The 2026 Academy Awards ceremony will take place overnight from Sunday, March 15th to Monday, March 16th. While we await the full list of winners, here are the nominations to get you started!
The 98th Academy Awards, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, is set to take place in the early hours of Sunday, March 15 to Monday, March 16, 2026, in Los Angeles. The Oscar 2026 nominations, announced on January 22, 2026, highlight the best in global cinema for 2025, spanning blockbuster Hollywood hits and critically acclaimed indie films.
Among the most frequently mentioned titles are Sinners, One Battle After Another, Hamnet, Bugonia, and Sentimental Value. On the acting front, actors and actresses like Timothée Chalamet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Emma Stone, Jessie Buckley, and Michael B. Jordan are competing for top honors in the major categories.
Films, directors, actors and actresses, animation, international cinema, music, and technical categories: explore below the full list of 2026 Oscar nominations, breakdown by category, as we look forward to the reveal of these prestigious awards.
The Oscar Nominations for 2026:
Best Picture
Best actor
- Timothée Chalamet – Prime Minister Marty
- Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle Too Many
- Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon Rising
- 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 Skarsgård – Sentimental Value
Best Supporting Actress
- Elle Fanning – Sentimental Value
- Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value
- Amy Madigan – Evanouis (Weapons)
- Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners
- Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another
Best animated film
Best International Film
Best Original Music
- 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 Director
- Chloé Zhao – Hamnet
- Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme
- Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another
- Joachim Trier – Sentimental Value
- Ryan Coogler – Sinners
Best Casting
- Hamnet – Nina Gold
- Marty Supreme – Jennifer Venditti
- Une bataille après l’autre (One Battle After Another) – Cassandra Kulukundis
- L’Agent secret (The Secret Agent) – Gabriel Domingues
- Sinners – Francine Maisler
Best photography
- Frankenstein – Dan Laustsen
- Marty Supreme – Darius Khondji
- One Battle After Another – Michael Bauman
- Sinners – Autumn Durald Arkapaw
- Train Dreams – Adolpho Veloso
Best editing
- F1 The Movie – Stephen Mirrione
- Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie
- One Battle After Another – Andy Jurgensen
- Sentimental Value – Olivier Bugge Coutté
- Sinners – Michael P. Shawver
Best costume design
- Avatar: Fire and Ashes – Deborah L. Scott
- Frankenstein – Kate Hawley
- Hamnet – Malgosia Turzanska
- Marty Supreme – Miyako Bellizzi
- Sinners – Ruth E. Carter
Best make-up and hairstyles
- Frankenstein – Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel, and Cliona Furey
- The Master of Kabuki (Kokuho) – Kyoko Toyokawa, Naomi Hibino, and Tadashi Nishimatsu
- Sinners – Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine, and Shunika Terry
- – Kazu Hiro, Glen Griffin, and Bjoern Rehbein
- The Ugly Stepsister – Thomas Foldberg and Anne Cathrine Sauerberg
Best Set Designs
- Frankenstein – SetDesign: Tamara Deverell; Build: Shane Vieau
- Hamnet – SetDesign: Fiona Crombie; Build: Alice Felton
- Marty Supreme – SetDesign: Jack Fisk; Build: Adam Willis
- One Battle After Another – Creative Team: Florencia Martin and Anthony Carlino
- Sinners – Set Design: Hannah Beachler; Build: Monique Champagne
Best Sound
- F1: The Movie
- Frankenstein
- One Battle After Another
- Sinners
- Sirāt
Best Visual Effects
Best documentary film
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
Best short film (live action)
- Butcher’s Stain
- A Friend of Dorothy
- Jane Austen’s Period Drama
- The Singers
- Two People Sharing a Kiss
Best Animated Short Film
- Butterfly
- Forevergreen
- The Girl Who Cried Pearls
- Retirement Plan
- The Three Sisters
Best original screenplay
- Blue Moon – Robert Kaplow
- Un simple accident (It Was Just an Accident) – Jafar Panahi
- Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie
- Valeur sentimentale (Sentimental Value) – Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier
- Sinners – Ryan Coogler
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Bugonia – Will Tracy
- Frankenstein – Guillermo del Toro
- Hamnet – Chloé Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell
- Une bataille après l’autre (One Battle After Another) – Paul Thomas Anderson
- Train Dreams – Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar
The 2026 Oscars ceremony is scheduled to take place overnight from Sunday, March 15, to Monday, March 16, 2026 (French time), beginning around 1 a.m. on various TV channels and streaming platforms.