‘Sinners’ breaks Oscar history with 16 nominations

Ryan Coogler’s supernatural thriller Sinners has smashed the all-time Oscars record with 16 nominations.

Nominations for the 98th Academy Awards were revealed on Thursday. 

Among its nominations, Sinners is up for Best Picture, Michael B. Jordan is nominated for Best Actor, Wunmi Mosaku is nominated for Supporting Actress, Delroy Lindo is nominated for Supporting Actor, and the film is also nominated for Best Director, Original Screenplay, and Best Song. 

Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After followed with 13 nominations, and Netflix’s Frankenstein, A24’s Marty Supreme, and Neon’s Sentimental Value garnered nine nominations each.

Other big milestones include Marty Supreme star Timothée Chalamet becoming the youngest male actor to earn three acting nominations.

Steven Spielberg received his 14th nomination for Best Picture this year for Hamnet.

Other Best Picture nominees include F1, Bugonia, Frankenstein, Marty Supreme, One Battle After Another, The Secret Agent, Sentimental Value, Sinners, and Train Dreams.

The biggest surprise was an entire shutout for Wicked: For Good, just one year after the first film in the franchise scored 10 nominations.

The Academy Awards will take place on 16 March.