Revolutionaries, monsters, vampires and accused aliens will dominate this year’s Oscar nominations, with two films from Warner Bros. competing to make their mark in Academy history.
Ryan Coogler’s bold vampire drama “Sinners” is expected to make Academy Awards history with an astonishing 15 nominations, making it the most nominated film in history, surpassing “All About Eve,” “Titanic” and “La La Land.” The Michael B. Jordan-starring thriller could appear in major categories including Best Picture, Best Director and All-Craft, as well as supporting actor nominations for Miles Caton and Delroy Lindo, and a second original song nomination, which could make those numbers even bigger.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s political blockbuster One Battle After Another is expected to follow this season by far, earning 13 nominations. The epic drama could achieve the rare feat of having five actors – Leonardo DiCaprio, Chase Infinity, Benicio del Toro, Sean Penn and Teyana Taylor – ranked in all four acting categories, making it only the 16th film in Oscar history to achieve this honor and the first since 2013’s “American Hustle.”
Chloe Zhao’s intimate grief drama “Hamnet” is expected to do well overall, with former Oscar-winning actress Chloe Zhao set to become the second woman to be nominated for multiple directorial awards. The Shakespeare-inspired film could receive nominations for leading actress Jessie Buckley and supporting actor for Paul Mescal, along with technical reviews.
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein and Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme round out the competitive Best Director lineup, while the 10 Best Picture categories reflect the year’s diversity of genres, from the racing spectacle F1 to Emma Stone’s sci-fi comedy Bugonia to the Brazilian international thriller The Secret Agent.
Four films are expected to receive 10 or more nominations this year, making this the second time in Oscar history. First, in 2019, “Joker” topped the list with 11 reviews, followed by “The Irishman,” “1917” and “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” with 10 each.
This year’s Oscar nominations are expected to be one of the most eclectic and competitive, spanning political dramas, creature features, sports spectacles and intimate character portrayals.
Variety’s final predictions are as follows (in alphabetical order):
Official rankings can be viewed on each category page (scheduled to be updated from January 20th to 21st).
Note: All producers and artisans credited are subject to change. The final decision will be made by the Academy and announced as part of the nominations announcement.
Best work award
Timothée Chalamet “Marty Supreme”
“Bugonia” (featured feature)
Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone, Lars Knudsen
“F1” (Apple Original Films/Warner Bros.)
Jerry Bruckheimer, Dede Gardner, Joseph Kosinski, Jeremy Kleiner, Brad Pitt
“Frankenstein” (Netflix)
Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale, Scott Stuber
“Hamnet” (notable feature)
Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris, Sam Mendes, Steven Spielberg, Nicholas Gonda
“Marty Supreme” (A24)
Ronald Bronstein, Eli Bush, Timothée Chalamet, Anthony Katagas, Josh Safdie
“One Battle After Another” (Warner Bros.)
Adam Somner, Sarah Murphy, Paul Thomas Anderson
“The Secret Agent” (Neon)
Emily Lesclaw
“Sentimental Value” (Neon)
Maria Ekelhofd, Andrea Berendzen Ottmar
“Sinners” (Warner Bros.)
Ryan Coogler, Gingy Coogler, Seb Ohanian
“Train Dreams” (Netflix)
Marissa McMahon, Teddy Schwartzman, Willian Janowitz, Ashley Shleifer, Michael Heimler
Alternative: “Blue Moon”
Achievements in supervision
“Sentimental Value” directed by Joachim Trier
Paul Thomas Anderson “One Battle After Another”
Ryan Coogler “Sinners”
Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein”
Joachim Trier “Sentimental Value”
Chloe Zhao “Hamnet”
Substitute: Josh Safdie “Marty Supreme”
main actor
Ethan Hawke as Lorenz Hart in “Blue Moon”
Timothée Chalamet “Marty Supreme”
Leonardo DiCaprio “One Battle After Another”
Ethan Hawke “Blue Moon”
Michael B. Jordan “Sinners”
Wagner Moura “The Secret Agent”
Alternative song: Jesse Plemons “Bugonia”
Leading actress
Rose Byrne: “If I had legs, I’d kick you.”
Jesse Buckley “Hamnet”
Rose Byrne: “If I had legs, I’d kick you.”
Chase Infinity “One Battle After Another”
Renate Rheinwe “Sentimental Value”
Emma Stone “Bugonia”
Alternative song: Kate Hudson “Son San Bleu”
supporting actor
Paul Mescal in Hamnet
Featured features
Benicio Del Toro “One Battle After Another”
Jacob Elordi “Frankenstein”
Paul Mescal “Hamnet”
Sean Penn “One Battle After Another”
Stellan Skarsgård “Sentimental Value”
Alternative song: Andrew Scott “Blue Moon”
supporting actress
Ariana Grande plays Glinda in “WICKED FOR GOOD”
Ariana Grande “Wicked: For Good”
Inga Ebsdotter Lilias “Sentimental Value”
Amy Madigan “Weapons”
Shigesaku Kumomi “Sinners”
Teyana Taylor “One Battle After Another”
Substitute: Gwyneth Paltrow “Marty Supreme”
original script
Josh Brolin “Weapons”
“Blue Moon” (Robert Kaprow)
“Marty Supreme” (Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie)
“Sentimental Value” (Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt)
“Sinners” (Ryan Coogler)
“Weapons” (Zack Creger)
Alternative: “Secret Agent”
adapted screenplay
Emma Stone in “Bugonia”
“Bugonia” (Will Tracy)
“Frankenstein” (Guillermo del Toro)
“Hamnet” (Maggie O’Farrell, Chloe Zhao)
“One Battle After Another” (Paul Thomas Anderson)
“Train Dreams” (Clint Bentley, Greg Kweder)
Alternative: “Nuremberg”
casting
“Hamnet”
“Hamnet” (Nina Gold)
“Marty Supreme” (Jennifer Venditti)
“Battle after battle” (Cassandra Kurukundis)
“The Secret Agent” (Gabriel Dominguez)
“Sinners” (Francine Meisler)
Alternative: “Silaat”
Animation feature
“Zootopia 2” (Walt Disney Pictures)
“Arco” (Ugo Bienvenue, Felix de Givry, Sophia Mass, Natalie Portman)
“Elio” (Mary Alice Drumm, Adrian Molina, Madeleina Sharafian, Domy Cee)
“KPop Demon Hunters” (Chris Appelhans, Maggie Kang, Michelle LM Wong)
“Little Amelie, or the Rain Characters” (Claire Lacombe, Edwina Liard, Henri Magallon, Nydia Santiago, Mairis Valade)
“Zootopia 2” (Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Yvette Merino)
Alternative work: “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba: Mugen Castle”
production design
Frankenstein. Jacob Elordi as Frankenstein’s Creature. Cr. Ken Woroner/Netflix © 2025.
Ken Woroner/Netflix
“Bugonia” (James Price, Prue Howard, Sarah Carter)
Frankenstein (Tamara Deverell, Shane Viau)
“Hamnet” (Fiona Crombie, Alice Felton)
“Marty Supreme” (Jack Fisk, Adam Willis)
“Sinners” (Hannah Breechler, Monique Champagne)
Alternative: “Evil: For Good”
Cinematography
“Train Dreams” (Netflix)
“Frankenstein” (Dan Laustsen)
“Marty Supreme” (Darius Khondji)
“One Battle After Another” (Michael Bauman)
“Sinners” (Autumn Gerard Alcapeau)
“Dream Train” (Adolfo Veloso)
Alternative: “Hamnet”
costume design
“Nuremberg” (Sony Pictures Classics)
“Frankenstein” (Kate Hawley)
“Hamnet” (Malgosia Trzanska)
“Nuremberg” (Bartholomew Caris)
“Sinners” (Ruth E. Carter)
“Wicked: For Good” (Paul Tazewell)
Alternative: “Ang Lee’s Will”
movie editing
“One Battle After Another” (Warner Bros.)
“F1” (Steven Milione)
“Hamnet” (Afonso Gonsalves, Chloe Zhao)
“Marty Supreme” (Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie)
“One Battle After Another” (Andy Jurgensen)
“Sinners” (Michael P. Shober)
Alternative: “Frankenstein”
makeup and hair styling
Dwayne Johnson in “Smashing Machine”
Frankenstein (Mike Hill, Cliona Fury, Jordan Samuel)
“Marty Supreme” (Mike Fontaine, Kay Georgiou, Kyla Pachenko)
“Sinners” (Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine, Shunica Terry)
“The Smashing Machine” (Kaz Hiro, Glenn Griffin, Bjorn Levine)
“The Ugly Stepsister” (Anne Katherine Sauerberg, Thomas Foldberg)
Alternative: “Evil: For Good”
sound
Brad Pitt in F1
“F1” (Gareth John, Al Nelson, Juan Peralta, Gary A. Rizzo, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle)
Frankenstein (Greg Chapman, Christian Cooke, Nelson Ferreira, Nathan Robitaille, Brad Zorn)
“One Battle After Another” (Jose Antonio Garcia, Christopher Scarabosio, Tony Villaflor)
“Sinners” (Benny Burtt, Steve Bodecker, David V. Butler, Felipe Pacheco, Chris Welker)
“Sirât” (Amanda Villavieja, Laia Casanovas, Yasmina Praderas)
Alternative: “Evil: For Good”
visual effects
David Corenswet in “Superman”
Avatar: Fire and Ashes (Joe Letteri, Richard Banneham, Eric Saindon, Daniel Barrett)
“F1” (Ryan Tudhope, Nicolas Chevalier, Robert Harrington, Keith Dawson)
“Sinners” (Michael Lara, Espen Nordahl, Guido Walter, Donnie Dean)
“Superman” (Stephane Ceretti, Guy Williams, Enrico Damm, Stephane Naze)
“Wicked: For Good” (Pablo Herman, Jonathan Faulkner, Dale Newton, Paul Corbould)
Alternative: “Frankenstein”
original score
Silat
“Frankenstein” (Alexandre Desplat)
“Hamnet” (Max Richter)
“One Battle After Another” (Jonny Greenwood)
“Sinners” (Ludwig Göransson)
“Sirat” (Kanding Lei)
Alternative song: “Train Dream”
original song
“KPop Demon Hunters”
“Dear Me” from “Diane Warren: Relentless” (Diane Warren)
“Dying to Live” from “Billy Idol Should be Dead” (Tommy English, Billy Idol, Joe Janiak, J. Ralph, Steve Stevens)
“The Girl in the Bubble” from “Wicked: For Good” (Stephen Schwartz)
“Golden” from “KPop Demon Hunters” (EJAE, Mark Sonnenblick)
“I Lied to You” from “Sinners” (Ludwig Göransson, Rafael Saadiq)
Alternative song: “Train Dreams” from “Train Dreams”
Documentary feature
“The perfect neighbor”
“Cutting Through Rocks” (Mohammadreza Eini, Sara Karki)
“The Perfect Neighbor” (Gita Gundbil, Sam Bisbee, Nikon Kwantu, Alisa Payne)
“She’s” (Brittany Shay, Sabrina Schmidt-Gordon, Daniel Varga)
“2000 Meters to Andriivka” (Mstislav Chernov, Lainey Aronson, Michelle Mizner)
“Yanuni” (Richard Ladkani, Jennifer Davison, Leonardo DiCaprio, Anita Ladkani)
Alternative: “Alabama Solution”
International feature
“It was just an accident.”
France “It Was Just an Accident” (directed by Jafar Panahi)
Brazil’s “The Secret Agent” (directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho)
Norway’s “Sentimental Value” (directed by Joachim Trier)
“Sirât” in Spain (directed by Oliver Lucks)
“The Voice of Hind Rajab” from Tunisia (directed by Kauser Ben-Hania)
Other name: “National Treasure”
short animation
“Eil”
“Cardboard” (Jean-Philippe Vine, Michaela Manas Marina)
“Eil” (Giovanna Ferrari, Nora Twomey)
“Furikan” (Jan Saska, Antoine Lietout)
“Retirement Plan” (John Kerry, Andrew Friedman)
“The Shy Tree” (Sofia Chuikovska, Loïc du Plessis d’Argentre)
Alternative: “Autocar”
short documentary
“All rooms are vacant”
“All the Empty Rooms” (Joshua Seftel, Trevor Burgess)
“All the Walls Come Down” (Ondi Timoner, Eli Timoner)
“Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renault” (Brent Renault, Craig Renault)
“Cash Out” (Matt Nadel, Luke Hodges)
“The Devil is Busy” (Gita Gundbiel, Crystallyn Hampton)
Alternative: “The Last Days of Trinity Lake”
short live action
“Two people exchanging saliva”
“Extremists” (Alexander Molotchnikov, Jean Chapiro)
“Pantyhose” (Fabian Münsterhelm, Jenny Lipatti)
“Rock, Paper, Scissors” (Franz Böhm, Haider Rothschild Hoosier)
“The Singers” (Sam A. Davis, David Brechel)
“Two people exchanging saliva” (Nathalie Mustair, Alexandre Shin)
Alternative: “Jane Austen period drama”
Movie Scorecard Predictions (Top 5):
“Sinner” (15)
“One Battle After Another” (13)
“Hamnet” “Frankenstein” (10)
“Marty Supreme” (8)
“Sentimental Value” (7)
Studio Scorecard Predictions (Top 5):
Warner Brothers (34)
Netflix (19)
Neon (16)
Featured features (14)
A24(10)
