"The Oscar nominations were announced Thursday morning in Los Angeles, at the traditional 5:30 am ceremony so that the story can be picked up in the East Coast morning news. And the big headline is that , Ryan Coogler's genre-mashed allegory about racial violence, has garnered 16 nominations breaking a record of 14 nominations that had stood for three quarters of a century, set by , and tied by and ."
"Among those are acting nods for star Michael B. Jordan who also starred in Coogler's the 2013 dramatization of the 2009 killing of Oscar Grant by a BART police officer and longtime Bay Area resident Delroy Lindo in the Best Supporting Actor category, for playing blues musician Delta Slim. Also nominated for the first time is Nigerian-born Wunmi Mosaku for Best Supporting Actress, for playing ' hoodoo priestess Annie."
"And Coogler, who gets his first-ever Oscar nomiantion for Best Director today, tells Deadline that all this positive attention for the film has been "pretty crazy." "I haven't had a chance to think about it on the genre [issue], but as far as pride in what we made and how we made it, I was so thankful that everybody said yes to this movie," Coogler says. "My partners included, because I k"
Oakland native Ryan Coogler's genre-mashed allegory about racial violence received 16 Academy Award nominations, breaking a 75-year-old record of 14 nominations. Nominations were announced early in Los Angeles at 5:30 a.m. to reach East Coast morning news. The film earned acting nods including Michael B. Jordan and longtime Bay Area resident Delroy Lindo for Best Supporting Actor, and a first-time nomination for Nigerian-born Wunmi Mosaku for Best Supporting Actress as a hoodoo priestess. The film, containing vampires and strong horror elements, garnered Coogler's first Best Director nomination and attention across major categories.
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