The Irish are dominating this year’s Oscar nominees

Jessie Buckley has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Hamnet, her second Oscar nomination, having previously been nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the The Lost Daughter in 2021. Hamnet earned eight nominations in total, making it the sixth most nominated film this year, including Best Picture, Best Director for Chloé Zhao and in a new category this year, Best Casting.

If Jessie Buckley wins, an Irish person will have finally won in every acting category at the Oscars – Cillian Murphy and Daniel Day-Lewis have won for Best Actor and Brenda Fricker won Best Supporting Actress but no Irish actor has yet won Best Actress.

Bugonia, co-produced by Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe of Irish production company Element Pictures, has also received four nominations for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actress for Emma Stone and Best Original Score. “We’re honoured that Bugonia has been nominated for four Academy Awards, and in these important categories,” said Element Pictures co-CEOs and founders Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe. “We’re proud of everyone involved, and we’re delighted to see the film receiving such wonderful recognition as the awards season continues. We are so proud of Yorgos, Emma, Jesse, Will, Jerskin and all the incredible talent behind Bugonia, and once again so grateful to the amazing Element team in O’Connell Street who have worked so hard to help bring the film to life and out into the world.”

Retirement Plan, by Irish animator John Kelly and narrated by Domhnall Gleeson, has been nominated for Best Animated Short Film, while two-time Oscar winner and Tallaght native Richard Baneham has picked up another nomination for Best Visual Effects for Avatar: Fire and Ash. Irish production company Wild Atlantic Pictures has also been nominated for Best Original Screenplay and Best Actor for Ethan Hawke for the film Blue Moon.

“These nominations represent a remarkable recognition of the artistic strength and range of Irish creative talent,” says Désirée Finnegan, Chief Executive of Fís Éireann / Screen Ireland. “It is another powerful moment for the Irish screen industry and underlines the importance of supporting talent and investing in filmmakers and artists. We are immensely proud to see Irish storytelling and talent so strongly represented on the global stage and wish those nominated all the best at the Academy Awards ceremony in March.”

The 98th Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, March 15, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. See the full list of nominees below.

Best picture

Bugonia
F1
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Train Dreams

Best directing

Chloé Zhao, Hamnet
Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme
Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value
Ryan Coogler, Sinners

Best actor

Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme
Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another
Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon
Michael B Jordan, Sinners
Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent

Best actress

Jessie Buckley, Hamnet
Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Kate Hudson, Song Sung Blue
Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value
Emma Stone, Bugonia

Best supporting actor

Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein
Delroy Lindo, Sinners
Sean Penn, One Battle After Another
Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value

Best supporting actress

Elle Fanning, Sentimental Value
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value
Amy Madigan, Weapons
Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners
Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another

Best original screenplay

Blue Moon
It Was Just an Accident
Marty Supreme
Sentimental Value
Sinners

Best adapted screenplay

Bugonia
Frankenstein
Hamnet
One Battle After Another
Train Dreams

Best animated feature film

Arco
Elio
KPop Demon Hunters
Little Amélie or The Character of Rain
Zootopia 2

Best international feature film

The Secret Agent
It Was Just an Accident
Sentimental Value
Sirât
The Voice of Hind Rajab

Best documentary feature film

The Alabama Solution
Come See Me in the Good Light
Cutting Through Rocks
Mr Nobody Against Putin
The Perfect Neighbor

Best documentary short film

All the Empty Rooms
Armed Only With a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
Children No More: Were and Are Gone
The Devil Is Busy
Perfectly a Strangeness

Best animated short film

Butterfly
Forevergreen
The Girl Who Cried Pearls
Retirement Plan
The Three Sisters

Best live action short film

Butcher’s Stain
A Friend of Dorothy
Jane Austen’s Period Drama
The Singers
Two People Exchanging Saliva

Best casting

Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
The Secret Agent
Sinners

Best cinematography

Frankenstein
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Train Dreams

Best costume design

Avatar: Fire and Ash
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Sinners

Best film editing

F1
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sentimental Value
Sinners

Best make-up and hairstyling

Frankenstein
Kokuho
Sinners
The Smashing Machine
The Ugly Stepsister

Best production design

Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners

Best original score

Bugonia
Frankenstein
Hamnet
One Battle After Another
Sinners

Best original song

Dear Me, Diane Warren: Relentless
Golden, KPop Demon Hunters
I Lied To You, Sinners
Sweet Dreams of Joy, Viva Verdi!
Train Dreams, Train Dreams

Best sound

F1
Frankenstein
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Sirât

Best visual effects

Avatar: Fire and Ash
F1
Jurassic World Rebirth
The Lost Bus
Sinners

Photography by The Academy Awards.