Oscar Nominations 2026: A Historic Moment Unveiled Hollywood Reporter Awards Chatter Podcast !
The Oscar nominations 2026 were really something to be proud of, for The Hollywood Reporters Awards Chatter podcast. It is a podcast. This year The Hollywood Reporters Awards Chatter podcast had 25 guests who were nominated for Oscars.
The Hollywood Reporters Awards Chatter podcast knows what is going on during awards season. The Hollywood Reporters Awards Chatter podcast always seems to know what people are talking about.
Awards Chatter is known for having long and detailed conversations. Awards Chatter goes past the news and events. The podcast talks about the lives, the hard work and the big moments in the careers of filmmakers, actors and artists who are making modern cinema what it is.
This year the people who were nominated are proof that Awards Chatter’s a place where people who might win Oscars like to talk before they are even nominated for Awards Chatter. Awards Chatter is a place for filmmakers and actors to share their stories.
Here is the complete list of people who were on the Awards Chatter podcast and got nominated this year. The list is, in order and it includes the work they got nominated for.
Rose Byrne is an actress and she won the award for Best Actress for her role in the movie If I Had Legs I’d Kick You. The movie If I Had Legs I’d Kick You is really good. Rose Byrne did a fantastic job in it. Rose Byrne played her part well in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You that she got the award, for Best Actress.
Jerry Bruckheimer — Best Picture for F1
Ruth E. Carter — Best Costume Design for Sinners.
Timothée Chalamet — Best Picture and Best Actor for Marty Supreme
Benicio Del Toro — Best Supporting Actor for One Battle After Another
Guillermo del Toro — Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay for Frankenstein
Jacob Elordi — Best Supporting Actor for Frankenstein
Elle Fanning — Best Supporting Actress for Sentimental Value
Jack Fisk — Best Production Design for Marty Supreme (episode posting next week)
Ethan Hawke — Best Actor for Blue Moon
Kate Hudson — Best Actress for Song Sung Blue
Michael B. Jordan — Best Actor for Sinners
Delroy Lindo — Best Supporting Actor for Sinners
Amy Madigan — Best Supporting Actress for Weapons
Wagner Moura — Best Actor for The Secret AgentDocumentary, Screenplay, and Music Nominees
The Awards Chatter had an impact that went way beyond just the acting categories. It also affected the people who do the writing the music and the documentary filmmaking of the Awards Chatter.
Sheila Nevins — Best Documentary Short for Children No More: “Were and Are Gone”
Jafar Panahi — Best Original Screenplay for It Was Just an Accident
Sean Penn — Best Supporting Actor for One Battle After Another
Natalie Portman — Best Animated Feature for Arco
Joshua Seftel — Best Documentary Short for All the Empty Rooms
Stellan Skarsgård — Best Supporting Actor for Sentimental Value
Steven Spielberg — Best Picture for Hamnet
Emma Stone — Best Picture and Best Actress for Bugonia
Diane Warren — Best Original Song for “Dear Me” from Diane Warren: Relentless
Chloé Zhao — Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for Hamnet (episode posting next week)
From Blockbusters to Art-House Cinema
This year we have a lot of kinds of movies that were nominated. The famous producer Jerry Bruckheimer got a nomination for Best Picture for the movie F1, which’s a really exciting drama. Timothée Chalamet did a job in Marty Supreme and he got recognized twice which shows that Timothée Chalamet is one of the most talented stars in Hollywood. The movie F1 and the work of Jerry Bruckheimer and Timothée Chalamet, in Marty Supreme are really something. Jerry Bruckheimer and Timothée Chalamet are doing work in the movie industry.
Guillermo del Toro is still doing well at the Oscars. He made a movie called Frankenstein. It got some nominations. This is because Guillermo del Toro is good at telling stories, with pictures and making people feel things. Guillermo del Toro has a way of doing this that people like. Guillermo del Toros movies are always very interesting to watch because of the way he tells stories and makes people feel emotions.
Some movie performances really caught the attention of the Oscar people. These performances were so good that the Oscar voters took notice of them. The performances that stood out were amazing. They made the Oscar people think about giving them awards. The Oscar awards are a deal. These standout performances were in movies that people loved. The actors and actresses, in these movies did a job. They played their roles well that it caught the Oscar attention. The standout performances are the ones that people will remember.
The acting categories had a lot of people we know from Awards Chatter. Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo did a job in the movie Sinners so they got recognized. Emma Stone did a job too she got nominations for acting and for producing the movie Bugonia. She was nominated for her work as an actress in Bugonia and also, for producing Bugonia.
The movie had some great performances. Kate Hudson and Ethan Hawke did a job. Benicio Del Toro and Stellan Skarsgård were also very good. These actors took on some roles and it really paid off. They got a lot of support from the critics. Kate Hudson and Ethan Hawke and Benicio Del Toro and Stellan Skarsgård all showed a lot of emotion in their performances. They were not afraid to take risks. It made the movie very interesting.
A Strong Voice in Writing, Music, and Documentary Storytelling
The podcast had an effect that went beyond just the performances. Diane Warren showed again that she is very important in the music business when she got oscar nominations 2026 for Best Song. Filmmaker Jafar Panahi also got recognition, for the screenplay he wrote for the podcast. The podcast and Diane Warren and Jafar Panahi all did well.
Documentary nominees Sheila Nevins and Joshua Seftel talked about the show. How it deals with real things that are happening in the world. This just shows that Awards Chatter cares about things that really matter, not about famous people. Awards Chatter is about telling stories that are real and meaningful and that is what Sheila Nevins and Joshua Seftel like, about the show.
A Podcast Closely Aligned With Oscar Momentum
The podcast still has episodes that are going to come out including talks with Jack Fisk and Chloé Zhao. This means The Hollywood Reporters Awards Chatter will probably be a part of the Oscar nominations 2026 conversation.
As the awards season keeps going The Hollywood Reporters Awards Chatter is still something it is not just a series of interviews, with people.
It has become a reliable snapshot of where Oscar buzz is building—and a place where many of this year’s nominees shared their stories before hearing their names called on nomination morning
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