinners shattered records with 16 nominations, the most for any film in Oscar history.

Film	Total Nominations	Studio
Sinners	16	Warner Bros.
One Battle After Another	13	Warner Bros.
Sentimental Value	9	Neon
Frankenstein	8	Netflix
Hamnet	8	Focus Features
Marty Supreme	7	A24

Sinners swept technical categories with nods for Cinematography, Sound, Production Design, Makeup, Original Score, Visual Effects, Film Editing, Costume Design and Casting. The film also earned major recognition for Best Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actor and Original Screenplay. One Battle After Another spread its 13 nominations across Picture, Director, Actor, two Supporting Actor slots, Adapted Screenplay, Casting and multiple craft categories.

Hamnet and Frankenstein each earned 8 nominations. Hamnet earned prestige nods for Picture, Director and Actress. Frankenstein dominated technical awards. Marty Supreme collected 7 nominations including Best Picture and Actor for Timothée Chalamet. Sentimental Value earned 9 nominations, the most for any Norwegian film in Oscar history.

Biggest Surprises and Snubs: Oscar Nominations 2026

The 2026 Oscar nominations delivered unexpected moments alongside shocking omissions.

Major Surprises:

• Kate Hudson earned her first Oscar nomination for Best Actress in Song Sung Blue
• Ethan Hawke broke through in Best Actor for Blue Moon despite limited precursor support
• The Lost Bus made the Visual Effects shortlist unexpectedly
• Sentimental Value landed two actresses in Best Supporting Actress
• F1 secured a Best Picture nomination alongside three technical nods
• Sentimental Value earned 9 total nods, the most for any Norwegian film ever

Notable Snubs:

• Wicked: For Good received zero nominations, a complete shutout despite massive box office success. The original Wicked earned 10 nominations and won two.
• Guillermo del Toro was not nominated for directing Frankenstein despite the film earning 8 nominations
• Paul Mescal missed Supporting Actor for Hamnet despite strong awards season momentum
• Blue Moon shut out of Picture, Director and Screenplay categories
• Avatar: Fire and Ash appeared in only two technical categories

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Who Announced the Oscar Nominations?

Danielle Brooks and Lewis Pullman presented the 2026 Oscar nominations from the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills on January 22, 2026.

Brooks earned an Oscar nomination for The Color Purple in 2024. Pullman starred in Top Gun: Maverick and earned an Emmy nomination for Lessons in Chemistry on Apple TV+. Both presenters brought different perspectives to the announcement. Brooks represents recent breakthrough success. Pullman shows Hollywood’s next generation rising up.

How to Watch the 98th Academy Awards Ceremony

The 98th Academy Awards ceremony takes place on Sunday, March 15, 2026. The show starts at 7:00 PM ET and 4:00 PM PT from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Conan O’Brien hosts the ceremony.

ABC broadcasts the show live across the United States. Hulu streams it for all subscribers at no extra cost. International viewers can watch in more than 200 territories worldwide. The ceremony runs three to four hours with all 24 categories presented during the live broadcast.

2026 Oscar Nominations FAQs

The 98th Academy Awards bring 24 categories of competition with Sinners setting an all-time record at 16 nominations. Warner Bros. dominates with both top films while Best Casting makes history as the newest award. Winners get revealed March 15, 2026 at the Dolby Theatre.