Greetings, guys! Today, I’ll be discussing the 2026 Academy Award nominations and who I think will win. Let’s go!

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

I think the winner will either be Sinners, Hamnet, or One Battle After Another.

Best Actor – Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme), Leonardo DiCaprio (One Battle After Another), Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon), Michael B. Jordan (Sinners), Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent)

I think Timothée will win this one.

Best Supporting Actor – Benicio del Toro (One Battle After Another), Jacob Elordi (Frankenstein), Delroy Lindo (Sinners), Sean Penn (One Battle After Another), Stellan Skarsgård (Sentimental Value)

I think either Sean Penn or Jacob Elordi will take it.

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)

I think Jessie Buckley will take it.

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

I believe it’ll be Teyana Taylor who wins.

Best Animated Feature –
Arco, Elio, K-Pop Demon Hunters, Little Amélie or the Character of Rain, Zootopia 2

I believe K-Pop Demon Hunters will take this one.

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

I believe it’ll be One Battle After Another or Train Dreams.

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

I believe Frankenstein takes this one.

Best Directing – Chloé Zhao (Hamnet), Josh Safdie (Marty Supreme), Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another), Joachim Trier (Sentimental Value), Ryan Coogler (Sinners)

I believe this one will go to Paul Thomas Anderson.

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

I think this’ll go to One Battle After Another.

Best International Film – The Secret Agent (Brazil), It Was Just an Accident (France), Sentimental Value (Norway), Sirāt (Spain), The Voice of Hind Rajab (Tunisia)

I think The Secret Agent will take this one home.

Best Casting – Hamnet (Nina Gold), Marty Supreme (Jennifer Venditti), One Battle After Another (Cassandra Kulukundis), The Secret Agent (Gabriel Domingues), Sinners (Francine Maisler)

I think the winner will be Sinners.

Best Makeup & Hairstyling – Frankenstein (Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel, and Cliona Furey), Kokuho (Kyoko Toyokawa, Naomi Hibino, and Tadashi Nishimatsu), Sinners (Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine, and Shunika Terry), The Smashing Machine (Kazu Hiro, Glen Griffin, and Bjoern Rehbein), The Ugly Stepsister (Thomas Foldberg and Anne Cathrine Sauerberg)

I believe Frankenstein takes this one, and I hope so.

Best Original Score – Bugonia (Jerskin Fendrix), Frankenstein (Alexandre Desplat), Hamnet (Max Richter), One Battle After Another (Jonny Greenwood), Sinners (Ludwig Göransson)

I think this one’s going to Sinners.

Best Original Song –

“Dear Me” from Diane Warren: Relentless; music and lyrics by Diane Warren
“Golden” from K-Pop Demon Hunters; music and lyrics by EJAE, Mark Sonnenblick, Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seon, and Teddy Park
“I Lied to You” from Sinners; music and lyrics by Raphael Saadiq and Ludwig Göransson
“Sweet Dreams of Joy” from Viva Verdi!; music and lyrics by Nicholas Pike
“Train Dreams” from Train Dreams; music by Nick Cave and Bryce Dessner; lyrics by Nick Cave

I want this one to go to “I Lied to You,” but they’re probably going to give it to “Golden.”

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

I believe this one goes to either Sinners or One Battle After Another.

Best Sound – F1, Frankenstein, One Battle After Another, Sinners, Sirāt

I believe this goes again to One Battle After Another or Sinners.

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

I believe the winner will be Avatar: Fire and Ash.

Best Adapted Screenplay – Bugonia, screenplay by Will Tracy; Frankenstein, written for the screen by Guillermo del Toro; Hamnet, screenplay by Chloé Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell; One Battle After Another, written by Paul Thomas Anderson; Train Dreams, screenplay by Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar

I believe this will go to One Battle After Another.

Best Original Screenplay – Blue Moon, written by Robert Kaplow; It Was Just an Accident, written by Jafar Panahi (script collaborators: Nader Saïvar, Shadmehr Rastin, and Mehdi Mahmoudian); Marty Supreme, written by Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie; Sentimental Value, written by Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier; Sinners, written by Ryan Coogler

I believe this’ll go to Sinners.

That’s who I think will win at the Academy Awards. Let’s see if the predictions are right this March, and I hope yours are too. Good luck!