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BEVERLY HILLS — “Sinners,” Ryan Coogler’s vampire tale set in the Jim Crow South with Michael B. Jordan playing twin criminal brothers, made Oscar history by scoring a record 16 Academy Award nominations — followed by “One Battle After Another” with 13, “Frankenstein,” “Marty Supreme” and “Sentimental Value” with nine each and “Hamnet” with eight.
Each of those films was nominated for best picture for the 98th Academy Awards, which honor films released in 2025. The Oscars will be handed out March 15 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood.
The previous record for most Oscar nominations was 14 — by “La La Land” in 2016, “Titanic” in 1997 and “All About Eve” in 1950. Of those older films, only “La La Land” failed to capture the best picture award.
Also nominated for best picture — the lone Oscar category with 10 nominees — were “Bugonia;” “F1;” “The Secret Agent” and “Train Dreams.”
For best actor, nominations went to Jordan in “Sinners“;” Timothée Chalamet in “Marty Supreme,” Leonardo DiCaprio in “One Battle After Another,” Ethan Hawke for “Blue Moon” and Wagner Moura for “The Secret Agent.”
Come Oscar night, the best actor prize will be one of the more intriguing categories, a battle of Hollywood heavyweights. Chalamet would seem the early front-runner, coming off wins earlier in this awards season at the Critics Choice Awards and Golden Globes — and with some forecasters thinking he’s owed after his upset loss as best actor last year playing a young Bob Dylan in “A Complete Unknown.”
“Marty Supreme” is a sports comedy that tells the tale, loosely based on a true story, of one man’s travails chasing greatness in table tennis.
Best actress nominations went to Jessie Buckley in “Hamnet,” Rose Byrne in “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You,” Kate Hudson for “Song Sung Blue,” Renate Reinsve in “Sentimental Value” and Emma Stone for “Bugonia.”
For best director, Coogler captured a nomination for “Sinners,” joining Chloé Zhao for “Hamnet,” Josh Safdie for “Marty Supreme,” Paul Thomas Anderson for “One Battle after Another” and Joachim Trier for “Sentimental Value.”
Anderson has already won the Critics Choice and Golden Globe best director awards, and is among those nominated for the coveted Directors Guild Award — a good barometer for success on Oscar night in that category.
Coogler also grabbed a nomination for original screenplay, while Anderson and Zhao were nominated for adapted screenplay.
Oscar nominations for best supporting actor went to Benicio Del Toro and Sean Penn in “One Battle After Another,” Jacob Elordi in “Frankenstein,” Delroy Lindo in “Sinners,” and Stellan Skarsgard in “Sentimental Value.”
For best supporting actress, nominees were Elle Fanning and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas in “Sentimental Value,” Amy Madigan in “Weapons,” Wunmi Mosaku in “Sinners” and Teyana Taylor in “One Battle After Another.”
The nominations were announced Jan. 22 via livestream by actress Danielle Brooks and actor Lewis Pullman from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
Besides the best picture, director, actor and supporting actor/actress nominations for “Sinners,” the film also was nominated for casting (a new category this year), cinematography, costume design, film editing, makeup and hairstyling, original score, original song, production design, sound, visual effects and original screenplay.
“One Battle After Another” — Anderson’s dark-comic tale about a group of one-time revolutionaries — also captured nominations for casting, cinematography, film editing, original score, production design, sound and adapted screenplay.
Both those films were produced by Warner Bros., which recorded a leading 30 nominations amid the multibillion-dollar battle over its ownership between Netflix and Paramount. Neon was next with 18 nominations, followed by Netflix at 16, Focus Features at 13 and A24 with 11.
Notable snubs included Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande for reprising their “Wicked” roles in 2025’s “Wicked: For Good.” Both had been nominated in the first iteration of that franchise.
Paul Mescal was another notable absentee for his turn as William Shakespeare in “Hamnet.” The film tells the story of Shakespeare and his wife (played by Buckley) as they mourn the death of their 11-year-old son Hamnet — a real-life tragedy that inspired Shakespeare to pen “Hamlet.”
Guillermo Del Toro was one more snub in the director category for “Frankenstein,” his take on the horror classic — though he did get a nomination for adapted screenplay for the film.
A total of 317 feature films are eligible for consideration for the 98th Academy Awards, including 201 that met the criteria for consideration for best picture, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced.
To be eligible for consideration in the general entry categories, feature films must open in a commercial motion picture theater in at least one of six U.S. metropolitan areas — Los Angeles County; the city of New York; the San Francisco Bay Area; Chicago, Illinois; Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas; and Atlanta, Georgia, between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31 of 2025, and run for at least seven consecutive days in the same venue. The films must be more than 40 minutes long.
Qualifying for the best picture category, films must be eligible for the general categories and producers must submit an Academy Representation and Inclusion Standards form. They also must complete an expanded theatrical release standard, including a run of at least seven days in 10 of the top 50 U.S. markets, no later than 45 days after their initial release in 2025.
Voting for the Oscars was conducted by the Academy’s 10,136 voting members.
Other nominations included:
• Best Animated Feature Film — “Arco,” “Elio,” “KPop Demon Hunter,” “Little Amélie or the Character of Rain” and “Zootopia 2.”
• Best Animated Short Film — “Butterfly,” “Forevergreen,” “The Girl Who Cried Pearls,” “Retirement Plan” and “The Three Sisters.”
• Casting.—.“Hamnet,” Nina Gold; “Marty Supreme,” Jennifer Venditti; “One Battle After Another,” Cassandra Kulukundis; “The Secret Agent,” Gabriel Domingues; and “Sinners,” Francine Maisler.
• Cinematography — “Frankenstein,” Dan Laustsen; “Marty Supreme,” Darius Khondji; “One Battle after Another,” Michael Bauman; “Sinners,” Autumn Durald Arkapaw; and “Train Dreams,” Adolpho Veloso.
• Costume Design — “Avatar: Fire and Ash,” Deborah L. Scott; “Frankenstein,” Kate Hawley; “Hamnet,” Malgosia Turzanska; “Marty Supreme,” Miyako Bellizzi; and “Sinners,” Ruth E. Carter.
• Best Documentary Feature Film — “The Alabama Solution, “Come See Me in the Good Light,” “Cutting Through Rocks,” “Mr. Nobody Against Putin” and “The Perfect Neighbor.”
• Best 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” and “Perfectly a Strangeness.”
• Film Editing — “F1,” Stephen Mirrione; “Marty Supreme,” Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie; “One Battle After Another,” Andy Jurgensen; “Sentimental Value,” Olivier Bugge Coutté; and “Sinners,” Michael P. Shawver.
• Best International Feature Film — “The Secret Agent” (Brazil); “It Was Just an Accident” (France); “Sentimental Value” (Norway); “Sirat” (Spain) and “The Voice of Hind Rajab” (Tunisia).
• Best Live Action Short Film — “Butcher’s Stain,” “A Friend of Dorothy,” “Jane Austen’s Period Drama,” “The Singers,” and “Two People Exchanging Saliva.”
• Makeup and Hairstyling — “Frankenstein,” “Kokuho,” “Sinners,” “The Smashing Machine,” “The Ugly Stepsister.”
• Original Score — “Bugonia,” Jerskin Fendrix; “Frankenstein,” Alexandre Desplat; “Hamnet,” Max Richter; “One Battle After Another,” Jonny Greenwood; and “Sinners,” Ludwig Goransson.
• 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!” and “Train Dreams” from “Train Dreams.”
• Production Design — “Frankenstein,” “Hamnet,” “Marty Supreme,” “One Battle after Another” and “Sinners.”
• Sound — “F1,” “Frankenstein,” “One Battle after Another,” “Sinners” and “Sirat.”
• Visual Effects — “Avatar: Fire and Ash,” “F1,” “Jurassic World Rebirth,” “The Lost Bus” and “Sinners.”
• Adapted Screenplay — “Bugonia,” Will Tracy; “Frankenstein,” Guillermo Del Toro; “Hamnet,” Chloé Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell; “One Battle After Another,” Paul Thomas Anderson; “Train Dreams,” Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar.
• Original Screenplay — “Blue Moon,” Robert Kaplow; “It Was Just an Accident,” Jafar Panahi; “Marty Supreme,” Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie; “Sentimental Value,” Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier; and “Sinners,” Ryan Coogler.
