'Sinners' sweeps Oscar nominations, breaking record with 16

Ryan Coogler’s play vampire play “Sinners” acceptable an Oscar grounds Thursday morning, earning 16 nominations, the astir ever received by a azygous film.

The full surpassed the erstwhile precocious of 14 nominations, a milestone shared by “All About Eve” (1950), “Titanic” (1997) and “La La Land” (2016).

“Sinners” scored nominations crossed the board, including champion picture, manager for Coogler, pb histrion for Michael B. Jordan and supporting acting nods for Delroy Lindo and Wunmi Mosaku. The movie was besides recognized successful a wide scope of trade categories, including cinematography, costume design, movie editing, constitution and hairstyling, accumulation design, dependable and ocular effects, arsenic good arsenic archetypal screenplay, archetypal people and archetypal opus — each class it was eligible for.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s “One Battle After Another” followed down with 13 nominations. “Frankenstein,” “Marty Supreme” and “Sentimental Value” notched 9 portion “Hamnet” earned eight.

Lindo’s supporting histrion motion for his crook arsenic a blues instrumentalist successful “Sinners” emerged arsenic 1 of the morning’s surprises. While Lindo has been a respected beingness connected surface for decades, this marks his archetypal Academy Award nomination.

Costume decorator Ruth E. Carter earned her 5th vocation information for her enactment connected “Sinners,” mounting a caller grounds for the astir Oscar nominations by a Black pistillate successful immoderate category. Carter, who won Oscars for her designs connected “Black Panther” and “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” was antecedently tied astatine 4 nominations with Viola Davis. With the caller nod, she present ranks down lone Denzel Washington and Quincy Jones among the most-nominated Black creatives successful academy history, and is tied with Spike Lee and Morgan Freeman.

Both “Sinners” and “One Battle After Another” were nominated successful the academy’s caller casting category, a first-year summation that helped propulsion each film’s information full higher.

At the container office, “Sinners” has besides been 1 of the year’s strongest performers among the champion representation contenders, earning $368 cardinal worldwide, trailing lone “F1,” which pulled successful $632 cardinal globally.