Oscars 2026 Nominations: See Which Rich People Will Pretend They Don’t Care About Winning

Buckle up, cinephiles and professional award-watchers, because the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences just dropped its annual list of films we’re all forced to pretend we’ve seen at parties, and this year’s lineup is an absolute dumpster fire of pretentiousness. 🎭 The 2026 Oscar nominations have arrived, and frankly, I’m already exhausted just looking at the sheer number of categories designed to ensure every studio exec gets a participation trophy.

Leading the charge of absolute ridiculousness is Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, a film that apparently decided the best way to tackle the vampire genre was to give it 16 nominations. Yes, you read that right. Sixteen. It’s the most nominations in history, mostly because the Academy realized they were running out of ways to give awards to Marvel movies and decided to invent a “Best Casting” category just to pad the stats. 🧛‍♂️ It’s a movie about bloodsuckers, but the real vampires are the publicists behind this thing, draining the life out of every other film in the race. Michael B. Jordan got nominated, obviously, because at this point, if he stands in front of a camera for five minutes, he gets a golden statue. 🙄

Not far behind in the “movies that sound like a fever dream” department is Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, clocking in with 13 nominations. 🤯 This political comedy-drama apparently charmed everyone by checking every single “Oscar Bait” box: it stars Leonardo DiCaprio (who is still trying to prove he’s an actor and not just a guy who yells at women in front of green screens), Sean Penn (controversy aside, apparently), and Benicio Del Toro (the king of squinting intensely). It won the Golden Globe for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy), which proves that the HFPA will award literally anything if it has a few famous faces and a deep political message.

Here is the full list of movies you’ll claim to have watched on Letterboxd but actually fell asleep to:

Best Picture

• Bugonia (Sounds like a B-movie from 1954)
• F1 (Zoom zoom, make it stop)
• Frankenstein (The 80th remake, because we needed another one)
• Hamnet (Shakespeare’s kid, probably very sad)
• Marty Supreme (A biopic for a guy named Marty? Groundbreaking.)
• One Battle After Another (The title suggests a lot of yelling)
• The Secret Agent (Spoiler: He’s a spy. 🕵️‍♂️)
• Sentimental Value (Too much crying, not enough explosions)
• Sinners (Vampires win again)
• Train Dreams (Literally watching paint dry, but on a train)

Best Director

• Chloe Zhao, Nomadland (She won recently, give someone else a turn!)
• Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme (Probably yelled “UNCLE BENNY” at the camera for two hours)
• Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another (The Academy’s favorite hipster auteur)
• Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value (Scandinavian sadness is peak Oscar)
• Ryan Coogler, Sinners (The man who turned bloodsucking into a prestige art form)

Best Actor

• Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme (He’s so skinny he could be the pencil in the drawing of the movie)
• Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another (Did he eat a raw animal this time? The suspense is killing me)
• Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon (The patron saint of divorced dads)
• Michael B. Jordan, Sinners (See above comments about his total domination)
• Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent (Looking mysterious and sweaty)

Best Actress

• Jessie Buckley, Hamnet (Guaranteed to be 3 hours of intense staring)
• Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (This title alone deserves a medal)
• Kate Hudson, Song Sung Blue (Proving she can sing and probably cry)
• Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value (More Scandinavian crying!)
• Emma Stone, Bugonia (Because she needs another one. She’s not tired, right?)

Best Supporting Actor

• Benicio Del Toro, One Battle After Another (Will he mumble? Yes.)
• Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein (Just standing there looking tall and traumatized)
• Delroy Lindo, Sinners (A national treasure who deserves better than vampires)
• Sean Penn, One Battle After Another (Yelling intensifies)
• Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value (Proud dad energy)

Best Supporting Actress

• Elle Fanning, Sentimental Value (The blonde one from the Barbie movie)
• Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value (Try saying that name five times fast)
• Amy Madigan, Weapons (Sounds intense)
• Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners (Probably the only one with common sense in the film)
• Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another (Adding flavor to the white whale of a movie)

Best Original Screenplay

• Blue Moon
• It Was Just an Accident (The Oscar voters definitely relate to this)
• Marty Supreme
• Sentimental Value
• Sinners

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Bugonia
• Frankenstein
• Hamnet
• One Battle After Another
• Train Dreams

Best Animated Feature

• Arco
• Elio
• KPop Demon Hunters (Finally, a movie for the stans)
• Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (Too whimsical for its own good)
• Zootopia 2 (Disney needed a cash cow 🐄)

Best International Feature

• The Secret Agent
• It Was Just an Accident
• Sentimental Value
• Sirat
• The Voice of Hind Rajab

Best Documentary

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

Best Documentary Short

• “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 Original Song

• “Dear Me” from Diane Warren: Relentless (Diane is back, accept it)
• “Golden” from Kpop Demon Hunters (Catchy, probably)
• “I Lied to You” from Sinners (The theme song for the Academy)
• “Sweet Dreams of Joy” from Viva Verdi
• “Train Dreams” from Train Dreams

Best Original Score

• Bugonia
• Frankenstein
• Hamnet
• One Battle After Another
• Sinners

Best Sound

• F1
• Frankenstein
• One Battle After Another
• Sinners
• Sirat

Best Animated Short

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

Best Production Design

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

Best Live-Action Short

• “Butcher’s Stain”
• “A Friend of Dorothy”
• “Jane Austen’s Period Drama”
• “The Singers”
• “Two People Exchanging Saliva” (I’m sorry, what?)

Best Cinematography

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

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

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

Best Costume Design

• Avatar: Fire and Ash (Blue people clothes)
• Frankenstein
• Hamnet
• Marty Supreme
• Sinners

Best Editing

• F1
• Marty Supreme
• One Battle After Another
• Sentimental Value
• Sinners

Best Visual Effects

• Avatar: Fire and Ash (Pandora is back, baby!)
• F1
• Jurassic World Rebirth (Dinosaurs. Again. 🦖)
• The Lost Bus
• Sinners (CGI blood counts, right?)

Best Casting (The new category for people who like to hire their friends)

• Hamnet
• Marty Supreme
• One Battle After Another
• The Secret Agent
• Sinners

The ceremony will be hosted by Conan O’Brien, who will likely spend the entire night roasting these movie titles because honestly, what else is there to do? The show airs March 16, so mark your calendars to watch Leo lose again. 🏆📉