The 2026 Oscar nominations are in, and it’s clear the Academy feels that records are made to be broken. Sinners just made Oscar history, earning a grand total of 16 nominations—the most ever for a single film. Ryan Coogler’s historical vampire film smashed the previous record, which for years was held by a trio of movies from three very different Hollywood eras: All About Eve (1950), Titanic (1997), and La La Land (2016). The perceived best-picture frontrunner, Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, came just short of the now-broken record, scoring 13 nominations—though it missed out on a widely predicted nomination in leading actress for Chase Infiniti. Given the fact that Sinners overperformed—scoring an unexpected nod for Delroy Lindo in best supporting actor—and One Battle After Another slightly underperformed, perhaps the best-picture race isn’t as sewn up as pundits had previously believed.
But Sinners wasn’t the only film—or the only person—to break records at this year’s Oscars. Thirty-year-old Timothée Chalamet became a four-time Oscar nominee today, picking up not one, but two nominations for Marty Supreme, as both its leading actor and as a producer. This means Chalamet is now the youngest actor in history to star in eight best picture–nominated films: Interstellar (2014), Ladybird (2017), Little Women (2019), Don’t Look Up (2021), Dune (2021), Dune: Part 2 (2024), and the three films for which he scored lead actor noms: Call Me by Your Name, A Complete Unknown, and Marty Supreme. As of Thursday, Chalamet can also boast that he’s the youngest man to score three leading actor Oscar nominations since Marlon Brando in 1954.
Chalamet isn’t the only actor to score two historic nods in one day. Emma Stone also picked up two noms, one for lead actress in Bugonia, and the other, like Chalamet, for best picture. At 37 years old, she’s now the second youngest person ever—and the youngest woman—to earn seven Oscar nominations: for Birdman (2015), La La Land (2017), The Favourite (2019), two for Poor Things (2024), and two for Bugonia. The only person to beat Stone’s record is Walt Disney, who reached that number by the time he turned 34. Stone has even bested Meryl Streep by one year; the celebrated actress earned her seventh Oscar nomination in 1988, at the age of 38.
Last year, Chalamet narrowly missed out on making history in a different way. If he had won, he would have become the youngest best actor winner ever, ironically breaking the record set by the man who eventually beat him: The Brutalist’s Adrien Brody, who won his first best-actor Oscar at 29 for The Pianist in 2003. If Chalamet wins this year, he’ll become the second youngest best-actor winner of all time at 30 years old. As Chalamet’s pal Adam Sandler might say, not too shabby.
Leonardo DiCaprio, arguably Chalamet’s biggest competition for best actor, also set a record today. With his nomination for One Battle After Another, DiCaprio has now starred in 12 best picture nominated films: Titanic (1997), Gangs Of New York (2002), The Aviator (2006), The Departed (2006), Inception (2010), Django Unchained (2013), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), The Revenant (2015), Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), Don’t Look Up (2021), and Killers of the Flower Moon (2024). He now ties with Robert De Niro for the most best-picture appearances of all time.
