The 2026 Academy Awards are set to happen on Sunday, with a number of main classes nonetheless thought of carefully contested because the movie business prepares for the ceremony.
Political thriller ‘One Battle After One other’ is extensively seen because the main contender for Finest Image after securing plenty of awards in the course of the season.
Nevertheless, the movie faces competitors from vampire horror Sinners, which has acquired a file 16 nominations.
Irish actor Jessie Buckley is taken into account the frontrunner for greatest actress for her efficiency in Hamnet, after a powerful awards season marketing campaign.
Different appearing classes stay much less predictable. Michael B Jordan and Timothée Chalamet are seen as main contenders for greatest actor.
Earlier awards have been cut up between a number of performers, together with Wagner Moura on the Golden Globes and Robert Aramayo on the Bafta awards, though Aramayo’s movie has not but been launched in the USA.
Current momentum has additionally constructed round Jordan after he received on the Actor Awards for his position in Sinners.
Within the supporting classes, Sean Penn is taken into account a powerful candidate for greatest supporting actor for his position in One Battle After One other. He has already received awards at each the Baftas and the Actor Awards for his portrayal of Colonel Lockjaw.
The supporting actress class is thought to be notably aggressive. Teyana Taylor received the Golden Globe for One Battle After One other, whereas Wunmi Mosaku acquired the Bafta for Sinners, and Amy Madigan received at each the Critics’ Selection and Actor Awards for Weapons.
The ceremony will likely be hosted by Conan O’Brien, who returns after presenting the occasion in 2025. A number of actors are scheduled to current awards, together with Nicole Kidman, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Robert Downey Jr, Anne Hathaway and Chris Evans.
Two songs nominated for Finest Authentic Music will likely be carried out in the course of the ceremony. They embody I Lied to You from Sinners and Golden from KPop Demon Hunters.
The awards recognise filmmaking achievements from the earlier calendar 12 months and are voted on by greater than 11,000 members of the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences.
The nominees for the 98th Academy Awards have been introduced on January 22, 2026, on the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, by actress Danielle Brooks and actor Lewis Pullman.
The sixteen nominations acquired by Sinners are probably the most in Oscar historical past, surpassing the earlier file of fourteen shared by All About Eve (1950), Titanic (1997), and La La Land (2016). It additionally broke the file for many Black people nominated for a single movie at ten. The movie’s studio, Warner Bros. Photos, earned thirty nominations, tying its personal file set in 2005.
