When will the Oscar 2026 nominations be announced? Details explored

This year's Oscar ceremony is just around the corner, and the phase one period has already finished its final.

The official Academy account on X shared an updated list of all the films that made it to the next round of voting in the International Feature Film category, alongside the announcement that all final nominations will be announced on Thursday, January 22nd.

The Oscar Award ceremony is scheduled for March 15, and will be hosted by comedian Conan O’Brien. "Expect the unexpected," the Oscar X account just days ago. Scroll down to learn everything we know so far.

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A look at all the films and music scores that have been shortlisted for this year's Oscar ceremony:

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has already announced the shortlists in the 12 categories for the 98th Academy Awards®: Animated Short Film, Casting, Cinematography, Documentary Feature Film, Documentary Short Film, International Feature Film, Live Action Short Film, Makeup and Hairstyling, Music (Original Score), Music (Original Song), Sound and Visual Effects.

The fifteen films that have survived the voting processes thus far in the International Feature Film category include:

• Argentina, BELÉN
• Brazil, THE SECRET AGENT
• France, IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
• Germany, SOUND OF FALLING
• India, HOMEBOUND
• Iraq, THE PRESIDENT’S CAKE
• Japan, KOKUHO
• Jordan, ALL THAT’S LEFT OF YOU
• Norway, SENTIMENTAL VALUE
• Palestine, PALESTINE 36
• South Korea, NO OTHER CHOICE
• Spain, SIRÂT
• Switzerland, LATE SHIFT
• Taiwan, LEFT-HANDED GIRL
• Tunisia, THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB.

In the Animated Short Film category, the films that have been nominated are:

• Autokar
• Butterfly
• Cardboard
• Éiru
• Forevergreen
• The Girl Who Cried Pearls
• Hurikán
• I Died in Irpin
• The Night Boots
• Playing God
• The Quinta’s Ghost
• Retirement Plan
• The Shyness of Trees
• Snow Bear
• The Three Sisters

Ten films have advanced in the Casting category for the forthcoming awards ceremony. These include:

• Frankenstein
• Hamnet
• Marty Supreme
• One Battle After Another
• The Secret Agent
• Sentimental Value
• Sinners
• Sirat
• Weapons
• Wicked: For Good

In the Cinematography category, sixteen films will be advancing, which include:

• Ballad of a Small Player
• Bugonia
• Die My Love
• F1
• Frankenstein
• Hamnet
• Marty Supreme
• Nouvelle Vague
• One Battle after Another
• Sentimental Value
• Sinners
• Sirât
• Song Sung Blue
• Sound of Falling
• Train Dreams
• Wicked: For Good

As for the Documentary Feature Film category, the films that have been shortlisted are as follows:

• The Alabama Solution
• Apocalypse in the Tropics
• Coexistence, My Ass!
• Come See Me in the Good Light
• Cover-Up
• Cutting through Rocks
• Folktales
• Holding Liat
• Mr. Nobody against Putin
• Mistress Dispeller
• My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 – Last Air in Moscow
• The Perfect Neighbor
• Seeds
• 2000 Meters to Andriivka
• Yanuni

Films advancing in the Documentary Short Film category for the 98th Oscar Awards include:

• All the Empty Rooms
• All the Walls Came Down
• Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
• Bad Hostage
• Cashing Out
• Chasing Time
• Children No More: Were and Are Gone
• Classroom 4
• The Devil Is Busy
• Heartbeat
• Last Days on Lake Trinity
• On Healing Land, Birds Perch
• Perfectly a Strangeness
• Rovina’s Choice
• We Were the Scenery

In the Live Action Short Film, the fifteen films that have been shortlisted are:

• Ado
• Amarela
• Beyond Silence
• The Boy with White Skin
• Butcher’s Stain
• Butterfly on a Wheel
• Dad’s Not Home
• Extremist
• A Friend of Dorothy
• Jane Austen’s Period Drama
• Pantyhose
• The Pearl Comb
• Rock, Paper, Scissors
• The Singers
• Two People Exchanging Saliva

The 10 films nominated in the Makeup and Hair Styling category are:

• The Alto Knights
• Frankenstein
• Kokuho
• Marty Supreme
• Nuremberg
• One Battle after Another
• Sinners
• The Smashing Machine
• The Ugly Stepsister
• Wicked: For Good

This year, twenty pieces will be advancing in the Music Original Score category out of the 132 eligible for the Oscar Award. These include:

• Avatar: Fire and Ash
• Bugonia
• Captain America: Brave New World
• Diane Warren: Relentless
• F1
• Frankenstein
• Hamnet
• Hedda
• A House of Dynamite
• Jay Kelly
• Marty Supreme
• Nuremberg
• One Battle after Another
• Sinners
• Sirât
• Train Dreams
• Tron: Ares
• Truth and Treason
• Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
• Wicked: For Good

Out of the 65 songs eligible in the Music Original Song category, fifteen have been shortlisted. These include:

• As Alive As You Need Me To Be from Tron: Ares
• Dear Me from Diane Warren: Relentless
• Dream As One from Avatar: Fire and Ash
• Drive from F1
• Dying To Live from Billy Idol Should Be Dead
• The Girl In The Bubble from Wicked: For Good
• Golden from KPop Demon Hunters
• Highest 2 Lowest from Highest 2 Lowest
• I Lied To You from Sinners
• Last Time (I Seen The Sun) from Sinners
• No Place Like Home from Wicked: For Good
• Our Love from The Ballad of Wallis Island
• Salt Then Sour Then Sweet from Come See Me in the Good Light
• Sweet Dreams Of Joy from Viva Verdi!
• Train Dreams from Train Dreams

In the Sound category for this year's Oscar Awards, the films that have been nominated are as follows:

• Avatar: Fire and Ash
• F1
• Frankenstein
• Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
• One Battle after Another
• Sinners
• Sirât
• Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
• Superman
• Wicked: For Good

In the final Oscar Award category, Visual Effects, ten films have been shortlisted by the Visual Effects Branch Executive Committee. These include:

• Avatar: Fire and Ash
• The Electric State
• F1
• Frankenstein
• Jurassic World Rebirth
• The Lost Bus
• Sinners
• Superman
• Tron: Ares
• Wicked: For Good

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Nominations for the 2026 Oscar Award ceremony kick off on Monday, January 12, 2026, and conclude on Friday, January 16, 2026.