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2026 Oscar nominations announced: See the full list as Sinners dominates, Wicked: For Good completely shut out

Danielle Brooks and Lewis Pullman revealed the 98th Academy Awards nominations for the best films and performances of the year.
By Joey Nolfi
Updated on January 22, 2026 9:14 a.m. ET

Recent weeks have seen major Hollywood movies waging one battle after another leading up to the nominations for the 2026 Oscars, and the big announcement is finally here.

Revealed Thursday morning by Academy Award-nominated Color Purple star Danielle Brooks and Emmy nominee Lewis Pullman, the 2026 Oscar nominations fall amid a contentious awards season that has seen major contenders enter — and bow out of — the race at large in recent weeks.

From early box office hits (Sinners) sustaining through the year to underground critical darlings (If I Had Legs I'd Kick You star Rose Byrne) generating major heat at recent awards shows like the Golden Globes, nominees trickled into the race from all corners of the movie industry.

Now, the Academy has unveiled the best films and performances of the year among its latest round of Oscar nominations, with Ryan Coogler's aforementioned vampire blockbuster Sinners shattering the record for most nominations for a single film in history, with 16 total.

Paul Thomas Anderson's latest thriller One Battle After Another also dominated with multiple nominations, including for Best Picture, Best Director, and for most of its core cast (including Leonardo DiCaprio, Benicio Del Toro, Sean Penn, and Teyana Taylor).

Chloé Zhao's emotional historical drama Hamnet and Best Actor frontrunner Timothée Chalamet's lauded performance at the center of Marty Supreme also scored major nominations from the Academy, though fan-favorite sequel Wicked: For Good (including stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo) were entirely shut out of the nominations list.

In January, the Golden Globes helped amp up the race to the Oscars, with Chalamet, Byrne, Taylor, Stellan Skarsgård (Sentimental Value), Jessie Buckley (Hamnet), and Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent) all winning key acting awards ahead of Academy Award nominations.

As previously announced, the Academy bestowed special awards upon several Hollywood professionals.

Industry icon Dolly Parton accepted her Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award via video message at last year's Governors Awards, for her career dedication to philanthropic efforts with the Dollywood Foundation and Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, which has given around 285 million books to children.

Actor Tom Cruise, actress and choreographer Debbie Allen, and production designer Wynn Thomas also received Academy Honorary Awards for their careers in Hollywood as well.

The 2026 Oscars, hosted by returning comedian Conan O'Brien, air March 15 on ABC. See the full list of nominees for the 98th Academy Awards below.

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Best Picture

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

Best Director

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

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 International Feature

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

Best Animated Feature

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

Best Documentary Feature

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

Best Original Screenplay

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

Best Adapted Screenplay

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

Best Casting

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

Best Film Editing

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 Cinematography

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

Best Production Design

Tamara Deverell, Shan Vieau, Frankenstein
Fiona Crombie, Alice Felton, Hamnet
Jack Fisk, Adam Willis, Marty Supreme
Florencia Martin, Anthony Carlino, One Battle After Another
Hannah Beachler, Monique Champagne, Sinners

Best Costume Design

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

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

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, Anne Cathrine Sauerberg, The Ugly Stepsister

Best Original Song

"Dear Me," Diane Warren: Relentless (music and lyrics by Diane Warren)
"Golden," KPop Demon Hunters (music and lyrics by EJAE, Mark Sonnenblick, Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seon, Teddy Park)
"I Lied to You," Sinners (music and lyrics by Raphael Saadiq and Ludwig Goransson)
"Sweet Dreams of Joy," Viva Verdi! (music and lyrics by Nicholas Pike)
"Train Dreams," Train Dreams (music by Nick Cave and Bryce Dessner; lyrics by Nick Cave

Best Original Score

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

Best Sound

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

Best Visual Effects

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

Best Live-Action Short

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

Best Animated Short

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

Best Documentary Short

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

Academy Honorary Awards

Tom Cruise
Debbie Allen
Wynn Thomas

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Dolly Parton

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I shouldn't even comment on this as Weapons is the only film I've seen (I have One Battle After Another recorded but haven't watched it yet), but I'm thrilled Amy Madigan got an Oscar nod. It is very well deserved. May the best performance in the category win.

dryrunguy wrote: ↑Fri Jan 23, 2026 5:25 am I shouldn't even comment on this as Weapons is the only film I've seen (I have One Battle After Another recorded but haven't watched it yet), but I'm thrilled Amy Madigan got an Oscar nod. It is very well deserved. May the best performance in the category win.

I've seen Weapons and Sinners, and most of the rest I've never even heard of

This may be a first, but I've seen absolutely none of the films. One Battle After Another and The Secret Agent are on my list though.

I've only seen One Battle After Another. Wasn't ... quite ... what I was expecting. I still enjoyed it but perhaps a little less than I was expecting given the hype. I did like Leo's performance and knew Penn would be a shoo in to be nominated for best supporting actor. I love Del Toro but not sure he really did enough to be nominated though.

I felt One battle after another was one of the silliest movies I have ever seen, in the bad sense. But I knew it would be nominated even for Best Soup in the stunts' trailer.
But if we are getting to the stage in which Sinners is being nominated for best picture, well, the standards have really gone down.
And I liked it a lot. But no way that was Oscar material.

ponchi101 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 23, 2026 4:25 pm I felt One battle after another was one of the silliest movies I have ever seen, in the bad sense. But I knew it would be nominated even for Best Soup in the stunts' trailer.

Yes, that is about how I felt... silly but not... always the right kind of silly. (The Banshees of Inisherin would my most favorite completely silly movie lately.) I still enjoyed it, but not to the level I was expecting coming in. But Leo and Sean both at least seem worthy of their acting nods.