Daily Mail Voices: Academy Award nominations 2026 biggest snubs and surprises

The 2026 Academy Awards have been announced, and Sinners absolutely dominates the field with a historic 16 nominations, the most any motion picture has ever received before. Sinners is nominated for Best Picture alongside One Battle after Another, Bugonia, F1, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, The Secret Agent, Sentimental Value, and Train Dreams Leonardo DiCaprio is poised for another shot at Oscars glory as he has been nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role. DiCaprio has already lost twice to Chalamet during this year's awards season.Kate Hudson is making a major comeback with Song Sung Blue. She last received an Oscar nomination 25 years ago for Almost famous when she was just 21. Wicked: For Good was completely snubbed at the Oscars. The sequel to the 2024 smash hit Wicked failed to earn a single nomination at this year's Oscars.Other notable snubs at this year'sOscars were the exclusion of Gwyneth Paltrow, Brad Pitt, and Avatar: Fire and Ash.