98th Annual Oscar Nominations: Sinners Leads Way With Record 16 Nods

The nominations for the 98th Annual Academy Awards are out with Sinners scoring a record-setting 16 nominations. The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences announced the nominees for this year’s ceremony on Thursday morning, which saw Ryan Coogler’s period vampire film breaking the previous record of 14 nominations. That record was held jointly by All About Eve, Titanic, and La La Land.

Sinners took home nods for Best Picture, Best Director (Ryan Coogler), Best Actor (Michael B. Jordan), Best Supporting Actor (Delroy Lindo), Best Supporting Actress (Wunmi Mosaku), Best Original Screenplay (Coogler), Best Casting, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, Best Original Score, Best Original Song, Best Production Design, Best Sound, and Best Visual Effects.

The film wasn’t the only one that cleaned up in the nominations, as One Battle After Another earned 13 nominations, setting up another battle with Sinners after Paul Thomas Anderson’s film picked up the win at the Golden Globes. It was followed by Frankenstein, Marty Supreme, and Sentimental Value with nine nods each. Hamnet took home eight nominations.

All six of those films earned Best Picture nods alongside Yorgos Lanthimos’ Bugonia, Joseph Kosinski’s F1, Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Portuguese-language thriller The Secret Agent, and the period drama Train Dreams

The biggest surprises this year came with Wicked: For Good, which was largely shut out after the first film earned 10 nominations. Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo were both left out of the acting nominees. Avatar: Fire and Ash also became the first film from that franchise to be left out of major award nominations, though that was less surprising. Joachim Trier also managed to nab a nod for Sentimental Value ahead of Guillermo Del Toro for Frankenstein.

Another surprise came in Best Actress, where Kate Hudson earned a nomination for Song Sung Blue. And Paul Mescal did not get the same love for his work in Hamnet that Jessie Buckley did, as he was left out of the Best Actors field.

You can see the full list below. Final voting for the Oscars begins on February 26th, with the ceremony taking place on March 15th on ABC and Hulu.

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

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

Actor in a Leading Role
* Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme
* Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another
* Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon
* Michael B. Jordan – Sinners
* Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent

Actress in a Leading Role
* 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

Actor in a Supporting Role
* Benicio Del Toro – One Battle After Another
* Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein
* Delroy Lindo – Sinners
* Sean Penn – One Battle After Another
* Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value

Actress in a Supporting Role
* Elle Fanning – Sentimental Value
* Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value
* Amy Madigan – Weapons
* Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners
* Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
* Will Tracy – Bugonia
* Guillermo del Toro – Frankenstein
* Chloé Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell – Hamnet
* Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another
* Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar – Train Dreams

Writing (Original Screenplay)
* Robert Kaplow – Blue Moon
* Jafar Panahi – It Was Just an Accident
* Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme
* Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier – Sentimental Value
* Ryan Coogler – Sinners

International Feature Film
* The Secret Agent (Brazil)
* It Was Just an Accident (France)
* Sentimental Value (Norway)
* Sirāt (Spain)
* The Voice of Hind Rajab (Tunisia)

Animated Feature Film
* Arco
* Elio
* KPop Demon Hunters
* Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
* Zootopia 2

Documentary Feature Film
* The Alabama Solution
* Come See Me in the Good Light
* Cutting Through Rocks
* Mr. Nobody Against Putin
* The Perfect Neighbor

Film Editing
* F1
* Marty Supreme
* One Battle After Another
* Sentimental Value
* Sinners

Cinematography
* Frankenstein
* Marty Supreme
* One Battle After Another
* Sinners
* Train Dreams

Production Design
* Frankenstein
* Hamnet
* Marty Supreme
* One Battle After Another
* Sinners

Costume Design
* Avatar: Fire and Ash
* Frankenstein
* Hamnet
* Marty Supreme
* Sinners

Music (Original Score)
* Bugonia
* Frankenstein
* Hamnet
* One Battle After Another
* Sinners

Music (Original Song)
* “Dear Me” from Diane Warren: Relentless
* “Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters
* “I Lied to You” from Sinners
* “Sweet Dreams of Joy” from Viva Verdi!
* “Train Dreams” from Train Dreams

Live Action Short Film
* Butcher’s Stain
* A Friend of Dorothy
* Jane Austen’s Period Drama
* The Singers
* Two People Exchanging Saliva

Animated Short Film
* Butterfly
* Forevergreen
* The Girl Who Cried Pearls
* Retirement Plan
* The Three Sisters

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

Makeup and Hairstyling
* Frankenstein
* Kokuho
* Sinners
* The Smashing Machine
* The Ugly Stepsister

Sound
* F1
* Frankenstein
* One Battle After Another
* Sinners
* Sirāt

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