Nominees for the 2026 Academy Awards have been announced, and Sinners leads the pack with a record-breaking 16 nods. It’s up for Best Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actress, Supporting Actor, Original Screenplay, Costume Design, Achievement in Casting, Makeup & Hairstyling, Original Score, Cinematography, Editing, Production Design, Sound, Visual Effects, and Original Song. Other genre films […]
Nominees for the 2026 Academy Awards have been announced, and Sinners leads the pack with a record-breaking 16 nods.
It’s up for Best Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actress, Supporting Actor, Original Screenplay, Costume Design, Achievement in Casting, Makeup & Hairstyling, Original Score, Cinematography, Editing, Production Design, Sound, Visual Effects, and Original Song.
Other genre films contending for Oscars include Frankenstein with nine nominations, alongside Weapons, Bugonia, KPop Demon Hunters, Jurassic World Rebirth, and The Ugly Stepsister.
Here are all the horror highlights:
Best Picture:
- Bugonia
- F1
- Frankenstein
- Hamnet
- Marty Supreme
- One Battle
- Secret Agent
- Sentimental Value
- Sinners
- Train Dreams
Best Director:
- Chloé Zhao, Hamnet
- Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme
- Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
- Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value
- Ryan Coogler, Sinners
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
Actor in a Leading Role:
- Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme
- Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another
- Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon