Oscar Nominations 2026: Meet the Best Picture nominees - One Battle After Another, Sinners and more

The 98th Academy Awards nominations are out, and the top contenders in the Best Picture category are: Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another, Ryan Coogler's Sinners, and many more.

Ryan Coogler’s film Sinners created history with 16 nods, the most any film has got. The action thriller features Michael B Jordan portraying twin brothers, Smoke and Stack. Both leave their chaotic and frustrating lives behind and seek a fresh start in their Mississippi hometown. The shocking twist comes when they discover that a rival is already waiting for them.

Paul Thomas Anderson's film One Battle After Another, which stars Leonardo DiCaprio, received 13 nominations for the 98th Academy Awards. It is a comedy-action thriller that revolves around Bob, who stays with his vigorous and introverted daughter, Willa (Chase Infiniti). After his daughter, Willa, goes missing, Bob's life turns upside down, and he embarks on a desperate mission to find her.

The 2025 Norwegian drama film Sentimental Value received nine Oscar nominations. It tells the story of two disturbed sisters, Nora and Agnes, played by Renate Reinsve and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, respectively, whose lives are changed after their mother's demise. Following the tragedy, their absent filmmaker father, Gustav, comes back as he tries to reconnect by casting Nora in his new film.

Chloe Zhao is again in the Oscar's race with Hamnet, which had received eight nominations for the 98th Academy Awards.The film is based on the life story of the great William Shakespeare and his beloved wife, Agnes, who celebrates the birth of their son, Hamnet, with immense joy. However, when Hamnet died at a young age, Shakespeare took it as a motivation and started working on his esteemed masterpiece, Hamlet.

Directed by Josh Safdie and starring Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme secured nine nominations. In the movie, Timothée plays Marty, a charismatic New York shoe salesman whose dream is to become the world's greatest table tennis player from NYC's Lower East Side, who goes through all the hard work to make his dream come true.

Continuing to dominate this award season, this critically acclaimed Brazilian film earned 4 Oscar nominations. It showcases Wagner Moura as Armando, a former university professor and widower who moves from São Paulo to Recife during Carnival to escape his disturbing past and start a new life. He eventually didn't find peace there either.

Helmed by Clint Bentley, Train Dreams received four nominations. Joel Edgerton stars as Robert Grainier, a railroad labourer who is living a shattered life after he loses his wife and daughter in a devastating forest fire. Heartbroken, Grainier decided to work in the forest for the rest of his life while starting to build a new life for himself.

The Netflix film Frankenstein, directed by Guillermo del Toro, received nine Oscar nominations. The horrific sci-fi thriller is based on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein. It follows the brilliant but self-centred scientist Victor Frankenstein, played by Oscar Isaac, who brings a monstrous creature to life through his creation.

Bugonia received 4 Academy Award nominations. A dark satirical film focuses on a conspiracy theorist, Teddy (Jesse Plemons), who kidnaps pharmaceutical CEO Michelle (Emma Stone) while believing she's an alien orchestrating the downfall of bees and humanity.

Formula 1 racing drama, F1, has received four Oscar nominations. It stars Brad Pitt as Sonny Hayes, an F1 driver from the 1990s who retires after an accident on the track that nearly ends his career. Later, after thirty years, the owner of a struggling Formula One team, APXGP, owned by his former teammate Rubén (Javier Bardem), convinced him to return to the racetrack to assist them.