Sinners Sets Oscar Record With 16 Nominations; One Battle After Another Gets 13

Ryan Coogler’s Sinners earned 16 Academy Award nominations on Thursday, the most any film has received in a single year, when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the nominees for its 98th awards. The previous high of 14 was shared by All About Eve, Titanic and La La Land, according to WSET and Yahoo Entertainment.

One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson’s film, followed with 13 nominations. Frankenstein received nine, according to both outlets.

The Best Picture field has 10 films: Bugonia, F1, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, One Battle After Another, The Secret Agent, Sentimental Value, Sinners and Train Dreams. Yahoo Entertainment described F1’s inclusion as a surprise.

The Best Director nominees are Chloé Zhao for Hamnet, Josh Safdie for Marty Supreme, Anderson for One Battle After Another, Joachim Trier for Sentimental Value and Coogler for Sinners.

In the lead acting categories, the Best Actor nominees are Timothée Chalamet for Marty Supreme, Leonardo DiCaprio for One Battle After Another, Ethan Hawke for Blue Moon, Michael B. Jordan for Sinners and Wagner Moura for The Secret Agent. The Best Actress nominees are Jessie Buckley for Hamnet, Rose Byrne for If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Kate Hudson for Song Sung Blue, Renate Reinsve for Sentimental Value and Emma Stone for Bugonia.

The supporting categories include Benicio del Toro, Jacob Elordi, Delroy Lindo, Sean Penn and Stellan Skarsgård for supporting actor. For supporting actress, the nominees are Elle Fanning, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Amy Madigan, Wunmi Mosaku and Teyana Taylor, WSET reported.

This year’s slate also introduces a new casting category, which is voted on by the Academy’s casting directors branch. Its first nominees are Hamnet, Marty Supreme, One Battle After Another, The Secret Agent and Sinners.

Yahoo Entertainment’s tally by studio showed Warner Bros. leading with 30 nominations, followed by Neon with 18 and Netflix with 16. The same account listed Paul Mescal for Hamnet and Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo for Wicked: For Good among the notable names left out.

The 98th Academy Awards will air live on ABC on March 15, with Conan O’Brien returning as host for a second time, according to both outlets.