2026 Oscar Nominees Revealed – Sinners Breaks All-Time Nominations Record (Full List)

​By Jacob Barlow-Jones 

​Well, that was pretty crazy! After months of speculation and handwringing about which bubble contenders could knock out some of the on-the-wings selections of our Oscar nomination predictions, the full list of Oscar nominees for 2026 was unveiled this morning and it was a doozy! As usual, there were a lot of expected titles announced, as well as enough major snubs and surprises that I’m surprised I didn’t get whiplash just watching the announcement.  

​The biggest winner of the morning was Ryan Coogler’s Black history vampire musical Sinners, which racked up a total of 16 nominations to not just break the all-time nominations record of 14 (which was a three-way tie between All About Eve, Titanic, and La La Land), but bury it with an additional 2 nominations to its name. In fact, as a studio, Warner Bros. brought in no less than 30 nominations across its recognized projects, including 13 for One Battle After Another, its other major awards contender this year (and still, to me, the Best Picture frontrunner despite that Chase Infiniti snub). One can imagine Netflix may be looking more closely at potentially expanding their theatrical windows for WB films, even after having just announced they would be committing to a minimum 45-day theatrical run for those projects. (I’ll believe it when I see it.) 

​Among other surprises such as Elle Fanning, Delroy Lindo, and Kate Hudson all being nominated despite not having very strong pre-season runs – as well as F1 taking its Picture spot from Palme d’Or winner It Was Just an Accident – is that Wicked: For Good wasn’t just shut out of Best Supporting Actress for Ariana Grande (its best shot for a major nomination); it was shut out of nominations entirely. No Costume Design, No Production Design, No Makeup and Hairstyling, nothing. Given that the last Wicked film landed 10 nominations last year, and won 2 Oscars, that’s a steep fall from grace, and a sign that perhaps the industry feels even more adversarial towards the sequel than even the sea of volatility that is film twitter does. Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice was likewise shut out of nominations, failing to garner a spot in the International Feature category and crushing the hopes of those who dreamed of Neon running the table in that space (they still have 4 nominees; it’s okay). I had wondered whether the Decision to Leave snub of 2023 would worm its way into this year’s Park Chan-wook work as well; I was, sadly, correct to assume it would. 

Other well-liked nominees included Sentimental Value, which made a strong showing with its four main performers garnering nods (making it all the more bizarre that the film missed Best Casting), Frankenstein, which performed exceptionally well in the tech categories despite missing out on Best Director for Guillermo Del Toro, Marty Supreme, which tied those previous two films with a nomination total of 9, and Hamnet, which landed 8 nominations, losing out on categories like Best Film Editing and Best Supporting Actor for Paul Mescal. ​

​Overall, it’s a well-deserving lineup, and despite the fact that some of my nomination hopes inevitably got dashed (r.i.p. Sorry, Baby, your screenplay should have been recognized), the surprises that made up for them were ones I didn’t expect would bring me such joy. The 98th Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, March 15, at 7:00 p.m. EST, and will be broadcast for the last time on ABC. A full list of the nominated films is below. 

BEST PICTURE
The Nominees:

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

 
BEST DIRECTOR
The Nominees:

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

 
BEST ACTRESS
The Nominees:

• 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 ACTOR
The Nominees:

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

 
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
The Nominees:

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

 
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
The Nominees:

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

 
BEST CASTING
The Nominees:

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

 
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
The Nominees:

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

 
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
The Nominees:

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

 
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
The Nominees:

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

 
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
The Nominees:

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

 
BEST FILM EDITING
The Nominees:

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

 
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
The Nominees:

• Tamara Deverell, Frankenstein
• Fiona Crombie, Hamnet
• Jack Fisk, Marty Supreme
• Florencia Martin and Anthony Carlino, One Battle after Another
• Hannah Beachler, Sinners

 
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
The Nominees:

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

 
BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
The Nominees:

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

 
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
The Nominees:

• Jerskin Fendrix, Bugonia
• Alexandre Desplat, Frankenstein
• Max Richter, Hamnet
• Jonny Greenwood, One Battle after Another
• Ludwig Göransson, Sinners

 
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
The Nominees:

• “Dear Me,” Diane Warren: Relentless
• “Golden,” KPop Demon Hunters
• “I Lied To You,” Sinners
• “Sweet Dreams of Joy,” Viva Verdi!
• “Train Dreams,” Train Dreams

 
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
The Nominees:

• Jang Joon-hwan and Will Tracy, Bugonia
• Maggie O’Farrell and Chloé Zhao, Hamnet
• Guillermo Del Toro, Frankenstein
• Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
• Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar, Train Dreams

 
BEST ORIGNAL SCREENPLAY
The Nominees:

• Robert Kaplow, Blue Moon
• Jafar Pahani, It Was Just an Accident
• Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme
• Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt, Sentimental Value
• Ryan Coogler, Sinners

 
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
The Nominees:

• Avatar: Fire and Ash
• F1
• Jurassic World Rebirth
• The Lost Bus
• Sinners

 
BEST SOUND
The Nominees:

• F1
• Frankenstein
• One Battle after Another
• Sinners
• Sirât

 
BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT
The Nominees:

• Butcher’s Stain
• A Friend of Dorothy
• Jane Austen’s Period Drama
• The Singers
• Two People Exchanging Saliva

 
BEST ANIMATED SHORT
The Nominees:

• Butterfly
• Forevergreen
• The Girl Who Cried Pearls
• Retirement Plan
• The Three Sisters

 
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
The Nominees:

• All the Empty Rooms
• Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
• Children No More: “Were and Are Gone”
• The Devil Is Busy
• Perfectly a Strangeness

What do you think of these nominations? Were there any snubs or inclusions that shocked you? What do you think of Sinners now holding the nomination crown? Let us know in the comments section below, and thanks for reading!
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 - The Friendly Film Fan