Other awards hopefuls who received no nominations include 'Jay Kelly,' 'No Other Choice,' 'The Testament of Ann Lee' and 'Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere.'

KPop Demon Hunters, the Netflix animated film that emerged as one of last year's biggest pop-culture sensations, extended its awards-season momentum with two Academy Award nominations.

The movies competing for the 98th Academy Awards. The ceremony will air on March 15.

The 2026 Academy Award nominations were announced on Thursday, January 22 — and several Focus Features’ films were acknowledged as among the industry's best. Bugonia, Hamnet, and Song Sung Blue all walked away with Oscar nods in prominent categories this year, ranging from Best Picture to Best Actress.

Ryan Coogler was nominated for best director and best screenplay of “Sinners,” a lush vampire tale, and double-duty star Michael B. Jordan was rewarded with his first Oscar nomination, for best actor. Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro and Teyana Taylor took acting accolades for “One Battle After Another.”

This didn’t bode well for the fan-favorite film of the year where potential Oscar wins were concerned, so fans lashed out in anger, whether they’d seen its opponents or not. But Thursday morning’s Oscar nominations suggested a different story.

Just the other night Joachim Trier was talking all about Elle, as in Elle Fanning, listed as a first-time Academy Award nominee Thursday for her performance in Trier’s Sentimental Value, a Norwegian family drama of the kind Henrik Ibsen,

While five of 2025 highest grossers were animated, including "How to Train Your Dragon" and "Zootopia 2," creative timidity and remakes limit the potential of American animation.