Everybody knew Sinners was going to clean up when the 98th Academy Award nominations were announced on Thursday (Jan. 22), and the Ryan Coogler blockbuster didn’t disappoint. It received a record 16 nods.
For the ninth year in a row, Diane Warren learned that she was nominated for best original song, this time for writing “Dear Me” for the documentary Diane Warren: Relentless. No one else in Oscar history has ever been nominated in this category nine years running. The late, great Sammy Cahn had held the category record, with eight consecutive nominations from 1954 to 1961.
KPop Demon Hunters became just the 14th film — and the first in four years — to be nominated for best animated feature film and also land a nod for best original song.
For the eighth year in a row, an actor was nominated for playing a real-life musician. This time it was Ethan Hawke for playing lyricist Lorenz Hart in the film Blue Moon.
Alexandre Desplat received his 12th Oscar nod for best original score for Frankenstein. That puts him in a tie with Hans Zimmer for third place on the list of living composers with the most nominations in score categories. These two composers trail only John Williams (who has amassed an astounding 49 nods in score categories) and Thomas Newman (14).
All of those were momentous achievements, but none can really be called a surprise. But there were plenty of snubs and surprises in this year’s Oscar nominations, starting with Wicked: For Good, which was shut out entirely. Nikki Glaser’s jibe when she hosted the Golden Globes on Jan. 11, in which she referred to the sequel as Wicked: For Money, probably didn’t help. The Globes aired the night before the nominations-round voting period began. The jibe was funny, but definitely not what you want to hear if you’re connected with a film on the eve of Oscar voting.
Here are some of the biggest snubs and surprises in the 2026 Oscar nominations, with a focus on music categories.
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