Nominees for the “Oscar” have been announced: a film about Russia is on the list, Ukraine is out of the picture

The Oscar-2026 awarding ceremony will take place on March 15 / UNIAN collage / ScreenshotsOn Thursday, January 22, the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for the 98th Academy Awards ceremony.

According to Variety, among the main favorites for this year’s award were Paul Thomas Anderson’s film “One Battle After Another”, which previously won four “Golden Globes”, and Ryan Coogler’s film “Sinners”, which, according to forecasts, can set a record for the number of nominations.

The short film “Rock, Scissors, Paper” made by British students about the war in Ukraine, Mstislav Chernov’s documentary “2000 meters to Andriyivka” and Anastasia Falileeva’s short animation “I died in Irpen” did not make the list.

At the same time, the film “Mr. Nobody Against Putin”, shot by David Borenstein in co-authorship with Russian film director Pavel Talankin, was nominated for the “best documentary”. It showed the strengthening of propaganda in Russian schools after the start of the full-scale war against Ukraine.

The main list of Oscar nominees looks like this:

The best movie

• “Bugonia”
• “F1”
• “Frankenstein”
• “Hamnet”
• “Marty Supreme. Genius of Combinations”
• “One battle after another”
• “Secret Agent”
• “Sentimental value”
• “Sinners”
• “Train in dreams”

The best director

• Chloe Zhao – “Hamnet”
• Josh Safdie – “Marty Supreme. Combination Genius”
• Paul Thomas Anderson – “One Battle After Another”
• Joachim Trier – “Sentimental Value”
• Ryan Coogler – “Sinners”

Best Male Role

• Timothee Chalamet – “Marty Supreme. Genius of Combinations”
• Leonardo DiCaprio – “One battle after another”
• Ethan Hawke – “Blue Moon”
• Michael B. Jordan – “Sinners”
• Wagner Moura – “Secret Agent”

Best Female Role

• Jesse Buckley – “Hamnet”
• Rose Byrne – “I’m Not Iron”
• Kate Hudson – “Love Song”
• Renate Reinsve – “Sentimental Value”
• Emma Stone – “Bugonia”

Male supporting role

• Benicio del Toro – “One battle after another”
• Jacob Elordi – “Frankenstein”
• Delroy Lindo – “Sinners”
• Sean Penn – “One Battle After Another”
• Stellan Skarsgård – “Sentimental Value”

The female role of the second plan

• Elle Fanning – “Sentimental Value”
• Inga Ibsdotter Lilleos – “Sentimental Value”
• Amy Madigan – “Weapons”
• Wunmi Mosaku – “Sinners”
• Teyana Taylor – “One Battle After Another”

Best Adapted Screenplay

• “Bugonia”
• “Frankenstein”
• “Hamnet”
• “One battle after another”
• “Train in dreams”

Best Original Screenplay

• “Blue Moon”
• “Mere Coincidence”
• “Marty Supreme. Genius of Combinations”
• “Sentimental value”
• “Sinners”

Best Animated Feature Film

• Arco
• “Elio”
• “Kpop Demon Hunters”
• “Little Amelie, or the Character of the Rain”
• “Zootropolis 2”

Best Animated Short Film

• “Butterfly”
• “Forevergreen”
• “The Girl Who Cried Pearls”
• “Retirement Plan”
• “The Three Sisters”

Best International Film

• “Secret Agent”
• “Mere Coincidence”
• “Sentimental value”
• “Orphan”
• “The Voice of Hind Rajab”

Best Documentary

• “The Alabama Solution”
• “Come See Me in the Good Light”
• “Cutting Through Rocks”
• “Mr. Nobody Against Putin”
• “The Perfect Neighbor”

Best Documentary Short Film

• “All the Empty Rooms”
• “Armed Only With a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud”
• “Children No More: Were and Are Gone”
• “The Devil Is Busy”
• “Perfectly a Strangeness”

The best makeup and hairstyles

• “Frankenstein”
• “Kokuho”
• “Sinners”
• “The Smashing Machine”
• “The Ugly Stepsister”.

It will be recalled that earlier the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that starting in 2029 the Oscar ceremony will be broadcast by YouTube.

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