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Monday, January 19, 2026

To be or not to be; who gets Oscar noms this Thursday?


It’s almost time to dust off that movie watch list. Deep-picks Danielle Brooks (The Color Purple), Lewis Pullman (Thunderbolts) and the Academy announce its Oscars nominees across all categories Thursday morning, but you don’t have to wait around for the envelope. With a track record of 82.7% accuracy at predicting nominees, here are my picks for an Oscar race that’s poised to shower One Battle After Another, Sinners, Hamnet, Frankenstein and plenty more with love. It’s a year full of vampires, zombies, monsters and demon slayers and somehow I still have a few monster favorites.


Some things to watch for: 24% of Oscar voters live outside the U.S., sequels from Wicked to Avatar will have a bad morning and voters just love Guillermo del Toro. And Sinners may be the most nominated film in all of history if it gets to 15, given it definitely will take a nomination in a new category, Best Casting in addition to almost all categories. The record for the most Oscar nominations for a film in one year is 14 (All About Eve (1950), Titanic (1997), and La La Land (2016). Nominations for the 98th Academy Awards will be announced on Thursday, January 22, 2026, at 5:30 a.m. PT (8:30 a.m. ET).

The nominees will be:


Best Picture

  1. Bugonia

  2. Frankenstein

  3. Hamnet

  4. It Was Just an Accident 

  5. Marty Supreme

  6. One Battle After Another

  7. Sentimental Value

  8. Sinners

  9. The Secret Agent

  10. Train Dreams

Surprise: Weapons
Shocker: F1

Best Director

  1. Ryan Coogler (Sinners)

  2. Jafar Panahi (It Was Just an Accident)

  3. Guillermo del Toro (Frankenstein)

  4. Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another)

  5. Chloe Zhao (Hamnet)

Surprise: Josh Safdie (Marty Supreme)

Shocker: Joachim Trier (Sentimental Value)


Best Actor

  1. Timothee Chalamet (Marty Supreme)

  2. Leonardo DiCaprio (One Battle After Another)

  3. Michael B. Jordan (Sinners)

  4. Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent)

  5. Jesse Plemens (Bugonia)

Surprise: Ethan Hawk (BlueMoon) or Joel Edgerton (Train Dreams)
Shocker: Dwayne Johnson (The Smashing Machine)


Best Actress

  1. Jessie Buckley (Hamnet)

  2. Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You)

  3. Chase Infiniti (One Battle After Another)

  4. Renate Reinsve (Sentimental Value)

  5. Emma Stone (Bugonia)

Surprise: Kate Hudson (Song Sung Blue)
Shocker: Eva Victor (Sorry, Baby)


Best Supporting Actor

  1. Benicio Del Toro (One Battle After Another)

  2. Jacob Elordi (Frankenstein)

  3. Paul Mescal (Hamnet)

  4. Sean Penn (One Battle After Another)

  5. Stellan Skarsgard (Sentimental Value)

Surprise: Adam Sandler (Jay Kelly)
Shocker: Miles Canton (Sinners)


Best Supporting Actress

  1. Odessa A'zion (Marty Supreme)

  2. Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas (Sentimental Value)

  3. Amy Madigan (Weapons)

  4. Wuni Mosaku (Sinners)

  5. Teyana Taylor (One Battle After Another)

Surprise: Ariana Grande (Wicked: For Good)

Shocker: Elle Fanning (Sentimental Value)


Best Original Screenplay

  1. It Was Just An Accident

  2. Marty Supreme

  3. Sentimental Value

  4. Sinners

  5. Weapons

Best Adapted Screenplay

  1. Bugonia

  2. Frankenstein

  3. Hamnet

  4. One Battle After Another

  5. Train Dreams

Best Animated Feature

  1. Arco

  2. K-Pop Demon Hunters

  3. Demon Slayer

  4. Little Amélie or the Character of Rain

  5. Zootopia 2



Best Casting

  1. Hamnet

  2. Marty Supreme

  3. One Battler After Another

  4. Sinners

  5. Sirat


Best International Feature

  1. It Was Just An Accident (France), Neon

  2. No Other Choice (South Korea), Neon

  3. Sentimental Value (Norway), Neon

  4. Sirat (Spain), Neon

  5. The Secret Agent (Brazil), Neon

Best Documentary

  1. 2000 Meters to Andriivka, PBS

  2. The Alabama Solution, HBO

  3. Apocalypse in the Tropics, Netflix

  4. My Undesirable Friends, No distribution

  5. The Perfect Neighbour, Netflix

Best Cinematography

  1. Frankenstein

  2. Hamnet

  3. One Battle After Another

  4. Sinners

  5. Train Dreams


Best Production Design

  1. Avatar: Fire & Ash

  2. Frankenstein

  3. Hamnet

  4. Marty Supreme

  5. Sinners

Best Film Editing

  1. F1

  2. Hamnet

  3. Marty Supreme

  4. One Battle After Another

  5. Sinners

Best Score

  1. Frankenstein

  2. Hamnet

  3. One Battle After Another

  4. Sinners

  5. Sirat


Best Song

  1. Dear Me (Diane Warren: Relentless)

  2. Dream as One (Avatar: Fire & Ash)

  3. I Lied to You (Sinners)

  4. The Girl in the Bubble (Wicked: For Good)

  5. Train Dreams (Train Dreams)


Best Sound

  1. F1

  2. Frankenstein

  3. One Battle After Another

  4. Sinners

  5. Sirat

Best Costume

  1. Frankenstein

  2. Hamnet

  3. Hedda

  4. Sinners

  5. Wicked: for Good

Best Visual Effects

  1. Avatar: Fire and Ash

  2. F1

  3. Frankenstein

  4. Sinners

  5. Lost Bus

Best Documentary Short

  1. All the Empty Rooms

  2. All the Walls Came Down

  3. Armed Only with a Camera

  4. Cashing Out

  5. The Devil is Busy

Best Animated Short

  1. Autokar

  2. Butterfly (Papillon)

  3. Cardboard

  4. Eiru

  5. The Girl Who Cried Pearls

Best Live Action Short

  1. Ado

  2. Amerla

  3. Beyond Silence

  4. Butterfly on a Wheel

  5. The Boy with White Skin

Best Makeup & Hairstyling

  1. Frankenstein

  2. Kokuho

  3. Sinners

  4. The Smashing Machine

  5. Wicked: for Good



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