2026 Oscar Precursors: Full List of Nominations for Each Movie from Every Award Show

2026 Award season! Much like in previous years, below you will find lists broken up by category for each film, actor, director, writer, and more who have received a nomination at an award show before the Oscars. This provides a one-stop shop where you can see how each potential Oscar nominee is doing so far. I have listed the nominees in subjective order, factoring in the number of precursor wins and nominations, and general buzz.

Bold denotes category winner

KEY:

BIFA = British Independent Film Awards
Critics Choice Doc = Critics Choice Documentary Awards
Gotham = Gotham Awards
HMMA = Hollywood Music in Media Awards

BEST PICTURE

  1. The Invite – Gotham
  2. The Debut – Gotham
  3. Elsinore – BIFA
  4. Club Kid – Gotham
  5. Tender Loving Care – BIFA
  6. Paper Tiger – Gotham
  7. Primetime – Gotham
  8. Josephine – Gotham
  9. Clarissa – Gotham
  10. Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother – Gotham
  11. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma – Gotham
  12. Queen at Sea – BIFA
  13. Mouse – Gotham
  14. Dreams in Nightmares – Gotham
  15. I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning – BIFA
  16. Effi o Blaenau – BIFA

BEST DIRECTOR

  1. Ryusuke Hamaguchi – All of a Sudden – Gotham
  2. Andrey Zvyagintsev – Minotaur – Gotham
  3. Mike Leigh – Tender Loving Care – BIFA, Gotham
  4. Jane Schoenbrun – Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma – Gotham
  5. Simon Stone – Elsinore – BIFA
  6. Sandra Wollner – Everytime – Gotham
  7. Andrew Haigh – A Long Winter – BIFA
  8. Clio Barnard – I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning – BIFA
  9. Mark Jenkin – Rose of Nevada – BIFA

BEST ACTOR

  1. John Malkovich – Wild Horse Nine – Gotham
  2. Andrew Scott – Elsinore – BIFA, Gotham
  3. John Turturro – The Only Living Pickpocket in New York – Gotham
  4. Mahershala Ali – Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother – Gotham
  5. Ian McKellen – The Christophers – Gotham
  6. John Early – Maddie’s Secret – Gotham
  7. Jonathan Jules – Florid – BIFA
  8. Tut Nyuot – Animol – BIFA

BEST ACTRESS

  1. Julianne Moore – The Debut – Gotham
  2. Jeon Do-yeon – Possible Love – Gotham
  3. Sophie Okonedo – Clarissa – Gotham
  4. Juliette Binoche – Queen at Sea – BIFA
  5. Gillian Anderson – Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma – Gotham
  6. Erin Doherty – Faith – BIFA
  7. Leisa Gwenllian – Effi o Blaenau – BIFA

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

  1. Andrew Garfield – Artificial – Gotham
  2. Adam Driver – Paper Tiger – Gotham
  3. Skyler Gisondo – Primetime – Gotham
  4. Channing Tatum – Josephine – Gotham
  5. Tom Courtenay – Queen at Sea – BIFA, Gotham
  6. Bill Pullman – Everybody Digs Bill Evans – BIFA
  7. Sekou Diaby – Animol – BIFA

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

  1. Penélope Cruz – The Invite – Gotham
  2. Tao Okamoto – All of a Sudden – Gotham
  3. Kate O’Flynn – Tender Loving Care – Gotham
  4. Sandra Hüller – Fatherland – Gotham
  5. Esmé Creed-Miles – Sense and Sensibility – Gotham
  6. Billie Piper – Elsinore – BIFA
  7. Claire Foy – Ink – BIFA
  8. Anna Calder-Marshall – Queen at Sea – BIFA

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

  1. Wild Horse Nine – Martin McDonagh – Gotham
  2. Tender Loving Care – Mike Leigh – BIFA, Gotham
  3. Possible Love – Lee Chang-dong, Oh Jung-mi – Gotham
  4. Elsinore – Stephen Beresford – BIFA
  5. La Gradiva – Marine Atlan, Anne Brouillet – Gotham
  6. Queen at Sea – Lance Hammer – BIFA
  7. Everytime – Sandra Wollner – Gotham

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

  1. The Invite – Rashida Jones, Will McCormack – Gotham
  2. All of a Sudden – Ryusuke Hamaguchi – Gotham
  3. Primetime – Ajon Singh – Gotham
  4. Minotaur – Simon Lyashenko, Andrey Zvyaginstev – Gotham
  5. Clarissa – Chuko Esiri – Gotham
  6. I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning – Enda Walsh – BIFA
  7. Effi o Blaenau – Gary Owen – BIFA

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

  1. You Can See Everything – Critics Choice Doc, Gotham
  2. NAZA – Critics Choice Doc, Gotham
  3. Once Upon a Time in Harlem – Critics Choice Doc, Gotham
  4. Closure – Gotham
  5. A Fox Under a Pink Moon – Gotham
  6. 14th – Critics Choice Doc
  7. Everest: The Other Side – Critics Choice Doc
  8. The History of Concrete – Critics Choice Doc
  9. Musk – Critics Choice Doc
  10. Rehearsals for a Revolution – Critics Choice Doc
  11. Everybody to Kenmure Street – BIFA, Critics Choice Doc
  12. Remake – Critics Choice Doc
  13. All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea – BIFA
  14. One in a Million – BIFA
  15. Something Familiar – BIFA
  16. We, the Hated – BIFA

BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM

  1. La Bola Negra (Spain) – BIFA
  2. All of a Sudden (Japan) – BIFA, Gotham
  3. Possible Love (South Korea) – BIFA, Gotham
  4. Fatherland (Poland) – Gotham
  5. Minotaur (France) – Gotham
  6. Everytime (Germany) – Gotham
  7. Filipiñana (Philippines) – Gotham
  8. Ben’imana (Rwanda) – Gotham

Not submitted by country of origin:

  • La Gradiva (France) – BIFA, Gotham

BEST CASTING

  1. Elsinore – Jessica Ronane – BIFA
  2. I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning – Shaheen Baig – BIFA
  3. Florid – Lara Manwaring – BIFA
  4. Animol – Heather Basten – BIFA
  5. Extra Geography – Lucy Pardee – BIFA

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

  1. Elsinore – Mike Eley – BIFA
  2. A Long Winter – André Turpin – BIFA
  3. I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning – Simon Tindall – BIFA
  4. Everybody Digs Bill Evans – Piers McGrail – BIFA
  5. Straight Circle – Christopher Ripley – BIFA

BEST COSTUME DESIGN

  1. Elsinore – Mel Page – BIFA
  2. A Long Winter – Carol Case – BIFA
  3. The Incomer – Sarah Blenkinsop – BIFA
  4. Straight Circle – Darion Hing – BIFA
  5. Savage House – Alex Bovaird – BIFA

BEST FILM EDITING

  1. Elsinore – Balerio Bonelli – BIFA
  2. Ink – Fin Oates – BIFA
  3. I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning – Maya Maffioli – BIFA
  4. Straight Circle – Fouad Gaber – BIFA
  5. Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story – Otto Burnham – BIFA

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

  1. Elsinore – Nadia Stacey – BIFA
  2. The Magic Faraway Tree – Karen Hartley-Thomas – BIFA
  3. Straight Circle – Tristan Versluis – BIFA
  4. Savage House – Jacquetta Levon – BIFA
  5. Madfabulous – Nadia Stacey – BIFA

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

  1. The Odyssey – Ludwig Göransson – HMMA
  2. La Bola Negra – Raül Refree – HMMA
  3. Disclosure Day – John Williams – HMMA
  4. Project Hail Mary – Daniel Pemberton – HMMA
  5. Dune: Part Three – Hans Zimmer – HMMA
  6. Wild Horse Nine – Carter Burwell – HMMA
  7. Behemoth! – The Behemoth! Collective – HMMA
  8. Artificial – Damon Albarn – HMMA
  9. You Can See Everything – Ari Balouzian – HMMA
  10. Wildwood – Dario Marianelli – HMMA
  11. The Invite – Devonté Hynes – HMMA
  12. Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother – Son Lux – HMMA
  13. Primetime – Ari Balouzian – HMMA
  14. Hope – Michael Abels – HMMA
  15. Elsinore – Stefan Gregory – BIFA
  16. Whalefall – Joseph Trapanese – HMMA
  17. The Drama – Daniel Pemberton – HMMA
  18. Obsession – Rock Burwell – HMMA
  19. Wicker – Anna Meredith – HMMA
  20. The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping – James Newton Howard – HMMA
  21. Clayface – Volker Bertelmann – HMMA
  22. Ray Gunn – Michael Giacchino – HMMA
  23. Heart of the Beast – Jared Michael Fry – HMMA
  24. Toy Story 5 – Randy Newman – HMMA
  25. Backrooms – Edo Van Breemen and Kane Parsons – HMMA
  26. Tenzing – Rebekka Karijord – HMMA
  27. Send Help – Danny Elfman – HMMA
  28. Billy Knight – Lesley Barber – HMMA
  29. The Incomer – Tom Kingston – HMMA
  30. Spider-Man: Brand New Day – Michael Giacchino – HMMA
  31. Coyote vs. Acme – Steven Price – HMMA
  32. Hexed – Kris Bowers – HMMA
  33. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie – Brian Tyler – HMMA
  34. The Violinist – Ricky Ho – HMMA
  35. Resident Evil – Hays Holladay – HMMA
  36. Avedon – David Fleming – HMMA
  37. Scream 7 – Marco Beltrami – HMMA
  38. The Eyes of Ghana – Kris Bowers – HMMA
  39. Running Wild: Return to the River – Alex Heffes – HMMA
  40. The Cycle of Love – Patrick Jonsson – HMMA
  41. The Truth and Tragedy of Moriah Wilson – Marco Beltrami – HMMA
  42. Rose of Nevada – Mark Jenkin – BIFA
  43. Underland – Hannah Peel – BIFA
  44. Everybody Digs Bill Evans – Roger Goula – BIFA
  45. Effi o Blaenau – Siôn Trefor, Ioana Selaru – BIFA

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

  1. “La Nieve” (La Bola Negra) – Álvaro Lafuente, Raül Refree, Lucas Duran – HMMA
  2. “This City May Have Chewed Me Up (But It Hasn’t Spit Me Out)” (The Debut) – Jesse Eisenberg – HMMA
  3. “I Knew It, I Knew You” (Toy Story 5) – Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff – HMMA
  4. “One Right Here” (Maserati: The Brothers) – Diane Warren – HMMA
  5. “When I’m Home” (The Odyssey) – James Blake, Travis Scott, Ludwig Göransson, Christopher Nolan – HMMA
  6. “The Better Part of Bravery” (Wildwood) – Colin Meloy – HMMA
  7. “Your God Is Sleeping” (Behemoth!) – Lukas Frank – HMMA
  8. “House featuring John Cale” (Wuthering Heights) – Charli XCX, John Cale, Finn Keane, Nathan Klein – HMMA
  9. “Let Me Sell You a Dream” (Musk) – David Byrne, Daniel Pemberton – HMMA
  10. “Draw You Out” (The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping) – Noah Kahan, Aaron Dessner – HMMA
  11. “On Video” (Primetime) – Phoebe Bridgers, Jack Antonoff, Christian Lee Hutson – HMMA
  12. “What Lies With You” (Linda Perry: Let It Die Here) – Linda Perry – HMMA
  13. “BRB” (Forgotten Island) – Ryan Tedder, Gabriella Wilson – HMMA
  14. “Light Over the Hill” (Reminders of Him) – Noah Cyrus, Justin Franks, PJ Harding – HMMA
  15. “Someone to Hold” (Steps) – Justin Tranter – HMMA
  16. “How Could You Leave” (Bloom) – Brandon Jarrett, Amber Frank – HMMA
  17. “Hollywood Man” (Billy Knight) – Beck – HMMA
  18. “Brothers Keep Goin’ Anyway” (Brother Verses Brother) – Ethan Gold – HMMA
  19. “Bottle Up” (Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie) – Ed Sheeran, Savan Kotecha, Johnny McDaid, Ilya Salmanzadeh – HMMA
  20. “Stay True” (Nothing To See Here: Watts) – Brandon “Stix” Salaam-Bailey, Marcus Hodge, Christopher Black, Johnny McKenzie, Rosemarie Peralta, Daysha Morgan – HMMA

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN

  1. Elsinore – Helen Scott – BIFA
  2. Ink – Gareth Pugh, Carson McColl – BIFA
  3. The Magic Faraway Tree – Alexandra Walker – BIFA
  4. Straight Circle – Luke Moran-Morris – BIFA
  5. Savage House – Gary Williamson – BIFA

BEST SOUND

  1. Ink – Simon Hayes, Johnnie Burn – BIFA
  2. A Long Winter – Joakim Sundström, Paul Cotterell, Ron Osiowy – BIFA
  3. Rose of Nevada – Mark Jenkin, Ian Wilson – BIFA
  4. Florid – Dario Swade, George Elliott, Tom Harburt – BIFA
  5. Everybody Digs Bill Evans – Andy Coles, John Brennan – BIFA

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS

  1. The Magic Faraway Tree – Ruslan Borysov, Richard Cheal, Tim Ledbury – BIFA
  2. Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom – Jon Biggins, Jeff Dillon – BIFA
  3. The Incomer – Daniel Morris – BIFA

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT

  1. The Baddest Speechwriter of All – Critics Choice Doc
  2. A Derailment – Critics Choice Doc
  3. A Short Documentary About a Giant Pencil – Critics Choice Doc
  4. The Second Life of Freddie Nole – Critics Choice Doc
  5. Escalation – Critics Choice Doc
  6. Miller Night Football – Critics Choice Doc
  7. Oh Whale – Critics Choice Doc
  8. They’re Here – Critics Choice Doc
  9. Allies in Exile – BIFA
  10. Forgotten Spaceman – BIFA

BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT

  1. Vote Gavin Lyle – BIFA
  2. Untitled Woman – BIFA
  3. Coyotes – BIFA

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