Oscars 2026 nominations: Sinners and One Battle After Another lead the race, while Homebound exits the competition!

As expected, the 2026 Oscar nominations were dominated by Sinners with 16 nominations, while One Battle After Another followed closely with 13 nods. Here’s the full list of the 2026 Academy awards nominations!

The road to the 2026 Academy Awards is officially underway and it’s shaping up to be yet another competitive Oscar races in recent years. Leading the charge is Ryan Coogler's groundbreaking Sinners, which has emerged as the clear frontrunner with an all time record-breaking 16 nominations, including Best Actor for Michael B. Jordan and Best Director for Coogler as well as Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay and more. No film has ever received this many in history! Close behind is the much expected Paul Thomas Anderson'sOne Battle After Another with 13 nominations, again including Best Actor for Leonardo DiCapirio and Best Director for Anderson while Hamnet,Frankenstein, Marty Supreme, and Sentimental Value have each secured nine to six nods, firmly placing them in this year’s awards conversation. With highly anticipated nods for Best Actor for Timothée Chalamet, Best Actress for Jessie Buckley, Best Director for Chloé Zhao, and Best Supporting Actor for Jacob Elordi and Stellan Skarsgård, most of the major categories played out largely as expected, with familiar names carrying forward momentum from the so far awards season. However, on the Indian front, the news is disappointing as Neeraj Ghaywan’s Homebound, considered a strong frontrunner for Best International Feature, is unfortunately out of the race, with The Secret Agent now emerging as the category leader. 

The nominations were unveiled by Danielle Brooks and Lewis Pullman in a live announcement from the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater, covering 24 categories, including a major first. For the first time since Best Animated Feature was introduced in 2002, the Academy has added a new category this time for Best Casting, spotlighting a crucial yet often under-acknowledged aspect of filmmaking. Films like Hamnet, Marty Supreme, One Battle After Another, The Secret Agent, and Sinners earned nominations in this newly minted category.

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Check out the entire list of nominees below!

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 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 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 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 Adapted Screenplay

Bugonia, screenplay by Will Tracy

Frankenstein, written for the screen by Guillermo del Toro

Hamnet, screenplay by Chloé Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell

One Battle After Another, screenplay by Paul Thomas Anderson

Train Dreams, screenplay by Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar

Best Original Screenplay

Blue Moon, written by Robert Kaplow

It Was Just an Accident, written by Jafar Panahi; script collaborators: Nader Saïvar, Shadmehr Rastin,

Mehdi Mahmoudian

Marty Supreme, written by Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie

Sentimental Value, written by Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier

Sinners, written by Ryan Coogler

Best International Feature

The Secret Agent, Brazil

It Was Just an Accident, France

Sentimental Value, Norway

Sirāt, Spain

The Voice of Hind Rajab, Tunisia

Best Documentary Feature

The Alabama Solution

Come See Me in the Good Light

Cutting Through Rocks

Mr. Nobody Against Putin

The Perfect Neighbor

Best Animated Feature

Arco

Elio

KPop Demon Hunters

Little Amélie or the Character of Rain

Zootopia 2

Best Cinematography

Dan Laustein, Frankenstein

Darius Khondji, Marty Supreme 

Michael Bauman, One Battle After Another 

Autumn Durald Arkapaw, Sinners 

Adolpho Veloso, Train Dreams 

Best 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 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

Best Costume Design

Avatar: Fire and Ash, Deborah L. Scott

Frankenstein, Kate Hawley

Hamnet, Malgosia Turzanska

Marty Supreme, Miyako Bellizzi

Sinners, Ruth E. Carter

Best Casting

Hamnet, Nina Gold

Marty Supreme, Jennifer Venditti

One Battle After Another, Cassandra Kulukundis

The Secret Agent, Gabriel Domingues

Sinners, Francine Maisler

Best Original Score

Bugonia, Jerskin Fendrix

Frankenstein, Alexandre Desplat

Hamnet, Max Richter

One Battle After Another, Jonny Greenwood

Sinners, Ludwig Goransson

Best Hair and Makeup

Frankenstein

Kokuho

Sinners

The Smashing Machine

The Ugly Stepsister

Best Production Design

Frankenstein

Hamnet

Marty Supreme

One Battle After Another

Sinners

Best Visual Effects

Avatar: Fire and Ash

F1

Jurassic World Rebirth

The Lost Bus

Sinners

Best Sound

F1

Frankenstein

One Battle After Another

Sinners

Sirāt

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

Forever Green

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

This year also marks a notable shift in how Oscar voting is monitored. The Academy has tightened voting rules, requiring members to confirm that they’ve watched all nominated films in a category - tracked via the Academy Screening Room app or verified through official screenings and festivals. As anticipation builds, all eyes now turn to March 15, when Conan O’Brien returns to host the 2026 Oscars, airing live on ABC and Hulu from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. 

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