Sinners sets Oscar nominations record

The movie, directed by Ryan Coogler, was nominated in 16 categories, including Best Film and Best Director. It was also put forward for stars Michael B Jordan and co-stars Wunmi Mosaku and Delroy Lindo. Further, its cinematographer, Autumn Durald Arkapaw, became the fourth woman to be nominated in the category in Oscar’s history.

The film beat the previous record of 14 nominations, shared by All about Eve (1950), Titanic (1997) and La La Land (2016)

Following closely behind, thriller One Battle After Another is up for 13 awards, including Best Picture, Best Cinematography, Best Actor for Leonardo DiCaprio, and Best Director for Paul Thomas Anderson.

Guillermo del Toro’s Netflix horror adaptation Frankenstein is up for nine awards, including Best Picture and one nomination for supporting actor Jacob Elordi. It has also garnered nods for the awards in cinematography, production design, and sound.

Josh Safdie’s table tennis drama was nominated for nine Oscars as well, including Best Film, Directing, and Cinematography, and Best Lead Actor for Timothee Chalamet.

Likewise, Norwegian family drama Sentimental Value was also nominated nine times. The foreign language film not only made the Best Picture shortlist but also secured nods for Actor Stellan Skarsgard, Actress Renate Reinsve, and Director Joachim Trier.

UK production Hamnet, adapted from Maggie O’Farrell’s book about Shakespeare and his wife, was nominated for eight Oscars, including Best Actress for Jessie Buckley and Best Director for Chloe Zhao.

Other notable nominations include a Best Sound nod for Spanish drama Sirat. Amanda Villavieja, Laia Casanovas, and Yasmina Praderas are the first all-women sound team (production sound mixing, supervising sound editing, and rerecording mixing) to be nominated for a sound award.

Charmaine Chan was the sixth woman to be nominated in the visual effects category for her work on Jurassic World Rebirth.

2026 Oscar nominations

Best Picture

•            Bugonia

•            Frankenstein

•            F1

•            Hamnet

•            Marty Supreme

•            One Battle After Another

•            The Secret Agent

•            Sentimental Value

•            Sinners

•            Train Dreams

Best Actor

•            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

•            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 Supporting Actress

•            Elle Fanning – Sentimental Value

•            Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value

•            Amy Madigan – Weapons

•            Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners

•            Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another

Best supporting Actor

•            Benicio del Toro – One Battle After Another

•            Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein

•            Delroy Lindo – Sinners

•            Sean Penn – One Battle After Another

•            Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value

Best Director

•            Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another

•            Ryan Coogler – Sinners

•            Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme

•            Joachim Trier – Sentimental Value

•            Chloé Zhao – Hamnet

Best Adapted Screenplay

•            Bugonia

•            Frankenstein

•            Hamnet

•            One Battle After Another

•            Train Dreams

Best Original Screenplay

•            Blue Moon

•            It Was Just an Accident

•            Marty Supreme

•            Sentimental Value

•            Sinners

Best Original Song

•            Dear Me – Diane Warren: Relentless

•            Golden – KPop Demon Hunters

•            I Lied to You – Sinners

•            Sweet Dreams of Joy – Viva Verdi!

•            Train Dreams – Train Dreams

Best Original Score

•            Bugonia

•            Frankenstein

•            Hamnet

•            One Battle After Another

•            Sinners

Best International Feature

•            It Was Just an Accident

•            Sentimental Value

•            Sirât

•            The Secret Agent

•            The Voice of Hind Rajab

Best Animated Feature

•            Arco

•            Elio

•            KPop Demon Hunters

•            Little Amélie or the Character of Rain

•            Zootopia 2

Best Documentary Feature

•            Come See Me in the Good Light

•            Cutting Through the Rocks

•            Mr. Nobody Against Putin

•            The Alabama Solution

•            The Perfect Neighbor

Best Costume Design

•            Avatar: Fire and Ash

•            Frankenstein

•            Hamnet

•            Marty Supreme

•            Sinners

Best Make-Up and Hairstyling

•            Frankenstein

•            Kokuho

•            Sinners

•            The Smashing Machine

•            The Ugly Stepsister

Best Production Design

•            Frankenstein

•            Hamnet

•            Marty Supreme

•            One Battle After Another

•            Sinners

Best Sound

•            Frankenstein

•            F1

•            One Battle After Another

•            Sinners

•            Sirât

Best Film Editing

•            F1

•            Marty Supreme

•            One Battle After Another

•            Sentimental Value

•            Sinners

Best Cinematography

•            Frankenstein

•            Marty Supreme

•            One Battle After Another

•            Sinners

•            Train Dreams

Best Visual Effects

•            Avatar: Fire and Ash

•            F1

•            Jurassic World Rebirth

•            Sinners

•            The Lost Bus

Best Live Action Short

•            A Friend of Dorothy

•            Butcher's Stain

•            Jane Austen's Period Drama

•            The Singers

•            Two People Exchanging Saliva

Best Animated Short

•            Butterfly

•            Forevergreen

•            Retirement Plan

•            The Girl Who Cried Pearls

•            The Three Sisters

Best Documentary Short

•            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 Casting

•            Hamnet

•            Marty Supreme

•            One Battle After Another

•            Sinners

•            The Secret Agent

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