2026 Oscar Nominations — Final Predictions

As with every awards season, we eventually hit the home stretch. Today will officially commence the final stages as the Oscar nominations are announced this morning at 8:30am EST, hosted by Danielle Brooks and Lewis Pullman. With the omissions of BAFTA nominations this year, predictions are harder to finalise as surprises are more expected than ever with such a tight race across the board. And yet, we make our final predictions for the 2026 Oscar nominations nonetheless. Below are who I think will be nominated per category.

Best Picture

• One Battle After Another, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Sinners, dir. Ryan Coogler (Warner Bros. Pictures)
• Hamnet, dir. Chloé Zhao (Focus Features)
• Sentimental Value, dir. Joachim Trier (Neon)
• Marty Supreme, dir. Josh Safdie (A24)
• Frankenstein, dir. Guillermo del Toro (Netflix)
• It Was Just An Accident, dir. Jafar Panahi (Neon)
• The Secret Agent, dir.  Kleber Mendonça Filho
• Bugonia, dir. Yorgos Lanthimos (Focus Features)
• Train Dreams, dir. Clint Bentley (Netflix)

Best Director

• Paul Thomas Anderson for One Battle After Another
• Chloé Zhao for Hamnet
• Ryan Coogler for Sinners
• Joachim Trier for Sentimental Value
• Guillermo del Toro for Frankenstein

Best Original Screenplay

• Sinners, written by Ryan Coogler
• Sentimental Value, written by Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier
• Marty Supreme, written by Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie
• Sorry, Baby, written by Eva Victor
• It Was Just An Accident, written by Jafar Panahi

Best Adapted Screenplay

• One Battle After Another, written by Paul Thomas Anderson
• Hamnet, written by Chloé Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell
• Frankenstein, written by Guillermo del Toro
• Bugonia, written by Guillermo del Toro
• Train Dreams, written by Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar

Best Casting

• One Battle After Another, casting by Cassandra Kulukundis
• Sinners, casting by Francine Maisler
• Marty Supreme, casting by Jennifer Venditti
• Hamnet, casting by Nina Gold
• Sentimental Value, casting by Yngvill Kolset Haga & Avy Kaufman

Best Film Editing

• F1, by Stephen Mirrione
• Marty Supreme, by Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie
• One Battle After Another, by Andy Jurgensen
• Sinners, by Michael Shawver
• Sentimental Value, by Olivier Bugge Coutté

Best Cinematography

• Frankenstein, by Dan Laustsen
• One Battle After Another, by Michael Bauman
• Sinners, by Autumn Durald Arkapaw
• Train Dreams, by Adolpho Veloso
• Hamnet, by Lukasz Zal

Best Actor

• Timothée Chalamet for Marty Supreme
• Wagner Moura for Secret Agent
• Ethan Hawke for Blue Moon
• Leonardo DiCaprio for One Battle After Another
• Michael B. Jordan for Sinners

Best Actress

• Jessie Buckley for Hamnet
• Rose Byrne for If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
• Renate Reinsve for Sentimental Value
• Emma Stone for Bugonia
• Chase Infiniti for One Battle After Another

Best Supporting Actor

• Stellan Skarsgård for Sentimental Value
• Benicio del Toro for One Battle After Another
• Jacob Elordi for Frankenstein
• Sean Penn for One Battle After Another
• Paul Mescal for Hamnet

Best Supporting Actress

• Teyana Taylor for One Battle After Another
• Amy Madigan for Weapons
• Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas for Sentimental Value
• Elle Fanning for Sentimental Value
• Wunmi Mosaku for Sinners

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

• Frankenstein
• The Smashing Machine
• Wicked: For Good
• Sinners
• Marty Supreme

Best Production Design

• Frankenstein, by Tamara Deverell
• Marty Supreme, by Jack Fisk
• Sinners, by Hannah Beachler
• Wicked: For Good, by Nathan Crowley
• Hamnet, by Fiona Crombie

Best Original Score

• Frankenstein, composed by Alexandre Desplat
• One Battle After Another, composed by Jonny Greenwood
• Sinners, composed by Ludwig Göransson
• Hamnet, composed by Max Richter
• Marty Supreme, composed by Daniel Lopatin

Best Sound

• Sirat
• F1
• Sinners
• One Battle After Another
• Frankenstein

Best Original Song

• “Dear Me” – Diane Warren: Relentless
• “Golden” – KPop Demon Hunters
• “I Lied To You” – Sinners
• “Train Dreams” – Train Dreams
• “The Girl in the Bubble” – Wicked: For Good

Best Costume Design

• Frankenstein, by Kate Hawley
• Hamnet, by Malgosia Turzanska
• Sinners, by Ruth E. Carter
• Wicked: For Good, by Paul Tazewell
• One Battle After Another, by Colleen Atwood

Best Visual Effects

• Avatar: Fire and Ash
• Sinners
• F1
• Superman
• Frankenstein

Best International Feature

• Sentimental Value dir. Joachim Trier (Norway)
• It Was Just an Accident dir. Jafar Panahi (France)
• The Secret Agent, dir.  Kleber Mendonça Filho (Brazil)
• The Voice of Hind Rajab, dir. Kaouther Ben Hania (Tunisia)
• Sirât, dir. Oliver Laxe (Spain)

Best Animated Feature

• K-Pop Demon Hunters (Netflix)
• Arco (Neon)
• Zootopia 2 (Disney)
• Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (France 3 Cinéma)
• Elio (Pixar)

Best Documentary Feature

• Cover-Up
• 2000 Meters to Andriivka
• My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 — Last Air in Moscow
• The Alabama Solution
• The Perfect Neighbor

Best Animated Short

• The Girl Who Cried Pearls
• Butterfly
• Eiru
• Playing God
• The Shyness of Trees

Live Action Short

• Rock, Paper, Scissors
• The Singers
• Two People Exchanging Saliva
• Extremist
• Jane Austen’s Period Drama

Best Documentary Short

• Heartbeat
• Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
• All the Empty Rooms
• All the Walls Came Down
• Perfectly a Strangeness

You can watch the stream for the Oscar nominations here on YouTube. It begins at 8:30 AM ET / 5:30 AM PT on January 22nd.

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