Dante Awards 2026 Nominations: ‘Sinners’ Shows Strength with Historic Turnout

“Sinners”

©Warner Bros.

As the 2026 awards season continues its path, the Dante Awards have officially announced this year’s batch of nominees. However, the lineup in every category this year was a slight bit different, as this was the first year with the implementation of the Dante Awards Committee. The committee created a voting body of new and inspired members, which directly influenced and chose a handful of nominations. The introduction of the committee has brought us many surprises and picks that have kept the pool of nominees unique and exciting.

Continuing its successful run, “Sinners” has now become the most nominated film in Dante Awards history, hitting a milestone of 16 nominations. These nominations include: Best Picture, Director, Original Screenplay, Supporting Actor (Miles Caton & Delroy Lindo), Ensemble, Casting, Scene in a Major Motion Picture, Editing, Sound, Production Design, Costume Design, Visual Effects, Makeup & Hairstyling, and Choreography & Stunts. The previous record was held by 2024’s “Oppenheimer,” with 14 nominations.

The 2026 Best Picture lineup saw a historic number, which has solidified broken barriers between Hollywood and foreign cinema. The production company Neon became the first studio to get four films into the lineup with “It Was Just an Accident,” “No Other Choice,” “The Secret Agent,” and “Sentimental Value.” Coincidentally, those 4 films mark the most international films in Best Picture ever. This creates a fascinating race in the International Feature category, showing as over half of the nominees are also nominated for Best Picture. Another international film distributed by Neon, “Sirāt,” found its place in categories outside of International Feature, but it mysteriously found itself absent from the International Feature 5.

It was a big year for familiar faces, as we saw many returning nominees. In the Leading Actress 5, we saw the return of both Jessie Buckely and Renate Reinsve- previous winners of the award. In Original Score, previous winners Ludwig Görannsson and Jonny Greenwood battle it out as a part of some of the most nominated films of the year (“Sinners” and “One Battle After Another,” respectively). Alongside them, Jerskin Fendrix is another returning contender in Original Score for his work in “Bugonia.”

Looking at some surprises, films such as “Frankenstein” and “Hamnet” shockingly missed the Best Picture lineup, despite receiving accolades in multiple areas. “Hamnet” star, Jacobi Jupe, received his first nomination for Best Supporting Actor, making him one of the youngest nominees in Dante Awards history. Chloé Zhao, a previous director nominee, was notably absent in the director lineup, but found success in the Adapted Screenplay category.

See this year’s nominees below.

Best Picture

Blue Moon (Sony Picture Classics)

Bugonia (Focus Features)

It Was Just an Accident (Neon)

Marty Supreme (A24)

No Other Choice (Neon)

One Battle After Another (Warner Bros.)

The Secret Agent (Neon)

Sentimental Value (Neon)

Sinners (Warner Bros.)

Sorry, Baby (A24)

“Marty Supreme”

©A24

Actress in a Leading Role

Jessie Buckley, Hamnet 

Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value

Emma Stone, Bugonia

Eva Victor, Sorry, Baby

Actor in a Leading Role

Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme

Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another

Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon

Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent

Jesse Plemons, Bugonia

Director

It Was Just an Accident, Jafar Panahi

No Other Choice, Park Chan-Wook

One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson

Sinners, Ryan Coogler

Sorry, Baby, Eva Victor

Scene in a Major Motion Picture

“Everybody Wants to Rule the World” from Marty Supreme

“Redpepper Dragonfly” from No Other Choice

“River of Hills” from One Battle After Another

“Magic What We Do (Surreal Montage)” from Sinners

“Momento Amoris” from 28 Years Later

Ensemble

It Was Just an Accident

Marty Supreme

One Battle After Another

The Secret Agent

Sinners

“One Battle After Another”

©Warner Bros.

Original Screenplay

It Was Just an Accident

Marty Supreme

Sinners

Sentimental Value

Sorry, Baby

Adapted Screenplay

Bugonia

Hamnet

No Other Choice

One Battle After Another

Train Dreams

International Feature

It Was Just an Accident, France

No Other Choice, South Korea

The Secret Agent, Brazil

Sentimental Value, Norway

The Voice of Hind Rajab, Tunisia

“It Was Just an Accident”

©Neon

Editing

Marty Supreme

No Other Choice

One Battle After Another

Sinners

Train Dreams

Sound

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

One Battle After Another

Sinners

Sirāt

Warfare

Cinematography

Marty Supreme

One Battle After Another

The Secret Agent

Train Dreams

28 Years Later

Casting

Hamnet

Marty Supreme

One Battle After Another

Sinners

Sirāt

Documentary Feature

Cover-Up

Mr. Nobody Against Putin

The Perfect Neighbor

Put Your Hand on Your Soul and Walk
2000 Meters to Andriivka

Visual Effects

Avatar: Fire and Ash

F1

Predator: Badlands

Sinners

Superman

“Frankenstein”

©Netflix

Makeup & Hairstyling

Frankenstein

Marty Supreme

Resurrection

Sinners

28 Years Later

Production Design

Frankenstein

Hamnet

Marty Supreme

Mickey 17

Sinners

Choreography & Stunts

F1

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

Sinners

Superman

The Testament of Ann Lee

Animated Feature

Boys Go to Jupiter

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle

KPop Demon Hunter

Little Amélie or the Character of Rain

Lost in Starlight

Costume Design

Blue Moon

Frankenstein

Marty Supreme

The Secret Agent

Sinners

Original Score

Bugonia

Marty Supreme

One Battle After Another

Sinners

Train Dreams

Original Song

I Lied to You from Sinners

Lowly from 28 Years Later

My Baby (Got Nothing At All) from Materialists

Shine in the Cruel Night from Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle

Train Dreams from Train Dreams

Actor in a Supporting Role

Miles Caton, Sinners

Jacobi Jupe, Hamnet

Delroy Lindo, Sinners

Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value

Sean Penn, Sinners

Actress in a Supporting Role

Odessa A’zion, Marty Supreme

Mariam Afshari, It Was Just an Accident

Elle Fanning, Sentimental Value

Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value

Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another

“Sentimental Value”

©Neon