"Ryan Coogler's blues-steeped vampire epic "Sinners" led all films with 16 nominations to the 98th Academy Awards on Thursday, setting a record for the most in Oscar history. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voters showered "Sinners" with more nominations than they had ever bestowed before, breaking the 14-nomination mark set by "All About Eve," "Titanic" and "La La Land.""
"Paul Thomas Anderson's father-daughter revolutionary saga "One Battle After Another," the favorite coming into nominations, trailed in second with 13 nominations of its own. Four of its actors - Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor, Benicio del Toro and Sean Penn - were nominated, though newcomer Chase Infiniti was left out in best actress. In those two top nominees, the film academy put its full force behind a pair of visceral and bracingly original American epics that each connected with a fraught national moment."
"Both are also Warner Bros. titles. In the midst of a contentious sale to Netflix, the 102-year-old studio had its best Oscar nominations morning ever. As the fate of Warner Bros., which Netflix is buying for $72 billion, hangs in the balance amid a challenge from Paramount Skydance, Hollywood is bracing for potentially the largest realignment in the film industry's history."
Ryan Coogler's blues-steeped vampire epic Sinners led all films with 16 nominations to the 98th Academy Awards, breaking the previous 14-nomination record. Coogler earned nominations for best director and best screenplay, and Michael B. Jordan received his first Oscar nomination for best actor. Paul Thomas Anderson's father-daughter revolutionary saga One Battle After Another followed with 13 nominations, including acting nods for Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor, Benicio del Toro and Sean Penn, while newcomer Chase Infiniti missed a best actress nomination. Both top nominees are Warner Bros. titles, and Warner Bros. recorded its strongest nominations morning amid a contentious $72 billion sale to Netflix and a challenge from Paramount Skydance.
Read at Fortune
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]