2026 OSCAR NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED

The wait is finally over. With actors, Danielle Brooks and Lewis Pullman up extremely early this morning, the nominations for the 98th Annual Academy Awards were announced today and Ryan Coogler's "Sinners" became the all-time record holder for the most nominations with sixteen, breaking the previous record of fourteen total that the films, "All About Eve", "Titanic" and "La La Land" all shared. "One Battle After Another" was not far behind with thirteen which included Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for Paul Thomas Anderson. The other Best Picture nominees, "Frankenstein", "Marty Supreme" and "Sentimental Value" all received nine nominations, "Hamnet" with eight and "Bugonia", "F1" and "Train Dreams" each with four total. "The Secret Agent" (a total of four nominations) and "Sentimental Value" are the 12th and 13th non-English language films to be nominated for both International Feature Film and Best Picture in the same year.

This year, the nominees for the new category, Best Casting was announced with the casting directors of the films, "Hamnet", "Marty Supreme", "Sinners", "The Secret Agent", and "One Battle After Another" being recognized for the first time. With "Bugonia", Emma Stone became the youngest woman to achieve seven career nominations, earning nods this year for Best Picture and Best Actress while Timothée Chalamet became the youngest actor since Marlon Brando to receive three Best Actor nominations by the age of thirty. Amy Madigan heard her name called for the first time in forty years, being recognized as Best Supporting Actress for her eerie turn in "Weapons". She had been nominated in the same category of Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama, "Twice in a Lifetime" back in 1985. And Diane Warren earned her seventeenth career nomination for Best Original Song with "Dear Me" from the documentary about the songwriter, "Diane Warren: Relentless" but she still hasn't won a competitive Oscar. But one of the major surprises was the follow-up musical, "Wicked: For Good" being completely shut-out after the first part of the film scored an impressive ten nominations last year.

The 98th Academy Awards will be held Sunday, March 15th, at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood and broadcast live on ABC and Hulu with Conan O’Brien returning as host.

Here is the complete list of nominations for the 2025 Academy Awards:

Best Picture:

"Bugonia"
"F1"
"Frankenstein"
"Hamnet"
"Marty Supreme"
"One Battle After Another"
"The Secret Agent"
"Sentimental Value"
"Sinners"
"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 Original Screenplay:

Robert Kaplow, "Blue Moon"
Jafar Panahi (Script collaborators: Nader Saïvar, Shadmehr Rastin, Mehdi Mahmoudian), "It Was Just an Accident"
Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie, "Marty Supreme"
Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier, "Sentimental Value"
Ryan Coogler, "Sinners"

Best Adapted Screenplay:

Will Tracy, "Bugonia"
Guillermo del Toro, "Frankenstein"
Chloé Zhao & Maggie O’Farrell, "Hamnet"
Paul Thomas Anderson, "One Battle After Another"
Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar, "Train Dreams"

Best Actress In A Leading Role:

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 Actor In A Leading Role:

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 In A Supporting Role:

Elle Fanning, "Sentimental Value"
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, "Sentimental Value"
Amy Madigan, "Weapons"
Wunmi Mosaku, "Sinners"
Teyana Taylor, "One Battle after Another"

Best Actor In A Supporting Role:

Benicio Del Toro, "One Battle after Another"
Jacob Elordi, "Frankenstein"
Delroy Lindo, "Sinners"
Sean Penn, "One Battle after Another"
Stellan Skarsgård, "Sentimental Value"

Best International Feature Film:

"O Agente Secreto (The Secret Agent)" (Brazil)
"Un simple accident (It Was Just an Accident)" (France)
"Affeksjonsverdi (Sentimental Value)" (Norway)
"Sirāt" (Spain)
"صوت هند رجب (The Voice of Hind Rajab)" (Tunisia)

Best Animated Feature Film:

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

Best Animated Short Film:

"Butterfly"
"Forevergreen"
"The Girl Who Cried Pearls"
"Retirement Plan"
"The Three Sisters"

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 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 Live Action Short Film:

"Butcher’s Stain"
"A Friend of Dorothy"
"Jane Austen’s Period Drama"
"The Singers"
"Two People Exchanging Saliva"

Best Cinematography:

Dan Laustsen, "Frankenstein"
Darius Khondji, "Marty Supreme"
Michael Bauman, "One Battle After Another"
Autumn Durald Arkapaw, "Sinners"
Adolpho Veloso, "Train Dreams"

Best Film Editing:

Stephen Mirrione, "F1"
Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie, "Marty Supreme"
Andy Jurgensen, "One Battle after Another"
Olivier Bugge Coutté, "Sentimental Value"
Michael P. Shawver, "Sinners"

Best Production Design:

"Frankenstein" (Production Design: Tamara Deverell; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau)
"Hamnet (Production Design: Fiona Crombie; Set Decoration: Alice Felton)
"Marty Supreme" (Production Design: Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Adam Willis)
"One Battle after Another" (Production Design: Florencia Martin; Set Decoration: Anthony Carlino)
"Sinners" (Production Design: Hannah Beachler; Set Decoration: Monique Champagne)

Best Original Score:

Jerskin Fendrix, "Bugonia"
Alexandre Desplat, "Frankenstein"
Max Richter, "Hamnet"
Jonny Greenwood, "One Battle After Another"
Ludwig Göransson, "Sinners"

Best Original Song:

"Dear Me" from "Diane Warren: Relentless" (Music and Lyrics by Diane Warren)
"Golden" from "KPop Demon Hunters" (Music and Lyrics by EJAE, Mark Sonnenblick, Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seon and Teddy Park)
"I Lied To You” from "Sinners" (Music and Lyrics by Raphael Saadiq and Ludwig Göransson)
"Sweet Dreams Of Joy" from "Viva Verdi!" (Music and Lyrics by Nicholas Pike)
"Train Dreams" from "Train Dreams" (Music by Nick Cave and Bryce Dessner; Lyric by Nick Cave)

Best Casting:

Nina Gold, "Hamnet"
Jennifer Venditti, "Marty Supreme"
Cassandra Kulukundis, "One Battle After Another"
Gabriel Domingues, "The Secret Agent"
Francine Maisler, "Sinners"

Best Costume Design:

Deborah L. Scott, "Avatar: Fire and Ash"
Kate Hawley, "Frankenstein"
Malgosia Turzanska, "Hamnet"
Miyako Bellizzi, "Marty Supreme"
Ruth E. Carter, "Sinners"

Best Makeup And Hairstyling:

Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel and Cliona Furey, "Frankenstein"
Kyoko Toyokawa, Naomi Hibino and Tadashi Nishimatsu, "Kokuho"
Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine and Shunika Terry, "Sinners"
Kazu Hiro, Glen Griffin and Bjoern Rehbein, "The Smashing Machine"
Thomas Foldberg and Anne Cathrine Sauerberg, "The Ugly Stepsister"

Best Sound:

Gareth John, Al Nelson, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Gary A. Rizzo and Juan Peralta, "F1"
Greg Chapman, Nathan Robitaille, Nelson Ferreira, Christian Cooke and Brad Zoern, "Frankenstein"
José Antonio García, Christopher Scarabosio and Tony Villaflor, "One Battle After Another"
Chris Welcker, Benjamin A. Burtt, Felipe Pacheco, Brandon Proctor and Steve Boeddeker, "Sinners"
Amanda Villavieja, Laia Casanovas and Yasmina Praderas, "Sirāt"

Best Visual Effects:

Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon and Daniel Barrett, "Avatar: Fire and Ash"
Ryan Tudhope, Nicolas Chevallier, Robert Harrington and Keith Dawson, "F1"
David Vickery, Stephen Aplin, Charmaine Chan and Neil Corbould, "Jurassic World Rebirth"
Charlie Noble, David Zaretti, Russell Bowen and Brandon K. McLaughlin, "The Lost Bus"
Michael Ralla, Espen Nordahl, Guido Wolter and Donnie Dean, "Sinners"