# Oscars 2026: every nominee and winner, category by category

> The full list of 2026 Oscar nominees from the 98th Academy Awards, with every winner marked, from Best Picture to the short film categories.

Source: https://rankiew.app/blog/oscars-2026-all-nominees
Published: 2026-10-22
Author: Rankiew
Tags: oscars, oscars 2026, academy awards, oscar nominees, best picture

The 98th Academy Awards took place on March 15, 2026, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, with Conan O'Brien hosting for the second year in a row. *One Battle After Another* won Best Picture, Paul Thomas Anderson took Best Director, and *Sinners* went home with awards for Michael B. Jordan, Ryan Coogler's screenplay, the score and the cinematography. This was also the first ceremony with an Oscar for Best Casting. Below is every nominee in all 24 categories, with the winner first.

# Best Picture

## One Battle After Another · Winner

::film[One Battle After Another|2025]

A former revolutionary is dragged back into action when an old enemy resurfaces and his daughter is in danger.

**Worth it if:** you want an action thriller with politics and dark humor.

## Bugonia

::film[Bugonia|2025]

Two conspiracy believers kidnap a powerful CEO, convinced she is an alien. Yorgos Lanthimos at his most unsettling.

**Worth it if:** you like twisted dark comedies that leave you arguing afterwards.

## F1

::film[F1|2025]

A veteran driver returns to Formula 1 to mentor a rookie and save a struggling team, with racing shot at real speed.

**Worth it if:** you love racing, big sound and crowd-pleasing blockbusters.

## Frankenstein

::film[Frankenstein|2025]

Guillermo del Toro's take on Mary Shelley's story of a scientist and the creature he brings to life.

**Worth it if:** you enjoy gothic horror, lavish sets and tragic monsters.

## Hamnet

::film[Hamnet|2025]

The grief of Agnes, William Shakespeare's wife, after the death of their young son, directed by Chloé Zhao.

**Worth it if:** you are ready for a tender, heartbreaking family drama.

## Marty Supreme

::film[Marty Supreme|2025]

A young table tennis hustler in 1950s New York chases greatness at any cost, with Timothée Chalamet in full flight.

**Worth it if:** you like restless, anxious stories about obsession.

## The Secret Agent

::film[The Secret Agent|2025]

In Recife in 1977, a man on the run from the dictatorship tries to reunite with his son.

**Worth it if:** you want political suspense with a strong Brazilian identity.

## Sentimental Value

::film[Sentimental Value|2025]

Two sisters reconnect with their distant filmmaker father, who wants to shoot a film in the family home.

**Worth it if:** you like quiet family dramas full of unsaid things.

## Sinners

::film[Sinners|2025]

Twin brothers open a juke joint in 1930s Mississippi, and the party turns into a fight against vampires.

**Worth it if:** you want horror mixed with music and history.

## Train Dreams

::film[Train Dreams|2025]

The quiet life of a logger in the American Northwest at the start of the twentieth century.

**Worth it if:** you enjoy slow, contemplative films about a whole life.

# Best Director

- **Paul Thomas Anderson**, One Battle After Another · Winner
- **Chloé Zhao**, Hamnet
- **Josh Safdie**, Marty Supreme
- **Joachim Trier**, Sentimental Value
- **Ryan Coogler**, Sinners

# Best Actor

- **Michael B. Jordan**, Sinners · Winner
- **Timothée Chalamet**, Marty Supreme
- **Leonardo DiCaprio**, One Battle After Another
- **Ethan Hawke**, Blue Moon
- **Wagner Moura**, The Secret Agent

# Best Actress

- **Jessie Buckley**, Hamnet · Winner
- **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

- **Sean Penn**, One Battle After Another · Winner
- **Benicio del Toro**, One Battle After Another
- **Jacob Elordi**, Frankenstein
- **Delroy Lindo**, Sinners
- **Stellan Skarsgård**, Sentimental Value

# Best Supporting Actress

- **Amy Madigan**, Weapons · Winner
- **Elle Fanning**, Sentimental Value
- **Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas**, Sentimental Value
- **Wunmi Mosaku**, Sinners
- **Teyana Taylor**, One Battle After Another

# Best Original Screenplay

- **Sinners** · Winner
- **Blue Moon**
- **It Was Just an Accident**
- **Marty Supreme**
- **Sentimental Value**

# Best Adapted Screenplay

- **One Battle After Another** · Winner
- **Bugonia**
- **Frankenstein**
- **Hamnet**
- **Train Dreams**

# Best Animated Feature

- **KPop Demon Hunters** · Winner
- **Arco**
- **Elio**
- **Little Amélie or the Character of Rain**
- **Zootopia 2**

# Best International Feature Film

- **Sentimental Value** (Norway) · Winner
- **It Was Just an Accident** (France)
- **The Secret Agent** (Brazil)
- **Sirāt** (Spain)
- **The Voice of Hind Rajab** (Tunisia)

# Best Documentary Feature

- **Mr Nobody Against Putin** · Winner
- **The Alabama Solution**
- **Come See Me in the Good Light**
- **Cutting Through Rocks**
- **The Perfect Neighbor**

# Best Documentary Short

- **All the Empty Rooms** · Winner
- **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 Live Action Short

- **The Singers** · Winner
- **Two People Exchanging Saliva** · Winner
- **Butcher's Stain**
- **A Friend of Dorothy**
- **Jane Austen's Period Drama**

# Best Animated Short

- **The Girl Who Cried Pearls** · Winner
- **Butterfly**
- **Forevergreen**
- **Retirement Plan**
- **The Three Sisters**

# Best Original Score

- **Sinners** · Winner
- **Bugonia**
- **Frankenstein**
- **Hamnet**
- **One Battle After Another**

# Best Original Song

- **"Golden"**, KPop Demon Hunters · Winner
- **"Dear Me"**, Diane Warren: Relentless
- **"I Lied to You"**, Sinners
- **"Sweet Dreams of Joy"**, Viva Verdi!
- **"Train Dreams"**, Train Dreams

# Best Sound

- **F1** · Winner
- **Frankenstein**
- **One Battle After Another**
- **Sinners**
- **Sirāt**

# Best Casting

- **One Battle After Another** · Winner
- **Hamnet**
- **Marty Supreme**
- **The Secret Agent**
- **Sinners**

# Best Production Design

- **Frankenstein** · Winner
- **Hamnet**
- **Marty Supreme**
- **One Battle After Another**
- **Sinners**

# Best Cinematography

- **Sinners** · Winner
- **Frankenstein**
- **Marty Supreme**
- **One Battle After Another**
- **Train Dreams**

# Best Makeup and Hairstyling

- **Frankenstein** · Winner
- **Kokuho**
- **Sinners**
- **The Smashing Machine**
- **The Ugly Stepsister**

# Best Costume Design

- **Frankenstein** · Winner
- **Avatar: Fire and Ash**
- **Hamnet**
- **Marty Supreme**
- **Sinners**

# Best Film Editing

- **One Battle After Another** · Winner
- **F1**
- **Marty Supreme**
- **Sentimental Value**
- **Sinners**

# Best Visual Effects

- **Avatar: Fire and Ash** · Winner
- **F1**
- **Jurassic World Rebirth**
- **The Lost Bus**
- **Sinners**

# What won Best Picture at the 2026 Oscars?

*One Battle After Another*, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, won Best Picture at the 98th Academy Awards. It beat nine other nominees, including *Sinners*, *Hamnet*, *Marty Supreme* and Brazil's *The Secret Agent*.

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