US actors Lewis Pullman and Danielle Brooks announce the nominees for Best Picture during the 98th Academy Awards nominations announcement at the Samuel Goldwyn Theatre in Beverly Hills, California, 22 January 2026. Picture: VALERIE MACON / AFP Vampire period horror film “Sinners” smashed the all-time Oscars record with 16 nominations, the Academy announced on Thursday. The blues-inflected drama about the segregated US South from director Ryan Coogler scored nominations in nearly every category possible, including best picture.
It blasted past the previous record of 14, jointly held byAll About Eve,TitanicandLa La Land. The tally included a best actor nomination for Michael B. Jordan, who plays twins battling supernatural forces and racists, as well as nods for everything from screenplay to score.
Sinnersalso picked up a nomination for best casting, the first new category to be added to Hollywood’s most prestigious awards in more than two decades. One Battle After Anothercame in second place with 13 nods, including best picture, best actor for Leonardo DiCaprio and best director for Paul Thomas Anderson. But its female lead, 25-year-old newcomer Chase Infiniti, was surprisingly snubbed by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voters.
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Both of the top two nomination getters came from Warner Bros, the movie studio that is currently the target of a bidding war between Netflix and Paramount. Guillermo del Toro’s monster epicFrankenstein, Timothee Chalamet’s ping-pong dramaMarty Supremeand Norwegian arthouse favouriteSentimental Valueeach bagged nine nominations. Hamnet, a period drama in which William Shakespeare and his wife struggle to cope with the loss of their son in plague-ravaged Elizabethan England, secured eight.
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