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The 2026 Oscars are already a big year for major milestones, and, unfortunately, some jaw-dropping snubs. Here are some of the historic firsts and landmark nominations this year:
1. Ryan Coogler's Sinners is now the most-nominated film of all time, with 16 nominations including Best Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actress, Supporting Actor, Cinematography, and Screenplay.
Even without the nomination for the new category, Best Casting, Sinners would've still broken the record. Only three movies have received 14 nominations: All About Eve, La La Land, and Titanic.
2. Sinners director of photography Autumn Durald Arkapaw (Loki, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, The Last Showgirl) became the first woman of color nominated for cinematography (and only the third woman ever nominated).
3. Sinners costume designer Ruth E. Carter became the most-nominated Black woman in Oscar history, earning her fifth Oscar nomination for Best Costume Design after being recognized for Malcolm X (1993), Amistad (1998), Black Panther (2019), Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2023), and now Sinners.
4. Timothée Chalamet became the youngest male actor since Marlon Brando to have three Best Actor nominations for his roles in 2017's Call Me by Your Name, 2024's A Complete Unknown, and Marty Supreme in 2025.
5. Timothée also received a nomination as a producer for Marty Supreme, making him the youngest person to be nominated for producing and acting in the same year.
6. Similarly, Emma Stone became the only female actor in history to receive multiple acting/producing nominations simultaneously for her films with Yorgos Lanthimos, Poor Things (2023), and now Bugonia. Frances McDormand was the first to reach this milestone for 2020's Nomadland.
7. The 37-year-old actor also became the youngest woman in Oscar history to earn seven nominations, and the second-youngest person overall behind Walt Disney. Two of her nominations turned into wins with Best Actress for La La Land and Poor Things.
8. And there's more: Emma is the first female actor to receive five Oscar nominations, all for films nominated for Best Picture, including Birdman (2014), La La Land (2016), The Favourite (2018), Poor Things (2023), and now Bugonia (2025).
9. Wagner Moura became the first Brazilian nominated for Best Actor for his role as Armando in The Secret Agent. He previously became the first Brazilian actor to win the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture — Drama.
10. Amy Madigan now holds the record for the longest gap between nominations for an actor (exactly 40 years apart) after she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Aunt Gladys in Weapons. Amy received her first Oscar nomination in 1986 for her performance in Bud Yorkin's drama film, Twice in a Lifetime.
11. Surprisingly, Stellan Skarsgård became the first Best Supporting Actor nominee for an international film for his role in Joachim Trier's Sentimental Value. To be clear, American-produced films that feature non-English-language performances have earned this nomination, like Benicio del Toro for Traffic and Robert De Niro for The Godfather Part II, both of whom won.
12. As another significant milestone for an international film, Óliver Laxe's 2025 drama Sirāt made history as the first film with an all-women sound team nominated for Best Sound: supervising sound editor Laia Casanovas, re-recording mixer Yasmina Praderas, and production sound mixer Amanda Villavieja.
13. Steven Spielberg broke his own record with his 14th Oscar nomination for Best Picture as the producer for Chloé Zhao's Hamnet. Of his 14 nominations in this category, Steven holds the most Best Picture nominations, while only winning once for Schindler's List.
14. "Golden," performed by singers EJAE, Audrey Nuna, and REI AMI from KPop Demon Hunters, becomes the first K-pop song in history to receive an Oscar nomination. Since its release, the movie has already earned two Golden Globes and become the most viewed movie of all time on Netflix.
While the history-making milestones are reason to celebrate, there were quite a few shocking omissions this year, considering the previous success of the films and actors excluded. Here are some of the biggest snubs of the 2026 Oscars:
15. The first Wicked film earned 10 nominations at the 2025 Oscars and won two, but the sequel, Wicked: For Good, was completely shut out.
Despite the film's success, actors Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, director Jon M. Chu, and costume designer Paul Tazewell, and production designer Nathan Crowley didn't receive nominations as they had in 2025.
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