'One Battle After Another' dominates SAG's Actor Awards with 7
nominations
[January 08, 2026]
By JAKE COYLE
“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 honors.
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.
In television, Apple's “The Studio,” HBO's “White Lotus” and Netflix's
“Adolescence” lead the nominees.
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. They are:
Best male actor: DiCaprio, Timothée Chalamet (“Marty Supreme”), Michael
B. Jordan (“Sinners”), Ethan Hawke (“Blue Moon”) and Jesse Plemons (“Bugonia”).
The only surprise of that group was Plemons. The favorite remains the
30-year-old Chalamet who won the same award last year for “A Complete
Unknown” and vowed to pursue “greatness” in his acceptance speech.
Best female actor: Infiniti, Jessie Buckley (“Hamnet”), Rose Byrne (“If
I Had Legs I’d Kick You”), Kate Hudson (“Song Sung Blue”) and Emma Stone
(“Bugonia”).
In the supporting male actor category, the nominees are: Del Toro, Penn,
Caton, Jacob Elordi (“Frankenstein”) and Paul Mescal (“Hamnet”).
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This image released by Focus Features shows Jessie Buckley, center,
in a scene from "Hamnet." (Agata Grzybowska/Focus Features via AP)
 The nominees for best supporting
female actor are: Taylor, Mosaku, Ariana Grande (“Wicked: For
Good”), Amy Madigan (“Weapons”) and Odessa A’zion (“Marty Supreme”).
The biggest surprise in that category was the 25-year-old A'zion.
Snubbed altogether was Joachim Trier’s acclaimed Norwegian drama
“Sentimental Value.” Both Renate Reinsve, in lead female actor, and
Stellan Skarsgård, for supporting male actor, have been viewed as
shoo-ins. Many analysts have even considered Skarsgård 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.
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.
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.
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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