Ryan Coogler's blues-steeped vampire epic 'Sinners' led all films with 16 nominations to the 98th Academy Awards on Thursday, setting a record for the most in Oscar history.
Ryan Coogler's blues-steeped vampire epic "Sinners" led all films with 16 nominations to the 98th Academy Awards on Thursday, setting a record for the most in Oscar history. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voters showered "Sinners" with more nominations than they had ever bestowed before, breaking the 14-nomination mark set by "All About Eve," "Titanic" and "La La Land.
" Along with best picture, Coogler was nominated for best director and best screenplay, and double-duty star Michael B. Jordan was rewarded with his first Oscar nomination, for best actor. Paul Thomas Anderson's father-daughter revolutionary saga "One Battle After Another," the favorite coming into nominations, trailed in second with 13 nominations of its own. Four of its actors - Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor, Benicio del Toro and Sean Penn - were nominated, though newcomer Chase Infiniti was left out in best actress. The nominees in all 24 categories for the 98th Academy Awards were revealed in a live presentation from the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Los Angeles. In those two top nominees, the film academy put its full force behind a pair of visceral and bracingly original American epics that each connected with a fraught national moment. Coogler's Jim Crow-era film - the rare horror movie to win the academy's favor - conjures a mythical allegory of Black life. In "One Battle After Another," a dormant spirit of rebellion is revived in an out-of-control police state. Both are also Warner Bros. titles. In the midst of a contentious sale to Netflix, the 102-year-old studio had its best Oscar nominations morning ever. As the fate of Warner Bros., which Netflix is buying for $72 billion, hangs in the balance amid a challenge from Paramount Skydance, Hollywood is bracing for potentially the largest realignment in the film industry's history. The 10 films nominated for best picture are "Bugonia," "F1," "Frankenstein," "Hamnet," "Marty Supreme," "One Battle After Another," "The Secret Agent," "Sentimental Value," "Sinners" and "Train Dreams." Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein," Josh Safdie's "Marty Supreme" and Joachim Trier's "Sentimental Value" all scored nine nominations. The nine for "Marty Supreme" included a third best actor nod for 30-year-old Timothée Chalamet, the favorite in the category he narrowly missed winning last year for "A Complete Unknown." With Jordan and Chalamet, the nominees are Leonardo DiCaprio for "One Battle After Another," Ethan Hawke for "Blue Moon" and Wagner Moura for "The Secret Agent." Nominated for best actress was the category favorite, Jessie Buckley , along with Rose Byrne , Kate Hudson , Renate Reinsve and two-time winner Emma Stone, who landed her sixth nomination, for "Bugonia." The year's most-watched movie, with more than half a billion views on Netflix, "KPop Demon Hunters," scored nominations for both best song and best animated feature. Sony Pictures developed and produced the film, but, after selling it to Netflix, watched it become a worldwide sensation. Blockbusters otherwise had a difficult morning. Universal Pictures' "Wicked: For Good" was shut out entirely. While "Avatar: Fire and Ash" notched nominations for costume design and visual effects, it became the first "Avatar" film not nominated for best picture. The biggest box-office hit nominated for Hollywood's top award instead was "F1," an Apple production. The streamer partnered with Warner Bros. to distribute the racing drama. The first category read by presenters Danielle Brooks and Lewis Pullman was supporting actress. The nominees are Elle Fanning and Inga Ibsdotter LilIeaas for "Sentimental Value," Amy Madigan for "Weapons," Wunmi Mosaku for "Sinners" and Teyana Taylor for "One Battle After Another." For supporting actor, the nominees are Jacob Elordi for "Frankenstein," Sean Penn for "One Battle After Another," Stellan Skarsgrd for "Sentimental Value," Benicio del Toro for "One Battle After Another" and Delroy Lindo for "Sinners." This year, the Oscars are introducing a new category for casting. That new honor helped "Sinners" and "One Battle After Another" pad their already impressive stats. Along with those two films, the nominees are "Hamnet," "Marty Supreme" and "The Secret Agent." The 98th Academy Awards will take place on March 15 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles and will be televised live on ABC and Hulu. YouTube's new deal to exclusively air won't take effect until 2029. This year, Conan O'Brien will return as host.
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