'One Battle After Another' dominated nominations to the Actor Awards on Wednesday, with Paul Thomas Anderson's ragtag revolutionary saga landing a record seven nods in the annual SAG-AFTRA honours.
In the 31 years of the Actor Awards, formerly known as the Screen Actors Guild Awards, no movie has received more than five nominations. Along with a nod for the guild's top award, best ensemble, the cast of 'One Battle After Another' was showered with nominations for Leonardo DiCaprio, Chase Infiniti, Teyana Taylor, Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro and its stunt performers.
The four other nominees for best ensemble are: 'Sinners', 'Hamnet', 'Marty Supreme' and 'Frankenstein'. Usually, to win best picture at the Oscars, a movie needs a SAG ensemble nomination. Only four films in the last three decades have managed the feat without that.
Among the films that missed the cut this year were 'Sentimental Value', 'Wicked: For Good' and 'Train Dreams'.
'Sinners' had an especially good result. Along with a best male actor nod for Michael B. Jordan, supporting actors Miles Caton and Wunmi Mosaku were both nominated. It collected five nominations in total.
Historically, the Actor Awards have been one of the strongest Oscar indicators. Actors make up the largest branch of the film academy, and, in the past, individual SAG nominees have overlapped with the Oscar field at a rate of roughly four out of five. The Actor Awards are presented by the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
That means the nominees Wednesday may closely resemble those headed to the Oscars.
Here's the full list of nominees for the 2026 Actors Awards, which will be presented March 1 in Los Angeles and streamed live on Netflix:
MOVIES
CastFrankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Male actor in a leading roleTimothée Chalamet - Marty Supreme
Leonardo DiCaprio - One Battle After Another
Ethan Hawke - Blue Moon
Michael B. Jordan - Sinners
Jesse Plemons - Bugonia
Female actor in a leading roleJessie Buckley - Hamnet
Rose Byrne - If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Kate Hudson - Song Sung Blue
Chase Infiniti - One Battle After Another
Emma Stone - Bugonia.
Male actor in a supporting roleMiles Caton- Sinners
Benicio Del Toro- One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi - Frankenstein
Paul Mescal - Hamnet
Sean Penn - One Battle After Another.
Female actor in a supporting roleOdessa A’Zion - Marty Supreme
Ariana Grande - Wicked: For Good
Amy Madigan - Weapons
Wunmi Mosaku - Sinners
Teyana Taylor - One Battle After Another.
Stunt ensembleF1
Frankenstein
Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning
One Battle After Another
Sinners
TELEVISION
On the television side, the leader in comedy was 'The Studio', which scored nods for its ensemble, Seth Rogen, Kathryn Hahn, Catherine O'Hara and Ike Barinholtz. The top drama was 'The White Lotus', which collected four nominations including best ensemble and nods for Parker Posey, Walton Goggins and Aimee Lee Wood. The limited series 'Adolescence' also landed four nominations, for Owen Cooper, Stephen Graham, Erin Doherty and Christine Tremarco.
Drama ensembleThe Diplomat
Landman
The Pitt
Severance
The White Lotus
Comedy ensembleAbbott Elementary
The Bear
Hacks
Only Murders in the Building
The Studio
Male actor in a drama seriesSterling K. Brown - Paradise
Billy Crudup - The Morning Show
Walton Goggins - The White Lotus
Gary Oldman - Slow Horses
Noah Wyle - The Pitt
Female actor in a drama seriesBritt Lower - Severance
Parker Posey - The White Lotus
Keri Russell - The Diplomat
Rhea Seehorn - Pluribus
Aimee Lou Wood - The White Lotus
Male actor in a comedy seriesIke Barinholtz - The Studio
Adam Brody - Nobody Wants This
Ted Danson - A Man On The Inside
Seth Rogen - The Studio
Martin Short - Only Murders In The Building
Female actor in a comedy seriesKathryn Hahn - The Studio
Catherine O’Hara - The Studio
Jenna Ortega - Wednesday
Jean Smart - Hacks
Kristen Wiig - Palm Royale
Male actor in a limited series or TV movieJason Bateman, - Black Rabbit
Owen Cooper - Adolescence
Stephen Graham - Adolescence
Charlie Hunnam - Monster: The Ed Gein Story
Matthew Rhys - The Beast in Me
Female actor in a limited series or TV movieClaire Danes - The Beast In Me
Erin Doherty - Adolescence
Sarah Snook - All Her Fault
Christine Tremarco - Adolescence
Michelle Williams - Dying For Sex
Stunt EnsembleAndor
Landman
The Last Of Us
Squid Game
Stranger Things
Actors biggest snubs
Snubbed altogether was Joachim Trier's acclaimed Norwegian drama 'Sentimental Value'. Both Renate Reinsve, in lead female actor, and Stellan Skarsgard, for supporting male actor, have been viewed as shoo-ins. Many analysts have even considered Skarsgard the favorite to win. With more than 122,000 voting members, the actors guild has tended to skew more populist and the guild often shies away from non-English language nominees.
Membership in the academy, meanwhile, has grown increasingly international. Along with 'Sentimental Value', movies like the Iranian revenge drama 'It Was Just an Accident' and the Brazilian political thriller 'The Secret Agent' should have greater success come Oscar nominations on Jan. 22.
SAG Awards and Oscars
There have been some prominent differences between SAG and the Oscars. Last year, Chalamet won best male actor but lost to Adrien Brody ("The Brutalist") at the Oscars. The papal drama "Conclave" took best ensemble, but Sean Baker's "Anora" won best picture at the Academy Awards.
Where to watch The Actor Awards
The Actor Awards will take place Sunday, March 1, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Netflix will stream the ceremony live. Harrison Ford will be presented with the guild's life achievement award.
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