by Mychal ThompsonBuzzFeedBuzzFeed Staff The 98th Academy Awards are officially happening on March 15, and the nominations are finally here! Brianna Bryson / FilmMagic 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: Milestones and Records 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. Warner Bros. / Courtesy Everett Collection Shoutout to Michael B. Jordan, Delroy Lindo, and Wunmi Mosaku on their first-ever Oscar nominations for their roles as Stack/Smoke, Delta Slim, and Annie. 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. CBS Photo Archive / CBS via Getty Images 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). Taylor Hill / FilmMagic 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. Taylor Hill / FilmMagic In 2019, Ruth became the first Black person to win an Oscar for costume design on Black Panther. 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. CBS Photo Archive / CBS via Getty Images 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. A24 / Courtesy Everett Collection 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. Focus Features / Courtesy Everett Collection 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. Michael Kovac / Getty Images for AFI 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). MICHAEL TRAN / AFP via Getty Images 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. Neon /Courtesy Everett Collection 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. Warner Bros. / Courtesy Everett Collection 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. Kasper Tuxen /(C) Neon / Courtesy Everett Collection Shoutout to Elle Fanning, Renate Reinsve, and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas for securing acting nominations as well. 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. Neon /Courtesy Everett Collection, Europa Press Entertainment / Europa Press via Getty Images 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. CBS Photo Archive / CBS via Getty Images 14. "Golden," performed by singers EJAE, Audrey Nuna, and REI AMI from