The nominations for the 2026 Academy Awards has seen Sinners break a record – pulling in 16 nods.
This year the nominations were announced byThe Colour Purple Oscar nominee Danielle Brooks alongside Top Gun: Maverick’s Lewis Pullman.
The film industry’s night of nights will be held on March 15 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, with awards being handed out in 24 categories.
With picks for best picture being heavily discussed in the lead-up, favourites heading into today’s announcement included Sinners, One Battle After Another and Hamnet.
They were all nominated, along with Marty Supreme, Frankenstein, Bugonia, Sentimental Value, Train Dreams, Bugonia, The Secret Agent and F1.
Meanwhile in the best actor category Timothée Chalamet was nominated for Marty Supreme, Leonardo DiCaprio for One Battle After Another, Ethan Hawke for Blue Moon, Michael B. Jordan for Sinners, and Wagner Moura for The Secret Agent.
The best actress nominees went to Jessie Buckley for Hamnet, Rose Byrne for If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Kate Hudson for Song Sung Blue, Renate Reinsve for Sentimental Value for Emma Stone for Bugonia.
Other notable names in the running for supporting actor and actress included Jacob Elordi, Paul Mescal, Ariana Grande and Teyana Taylor.
The first award nominations that were announced was best supporting actress, with Elle Fanning picking up her first ever Oscar nomination for her role in Sentimental Value.
Her co-star Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas was also nominated, as well as Amy Madigan for Weapons, Wunmi Mosaku- Sinners, and Teyana Taylor for One Battle After Another.
Meanwhile in the best supporting actor category, the nominees were Benicio Del Toro for One Battle After Another, Jacob Elordi for Frankenstein, Delroy Lindo for Sinners, Sean Penn for One Battle After Another, and Stellan Skarsgård and Sentimental Value.
However a major snub saw Paul Mescal miss out for playing William Shakespeare in Hamnet. The Irish actor was previously nominated for an Oscar in 2023 for Aftersun.
This year’s Oscars ceremony will again be hosted by Conan O’Brien, who took over the top job from fellow comedian and talk show host Jimmy Kimmel last year.
‘We have a lot of possibilities,’ he told ABC ahead of today’s event. ‘Early on, you just generate possibilities for the show: “What might we do?” You have to wait and see which movies are nominated, what’s in the zeitgeist, so there’ll be a lot of ideas that come in late. Sometimes those are the best ideas.’
While he couldn’t reveal much about this year’s show, O’Brien said that audiences could expect ‘a lot of magic’.
‘There’ll be some explosions, CGI will be used. I see this second Oscars as an opportunity to take things up a notch,’ he added.
While UK viewers have been able to tune into the Oscars on ITV, last month it was announced that the awards ceremony would be streaming live and free on YouTube from 2020.
When making the announcement, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said it had signed a multi-year deal that will give YouTube the exclusive global rights to the Oscars until 2033.
‘The Academy is an international organisation, and this partnership will allow us to expand access to the work of the Academy to the largest worldwide audience possible – w ich will be beneficial for our Academy members and the film community,’ chief executive Bill Kramer and president Lynette Howell Taylor said in a statement.
Although viewership of the awards has declined over the years, in 2025 there was a slight increase, with a significant number of younger viewers tuning in from cell phones and computers.
In a statement, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan called the Oscars ‘one of our essential cultural institutions’ and said that partnering with the Academy would ‘inspire a new generation of creativity and film lovers while staying true to the Oscars’ storied legacy’.
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