Oscar nominations 2026: see the full list of nominees

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• Acting honors: lead and supporting contenders
  • Best Actor — lead roles competing for the statuette
  • Best Actress — leading performances in the spotlight
  • Best Supporting Actor — scene-stealing turns
  • Best Supporting Actress — notable supporting work
• Best Picture, directing, and casting — the films vying for top prizes
  • Best Picture — the full slate
  • Directors nominated for their vision
  • Best Casting — ensembles that impressed
• Writing, music, and original scores
  • Best Writing — adapted screenplays up for awards
  • Best Writing — original screenplays to watch
  • Music nominees — scores and songs
• Animation and short films — the contenders in short form
  • Best Animated Feature — family and adult animation
  • Animated short films
  • Live action shorts
• Documentaries and international cinema
  • Documentary feature nominees
  • Documentary short films
  • Best International Feature Film
• Technical categories: design, cinematography, and effects
  • Production design and cinematography
  • Costume, makeup, sound, and visual effects
• Editing and other craft categories
• Where and when to watch the ceremony

The Academy has unveiled its picks for the 98th Oscars, and the list is packed with favorites and surprises. Announced live from the Samuel Goldwyn Theater by Danielle Brooks and Lewis Pullman, the nominations single out films that dominated 2025 conversation. Sinners leads the pack with a record 16 nods, followed by One Battle After Another with 13. Several other films earned multiple mentions, while a few expected names were notably absent.

Acting honors: lead and supporting contenders

Best Actor — lead roles competing for the statuette

• 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 — leading performances in the spotlight

• 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 — scene-stealing turns

• 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 — notable supporting work

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

Best Picture, directing, and casting — the films vying for top prizes

Best Picture — the full slate

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

Directors nominated for their vision

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

Best Casting — ensembles that impressed

• Hamnet
• Marty Supreme
• One Battle After Another
• The Secret Agent
• Sinners

Writing, music, and original scores

Best Writing — adapted screenplays up for awards

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

Best Writing — original screenplays to watch

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

Music nominees — scores and songs

• Best Original Score:

  • Bugonia
  • Frankenstein
  • Hamnet
  • One Battle After Another
  • Sinners

• Best 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

Animation and short films — the contenders in short form

Best Animated Feature — family and adult animation

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

Animated short films

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

Live action shorts

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

Documentaries and international cinema

Documentary feature nominees

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

Documentary short films

• “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”

Best International Feature Film

• The Secret Agent
• It Was Just an Accident
• Sentimental Value
• Sirāt
• The Voice of Hind Rajab

Technical categories: design, cinematography, and effects

Production design and cinematography

• Best Production Design:

  • Frankenstein
  • Hamnet
  • Marty Supreme
  • One Battle After Another
  • Sinners

• Best Cinematography:

  • Frankenstein
  • Marty Supreme
  • One Battle After Another
  • Sinners
  • Train Dreams

Costume, makeup, sound, and visual effects

• Best Costume Design:

  • Avatar: Fire and Ash
  • Frankenstein
  • Hamnet
  • Marty Supreme
  • Sinners

• Best Makeup & Hairstyling:

  • Frankenstein
  • Kokuho
  • Sinners
  • The Smashing Machine
  • The Ugly Stepsister

• Best Sound:

  • F1
  • Frankenstein
  • One Battle After Another
  • Sinners
  • Sirāt

• Best Visual Effects:

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

Editing and other craft categories

• Best Film Editing:

  • F1
  • Marty Supreme
  • One Battle After Another
  • Sentimental Value
  • Sinners

• Best Casting — see the Casting section above for nominees.

Where and when to watch the ceremony

The 98th Academy Awards will air live on March 15 on ABC and Hulu.