Ryan Coogler’s Sinners didn’t just show up at this year’s Oscar nominations, it took over.
The film delivered a breakthrough moment for Michael B. Jordan and Wunmi Mosaku, both of whom secured their first Academy Award nominations. Jordan was recognised in the Best Actor category, while Mosaku earned a nod for Best Supporting Actress, marking a defining turn in her career.
Their individual milestones arrived alongside a historic showing for the film itself. Sinners led all contenders with 16 nominations, setting a new Academy Awards record and moving past the previous high of 14 nominations held by All About Eve, Titanic, and La La Land.
The genre-bending thriller is competing for Best Picture and Best Director, in addition to acting nominations for Jordan, Mosaku, and Delroy Lindo. It also swept through the Academy’s creative and technical fields, earning recognition for screenwriting, casting, production design, cinematography, costumes, editing, makeup and hairstyling, sound, visual effects, original score, and original song for “I Lied to You.”
With nominations spanning every technical category, Sinners now sits in rare company. Only a handful of films among them Titanic, Mad Max: Fury Road, and Dune have previously achieved such broad Academy recognition. Including Original Song, Titanic was the lone title to have matched that scope until now.
This year’s nominations were revealed during a live announcement at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theatre, presented by Danielle Brooks and Lewis Pullman. The 2026 Oscars will take place on March 15 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, with Conan O’Brien returning as host. The ceremony will be broadcast live on ABC and Hulu, beginning at 4 p.m. PT.
Below is the full list of categories and nominees:
Best Picture
- Bugonia
- F1: The Movie
- Frankenstein
- 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 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 Supporting Actress
- Elle Fanning — Sentimental Value
- Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas — Sentimental Value
- Amy Madigan — Weapons
- Wunmi Mosaku — Sinners
- Teyana Taylor — One Battle After Another
Best Director
- Chloé Zhao — Hamnet
- Josh Safdie — Marty Supreme
- Paul Thomas Anderson — One Battle After Another
- Joachim Trier — Sentimental Value
- Ryan Coogler — Sinners
Original Screenplay
- Robert Kaplow — Blue Moon
- Jafar Panahi — It Was Just an Accident
- Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie — Marty Supreme
- Eskil Vogt & Joachim Trier — Sentimental Value
- Ryan Coogler — Sinners
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
Animated Feature
- Arco
- Elio
- KPop Demon Hunters
- Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
- Zootopia 2
Documentary Feature
- The Alabama Solution
- Come See Me in the Good Light
- Cutting Through Rocks
- Mr Nobody Against Putin
- The Perfect Neighbor
International Feature
- The Secret Agent — Brazil
- It Was Just an Accident — France
- Sentimental Value — Norway
- Sirāt — Spain
- The Voice of Hind Rajab — Tunisia
Editing
- Stephen Mirrione — F1: The Movie
- Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie — Marty Supreme
- Andy Jurgensen — One Battle After Another
- Olivier Bugge Coutté — Sentimental Value
- Michael P. Shawver — Sinners
Cinematography
- Dan Laustsen — Frankenstein
- Darius Khondji — Marty Supreme
- Michael Bauman — One Battle After Another
- Autumn Durald Arkapaw — Sinners
- Adolpho Veloso — Train Dreams
Original Score
- Jerskin Fendrix — Bugonia
- Alexandre Desplat — Frankenstein
- Max Richter — Hamnet
- Jonny Greenwood — One Battle After Another
- Ludwig Goransson — Sinners
Casting
- Hamnet
- Marty Supreme
- One Battle After Another
- The Secret Agent
- Sinners
Production Design
- Frankenstein
- Hamnet
- Marty Supreme
- One Battle After Another
- Sinners
Costume Design
- Avatar: Fire and Ash
- Frankenstein
- Hamnet
- Marty Supreme
- Sinners
Visual Effects
- Avatar: Fire and Ash
- F1: The Movie
- Jurassic World Rebirth
- The Lost Bus
- Sinners
Sound
- F1: The Movie
- Frankenstein
- One Battle After Another
- Sinners
- Sirât
Makeup and Hairstyling
- Frankenstein
- Kokuho
- Sinners
- The Smashing Machine
- The Ugly Stepsister
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
Live-Action Short
- Butcher’s Stain
- A Friend of Dorothy
- Jane Austen’s Period Drama
- The Singers
- Two People Exchanging Saliva
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
Animated Short
- Butterfly
- Forevergreen
- The Girl Who Cried Pearls
- Retirement Plan
- The Three Sisters
