Sinners Leads OFCS Nominations: Full List

Sixteen nominations for a horror film from a critics’ group that includes Variety, THR, and Sight & Sound writers. Let that sit for a second.

Ryan Coogler‘s Sinners isn’t just winning the Online Film Critics Society nominations—it’s rewriting what “prestige” looks like in 2026. The OFCS, founded back in 1997 when online criticism was still a punchline to print purists, now boasts nearly 300 voting members from outlets that actually matter. And they just handed Coogler’s genre-bending Southern Gothic drama a nomination haul that would make any Oscar strategist nervous. Or very, very interested.

Paul Thomas Anderson‘s One Battle After Another trails with 13 nominations. Respectable. Expected, honestly—PTA gets nominated for breathing. But that three-nomination gap tells a story Warner Bros. is definitely paying attention to.

The Nomination Breakdown

Sinners swept across categories like it was designed in a lab to appeal to critics who pride themselves on recognizing “elevated genre.” Best Picture. Best Director. Best Actor for Michael B. Jordan. Supporting nods for Delroy Lindo and Wunmi Mosaku. Technical categories—Cinematography, Editing, Score, Production Design, Costume Design. Even the new categories: Makeup & Hairstyling, Sound Design, Choreography.

That’s the thing. The OFCS added four new categories this year—Best Ensemble & Casting, Best Makeup & Hairstyling, Best Sound Design, and Best Choreography (Dance & Stunt)—and Sinners landed in three of them. Either the film is genuinely comprehensive, or the timing of those category additions is… convenient. I’m not saying conspiracy. I’m saying Warner Bros. knows how to work a room.

One Battle After Another grabbed 13 nominations, spreading across Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, and acting nods for Leonardo DiCaprio, Benicio Del Toro, Sean Penn, and Teyana Taylor. Classic PTA distribution—auteur credibility with A-list star power. We’ve seen this playbook before. We’ll see it again.

Behind them: Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme with 9 nominations (Timothée Chalamet in the Best Actor race, naturally), and the Norwegian entry Sentimental Value with 8—including three acting nominations between Renate Reinsve, Elle Fanning, and Stellan Skarsgård.

What the Critics’ Spread Actually Signals

Here’s what matters more than the individual counts: the Best Picture lineup tells you exactly where the industry’s head is at.

Ten nominees. Sinners and One Battle After Another are the heavyweights, sure. But look at what else made the cut—Hamnet (Chloé Zhao directing Jessie Buckley), Marty Supreme, Sentimental Value, No Other Choice, It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi, still making films, still getting recognized), The Secret Agent, Train Dreams, and Weapons.

That’s three international films in the top ten. A Safdie. A Zhao. Panahi. This isn’t a safe list. This is a critics’ group actively pushing against the Netflix-and-legacy-sequel tide. Whether the Oscars follow that energy… well. We’ve seen them chicken out before.

The Best Director category is particularly interesting: Coogler, Anderson, Panahi, Safdie, Zhao. That’s arguably the strongest directing lineup of the season so far. No safe studio picks. No “he’s due” legacy nominations. Just filmmakers who actually directed something this year.

Last year, this same group handed Best Picture to Anora and Best Actress to Mikey Madison. They weren’t wrong. The Academy eventually agreed. The OFCS doesn’t predict Oscar outcomes—but they tend to identify where the conversation should be heading.

The Sneaky Story in the Technical Categories

Everyone focuses on the glamour races. But look at where Sinners is cleaning up: Cinematography, Editing, Score, Production Design, Costume Design, Sound Design, Visual Effects, Choreography.

That’s eight technical nominations. For a horror film. With a reported budget far below the blockbusters it’s competing against.

Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro‘s, one assumes, given Jacob Elordi’s supporting nod) picked up seven nominations total—mostly technical. Avatar: Fire and Ash and F1 are present in Sound and Visual Effects. Wicked: For Good is hanging around Production Design and Costume.

But Sinners isn’t just nominated alongside them. It’s leading them. Autumn Durald Arkapaw’s cinematography, Ludwig Göransson’s score (presumably), Ruth E. Carter’s costumes—Coogler assembled a technical team that could compete with $200 million productions on a fraction of the budget.

That’s not luck. That’s strategy. And it’s exactly the kind of “more with less” narrative Oscar voters love pretending they care about.

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What the Sinners OFCS Nominations Actually Mean

Coogler is building an Oscar case — Sixteen nominations across prestige and technical categories positions Sinners as a complete package, not just an acting showcase.

PTA remains the safe auteur bet — Thirteen nominations for One Battle After Another confirms Anderson’s permanent residency in awards conversations, regardless of the film.

International films are forcing their way in — Sentimental Value, It Was Just an Accident, and The Secret Agent all made Best Picture, suggesting critics aren’t letting Hollywood coast.

New categories benefit comprehensive films — The OFCS’s expansion to 22 categories helps sprawling productions like Sinners pad their totals, making nomination counts less directly comparable to previous years.

The Best Director race is stacked — Coogler, Anderson, Panahi, Safdie, Zhao. Someone excellent is getting left out at the Oscars.

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FAQ: Sinners OFCS Nominations Analysis

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Full List of Online Film Critics Society Award Nominees

Best Picture:

• Hamnet
• It Was Just an Accident
• Marty Supreme
• No Other Choice
• One Battle After Another
• The Secret Agent
• Sentimental Value
• Sinners
• Train Dreams
• Weapons

Best Director:

• Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another
• Ryan Coogler – Sinners
• Jafar Panahi – It Was Just an Accident
• Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme
• Chloé Zhao – Hamnet

Best Actor:

• Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme
• Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another
• Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon
• Michael B. Jordan – Sinners
• Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent

Best Actress:

• Jessie Buckley – Hamnet
• Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
• Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value
• Amanda Seyfried – The Testament of Ann Lee
• Emma Stone – Bugonia

Best Supporting Actor:

• Benicio Del Toro – One Battle After Another
• Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein
• Delroy Lindo – Sinners
• Sean Penn – One Battle After Another
• Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value

Best Supporting Actress:

• Elle Fanning – Sentimental Value
• Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value
• Amy Madigan – Weapons
• Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners
• Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another

Best Ensemble & Casting:

• Marty Supreme
• One Battle After Another
• Sentimental Value
• Sinners
• Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

Best Original Screenplay:

• It Was Just an Accident
• Marty Supreme
• Sentimental Value
• Sinners
• Weapons

Best Adapted Screenplay:

• Bugonia
• Hamnet
• No Other Choice
• One Battle After Another
• Train Dreams

Best Animated Feature:

• Arco
• Elio
• KPop Demon Hunters
• Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
• Zootopia 2

Best Cinematography:

• Frankenstein
• Hamnet
• One Battle After Another
• Sinners
• Train Dreams

Best Editing:

• F1
• Marty Supreme
• No Other Choice
• One Battle After Another
• Sinners

Best Original Score:

• Frankenstein
• Marty Supreme
• One Battle After Another
• Sinners
• Sirât

Best Production Design:

• Frankenstein
• Hamnet
• Marty Supreme
• Sinners
• Wicked: For Good

Best Costume Design:

• Frankenstein
• Hamnet
• Marty Supreme
• Sinners
• Wicked: For Good

Best Makeup & Hairstyling:

• Frankenstein
• Sinners
• The Ugly Stepsister
• Weapons
• Wicked: For Good

Best Sound Design:

• Avatar: Fire and Ash
• F1
• One Battle After Another
• Sinners
• Sirât

Best Visual Effects:

• Avatar: Fire and Ash
• F1
• Frankenstein
• Sinners
• Superman

Best Choreography (Dance & Stunt):

• Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
• One Battle After Another
• Sinners
• The Testament of Ann Lee
• Wicked: For Good

Best Film Not in the English Language:

• It Was Just an Accident
• No Other Choice
• The Secret Agent
• Sentimental Value
• Sirât

Best Documentary:

• 2000 Meters to Andriivka
• The Alabama Solution
• Cover-Up
• Orwell: 2+2=5
• The Perfect Neighbor

Best Debut Feature:

• Andrew DeYoung – Friendship
• Carson Lund – Eephus
• Charlie Polinger – The Plague
• Kristen Stewart – The Chronology of Water
• Eva Victor – Sorry, Baby

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Nomination Tallies:

• (16) Sinners
• (13) One Battle After Another
• (9) Marty Supreme
• (8) Sentimental Value
• (7) Frankenstein, Hamnet
• (4) It Was Just an Accident, No Other Choice, Weapons, Wicked: For Good
• (3) F1, Sirât, The Secret Agent, Train Dreams
• (2) Avatar: Fire and Ash, Bugonia, The Testament of Ann Lee
• (1) 2000 Meters to Andriivka, The Alabama Solution, Arco, Blue Moon, The Chronology of Water, Cover-Up, Eephus, Elio, Friendship, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, KPop Demon Hunters, Little Amélie or the Character of Rain, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Orwell: 2+2=5, The Perfect Neighbor, The Plague, Sorry, Baby, Superman, The Ugly Stepsister, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, Zootopia 2