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John Latchem

January 22, 2026

The Jan. 22 nominations for the 98th Academy Awards saw Sinners set a record for most nominations for a film with 16, while early awards-season favorite One Battle After Another nabbed 13.

In addition to Best Picture, Sinners was nominated for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for Ryan Coogler, Best Actor for Michael B. Jordan, Best Supporting Actor for Delroy Lindo, Best Supporting Actress for Wunmi Mosaku, Best Original Song for “I Lied to You,” Best Original Score for Ludwig Göransson, as well as Cinematography, Costume Design, Film editing, Makeup and Hairstyling, Production Design, Sound, Visual Effects, and for the new category of Achievement in Casting.

Many industry pundits had been predicting Sinners, released by Warner Bros., could set the record with at least 15 noms thanks to the new Casting category, but the film managed to reset the bar without needing it, thanks to the nom for Lindo, which was considered a bit of a surprise.

The previous record had been 14 nominations, shared by 1950’s All About Eve, 1997’s Titanic and 2016’s La La Land. The record for most wins is 11, shared by Titanic, 1959’s Ben-Hur and 2003’s The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

The 13 nominations for One Battle After Another, also from Warner, came in 12 categories, and include Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for Paul Thomas Anderson, Best Actor for Leonardo DiCaprio, Best Supporting Actor for Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro, Best Supporting Actress for Teyana Taylor, Original Score for Jonny Greenwood, as well as Casting, Cinematography, Film editing, Production Design and Sound.

The film is coming off Best Picture wins at the Critics Choice Awards and Golden Globes and is the heavy favorite to take the Academy Award as well, with Anderson also expected to win his first directing Oscar.

The other Best Picture nominees are Hamnet, Marty Supreme, F1: The Movie, Frankenstein, Bugonia, The Secret Agent, Sentimental Value and Train Dreams.

Three films scored nine nominations: Netflix’s Frankenstein from director Guillermo del Toro’s; A24’s Mary Supreme starring Timothée Chalamet; and Neon’s Sentimental Value, which also scored a Best International Feature nomination. Focus Features’ Hamnet, directed by Chloé Zhao, earned eight nominations. No other picture had more than four.

In the studio tally, Warner led with 30 total nominations, followed by Neon with 18, Netflix with 16, Focus Features with 13, A24 with 11, Apple with six, and Disney with four. No other distributor had more than two.

Winners will be announced March 15 at the Oscars ceremony hosted by Conan O’Brien, taking place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, airing on ABC and live-streaming on Hulu.

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98th Academy Awards Nominations

Best Motion Picture of the Year

• Bugonia (Focus Features)
• F1: The Movie (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 Animated Feature Film of the Year

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

Best International Feature Film of the Year

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

Best Documentary Feature Film

• The Alabama Solution (HBO Documentary Films)
• Come See Me in the Good Light (Apple)
• Cutting Through Rocks (Gandom Films)
• Mr. Nobody Against Putin (PINK)
• The Perfect Neighbor (Netflix)

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

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

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

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

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

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

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

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

Achievement in Directing

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

Original Screenplay

• Blue Moon (Sony Pictures Classics) — Written by Robert Kaplow
• It Was Just an Accident (Neon) — Written by Jafar Panahi; Script Collaborators Nader Saïvar, Shadmehr Rastin, Mehdi Mahmoudian
• Marty Supreme (A24) — Written by Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie
• Sentimental Value (Neon) — Written by Eskil Vogt & Joachim Trier
• Sinners (Warner Bros.) — Written by Ryan Coogler

Adapted Screenplay

• Bugonia (Focus Features) — Screenplay by Will Tracy
• Frankenstein (Netflix) — Written for the Screen by Guillermo del Toro
• Hamnet (Focus Features) — Screenplay by Chloé Zhao & Maggie O’Farrell
• One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.) — Written by Paul Thomas Anderson
• Train Dreams (Netflix) — Screenplay by Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar

Achievement in Casting

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

Achievement in Cinematography

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

Achievement in Costume Design

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

Achievement in Film Editing

• F1: The Movie (Apple) — Stephen Mirrione
• Marty Supreme (A24) — Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie
• One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.) — Andy Jurgensen
• Sentimental Value (Neon) — Olivier Bugge Coutté
• Sinners (Warner Bros.) — Michael P. Shawver

Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling

• Frankenstein (Netflix)
• Kokuho (GKIDS)
• Sinners (Warner Bros.)
• The Smashing Machine (A24)
• The Ugly Stepsister (Independent Film Company/Shudder)

Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)

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

Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song)

• “Dear Me” — Diane Warren: Relentless (MasterClass/
  Greenwich Entertainment)
• “Golden” — KPop Demon Hunters (Netflix)
• “I Lied to You” — Sinners (Warner Bros.)
• “Sweet Dreams of Joy” — Viva Verdi! (Viva Verdi!)
• “Train Dreams” — Train Dreams (Netflix)

Achievement in Production Design

• Frankenstein (Netflix)
• Hamnet (Focus Features)
• Marty Supreme (A24)
• One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.)
• Sinners (Warner Bros.)

Achievement in Sound

• F1: The Movie (Apple)
• Frankenstein (Netflix)
• One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.)
• Sinners (Warner Bros.)
• Sirāt (Neon)

Achievement in Visual Effects

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

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 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)

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)