Oscar nominations 2026: Vampire film Sinners breaks record
Fan favourite KPop Demon Hunters has been recognised in the Oscar nominations, too. The animated Netflix hit is in pole position to win best animated feature and best song, for mega-hit Golden.Co-writer of the track, Mark Sonnenblick, told BBC Newsbeat's Naomi de Souza that Thursday's Academy recognition had been the "icing on the cake"."The only reason that this morning [in Los Angeles] happened, regardless of the quality of the song or the movie or any of that, is just because fans responded to it and told other people to watch it and repost it and made fan videos," he said.There's no room, though, for the Wicked sequel.This time last year, the first film received 10 nominations, and the follow-up had been widely expected to join Golden in the best song race (for The Girl in the Bubble) and be nominated for prizes like best costume and make-up. But it missed out.Elsewhere in the music categories, Nick Cave is nominated for best song for the title song from Train Dreams, and Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood is nominated for best original score for One Battle After Another.Other British nominees include fellow composer Nicholas Pike, who is up for best original song for Viva Verdi!; while Northern Irish author Maggie O'Farrell is nominated for a screenplay award for adapting her novel Hamnet alongside director Chloe Zhao.Zhao has become only the second woman to be nominated for multiple best director Oscars, after Jane Campion. Zhao won that award for Nomadland in 2021.Meanwhile, the best documentary feature category includes Mr Nobody Against Putin, a BBC Storyville co-production.
