Sinners leads 2026 Oscar nominations with record-breaking 16 nods and it's been joined by a surprise Apple TV movie on the Best Picture shortlist

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Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:40:19 +0000

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The 2026 Oscar nominees list has been revealed and Sinners' record-breaking haul isn't the biggest talking point for me.

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2026 Oscar nominations have been revealed Sinners leads the pack with a record-breaking 16 nods There's a surprise entry among this year's Best Picture nominees

The 2026 Oscar nominations have been announced and, while Sinners has received a record-breaking 16 nominations, it's not the movie or talking
point that should be dominating online discussions.

Revealed today (January 22), this year's Academy Award nominees list is
filled with names that many of us expected to see.

As mentioned, Sinners , the Ryan Coogler-directed supernatural
thriller/period drama that's out now on HBO Max , leads the way with 16 award nods. That's the most in Oscar history, too, with Sinners one of the 35 best movies we saw in 2025 surpassing the 14 nominations that All About Eve (1950), Titanic (1997), and La La Land (2016) share.

As I alluded to, though, despite Sinners ' record-breaking nomination haul, there's a bigger talking point at hand. That being, F1: The Movie receiving
an unexpected nod for this year's Best Picture award. The Brad Pitt-starring F1 movie has been nominated for Best Picture ahead of the 2026 Oscars (Image credit: Apple Original Films/Warner Bros. Pictures)

Now, this isn't to say that F1 , which you can watch right now on Apple TV , doesn't deserve to be put forward for such a prestigious prize. My surprise stems from the fact that, until now, it's largely been nominated for behind-the-camera awards, including Best Sound, Best Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Stunts, and Best Visual Effects.

In fact, the only time the Apple Original Movie has earned a Best Picture nod was at the Astra Midseason Film Awards. It isn't up for the Best Film
accolade at the 2026 BAFTAs, nor did it get put forward for similar gongs at this year's Critics Choice Awards or Golden Globes. That makes its Best Picture Oscar nomination all the more remarkable.

So, what chance does it have of pulling off an almighty shock at this year's Oscars and landing Apple its second Best Picture Academy Award after CODA 's hugely unexpected win in 2022 ? They're effectively zero, in my view. From Netflix hits like Frankenstein and Train Dreams , to Sinners and its Warner Bros. sibling One Battle after Another , and even A24's Marty Supreme , the competition is simply too strong. It's a huge achievement for F1 to be nominated for this type of award and, quite simply, Apple should take pride
in the fact that it has been. 2026 Oscars nomination list in full: every
movie that's up for an Academy Award One Battle After Another is the second-most nominated film for this year's Academy Awards (Image credit: Warner Bros. Pictures)

Best Picture Bugonia Frankenstein F1 Hamnet Marty Supreme One Battle After Another The Secret Agent Sentimental Value Sinners Train Dreams

Best Actor Timothe Chalamet Marty Supreme Leonardo DiCaprio One Battle After Another Ethan Hawke Blue Moon Michael B Jordan Sinners Wagner Moura The Secret Agent

Best Actress 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

Best Supporting Actress Elle Fanning Sentimental Value Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas Sentimental Value Amy Madigan Weapons Wunmi Mosaku Sinners Teyana Taylor One Battle After Another

Best Supporting Actor Benicio del Toro One Battle After Another Jacob
Elordi Frankenstein Delroy Lindo Sinners Sean Penn One Battle After
Another Stellan Skarsgrd Sentimental Value

Best Casting Hamnet Marty Supreme One Battle After Another Sinners The
Secret Agent

Best Director Paul Thomas Anderson One Battle After Another Ryan Coogler Sinners Josh Safdie Marty Supreme Joachim Trier Sentimental Value Chlo Zhao
Hamnet

Best Adapted Screenplay Bugonia Frankenstein Hamnet One Battle After Another Train Dreams

Best Original Screenplay Blue Moon It Was Just an Accident Marty Supreme Sentimental Value Sinners

Best Original Song Dear Me Diane Warren: Relentless Golden KPop Demon Hunters I Lied to You Sinners Sweet Dreams of Joy Viva Verdi! Train Dreams Train Dreams

Best Original Score Bugonia Frankenstein Hamnet One Battle After Another Sinners

Best International Feature It Was Just an Accident Sentimental Value Sirt
The Secret Agent The Voice of Hind Rajab

Best Animated Feature Arco Elio KPop Demon Hunters Little Amlie Zootopia 2

Best Documentary Feature Come See Me in the Good Light Cutting Through the Rocks Mr. Nobody Against Putin The Alabama Solution The Perfect Neighbor

Best Costume Design Avatar: Fire and Ash Frankenstein Hamnet Marty Supreme Sinners

Best Make-Up and Hairstyling Frankenstein Kokuho Sinners The Smashing
Machine The Ugly Stepsister

Best Production Design Frankenstein Hamnet Marty Supreme One Battle After Another Sinners

Best Sound Frankenstein F1 One Battle After Another Sinners Sirt

Best Editing F1 Marty Supreme One Battle After Another Sentimental Value Sinners

Best Cinematography Frankenstein Marty Supreme One Battle After Another Sinners Train Dreams

Best Visual Effects Avatar: Fire and Ash F1 Jurassic World Rebirth Sinners The Lost Bus

Best Live-Action Short A Friend of Dorothy Butcher's Stain Jane Austin's Period Drama The Singers Two People Exchanging Saliva

Best Animated Short Butterfly Forevergreen Retirement Plan The Girl Who
Cried Pearls The Three Sisters

Best Documentary Short All the Empty Rooms Armed Only with a Camera: The
Life and Death of Brent Renaud Children No More: Were and Are Gone The Devil Is Busy Perfectly a Strangeness

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