The 2026 Academy Award nominations are here — and the horror-action film “Sinners” leads the pack with a record-breaking 16 nominations, including best picture, best director for Ryan Coogler and best actor for Michael B. Jordan.
The previous record for most Oscar nominations, with 14, was a three-way tie between “All About Eve,” “Titanic” and “La La Land.”
On the heels of “Sinners” with 13 nominations is the action-drama film “One Battle After Another,” capturing nods for best picture and best director for Paul Thomas Anderson as well as four acting nominations for Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor, Benicio del Toro and Sean Penn.
Also breaking nomination records is Emma Stone, with two 2026 nominations — best picture for producing and best actress for her performance in “Bugonia” — which makes her the youngest woman and second-youngest person in Oscar history to rack up seven nominations.
After “Wicked” earned 10 noms at the 2025 Oscars, the sequel “Wicked: For Good” did not receive a single nomination Wednesday morning — shut out even in the original song category.
When are the 2026 Academy Awards?
The 98th annual Academy Awards will air live on March 15 at 5 p.m. MDT on ABC and streaming on Hulu. The award show will be hosted by comedian Conan O’Brien for the second consecutive year.
O’Brien said audiences can expect “a lot of magic” at the upcoming Oscar show.
“There’ll be some explosions, CGI will be used. I see this second Oscars as an opportunity to take things up a notch,” he told ABC.
He added, “Early on, you just generate possibilities for the show: ‘What might we do?’ You have to wait and see which movies are nominated, what’s in the zeitgeist, so there’ll be a lot of ideas that come in late. Sometimes those are the best ideas.”
2026 Academy Award nominations
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 Skarsgard, “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”
Original screenplay
- “Blue Moon”
- “It Was Just an Accident”
- “Marty Supreme”
- “Sentimental Value”
- “Sinners”
Adapted screenplay
- “Bugonia”
- “Frankenstein”
- “Hamnet”
- “One Battle After Another”
- “Train Dreams”
Animated feature
- “Arco”
- “Elio”
- “KPop Demon Hunters”
- “Little Amélie or the Character of Rain”
- “Zootopia 2”
Production design
- “Frankenstein”
- “Hamnet”
- “Marty Supreme”
- “One Battle After Another”
- “Sinners”
Costume design
- “Avatar: Fire and Ash”
- “Frankenstein”
- “Hamnet”
- “Marty Supreme”
- “Sinners”
Cinematography
- “Frankenstein”
- “Marty Supreme”
- “One Battle After Another”
- “Sinners”
- “Train Dreams”
Editing
- “F1”
- “Marty Supreme”
- “One Battle After Another”
- “Sentimental Value”
- “Sinners”
Makeup and hairstyling
- “Frankenstein”
- “Kokuho”
- “Sinners”
- “The Smashing Machine”
- “The Ugly Stepsister”
Sound
- “F1”
- “Frankenstein”
- “One Battle After Another”
- “Sinners”
- “Sirat”
Visual effects
- “Avatar: Fire and Ash”
- “F1”
- “Jurassic World Rebirth”
- “The Lost Bus”
- “Sinners”
Original score
- “Bugonia”
- “Frankenstein”
- “Hamnet”
- “One Battle After Another”
- “Sinners”
Original song
- “Dear Me” (“Diane Warren: Relentless”)
- “Golden” (“KPop Demon Hunters”)
- “I Lied to You” (“Sinners”)
- “Sweet Dreams of Joy” (“Viva Verdi!”)
- “Train Dreams” (“Train Dreams”)
Documentary feature
- “The Alabama Solution”
- “Come See Me in the Good Light”
- “Cutting Through Rocks”
- “Mr. Nobody Against Putin”
- “The Perfect Neighbor”
International feature
- “The Secret Agent,” Brazil
- “It Was Just an Accident,” France
- “Sentimental Value,” Norway
- “Sirat,” Spain
- “The Voice of Hind Rajab,” Tunisia
Animated short
- “Butterfly”
- “Forevergreen”
- “The Girl Who Cried Pearls”
- “Retirement Plan”
- “The Three Sisters”
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”
Live-action short
- “Butcher’s Stain”
- “A Friend of Dorothy”
- “Jane Austen’s Period Drama”
- “The Singers”
- “Two People Exchanging Saliva”
Casting
- “Hamnet”
- “Marty Supreme”
- “One Battle After Another”
- “Sinners”
- “The Secret Agent”