The 2026 Oscar Nominations – they announce them with a full broadcast, a new category, and just enough tradition left to remind everyone who’s still in charge. This year’s nominations dropped with the kind of formal confidence the Academy loves, unveiled Thursday morning from the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Los Angeles, and the message was clear: the machine is running smoothly, but it knows it has to keep evolving.
Danielle Brooks, fresh off her own Oscar-nominated glow, stood alongside Lewis Pullman to read out the names, lending the whole thing a welcome sense of generational handoff. There was something quietly symbolic about that pairing — a reminder that while the Oscars remain obsessed with legacy, they’re at least trying to look forward while doing it. The addition of casting as a competitive category this year felt like another step in that direction, a long-overdue acknowledgment of the invisible architecture behind every performance we end up arguing about on group chats and film Twitter.
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Structurally, the rules stayed familiar. Five nominees per category, except for best picture, which once again sprawls across ten slots like a dinner party guest list designed to offend no one and include everyone. It’s still the Academy’s favorite compromise — wide enough to feel inclusive, curated enough to feel prestigious.
The numbers behind the scenes are as telling as the nominations themselves. A total of 317 feature films were eligible across categories this year, with 201 making the cut for best picture consideration. That kind of volume says a lot about where cinema is right now: fragmented, global, and louder than ever, even as the Oscars try to impose some kind of narrative order on it all.
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And yes, Conan O’Brien is back. Hosting for the second year in a row, he feels like a deliberate choice — familiar without being stale, self-aware enough to mock the ceremony without undermining it. In a year when the Academy seems eager to project steadiness rather than reinvention, Conan is the human equivalent of that strategy.
The actual ceremony lands on Sunday, March 15, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, airing live on ABC and streaming simultaneously on Hulu starting at 7 p.m. ET. It’s another reminder that even the most old-school awards show now knows it has to meet audiences wherever they are — couch, phone, or second screen.
What always strikes me at this stage isn’t who got nominated or who didn’t — that outrage cycle will take care of itself — but the ritual of it all. For a few weeks, the Oscars still manage to convince us that movies matter in a shared, cultural way, not just as content but as conversation. Whether that spell holds through March is another question, but for now, there’s still something oddly comforting about hearing those names read aloud and feeling, briefly, like the whole film world is paying attention to the same thing at once.
Keep scrolling to see the full list of 2026 Oscar nominees.
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 original score
- “Bugonia” – Jerskin Fendrix
- “Frankenstein” – Alexandre Desplat
- “Hamnet” – Max Richter
- “One Battle After Another” – Jonny Greenwood
- “Sinners” – Ludwig Göransson
Best makeup and hairstyling
- “Frankenstein”
- “Kokuho”
- “Sinners”
- “The Smashing Machine”
- “The Ugly Stepsister”
Best live action short film
- “Butcher’s Stain”
- “Jane Austen’s Period Drama”
- “A Friend of Dorothy”
- “The Singers”
- “Two People Exchanging Saliva”
Best original screenplay
- “Blue Moon” – Robert Kaplow
- “It Was Just an Accident” -Jafar Panahi
- “Marty Supreme” -Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie
- “Sentimental Value” – Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt
- “Sinners” – Ryan Coogler
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 animated short film
- “Butterfly”
- “Forevergreen”
- “The Girl Who Cried Pearls”
- “Retirement Plan”
- “The Three Sisters”
Best adapted screenplay
- “Bugonia” -Will Tracy
- “Frankenstein” – Guillermo Del Toro
- “Hamnet” – Maggie O’Farrell and Chloé Zhao
- “One Battle After Another” – Paul Thomas Anderson
- “Train Dreams” – Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar
Best casting
“Hamnet” — Nina Gold
- “Marty Supreme” – Jennifer Venditti
- “One Battle After Another” – Cassandra Kulukundis
- “The Secret Agent” – Gabriel Domingues
- “Sinners” -Francine Maisler
Best documentary short film
- “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 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 international feature film
- Brazil, “The Secret Agent”
- France, “It Was Just an Accident”
- Norway, “Sentimental Value”
- Spain, “Sirât”
- Tunisia, “The Voice of Hind Rajab”
Best animated feature film
- “Arco”
- “Elio”
- “KPop Demon Hunters”
- “Little Amélie or the Character of Rain”
- “Zootopia 2”
- Best production design
- “Frankenstein”
- “Hamnet”
- “Marty Supreme”
- “One Battle After Another”
- “Sinners”
Best sound
- “F1”
- “Frankenstein”
- “One Battle After Another”
- “Sinners”
- “Sirât”
Best visual effects
- “Avatar: Fire and Ash”
- “F1”
- “Jurassic World Rebirth”
- “The Lost Bus”
- “Sinners”
Best film editing
- “F1” – 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 documentary feature film
- “The Alabama Solution”
- “Come See Me in the Good Light”
- “Cutting Through Rocks”
- “Mr. Nobody Against Putin”
- “The Perfect Neighbor”
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 cinematography
- “Frankenstein”
- “Marty Supreme”
- “One Battle After Another”
- “Sinners”
- “Train Dreams”
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 picture
- “Bugonia”
- “F1”
- “Frankenstein”
- “Hamnet”
- “Marty Supreme”
- “One Battle After Another”
- “The Secret Agent”
- “Sentimental Value”
- “Sinners”
- “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 director
- Chloé Zhao, “Hamnet”
- Josh Safdie, “Marty Supreme”
- Paul Thomas Anderson, “One Battle After Another”
- Joachim Trier, “Sentimental Value”
- Ryan Coogler, “Sinners”