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98th Oscars Nominations Announced
Rick W
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98th Oscars Nominations Announced

Watch the 98th Oscars Nominations on Thursday, January 22 at 8:30am ET | 5:30am PT. Announced by Danielle Brooks and Lewis Pullman, including ASL interpreters. Tune into the 98th Oscars on Sunday, March 15, 2026, at 7pm ET / 4pm PT, which will be televised LIVE on ABC, streamed live on Hulu and airs live in more than 200 territories worldwide. Come back to our YouTube channel for the Oscars ASL Livestream!

And the nominees are...
Actor in a Leading Role
 
Timothée Chalamet
Marty Supreme
Leonardo DiCaprio
One Battle after Another
Ethan Hawke
Blue Moon
Michael B. Jordan
Sinners
Wagner Moura
The Secret Agent
 
Actor in a Supporting Role
 
Benicio Del Toro
One Battle after Another
Jacob Elordi
Frankenstein
Delroy Lindo
Sinners
Sean Penn
One Battle after Another
Stellan Skarsgård
Sentimental Value
 
Actress in a Leading Role
 
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
 
Actress in a Supporting Role
 
Elle Fanning
Sentimental Value
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas
Sentimental Value
Amy Madigan
Weapons
Wunmi Mosaku
Sinners
Teyana Taylor
One Battle after Another
 
Animated Feature Film
 
Arco
Ugo Bienvenu, Félix de Givry, Sophie Mas and Natalie Portman
Elio
Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi, Adrian Molina and Mary Alice Drumm
KPop Demon Hunters
Maggie Kang, Chris Appelhans and Michelle L.M. Wong
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
Maïlys Vallade, Liane-Cho Han, Nidia Santiago and Henri Magalon
Zootopia 2
Jared Bush, Byron Howard and Yvett Merino
 
Animated Short Film
 
Butterfly
Florence Miailhe and Ron Dyens
Forevergreen
Nathan Engelhardt and Jeremy Spears
The Girl Who Cried Pearls
Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski
Retirement Plan
John Kelly and Andrew Freedman
The Three Sisters
Konstantin Bronzit
 
Casting
 
Hamnet
Nina Gold
Marty Supreme
Jennifer Venditti
One Battle after Another
Cassandra Kulukundis
The Secret Agent
Gabriel Domingues
Sinners
Francine Maisler
 
Cinematography
 
Frankenstein
Dan Laustsen
Marty Supreme
Darius Khondji
One Battle after Another
Michael Bauman
Sinners
Autumn Durald Arkapaw
Train Dreams
Adolpho Veloso
 
Costume Design
 
Avatar: Fire and Ash
Deborah L. Scott
Frankenstein
Kate Hawley
Hamnet
Malgosia Turzanska
Marty Supreme
Miyako Bellizzi
Sinners
Ruth E. Carter
 
Directing
 
Hamnet
Chloé Zhao
Marty Supreme
Josh Safdie
One Battle after Another
Paul Thomas Anderson
Sentimental Value
Joachim Trier
Sinners
Ryan Coogler
 
Documentary Feature Film
 
The Alabama Solution
Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman
Come See Me in the Good Light
Ryan White, Jessica Hargrave, Tig Notaro and Stef Willen
Cutting through Rocks
Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni
Mr. Nobody against Putin
Nominees to be determined
The Perfect Neighbor
Geeta Gandbhir, Alisa Payne, Nikon Kwantu and Sam Bisbee
 
Documentary Short Film
 
All the Empty Rooms
Joshua Seftel and Conall Jones
Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
Craig Renaud and Juan Arredondo
Children No More: "Were and Are Gone"
Hilla Medalia and Sheila Nevins
The Devil Is Busy
Christalyn Hampton and Geeta Gandbhir
Perfectly a Strangeness
Alison McAlpine
 
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
 
International Feature Film
 
Brazil
The Secret Agent
France
It Was Just an Accident
Norway
Sentimental Value
Spain
Sirāt
Tunisia
The Voice of Hind Rajab
 
Live Action Short Film
 
Butcher's Stain
Meyer Levinson-Blount and Oron Caspi
A Friend of Dorothy
Lee Knight and James Dean
Jane Austen's Period Drama
Julia Aks and Steve Pinder
The Singers
Sam A. Davis and Jack Piatt
Two People Exchanging Saliva
Alexandre Singh and Natalie Musteata
 
Makeup and Hairstyling
 
Frankenstein
Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel and Cliona Furey
Kokuho
Kyoko Toyokawa, Naomi Hibino and Tadashi Nishimatsu
Sinners
Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine and Shunika Terry
The Smashing Machine
Kazu Hiro, Glen Griffin and Bjoern Rehbein
The Ugly Stepsister
Thomas Foldberg and Anne Cathrine Sauerberg
 
Music (Original Score)
 
Bugonia
Jerskin Fendrix
Frankenstein
Alexandre Desplat
Hamnet
Max Richter
One Battle after Another
Jonny Greenwood
Sinners
Ludwig Goransson
 
Music (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 Seo 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
 
Best Picture
 
Bugonia
Ed Guiney & Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone and Lars Knudsen, Producers
F1
Chad Oman, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Joseph Kosinski and Jerry Bruckheimer, Producers
Frankenstein
Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale and Scott Stuber, Producers
Hamnet
Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris, Nicolas Gonda, Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes, Producers
Marty Supreme
Eli Bush, Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie, Anthony Katagas and Timothée Chalamet, Producers
One Battle after Another
Adam Somner, Sara Murphy and Paul Thomas Anderson, Producers
The Secret Agent
Emilie Lesclaux, Producer
Sentimental Value
Maria Ekerhovd and Andrea Berentsen Ottmar, Producers
Sinners
Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian and Ryan Coogler, Producers
Train Dreams
Marissa McMahon, Teddy Schwarzman, Will Janowitz, Ashley Schlaifer and Michael Heimler, Producers
 
Production Design
 
Frankenstein
Production Design: Tamara Deverell; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau
Hamnet
Production Design: Fiona Crombie; Set Decoration: Alice Felton
Marty Supreme
Production Design: Jack Fisk; Set Decoration: Adam Willis
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