Updated March 13, 2026 at 3:43 PM EDT
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Below, you can find details and coverage of the 14 films nominated in six major categories: best picture, best actor and actress, best supporting actor and actress, and best director. Dive in!
Sinners
The gist: Ryan Coogler's movie stars Michael B. Jordan playing twin brothers who open a 1930s juke joint. And opening night does not go as planned when a bloodthirsty menace appears outside. (Vampires 鈥� we're talking about vampires.)
16 nominations: actor in a leading role, actor in a supporting role, actress in a supporting role, casting, cinematography, costume design, directing, film editing, makeup and hairstyling, original score, original song, best picture, production design, sound, visual effects, original screenplay
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One Battle After Another
The gist: Paul Thomas Anderson's action thriller stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a washed up ex-revolutionary whose past comes to haunt him. DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro and Teyana Taylor are all nominated for their performances.
13 nominations: actor in a leading role, actor in a supporting role, another actor in a supporting role, actress in a supporting role, casting, cinematography, directing, film editing, original score, best picture, production design, sound, adapted screenplay
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Frankenstein
The gist: Guillermo del Toro's take on the Mary Shelley classic. Jacob Elordi plays the creature and Oscar Isaac is the scientist.
9 nominations: actor in a supporting role, cinematography, costume design, makeup and hairstyling, original score, best picture, production design, sound, adapted screenplay
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Marty Supreme
The gist: Timoth茅e Chalamet plays a working-class heel aiming to become a table tennis champion in the 1950s.
9 nominations: actor in a leading role, casting, cinematography, costume design, directing, film editing, best picture, production design, original screenplay
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Sentimental Value
The gist: Stellan Skarsg氓rd is a filmmaker attempting to reconnect with his estranged daughters, proving that at the very least, the tension between art and parenthood is complicated. Skarsg氓rd, Renate Reinsve, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas and Elle Fanning are all nominated for their performances.
9 nominations: actor in a supporting role, actress in a leading role, actress in a supporting role, actress in a supporting role, directing, film editing, best international feature film, best picture, original screenplay
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Hamnet
The gist: A young English couple meets, falls in love, has children and suffers an unspeakable tragedy. One of them happens to be William Shakespeare, who goes on to write Hamlet. Jessie Buckley plays his wife.
8 nominations: actress in a leading role, casting, costume design, directing, original score, best picture, production design, adapted screenplay
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Bugonia
The gist: Yorgos Lanthimos' flick stars Emma Stone as a high-powered CEO who is kidnapped by conspiracy theorists and accused of being an alien.
4 nominations: actress in a leading role, original score, best picture, adapted screenplay
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F1
The gist: Brad Pitt plays a veteran F1 driver who clashes with a young hotshot, played by Damson Idris.
4 nominations: film editing, best picture, sound, visual effects
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The Secret Agent
The gist: Set in 1977, Wagner Moura plays a former researcher caught in the political turmoil of the Brazilian military dictatorship.
4 nominations: actor in a leading role, casting, best international feature film, best picture
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Train Dreams
The gist: Joel Edgerton plays a logger and railroad worker in the rapidly-changing America of the early 20th century.
4 nominations: cinematography, original song, best picture, adapted screenplay
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Blue Moon
The gist: Directed by Richard Linklater, Ethan Hawke plays lyricist Lorenz Hart on the worst night of his life 鈥� the opening of Oklahoma! on Broadway 鈥� after his long-term collaborator Richard Rodgers (Andrew Scott) has forged a new partnership with Oscar Hammerstein II.
2 nominations: actor in a leading role, original screenplay
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If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
The gist: Rose Byrne plays a therapist shouldering all the responsibility of caring for her ill daughter while her emotionally absent husband is away for work.
1 nomination: actress in a leading role
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Song Sung Blue
The gist: Kate Hudson plays a down-on-her luck musician who teams up with Hugh Jackman to form a Neil Diamond tribute band.
1 nomination: actress in a leading role
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Weapons
The gist: Seventeen children leave their homes and vanish into the suburban night in this horror film.
1 nomination: actress in a supporting role
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