The 2026 Oscar nominations are in, and Sinners has made Academy Awards history.
Ryan Coogler’s supernatural drama leads the field with a record 16 nominations. That breaks the previous high of 14 shared by All About Eve, Titanic and La La Land.
Sinners earned nominations for Best Picture and directing, along with acting recognition for Michael B. Jordan, Delroy Lindo and Wunmi Mosaku.
One Battle after Another follows with 13 nominations. Its haul includes Best Picture, directing and acting nominations for Leonardo DiCaprio, Benicio Del Toro, Sean Penn and Teyana Taylor.
The Best Picture race also includes Bugonia, F1, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, The Secret Agent, Sentimental Value and Train Dreams.
This year’s field stretches from vampires and revolutionaries to race cars, table tennis, family wounds and a creature assembled from the remains of the dead. Hollywood may not agree on much, but it remains firmly committed to making awards season difficult to explain without sounding slightly unhinged.
The 98th Academy Awards also introduce an Oscar for casting. It is the first new competitive category since animated feature film. The inaugural nominees are Hamnet, Marty Supreme, One Battle after Another, The Secret Agent and Sinners.
Here is a look at the nominees in several of the ceremony’s biggest categories.
Best Picture
Bugonia
Producers Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone and Lars Knudsen
F1
Producers Chad Oman, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Joseph Kosinski and Jerry Bruckheimer
Frankenstein
Producers Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale and Scott Stuber
Hamnet
Producers Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris, Nicolas Gonda, Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes
Marty Supreme
Producers Eli Bush, Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie, Anthony Katagas and Timothée Chalamet
One Battle after Another
Producers Adam Somner, Sara Murphy and Paul Thomas Anderson
The Secret Agent
Producer Emilie Lesclaux
Sentimental Value
Producers Maria Ekerhovd and Andrea Berentsen Ottmar
Sinners
Producers Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian and Ryan Coogler
Train Dreams
Producers Marissa McMahon, Teddy Schwarzman, Will Janowitz, Ashley Schlaifer and Michael Heimler
Actor in a Leading Role
The leading actor nominees include Timothée Chalamet as a table tennis player with ambitions as oversized as his personality. Leonardo DiCaprio plays a former revolutionary pulled back into the fight, while Michael B. Jordan takes on dual roles in Sinners.
Ethan Hawke and Wagner Moura complete a category filled with musicians, fugitives, hustlers and men whose plans are unlikely to survive contact with reality.
Timothée Chalamet
Marty Supreme
Leonardo DiCaprio
One Battle after Another
Ethan Hawke
Blue Moon
Michael B. Jordan
Sinners
Wagner Moura
The Secret Agent
Actress in a Leading Role
The leading actress nominees are Jessie Buckley, Rose Byrne, Kate Hudson, Renate Reinsve and Emma Stone. Their performances span grief, motherhood, music, fractured families and one extraterrestrial conspiracy that probably will not improve anyone’s trust in strangers.
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
Actor in a Supporting Role
One Battle after Another claimed two places in the supporting actor category. Benicio Del Toro and Sean Penn both earned nominations, joining Jacob Elordi, Delroy Lindo and Stellan Skarsgård.
Benicio Del Toro
One Battle after Another
Jacob Elordi
Frankenstein
Delroy Lindo
Sinners
Sean Penn
One Battle after Another
Stellan Skarsgård
Sentimental Value
Actress in a Supporting Role
Sentimental Value earned two supporting actress nominations for Elle Fanning and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas. Wunmi Mosaku and Teyana Taylor represent two of the year’s most-nominated films. Amy Madigan rounds out the category for Weapons.
Elle Fanning
Sentimental Value
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas
Sentimental Value
Amy Madigan
Weapons
Wunmi Mosaku
Sinners
Teyana Taylor
One Battle after Another
Animated Feature Film
The animated feature nominees include time travel, extraterrestrial adventure, childhood imagination, big-city animals and a musical battle against supernatural forces.
Animation is once again doing its part to make the strangest category descriptions sound perfectly ordinary.
Arco
Ugo Bienvenu, Félix de Givry, Sophie Mas and Natalie Portman
Elio
Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi, Adrian Molina and Mary Alice Drumm
KPop Demon Hunters
Maggie Kang, Chris Appelhans and Michelle L.M. Wong
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
Maïlys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han, Nidia Santiago and Henri Magalon
Zootopia 2
Jared Bush, Byron Howard and Yvett Merino
The 98th Academy Awards will be held March 15 at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood. ABC and Hulu will carry the ceremony live, with Conan O’Brien returning as host.