The nominees for the 98th Academy Awards are out – the Oscars – and there are some heavy hitters in the running this year.
Ryan Coogler’s latest horror Sinners leads the way with a jaw-dropping 16 nominations, the most ever recorded for a movie at the Oscars.
Not to be sniffed at, the Leonardo DiCaprio-fronted One Battle After Another landed an impressive 13 nominations, with fellow Best Picture nominees Frankenstein, Sentimental Value and Marty Supreme each picking up nine nominations, the latter very possibly the means for Timothée Chalamet to bag his first Oscar for Actor in a Lead Role
Bugonia, produced by Ireland’s Element Pictures, Apple’s F1, Hamnet (with an Oscar nod for Jessie Buckley), The Secret Agent (releasing here next month) and Train Dreams make up the ten movies chasing the big one, Best Picture.
Check the full list of Oscars nominations across all categories here.
2026 Academy Awards: Best Picture Oscar Nominees
Bugonia
Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth. A Yorgos Lanthimos film, starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons.
F1
Action-packed and with all the F1 licensing bells and whistles, starring Brad Pitt, Damson Idris, Kerry Condon and Javier Bardem, directed by Joseph Kosinski. Streaming on Apple TV.
Frankenstein
Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro adapts Mary Shelley’s classic tale of Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation. Stars Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Felix Kammerer, with Charles Dance, and Christoph Waltz.
Hamnet
The untold love story that inspired Shakespeare’s greatest masterpiece. Jessie Buckley (also nominated for Actress in a Lead Role) and Paul Mescal star in HAMNET, directed by Academy Award winner Chloé Zhao.
Marty Supreme
It’s table tennis to the fore, starring Timothée Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A’zion, Kevin O’Leary, Tyler Okonma, Abel Ferrara, and Fran Drescher.
One Battle After Another
The story follows an ex-revolutionary who is forced back into his former combative lifestyle when he and his daughter are pursued by a corrupt military officer. From Writer/Director Paul Thomas Anderson. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, and Chase Infiniti
Sentimental Value
Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she soon discovers he has given her part to an eager young Hollywood star. Suddenly, the two sisters must navigate their complicated relationship with their father — and deal with an American star dropped right into the middle of their complex family dynamics.
Sinners
Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers (Michael B. Jordan, yes, playing both) return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back. Now the owner of a record-breaking 16 Oscar nominations.
The Secret Agent
Amid the raucous revelry of Carnival week, a widower named Marcelo (Wagner Moura) arrives in 1977 in Recife, Brazil, a city as vibrant as it is violent. A technology researcher who suddenly finds himself an unwitting target in the heart of the dictatorship’s political maelstrom, Marcelo is a man on the run from mercenary killers, from ghosts of the past and from the ruthless, mischievously militant spirit of Brazil in 1977.
In the midst of these mounting threats, Marcelo, with the help of a mysterious woman named Elza and her compatriots in the country’s growing underground resistance, remains primarily focused on escaping Brazil with his young son.
Train Dreams
Based on the novella of the same name, Train Dreams is the portrait of Robert Grainier, a logger and railroad worker who leads a life of unexpected depth and beauty in the rapidly changing America of the early 20th Century. Starring Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones, Kerry Condon, and William H. Macy; streaming on Netflix.
