The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) announced the nominees for its 98th Annual Academy Awards on Thursday morning, and Ryan Coogler’s thriller Sinners leads with a historic 16 nominations — the most in the ceremony’s nearly 100-year run. The supernatural horror starring Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, and Wunmi Mosaku dominated theaters following its April 2025 release, generating nearly $400 million worldwide and fueling enough fan interest to warrant bringing it back to big screens in a late 2025 IMAX reissue.
Sinners‘ 16 Oscar nominations put it above past record-holders All About Eve (1950), La La Land (2016), and Titanic (1997), previously tied with 14 nominations each.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another is this year’s second-most nominated film, with 13 nominations; Marty Supreme, Sentimental Value, and Frankenstein follow with nine nominations apiece.
The nominees for the 98th Oscars were announced by actors Danielle Brooks and Lewis Pullman, and late-night icon Conan O’Brien will return to host the ceremony for a second consecutive year. Check out the complete list of nominees and tune into the 98th Academy Awards ceremony when it airs live on ABC from the Dolby Theatre on Sunday, March 15, 2026.
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)
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)
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)
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)
ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
ARCO (Ugo Bienvenu, Félix de Givry, Sophie Mas and Natalie Portman)
ELIO (Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi, Adrian Molina, and Mary Alice Drumm)
KPOP DEMON HUNTERS (Maggie Kang, Chris Appelhan,s and Michelle L.M. Wong)
LITTLE AMÉLIE OR THE CHARACTER OF RAIN (Maïlys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han, Nidia Santiago and Henri Magalon)
ZOOTOPIA 2 (Jared Bush, Byron Howard, and Yvett Merino)
ANIMATED SHORT FILM
BUTTERFLY (Florence Miailhe and Ron Dyens)
FOREVERGREEN (Nathan Engelhardt and Jeremy Spears)
THE GIRL WHO CRIED PEARLS (Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski)
RETIREMENT PLAN (John Kelly and Andrew Freedman)
THE THREE SISTERS (Konstantin Bronzit)
CASTING
HAMNET (Nina Gold)
MARTY SUPREME (Jennifer Venditti)
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (Cassandra Kulukundis)
THE SECRET AGENT (Gabriel Domingues)
SINNERS (Francine Maisler)
CINEMATOGRAPHY
FRANKENSTEIN (Dan Laustsen)
MARTY SUPREME (Darius Khondji)
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (Michael Bauman)
SINNERS (Autumn Durald Arkapaw)
TRAIN DREAMS (Adolpho Veloso)
COSTUME DESIGN
AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH (Deborah L. Scott)
FRANKENSTEIN (Kate Hawley)
HAMNET (Malgosia Turzanska)
MARTY SUPREME (Miyako Bellizzi)
SINNERS (Ruth E. Carter)
DIRECTING
HAMNET (Chloé Zhao)
MARTY SUPREME (Josh Safdie)
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (Paul Thomas Anderson)
SENTIMENTAL VALUE (Joachim Trier)
SINNERS (Ryan Coogler)
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM
THE ALABAMA SOLUTION (Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman)
COME SEE ME IN THE GOOD LIGHT (Ryan White, Jessica Hargrave, Tig Notaro, and Stef Willen)
CUTTING THROUGH ROCKS (Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni)
MR. NOBODY AGAINST PUTIN (Nominees to be determined)
THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR (Geeta Gandbhir, Alisa Payne, Nikon Kwantu, and Sam Bisbee)
DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
ALL THE EMPTY ROOMS (Joshua Seftel and Conall Jones)
ARMED ONLY WITH A CAMERA: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF BRENT RENAUD (Craig Renaud and Juan Arredondo)
CHILDREN NO MORE: “WERE AND ARE GONE” (Hilla Medalia and Sheila Nevins)
THE DEVIL IS BUSY (Christalyn Hampton and Geeta Gandbhir)
PERFECTLY A STRANGENESS (Alison McAlpine)
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)
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM
BRAZIL / The Secret Agent
FRANCE / It Was Just an Accident
NORWAY / Sentimental Value
SPAIN / Sirāt
TUNISIA / The Voice of Hind Rajab
LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM
BUTCHER’S STAIN (Meyer Levinson-Blount and Oron Caspi)
A FRIEND OF DOROTHY (Lee Knight and James Dean)
JANE AUSTEN’S PERIOD DRAMA (Julia Aks and Steve Pinder)
THE SINGERS (Sam A. Davis and Jack Piatt)
TWO PEOPLE EXCHANGING SALIVA (Alexandre Singh and Natalie Musteata)
MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
FRANKENSTEIN (Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel, and Cliona Furey)
KOKUHO (Kyoko Toyokawa, Naomi Hibino, and Tadashi Nishimatsu)
SINNERS (Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine and Shunika Terry)
THE SMASHING MACHINE (Kazu Hiro, Glen Griffin, and Bjoern Rehbein)
THE UGLY STEPSISTER (Thomas Foldberg and Anne Cathrine Sauerberg)
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
BUGONIA (Jerskin Fendrix)
FRANKENSTEIN (Alexandre Desplat)
HAMNET (Max Richter)
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (Jonny Greenwood)
SINNERS (Ludwig Goransson)
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
DEAR ME from Diane Warren: Relentless; Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
GOLDEN from KPop Demon Hunters; Music and Lyric 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 Lyric by Raphael Saadiq and Ludwig Goransson
SWEET DREAMS OF JOY from Viva Verdi!; Music and Lyric by Nicholas Pike
TRAIN DREAMS from Train Dreams; Music by Nick Cave and Bryce Dessner; Lyric by Nick Cave
BEST PICTURE
BUGONIA
F1
FRANKENSTEIN
HAMNET
MARTY SUPREME
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
THE SECRET AGENT
SENTIMENTAL VALUE
SINNERS
TRAIN DREAMS
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)
SOUND
F1 (Gareth John, Al Nelson, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle, Gary A. Rizzo, and Juan Peralta)
FRANKENSTEIN (Greg Chapman, Nathan Robitaille, Nelson Ferreira, Christian Cooke, and Brad Zoern)
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (José Antonio García, Christopher Scarabosio, and Tony Villaflor)
SINNERS (Chris Welcker, Benjamin A. Burtt, Felipe Pacheco, Brandon Proctor, and Steve Boeddeker)
SIRĀT (Amanda Villavieja, Laia Casanovas and Yasmina Praderas)
VISUAL EFFECTS
AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH
F1
JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH
THE LOST BUS
SINNERS
WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)
BUGONIA (Screenplay by Will Tracy)
FRANKENSTEIN (Written for the Screen by Guillermo del Toro)
HAMNET (Screenplay by Chloé Zhao & Maggie O’Farrell)
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (Written by Paul Thomas Anderson)
TRAIN DREAMS (Screenplay by Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar)
WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)
BLUE MOON (Written by Robert Kaplow)
IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT (Written by Jafar Panahi; Script collaborators – Nader Saïvar, Shadmehr Rastin, Mehdi Mahmoudian)
MARTY SUPREME (Written by Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie)
SENTIMENTAL VALUE (Written by Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier)
SINNERS (Written by Ryan Coogler)
