98th Academy Awards Nominations Announced

Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” becomes the most nominated film in Oscars history with 16 nominations, toppling the previous record held by “All About Eve”, “Titanic”, and “La La Land”

Despite coming out way back in April, the vampire horror has reached an unprecedented tally today, with Delroy Lindo’s slightly surprising nomination in Supporting Actor securing the record number. Paul Thomas Anderson‘s “One Battle After Another” also had an impressive haul with 13 nominations, although breakout star Chase Infiniti missed out.

The final best picture slot ultimately went to racing film “F1” which had 4 nominations, with “Weapons” (1), “It Was Just an Accident” (2), and “Blue Moon” (2) all narrowly missing out on the line-up. The biggest omissions though came from hit musical sequel “Wicked: For Good”, which was staggeringly shut out all together, not even securing a single nomination, a stark contrast to the ten nominations the first film got last year. Fellow blockbuster juggernaut “Avatar: Fire and Ash” got two nominations in Costume Design and Visual Effects, and hit Netflix animation “KPop Demon Hunters” also got two nominations.

The real surprises were in the short and documentary categories though which are proving to be more unpredictable by the year, plus some nice solitary inclusions in the technical categories including “Kokuho” and “The Ugly Stepsister” for Makeup and Hairstyling also kept things exciting.

The 98th Academy Awards takes place Sunday 15th March:

Full list of nominations:

Best Picture:

• “Bugonia” | Focus Features | dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
• “F1” | Warner Bros. | dir. Joseph Kosinski
• “Frankenstein” | Netflix | dir. Guillermo del Toro
• “Hamnet” | Focus Features | dir. Chloe Zhao
• “Marty Supreme” | A24 | dir. Josh Safdie
• “One Battle After Another” | Warner Bros. | dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
• “The Secret Agent” | Neon | dir. Kleber Mendonca Filho
• “Sentimental Value” | Neon | dir. Joachim Trier
• “Sinners” | Warner Bros. | dir. Ryan Coogler
• “Train Dreams” | Netflix | dir. Clint Bentley

Director:

• Paul Thomas Anderson “One Battle After Another”
• Ryan Coogler “Sinners”
• Josh Safdie “Marty Supreme”
• Joachim Trier “Sentimental Value”
• Chloe Zhao “Hamnet”

Actor in a Leading Role:

• Timothee 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 Skarsgard “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”

Original Screenplay:

• “Blue Moon” (Robert Kaplow)
• “It Was Just an Accident” (Jafar Panahi)
• “Marty Supreme” (Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie)
• “Sentimental Value” (Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt)
• “Sinners” (Ryan Coogler)

Adapted Screenplay:

• “Bugonia” (Will Tracy)
• “Frankenstein” (Guillermo del Toro)
• “Hamnet”(Chloe Zhao, Maggie O’Farrell)
• “One Battle After Another” (Paul Thomas Anderson)
• “Train Dreams”(Greg Kwedar, Clint Bentley)

Casting:

• “Hamnet”
• “Marty Supreme”
• “One Battle After Another”
• “The Secret Agent”
• “Sinners”

International Feature:

• “It Was Just an Accident”
• “The Secret Agent”
• “Sentimental Value”
• “Sirat”
• “The Voice of Hind Rajab”

Documentary Feature:

• “The Alabama Solution”
• “Come See Me in the Good Light”
• “Cutting Through Rocks”
• “Mr. Nobody Against Putin”
• “The Perfect Neighbour”

Animated Feature:

• “Arco”
• “Elio”
• “KPop Demon Hunters”
• “Little Amelie or the Character of Rain”
• “Zootropolis 2”

Cinematography:

• “Frankenstein”
• “Marty Supreme”
• “One Battle After Another”
• “Sinners”
• “Train Dreams”

Editing:

• “F1”
• “Marty Supreme”
• “One Battle After Another”
• “Sentimental Value”
• “Sinners”

Production Design:

• “Frankenstein”
• “Hamnet”
• “Marty Supreme”
• “One Battle After Another”
• “Sinners”

Costume Design:

• “Avatar: Fire and Ash”
• “Frankenstein”
• “Hamnet”
• “Marty Supreme”
• “Sinners”

Makeup and Hairstyling:

• “Frankenstein”
• “Kokuho”
• “Sinners”
• “The Smashing Machine”
• “The Ugly Stepsister”

Visual Effects:

• “Avatar: Fire and Ash”
• “F1”
• “Jurassic Park Rebirth”
• “The Lost Bus”
• “Sinners”

Sound:

• “F1”
• “Frankenstein”
• “One Battle After Another”
• “Sinners”
• “Sirat”

Score:

• “Bugonia” (Jerskin Fendrix)
• “Frankenstein”(Alexander Desplat)
• “Hamnet” (Max Richter)
• “One Battle After Another” (Jonny Greenwood)
• “Sinners” (Ludwig Goransson)

Original Song:

• Dear Me “Diane Warren: Relentless”
• Golden “KPop Demon Hunters”
• I Lied to You “Sinners”
• Sweet Dreams of Joy “Viva Verdi!”
• Train Dreams “Train Dreams”

Documentary Short:

• “All the Empty Rooms”
• “Armed Only with a Camera”
• “Children No More: Were and Are Gone”
• “The Devil is Busy”
• “Perfectly a Strangeness”

Animated Short:

• “Autokar”
• “Forevergreen”
• “The Girl Who Cried Pearls”
• “Retirement Plan”
• “The Three Sisters”

Live Action Short:

• “Butcher’s Stain”
• “A Friend of Dorothy”
• “Jane Austin’s Period Drama”
• “The Singers”
• “Two People Exchanging Saliva”

Films with most nominations:

• Sinners – 16
• One Battle After Another – 13
• Frankenstein – 9
• Marty Supreme – 9
• Sentimental Value – 9
• Hamnet – 8
• Bugonia – 4
• F1 – 4
• The Secret Agent -4
• Train Dreams – 4

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