Watch the 2026 Oscars Nominations Live & See Record-Breaking Potential

Set your alarm clocks — the 2026 Oscars nominations will be announced at the crack of dawn on Thursday morning. There are 24 categories this year thanks to the addition of Best Casting, which celebrates a film's casting director(s). As usual, all races will have five nominees except for Best Picture, which has had exactly 10 nominees since the ceremony that aired in 2022 — before that, in recent years, there was a sliding scale of five to 10 nominees. Other races to keep an eye on include Best Director, Best Actor/Actress, Best Supporting Actor/Actress, and Best Adapted/Original Screenplay. More from Gold Derby Pundits face-off: Oscar experts predict who'll be celebrating - and who'll be snubbed on nomination day How Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande could pull off a wicked upset at the Grammys Gold Derby predicts that One Battle After Another, Sinners, Hamnet, Frankenstein, and Marty Supreme will receive multiple nominations in the main categories. International features like Sentimental Value, The Secret Agent, and It Was Just an Accident should also do well across the board. For animated movies, expect buzzy flicks KPop Demon Hunters and Zootopia 2 to keep the race fresh. The 98th Academy Awards, hosted by Conan O'Brien, will air March 15 on ABC, its longtime network home. That partnership officially ends in 2029, when the ceremony will ditch broadcast TV for the streaming world of YouTube. Read on for everything to know about the 2026 Oscar nominations announcement. Who is presenting the nominations? Danielle Brooks and Lewis Pullman are the official nominations announcers. She is an Oscar nominee for The Color Purple (2023), an Emmy nominee for producing Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia (2021), and the star of Orange Is the New Black and Peacemaker. He is an Emmy nominee for Lessons in Chemistry (2024) and the son of Hollywood actor Bill Pullman. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has confirmed that Brooks and Pullman will announce the nominees from the Samuel Goldwyn Theater. When are the nominations? Mark your calendars for Thursday, Jan. 22, as that's when all 24 categories will be announced for the 2026 Oscars. The following nine categories will be announced beginning at 8:30 a.m. ET/5:30 a.m. PT: Actor in a Supporting Role Actress in a Supporting Role Animated Short Film Costume Design Live Action Short Film Makeup and Hairstyling Music (Original Score) Writing (Adapted Screenplay) Writing (Original Screenplay) And the remaining 15 categories will be unveiled beginning at 8:41 a.m. ET/5:41 a.m. PT: Actor in a Leading Role Actress in a Leading Role Animated Feature Film Casting Cinematography Directing Documentary Feature Film Documentary Short Film Film Editing International Feature Film Music (Original Song) Production Design Sound Visual Effects Best Picture How to watch the nominations There are multiple ways to watch and stream Brooks and Pullman's announcement, including the following: Oscar.com, Oscars.org, the Academy's digital platforms (TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook), ABC's Good Morning America, ABC News Live, Disney+, and Hulu. When are the Oscars? You may have heard the recent news that YouTube is taking over streaming rights for the Oscar ceremony, but that won't happen until 2029. Relax! For now, the Academy Awards will continue airing on ABC and streaming on Disney+. The 2026 Oscars will start at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on Sunday, March 15. What are the potential records? On nominations morning, all eyes will be on whether the all-time Oscar noms record will be broken. To date, three films have received a leading 14 Academy Awards bids: All About Eve (1950), Titanic (1997), and La La Land (2016). This year, Ryan Coogler's vampire-musical Sinners and Paul Thomas Anderson's revolutionary film One Battle After Another could both potentially tie or break that record. Other notable milestones to watch out for in the noms: Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo (Wicked: For Good) could become the seventh and eighth performers ever nominated twice for the same role. Songwriter Diane Warren (Diane Warren: Relentless) could receive her 17th Oscar nomination, and ninth in a row; she received an Honorary Academy Award in 2023. Multiple performers from genre films could make this the scariest Oscars ever — i.e. Jacob Elordi (Frankenstein), Michael B. Jordan and Wunmi Mosaku (Sinners), Amy Madigan (Weapons), and Emma Stone (Bugonia). International films could show up in all eight above-the-line categories for the first time ever. Chase Infiniti (One Battle After Another) could join the list of actors nominated for their debut performances, including most recently Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave). Speaking of One Battle After Another, if all six actors receive nominations, that would be a new record. If only five get in, as Gold Derby is predicting, that would tie nine prior films. Best of Gold Derby 2026 Oscars calendar: Key dates for awards shows, nominations announcements — What's next after Thursday's Academy Award noms? 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