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Frankenstein, Guillermo del Toro’s gothic horror movie starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi and Mia Goth, was nominated for nine Oscars going into Sunday night’s 98th Academy Awards. How many Oscars did the film win?
Released in theaters on Oct. 17, 2025, before making its streaming debut on Netflix three weeks later on Nov. 7, Frankenstein was directed by del Toro, who adapted the screenplay from author Mary Shelley’s classic Gothic novel from 1818.
Frankenstein has been celebrated by critics and industry organizations throughout awards season, which includes the nine nominations it received for the 2026 Oscars on Jan. 22.
The film’s Oscar nominations going into Sunday’s ceremony included Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay for del Toro, Best Supporting Actor for Elordi, Best Cinematography for Dan Lausten and Best Original Score for Alexandre Desplat.
In addition, Frankenstein was nominated for Best Costume Design for Kate Hawley, Best Makeup and Hairstyling for Mike Hill, Jordan Samuel and Cliona Furey, and Best Production Design for Tamara Deverell (production designer) and Shane Vieau (set decorator).
By the conclusion of the ceremony, Frankenstein won three Oscars, for Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling and Best Production Design.
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Guillermo Del Toro Missed Out On An Opportunity To Add To His Personal Oscar Count
Guillermo del Toro, who earned a Best Picture nomination as one of the producers of Frankenstein (alongside J. Miles Dale and Scott Stuber), lost in the category when One Battle After Another was awarded the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ top honor.
The filmmaker also lost in the Best Adapted Screenplay category to Paul Thomas Anderson for One Battle After Another. The filmmaker was snubbed in the 2026 Oscar nominations for Best Directing, even though he was one of the five filmmakers who were nominated in the film directing category at the 2026 Directors Guild of America Awards.
Del Toro, however, won Academy Awards before, first in 2018 when he and fellow filmmaker J. Miles Dale won the Best Picture Oscar for producing the sci-fi fantasy The Shape of Water. In addition, del Toro won the Oscar for Best Directing for the film.
In addition, del Toro and the late Mark Gustafson won the Best Animated Feature Oscar for directing the stop-motion fantasy Pinocchio, which they shared with producers Gary Unger and Alexander Bulkey.
Del Toro has also been nominated for Best Original Screenplay for 2006’s sci-fi fantasy Pan’s Labyrinth, as well as Best Original Screenplay for The Shape of Water. He was also nominated for producing the 2021 Best Picture nominee Nightmare Alley, an honor he shared with fellow producers Dale and Bradley Cooper.
Rated R, Frankenstein is streaming on Netflix.
