A very happy Oscars Sunday to one and all! Tonight marks the 98th Academy Awards, when the most acclaimed films and performers of the last year vie for Hollywood’s greatest honor.
Among the projects in contention? Ryan Coogler’s epic Sinners, which, with its 16 nods, has broken an Oscars record previously shared by All About Eve (1950), Titanic (1997), and La La Land (2016), each of which received 14. There is Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, with nominations for Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Teyana Taylor, and Anderson himself, among others (it had 13 total). Frankenstein, Marty Supreme, and Sentimental Value are tied with nine, including a best-supporting-actor nod for Jacob Elordi, a best-actor look-in for Timothée Chalamet (after also being nominated last year, for his turn in 2024’s A Complete Unknown), and a first best-actress nomination for the luminous Renate Reinsve. And then there’s Hamnet (eight nods), with its sensitive direction by Chloé Zhao—who this year became only the second woman (after Jane Campion) to be nominated for best director twice—and barnstorming lead performance from Jessie Buckley.
If, going into the night, one of two categories seemed fairly predictable, most of the rest felt thrillingly up in the air—from best picture (OBAA or Sinners?) to best actor (did Michael B. Jordan’s win at the Actor Awards signal a future upset over Chalamet?), best supporting actor, and best supporting actress—and honestly, we wouldn’t have things any other way.
See all the winners at the 2026 Oscars—hosted by Conan O’Brien at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles—right here.