The 2026 Oscar Nominations Are In

Is it already that time? The United States’ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has revealed the nominations for its 98th annual awards, usually known simply as the Oscars (named for the golden statuette winners receive). So who is up for the top prizes? And – fingers crossed – are any of them British? We’ve got the rundown.

The 2026 Oscar Nominations Are Here

Ryan Coogler’s Sinners is the most nominated film not just of 2026 but of all time. (WUNMI MOSAKU as Annie and MICHAEL B. JORDAN as Stack in Sinners © 2025 Warner Bros.)

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This year, 317 feature films were eligible for an Academy Award across 24 categories, whittled down to 35 actually nominated by the Academy’s 10,136 voting members. Likewise 202 films were eligible for Best Picture, reduced to just 10.

Sinners leads the pack this year with 16 nominations across performance and technical categories, smashing the previous record of 14 shared by All about Eve (1950), Titanic (1997) and La La Land (2016). The supernatural horror is trailed by One Battle After Another with 13 nominations, and Frankenstein, Marty Supreme and Sentimental Value with nine apiece.

In the acting categories, more than half are first-time nominees, including Jacob Elordi, Elle Fanning, Stellan Skarsgård and Michael B Jordan. Four (Benicio Del Toro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn and Emma Stone) are previous Oscar winners, while a further four (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Wagner Moura, Renate Reinsve and Stellan Skarsgård) are nominated for non-English language performances, breaking the record of three set in 1976.

Timothée Chalamet is the only acting nominee who was also nominated last year (for A Complete Unknown). Along with his 2018 nomination for Call Me by Your Name, Chalamet is officially the youngest star to be nominated thrice in the Best Actor category.

A whopping 86 countries submitted a title for the International Feature Film category, with just five ultimately nominated; the UK’s entry, My Father’s Shadow, sadly did not make the cut.

Norwegian director Joachim Trier bags his first Best Director nom and his second Best Original Screenplay nod for Sentimental Value. (Stellan Skarsgård & Renate Reinsve in Sentimental Value © Mubi)

The Nominees In Full

Best Picture

• Bugonia (Focus Features)
• F1 (Apple)
• Frankenstein (Netflix)
• Hamnet (Focus Features)
• Marty Supreme (A24)
• One Battle after Another (Warner Bros.)
• The Secret Agent (Neon)
• Sentimental Value (Neon)
• Sinners (Warner Bros.)
• Train Dreams (Netflix)

Best Actor

• Timothée Chalamet in Marty Supreme (A24)
• Leonardo DiCaprio in One Battle after Another (Warner Bros.)
• Ethan Hawke in Blue Moon (Sony Pictures Classics)
• Michael B. Jordan in Sinners (Warner Bros.)
• Wagner Moura in The Secret Agent (Neon)

Best Actress

• Jessie Buckley in Hamnet (Focus Features)
• Rose Byrne in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (A24)
• Kate Hudson in Song Sung Blue (Focus Features)
• Renate Reinsve in Sentimental Value (Neon)
• Emma Stone in Bugonia (Focus Features)

Timothee Chalamet is officially the youngest star to be nominated for Best Actor thrice. But will he win this year? (Chalamet in Marty Supreme)

Best Director

• Chloé Zhao, Hamnet (Focus Features)
• Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme (A24)
• Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle after Another (Warner Bros.)
• Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value (Neon)
• Ryan Coogler, Sinners (Warner Bros.)

Best Supporting Actor

• Benicio Del Toro in One Battle after Another (Warner Bros.)
• Jacob Elordi in Frankenstein (Netflix)
• Delroy Lindo in Sinners (Warner Bros.)
• Sean Penn in One Battle after Another (Warner Bros.)
• Stellan Skarsgård in Sentimental Value (Neon)

Best Supporting Actress

• Elle Fanning in Sentimental Value (Neon)
• Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas in Sentimental Value (Neon)
• Amy Madigan in Weapons (Warner Bros.)
• Wunmi Mosaku in Sinners (Warner Bros.)
• Teyana Taylor in One Battle after Another (Warner Bros.)

Jessie Buckley bags her first Best Actress nomination for her role as Agnes in Hamnet. (© Agata Grzybowska/2025 FOCUS FEATURES LLC)

Best International Feature Film

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

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Bugonia (Focus Features)
• Frankenstein (Netflix)
• Hamnet (Focus Features)
• One Battle after Another (Warner Bros.)
• Train Dreams (Netflix)

Best Original Screenplay

• Blue Moon (Sony Pictures Classics)
• It Was Just an Accident (Neon)
• Marty Supreme (A24)
• Sentimental Value (Neon)
• Sinners (Warner Bros.)

Jacob Elordi secures his very first Oscar nomination for his role as The Creature in Frankenstein. (Ken Woroner/Netflix © 2025)

Best Cinematography

• Dan Laustsen for Frankenstein (Netflix)
• Darius Khondji for Marty Supreme (A24)
• Michael Bauman for One Battle after Another (Warner Bros.)
• Autumn Durald Arkapaw for Sinners (Warner Bros.)
• Adolpho Veloso for Train Dreams (Netflix)

Best Casting

• Nina Gold for Hamnet (Focus Features)
• Jennifer Venditti for Marty Supreme (A24)
• Cassandra Kulukundis for One Battle after Another (Warner Bros.)
• Gabriel Domingues for The Secret Agent (Neon)
• Francine Maisler for Sinners (Warner Bros.)

Best Documentary

• The Alabama Solution (HBO Documentary Films)
• Come See Me in the Good Light (Apple)
• Cutting through Rocks
• Mr. Nobody against Putin (PINK)
• The Perfect Neighbour (Netflix)

Yorgos Lanthimos’ quirky Bugonia has bagged four nominations, including Best Picture. (Jesse Plemons as Teddy Gatz in BUGONIA. © Focus Features)

Best Documentary Short Film

• All the Empty Rooms (Netflix)
• Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud (HBO)
• Children No More: “Were and Are Gone” (Sky)
• The Devil is Busy (HBO)
• Perfectly a Strangeness (Second Sight Pictures)

Best Animated Feature

• Arco (Neon)
• Elio (Walt Disney)
• KPop Demon Hunters (Netflix)
• Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (GKIDS)
• Zootopia 2 (Walt Disney)

Best Animated Short Film

• Butterfly (Sacrebleu Productions)
• Forevergreen
• The Girl Who Cried Pearls (National Film Board of Canada
• Retirement Plan
• The Three Sisters (Polydont Films/Rymanco Ventures)

Apple TV’s F1 movie has four nominations, including Best Picture. (Brad Pitt as Sonny Hayes and Javier Bardem as Ruben Cervantes in F1 © Apple TV)

Best Live Action Short Film

• Butcher’s Stain (Tel Aviv University Steve Tisch School of Film and Television)
• A Friend of Dorothy
• Jane Austen’s Period Drama
• The Singers (Netflix)
• Two People Exchanging Saliva (Canal+/The New Yorker)

Best Costume Design

• Deborah L. Scott for Avatar: Fire and Ash (Walt Disney)
• Kate Hawley for Frankenstein (Netflix)
• Malgosia Turzanska for Hamnet (Focus Features)
• Miyako Bellizzi for Marty Supreme (A24)
• Ruth E. Carter for Sinners (Warner Bros.)

Best Makeup & Hairstyling

• Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel & Cliona Furey for Frankenstein  (Netflix)
• Kyoko Toyokawa, Naomi Hibino & Tadashi Nishimatsu for Kokuho (GKIDS)
• Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine & Shunika Terry for Sinners (Warner Bros.)
• Kazu Hiro, Glen Griffin & Bjoern Rehbein for The Smashing Machine (A24)
• Thomas Foldberg & Anne Cathrine Sauerberg for The Ugly Stepsister (Independent Film Company/Shudder)

Will Leonardo DiCaprio make it two Best Actor wins with his performance in One Battle After Another? (© Warner Bros. Pictures)

Best Editing

• Stephen Mirrione for F1 (Apple)
• Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie for Marty Supreme (A24)
• Andy Jurgensen for One Battle after Another (Warner Bros.)
• Olivier Bugge Coutté for Sentimental Value (Neon)
• Michael P. Shawver for Sinners (Warner Bros.)

Best Original Song

• ‘Dear Me’ from Diane Warren: Relentless (MasterClass/ Greenwich Entertainment)
• ‘Golden’ from KPop Demon Hunters (Netflix)
• ‘I Lied to You’ from Sinners
• ‘Sweet Dreams of Joy’ from Viva Verdi!
• ‘Train Dreams’ from Train Dreams

Best Original Score

• Jerskin Fendrix for Bugonia (Focus Features)
• Alexandre Desplat for Frankenstein (Netflix)
• Max Richter for Hamnet (Focus Features)
• Jonny Greenwood for One Battle after Another (Warner Bros.)
• Ludwig Goransson for Sinners (Warner Bros.)

Netflix’s Train Dreams has bagged four nominations, the most of any of its original films this year. (Joel Edgerton as Robert Grainier in Train Dreams © 2025)

Best Production Design

• Tamara Deverell & Shane Vieau for Frankenstein (Netflix)
• Fiona Crombie & Alice Felton for Hamnet
• Jack Fisk & Adam Willis for Marty Supreme (A24)
• Florencia Martin & Anthony Carlino for One Battle after Another (Warner Bros.)
• Hannah Beachler & Monique Champagne for Sinners (Warner Bros.)

Best Sound

• F1 (Apple)
• Frankenstein (Netflix)
• One Battle after Another (Warner Bros.)
• Sinners (Warner Bros.)
• Sirāt (Neon)

Best Visual Effects

• Avatar: Fire and Ash (Walt Disney)
• F1 (Apple)
• Jurassic World Rebirth (Universal)
• The Lost Bus (Apple)
• Sinners (Warner Bros.)

Nigerian-British star Wunmi Mosaku, who rose to fame in ITV’s Vera, is nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Sinners. (© Warner Bros)

Are Any Brits Nominated?

Brits have always played a sizeable role in the film industry, on and off camera, and in recent years film production here has really spiked. So of course when the Oscar nominations roll in, our minds immediately flit to celebrating homegrown talent. Here’s the rundown.

• In the acting categories, Brits Delroy Lindo and Wunmi Mosaku are both nominated for their supporting roles in Sinners.
• Honourable mention to Irishwoman Jessie Buckley who is up for Best Actress for her performance in Hamnet.
• Speaking of Hamnet, the British-made film is also up for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.
• In a new-for-2026 category, British casting director Nina Gold is nominated for Best Casting for Hamnet; she has previously worked on Game of Thrones, The Crown and The Day of the Jackal. Behind the scenes, set decorator Alice Felton is up for Best Production Design.
• Lee Knight’s short comedy-drama A Friend of Dorothy – starring Miriam Margolyes and Stephen Fry – is up for Best Live Action Short Film.
• British composer Jerskin Fendrix is nominated for Best Original Score for his work on Bugonia, going head-to-head with German-British composer Max Richter for his work on Hamnet and Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood for his work on One Battle After Another. Brit Daniel Blumberg took this prize home last year for his score of The Brutalist.

When Are The 2026 Oscars?

The 98th Academy Awards will take place on Sunday 15 March 2026 at Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatre. In the UK, we will be able to watch live on ITV1 and catch up on ITVX.

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