The biggest award ceremony of the year is official here! All eyes turn to the Oscars stage on Sunday, March 15th 2026, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Conan O’Brien will host the 98th Academy Awards for the second year in a row. The award ceremony will be televised live on ABC and streamed live on Hulu beginning at 7 p.m. ET. The nominees in each category were announced live in Los Angeles in January by Oscar-nominated actress Danielle Brooks and actor Lewis Pullman at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Actress Danielle Brooks is known for her roles in The Color Purple and Peacemaker. Actor Lewis Pullman is known for his roles in Top Gun: Maverick, Thunderbolts, and the series Lessons in Chemistry. 

An interesting fact is that each of the 24 categories has five nominees, except for best picture, which has 10. Below are all the 2026 nominees. 

Best picture

• “Bugonia”
• “F1”
• “Frankenstein”
• “Hamnet”
• “Marty Supreme”
• “One Battle After Another”
• “The Secret Agent”
• “Sentimental Value”
• “Sinners”
• “Train Dreams”

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 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 director

• Chloé Zhao, “Hamnet”
• Josh Safdie, “Marty Supreme”
• Paul Thomas Anderson, “One Battle After Another”
• Joachim Trier, “Sentimental Value”
• Ryan Coogler, “Sinners”

Best makeup and hairstyling

• “Frankenstein”
• “Kokuho”
• “Sinners”
• “The Smashing Machine”
• “The Ugly Stepsister”

Best original score

• “Bugonia” — Jerskin Fendrix
• “Frankenstein” — Alexandre Desplat
• “Hamnet” — Max Richter
• “One Battle After Another” — Jonny Greenwood
• “Sinners” — Ludwig Göransson

Best live action short film

• “Butcher’s Stain”
• “Jane Austen’s Period Drama”
• “A Friend of Dorothy”
• “The Singers”
• “Two People Exchanging Saliva”

Best adapted screenplay

• “Bugonia” — Will Tracy
• “Frankenstein” — Guillermo Del Toro
• “Hamnet” — Maggie O’Farrell and Chloé Zhao
• “One Battle After Another” — Paul Thomas Anderson
• “Train Dreams” — Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar

Best original screenplay

• “Blue Moon” — Robert Kaplow
• “It Was Just an Accident” — Jafar Panahi
• “Marty Supreme” — Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie
• “Sentimental Value” — Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt
• “Sinners” – Ryan Coogler

Best animated short film

• “Butterfly”
• “Forevergreen”
• “The Girl Who Cried Pearls”
• “Retirement Plan”
• “The Three Sisters”

Best casting

• “Hamnet” — Nina Gold
• “Marty Supreme” — Jennifer Venditti
• “One Battle After Another” — Cassandra Kulukundis
• “The Secret Agent” — Gabriel Domingues
• “Sinners” — Francine Maisler

Best original song

• “Dear Me” from “Diane Warren: Relentless”
• “Golden” from “KPop Demon Hunters”
• “I Lied to You” from “Sinners”
• “Sweet Dreams of Joy” from “Viva Verdi!”
• “Train Dreams” from “Train Dreams”

Best documentary feature film

• “The Alabama Solution”
• “Come See Me in the Good Light”
• “Cutting Through Rocks”
• “Mr. Nobody Against Putin”
• “The Perfect Neighbor”

Best documentary short film

• “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 international feature film

• Brazil, “The Secret Agent”
• France, “It Was Just an Accident”
• Norway, “Sentimental Value”
• Spain, “Sirât”
• Tunisia, “The Voice of Hind Rajab”

Best animated feature film

• “Arco”
• “Elio”
• “KPop Demon Hunters”
• “Little Amélie or the Character of Rain”
• “Zootopia 2”

Best production design

• “Frankenstein”
• “Hamnet”
• “Marty Supreme”
• “One Battle After Another”
• “Sinners”

Best film editing

• “F1” — Stephen Mirrione
• “Marty Supreme” — Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie
• “One Battle After Another” — Andy Jurgensen
• “Sentimental Value” — Olivier Bugge Coutté
• “Sinners” — Michael P. Shawver

Best sound

• “F1”
• “Frankenstein”
• “One Battle After Another”
• “Sinners”
• “Sirât”

Best visual effects

• “Avatar: Fire and Ash”
• “F1”
• “Jurassic World Rebirth”
• “The Lost Bus”
• “Sinners”

Best cinematography

• “Frankenstein”
• “Marty Supreme”
• “One Battle After Another”
• “Sinners”
• “Train Dreams”

Best costume design

• “Avatar: Fire and Ash” — Deborah L. Scott
• “Frankenstein” — Kate Hawley
• “Hamnet” — Malgosia Turzanska
• “Marty Supreme” — Miyako Bellizzi
• “Sinners” — Ruth E. Carter

On TikTok, millions of people have shared their predictions about the Oscar winners. One in particular, Variety Magazine listed their predicted winners in a few categories. Variety is very set on Sinners dominating the Oscars this Sunday, hopefully they do!

•  For Best Picture: “Sinners”
  • Could win: One Battle After Another
• For Best Director: Ryan Coogler “Sinners”
  • Could win: Paul Thomas Anderson, “One Battle After Another“
• For Best Actor: Michael B. Jordan “Sinners”
  • Could win: Ethan Hawke, “Blue Moon”
• For Best Actress: Jessie Buckley “Hamnet”
  • Could win: Kate Hudson “Song Sung Blue”
• For Best Supporting Actor: Delroy Lindo “Sinners”
  • Could win: Sean Penn, “One Battle After Another”
• For Best Supporting Actress: Amy Madigan “Weapons”
  • Could win: Wunmi Mosaku “Sinners”
• For Original Screenplay: “Sinners”
  • Could win: “Sentimental Value”
• For Adapted Screenplay: “One Battle After Another”
  • Could win: “Train Dreams”
• For Animated Feature: “KPop Demon Hunters”
  • Could win: “Zootopia 2”
• For International Feature: “Sentimental Value”
  • Could win: “The Secret Agent”

In my opinion, I am confident that Sinners will take home a lot of wins on Sunday. Sinners is by far the best movie I’ve ever watched, and I believe they will dominate at the Oscars. All I know is that K-pop Demon Hunters better not win Best Animated Feature; the movie was highly overrated. The Oscar definitely deserves to go to Zootopia, such a great sequel, and it was a big success at the box office. I know there is a big debate on who will win Best Actor, the top two choices being Timothée Chalamet and Michael. B Jordan. However, there is a lot of talk in the media about Timothée, and it seems like his chances are going down, looks like a win for Michael to me! I also happened to watch One Battle After Another, and let me just say the acting was extraordinary. Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor, Chase Infiniti, Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, and more collaboratively made this movie so enjoyable to watch. I really liked the character development of each person, plus the cinematography was out of this world. This movie should definitely win some Oscars. I hope they win Best Cinematography! Additionally, I’ve watched Weapons and The Smashing Machine. I’m a little upset that The Smashing Machine did not receive more nominations. Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt absolutely nailed their roles in this movie, which made it such a great watch. There are plenty of other movies that I have not watched yet, but I wish them all the best at the Oscars. 

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