"One of the ongoing debates surrounding this year's awards season was whether Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another really deserved the prizes it was amassing in the run-up to the Oscars-awards it was tipped to also sweep on Hollywood's biggest night. And the internet's ire wasn't simply limited to the question of the film's sometimes controversial politics, which touch on hot-button issues of race and sex and armed resistance."
"Instead, underlying much of the disappointment was the question of at what cost? And that cost was, as fans saw it, the trophies that should rightfully be going to Ryan Coogler's -an unapologetically Black, musical, vampire horror flick-which repeatedly lost to One Battle After Another (and Marty Supreme, and ) at the Golden Globes. This didn't bode well for the fan-favorite film of the year where potential Oscar wins were concerned, so fans lashed out in anger, whether they'd seen its opponents or not."
"Sinners not only beat out all other titles in total nods, with a whopping 16, but it also set a new record for the most nominated film in Oscars history. It wasn't in itself a shock that Sinners surpassed the all-time high. It was widely predicted that Sinners might break the previous record-14 nominations, set in 1951 by All About Eve and subsequently tied by Titanic and La La Land."
"especially considering it was a lock on nabbing a nomination for Best Casting, the Academy Awards' first new category in more than two decades. But Sinners exceeded even that expectation, earning one more than needed to break the record, by securing the nominations in categories both anticipated (Best Picture, Director, Actor) and otherwise, like Best Visual Effects, and Best Supporting Actor, where 73-year-old legend of Black cinema Delroy Lindo earned a long-overdue first Oscar nomination."
The internet reacted angrily when Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another accumulated numerous awards, with fans accusing it of displacing Ryan Coogler's unapologetically Black musical vampire horror. Fans framed the losses at the Golden Globes as trophies stolen from the fan-favorite film and lashed out even if they had not seen the competing films. Oscar nominations revealed a different outcome: Sinners received 16 nominations, breaking the previous record and earning recognition across expected and surprising categories. Sinners secured nods including Best Picture, Director, Actor, Best Visual Effects, and Best Supporting Actor, where Delroy Lindo earned his first Oscar nomination at age 73.
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