The Academy’s morning announcement in Los Angeles confirmed what awards-season chatter had hinted at and then some. Sinners swept into history with a record-breaking 16 nominations, the most for any film in Academy history, topping the previous high of 14 held by All About Eve, Titanic and La La Land; turning the presumed frontrunner into a statistical behemoth. The tally for Coogler’s film includes Best Picture, directing, multiple acting nods, and a stack of craft and technical categories — a full-court press that will likely reshape how campaigns and pundits measure its momentum.
Trailing right behind it is Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, with 13 nominations. That film’s showing is the season’s other big headline because it piled up acting noms (four performers landed acting nods) and heavyweight craft recognition — the kind of spread that historically converts into Best Picture strength even when another title has a higher raw tally. In short: Sinners leads on paper, but PTA’s picture still looks like the kind voters love to reward.
Among the snubs, the most visible omission: Wicked: For Good and its stars (Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo) were shut out entirely, a jarring reversal after the first Wicked landed big last year. Chase Infiniti, who generated late buzz for One Battle After Another, failed to secure a Best Actress nod; Paul Mescal was left off acting lists despite strong early awards traction. The most pointed omissions landed quietly but decisively.
No Other Choice missed both International Feature and Adapted Screenplay, extending Park Chan-wook’s familiar run of Academy indifference outside the tech branches. India’s submission Homebound was also left out of the International Feature race, which is an unsurprising result given how crowded and competitive the category was this year.
In music, Sirat and Marty Supreme were left out of Original Score, despite strong precursor buzz, suggesting a risk-averse music branch this year. Best Picture’s most telling exclusion was It Was Just an Accident, which had enough cross-category traction to look viable until nomination morning. Meanwhile, Sorry, Baby failed to land in Original Screenplay, even with Julia Roberts’ high-profile Golden Globes endorsement.
And all that’s before even getting into how many categories Avatar: Fire & Ash and F1 vacuumed up (a conversation best avoided here in the interest of cardiovascular health).
On the upside, Kokuho turning up in Hair and Makeup pointed to unexpected craft-branch enthusiasm. Sentimental Value scoring an Editing nomination was another eyebrow-raiser, given the category’s usual preference for flashier construction. And Sinners adding Visual Effects to its haul underlined just how completely the film penetrated every branch of the Academy.
The Academy reported 317 eligible feature films this year and 201 titles in contention for Best Picture, which is useful context for why the field looks both crowded and surgically selective. The new Achievement in Casting category, introduced this awards cycle, also changed nomination math as films with ensemble strength picked up an extra measurable slot, nudging some totals upward (expect pundits to subtract that when they parse “true” breadth of support).
Here is a full list of the Oscars 2026 nominees:
BEST PICTURE
One Battle After Another (Warner Bros)
Hamnet (Focus Features)
Sinners (Warner Bros)
Sentimental Value (NEON)
Marty Supreme (A24)
Frankenstein (Netflix)
Bugonia (Focus Features)
The Secret Agent (NEON)
Train Dreams (Netflix)
F1 (Apple TV)
BEST DIRECTOR
Paul Thomas Anderson — One Battle After Another
Joachim Trier — Sentimental Value
Ryan Coogler — Sinners
Chloé Zhao — Hamnet
Josh Safdie — Marty Supreme
BEST ACTRESS
Jessie Buckley — Hamnet
Renate Reinsve — Sentimental Value
Rose Byrne — If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Emma Stone — Bugonia
Kate Hudson — Song Sung Blue
BEST ACTOR
Timothée Chalamet — Marty Supreme
Leonardo DiCaprio — One Battle After Another
Michael B. Jordan — Sinners
Wagner Moura — The Secret Agent
Ethan Hawke — Blue Moon
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Teyana Taylor — One Battle After Another
Amy Madigan — Weapons
Wunmi Mosaku — Sinners
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas — Sentimental Value
Elle Fanning — Sentimental Value
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Stellan Skarsgård — Sentimental Value
Benicio Del Toro — One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi — Frankenstein
Delroy Lindo — Sinners
Sean Penn — One Battle After Another
BEST CASTING
Sinners — Francine Maisler
One Battle After Another — Cassandra Kulukundis
Hamnet — Nina Gold
Marty Supreme — Jennifer Venditti
The Secret Agent — Gabriel Domingues
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
One Battle After Another — Paul Thomas Anderson
Hamnet — Chloé Zhao & Maggie O’Farrell
Bugonia — Will Tracy
Train Dreams — Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar
Frankenstein — Guillermo del Toro
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Sinners — Ryan Coogler
Sentimental Value — Joachim Trier & Eskil Vogt
It Was Just an Accident — Jafar Panahi
Marty Supreme — Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie
Blue Moon — Robert Kaplow
BEST FILM EDITING
One Battle After Another — Andy Jurgensen
Sinners — Michael P. Shawver
F1 — Stephen Mirrione
Marty Supreme — Ronald Bronstein
Sentimental Value — Olivier Bugge Coutté
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Sinners — Autumn Durald Arkapaw
One Battle After Another — Michael Bauman
Frankenstein — Dan Laustsen
Marty Supreme — Darius Khondji
Train Dreams — Adolpho Veloso
BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Frankenstein — Tamara Deverell (sets: Shane Vieau)
One Battle after Another — Florencia Martin ( sets: Anthony Carlino)
Sinners — Hannah Beachler (sets: Monique Champagne)
Hamnet — Fiona Crombie (sets: Alice Felton)
Marty Supreme — Jack Fisk (sets: Adam Willis)
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Frankenstein — Kate Hawley
Avatar: Fire & Ash — Deborah L. Scott
Hamnet — Małgosia Turzańska
Sinners — Ruth E. Carter
Marty Supreme — Miyako Bellizzi
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Sinners — Ludwig Göransson
One Battle After Another — Jonny Greenwood
Hamnet — Max Richter
Frankenstein — Alexandre Desplat
Bugonia — Jerskin Fendrix
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“Golden” — KPop Demon Hunters
“I Lied to You” — Sinners
“Dear Me” — Diane Warren: Relentless
“Train Dreams” — Train Dreams
“Sweet Dreams Of Joy” — Viva Verdi!
BEST SOUND
F1 (Apple/Warner Bros)
Sinners (Warner Bros)
One Battle After Another (Warner Bros)
Frankenstein (Netflix)
Sirāt (NEON)
BEST MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING
Kokuho (Kyoko Toyokawa, Naomi Hibino and Tadashi Nishimatsu)
Frankenstein (Mike Hill, Cliona Furey, Jordan Samuel)
Sinners (Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine, Shunika Terry)
The Smashing Machine (Kazu Hiro, Glen Griffin, Bjoern Rehbein)
The Ugly Stepsister (Thomas Foldberg and Anne Cathrine Sauerberg)
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Avatar: Fire and Ash (20th Century Studios)
F1 (Apple TV)
Sinners (Warner Bros)
The Lost Bus (Apple TV)
Jurassic World Rebirth (Universal Pictures)
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
KPop Demon Hunters (Netflix)
Zootopia 2 (Walt Disney)
Arco (NEON)
Little Amélie or the Character of the Rain (GKIDS)
Elio (Walt Disney/Pixar)
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
The Alabama Solution — Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman
Come See Me in the Good Light — Ryan White, Jessica Hargrave, Tig Notaro and Stef Willen
Cutting through Rocks — Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni
Mr. Nobody Against Putin — TBA
The Perfect Neighbor — Geeta Gandbhir, Alisa Payne, Nikon Kwantu and Sam Bisbee
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE
Norway — Sentimental Value (NEON)
Brazil — The Secret Agent (NEON)
France — It Was Just an Accident (NEON)
Spain — Sirāt (NEON)
Tunisia — The Voice of Hind Rajab
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT
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 ANIMATED SHORT
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 DOCUMENTARY SHORT
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
The final voting for the Oscars will run from February 26 to March 5, and the 98th Academy Awards will be held on Sunday, March 15, 2026, bringing the season to its conclusion.
