‘Sinners’ and ‘One Battle After Another’ lead 2026 Oscar nominations

Sinners made Oscar history with a remarkable 16 nominations, while One Battle After Another came in right behind with 13 as the nominees for the 98th Academy Awards were announced today (January 22).

Ryan Coogler’s blues-inspired vampire flick and Paul Thomas Anderson’s family drama/political thriller will compete for Best Picture, while both filmmakers are up for Best Director. In Best Picture, Sinners and One Battle are up against Bugonia, F1, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, The Secret Agent, Sentimental Value and Train Dreams.

The 16 nominations earned by Sinners make it the most nominated film in Oscars history, surpassing the three films that had previously secured 14 nods (All About Eve, Titanic, and La La Land). Along with Best Picture and Director, Michael B. Jordan was nominated for Best Actor, while Delroy Lindo and Wunmi Mosaku received recognition for their supporting performances. The film also earned nominations for Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Song (for ‘I Lied to You’), Best Original Score, and a host of production and technical categories. 

As for One Battle After Another, its stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Benicio Del Toro, Sean Penn, and Teyana Taylor all scored acting nominations. Anderson also picked up a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination (the film is inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s novel Vineland), while Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood — a frequent Anderson collaborator — earned a nod for his original score.

Sinners leading all nominees by a record-breaking margin could shake up the Oscar race, which seemed destined to come down to One Battle After Another and Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet (the two films recently shared the Best Picture spoils at the Golden Globes). Hamnet earned eight nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress for Jessie Buckley and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Elsewhere, three films picked up nine nominations each: Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme, Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein, and Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value. Timothée Chalamet secured his second Best Actor nod in a row for his performance in Safdie’s edge-of-your-seat pingpong flick, with the star slated to compete against Jordan, DiCaprio, Ethan Hawke for Blue Moon, and Wagner Moura for The Secret Agent. 

Sentimental Value’s four main stars all received Oscar nods: Elle Fanning, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, and Stellan Skarsgård for their supporting performances, and Renate Reinsve for Best Actress. Reinsve will compete against Buckley, Rose Byrne for If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Kate Hudson for Song Sung Blue, and Emma Stone for Bugonia. 

Other notable nominees include Amy Madigan, who received a Best Supporting Actress nod for her turn in Weapons, 40 years after she was last nominated in the same category for Twice in a Lifetime. Jacob Elordi earned his first Oscar nomination for his performance in Frankenstein. And breakout hit Kpop Demon Hunters picked up two nominations, one for Best Animated Feature, and another for Best Original Song for ‘Golden’.

Speaking of Best Original Song: for the ninth year in a row, and 17th time ever, Diane Warren is nominated in that category. This time, she’s up for ‘Dear Me’, a song she wrote for a documentary about herself, Diane Warren: Relentless. While Warren has yet to win a competitive Oscar, she did receive an Honorary Award in 2022.

The 98th Oscars will also see the introduction of a new prize, Best Casting, which is the first new category to be added to the Academy Awards in over 20 years (the last being Best Animated Feature Film, established in 2001). The inaugural nominees for the prize are Hamnet, Marty Supreme, One Battle After Another, The Secret Agent and Sinners.

The 2026 Oscars will take place on March 15, airing live on ABC starting at 7 p.m. ET. Conan O’Brien will return as host after earning rave reviews for his work helming the show in 2025.

See below for the full list of nominees:

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

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 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, Weapons
Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners
Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another

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

Best Original Score
Bugonia
Frankenstein
Hamnet
One Battle After Another
Sinners

Best Original Song
‘Dear Me’ from Diane Warren: Relentless
‘Golden’ from KPop Demon Hunters
‘I Lied to You’ from Sinners
‘Sweet Dreams of Joy’ from Viva Verdi!
‘Train Dreams’ from Train Dreams

Best Original Screenplay
Blue Moon
It Was Just an Accident
Marty Supreme
Sentimental Value
Sinners

Best Adapted Screenplay
Bugonia
Frankenstein
Hamnet
One Battle After Another
Train Dreams

Best Documentary Feature
The Alabama Solution
Come See Me In the Good Light
Cutting Through Rocks
Mr. Nobody Against Putin
The Perfect Neighbor

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

Best International Feature
The Secret Agent
It Was Just an Accident
Sentimental Value
Sirât
The Voice of Hind Rajab

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Frankenstein
Kokuho
Sinners
The Smashing Machine
The Ugly Stepsister

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
Forevergreen
The Girl Who Cried Pearls
Retirement Plan
The Three Sisters

Best Casting
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
The Secret Agent
Sinners

Best Costume Design
Avatar: Fire and Ash
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Sinners

Best Production Design
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners

Best Film Editing
F1
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sentimental Value
Sinners

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

Best Cinematography
Frankenstein
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners

From Rolling Stone.