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The nominations for the 98th Academy Awards are in – and Ryan Coogler’s vampire thriller Sinners has made history with the most number of nominations in Oscars history.

The musical horror film starring Michael B. Jordan has earned 16 overall nominations, breaking the record for the most nominations for a film held previously by All about Eve (1950), Titanic (1997) and La La Land (2016).

In addition to nominations in the best picture, directing, original screenplay list, individual nods have been earned by the cast Michael B. Jordan, Wunmi Mosaku and Delroy Lindo. 

Comedic political thriller One Battle After Another directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Leonardo DiCaprio follows with 13 nominations in total including nods for picture, directing, adapted screenplay and actors DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor, Benicio Del Toro and Sean Penn.

Marty Supreme earned nine nominations with Timothee Chalamet’s earning yet another ‘Best Actor’ nod, making him the youngest actor in history – since Marlon Brando in 1954 – to be nominated three times in the Oscars best actor category.

In the Best Picture category, Marty Supreme was accompanied by Frankenstein and Sentimental Value both getting nine nominations each – as well as Hamnet which scored eight nominations. Bugonia also earned a best picture nom alongside a nod to Emma Stone in the ‘Best Actress’ category.

Both K-pop Demon Hunters – with “Golden” earning a ‘Best Original Score’ nomination – and Zootopia 2 have made the list for ‘Best Animated Feature’

The Oscars has also added a new category – “Best Casting” for the first in decades.

The awards will take place on 15 March, hosted by US comedian Conan O’Brien.

See the full list of nominations below :

Best picture

• Bugonia
• Frankenstein
• F1
• Hamnet
• Marty Supreme
• One Battle After Another
• The Secret Agent
• Sentimental Value
• Sinners
• Train Dreams

Best actor

• Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme
• Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another
• Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon
• Michael B Jordan – Sinners
• Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent

Best actress

• Jessie Buckley – Hamnet
• Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
• Kate Hudson – Song Sung Blue
• Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value
• Emma Stone – Bugonia

Best supporting actress

• Elle Fanning – Sentimental Value
• Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value
• Amy Madigan – Weapons
• Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners
• Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another

Best supporting actor

• Benicio del Toro – One Battle After Another
• Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein
• Delroy Lindo – Sinners
• Sean Penn – One Battle After Another
• Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value

Best director

• Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another
• Ryan Coogler – Sinners
• Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme
• Joachim Trier – Sentimental Value
• Chloé Zhao – Hamnet

Best adapted screenplay

• Bugonia
• Frankenstein
• Hamnet
• One Battle After Another
• Train Dreams

Best original screenplay

• Blue Moon
• It Was Just an Accident
• Marty Supreme
• Sentimental Value
• Sinners

Best original song

• Dear Me – Diane Warren: Relentless
• Golden – KPop Demon Hunters
• I Lied to You – Sinners
• Sweet Dreams of Joy – Viva Verdi!
• Train Dreams – Train Dreams

Best original score

• Bugonia
• Frankenstein
• Hamnet
• One Battle After Another
• Sinners

Best international feature

• It Was Just an Accident
• Sentimental Value
• Sirât
• The Secret Agent
• The Voice of Hind Rajab

Best animated feature

• Arco
• Elio
• KPop Demon Hunters
• Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
• Zootopia 2

Best documentary feature

• Come See Me in the Good Light
• Cutting Through the Rocks
• Mr. Nobody Against Putin
• The Alabama Solution
• The Perfect Neighbor

Best costume design

• Avatar: Fire and Ash
• Frankenstein
• Hamnet
• Marty Supreme
• Sinners

Best make-up and hairstyling

• Frankenstein
• Kokuho
• Sinners
• The Smashing Machine
• The Ugly Stepsister

Best production design

• Frankenstein
• Hamnet
• Marty Supreme
• One Battle After Another
• Sinners

Best sound

• Frankenstein
• F1
• One Battle After Another
• Sinners
• Sirât

Best film editing

• F1
• Marty Supreme
• One Battle After Another
• Sentimental Value
• Sinners

Best cinematography

• Frankenstein
• Marty Supreme
• One Battle After Another
• Sinners
• Train Dreams

Best visual effects

• Avatar: Fire and Ash
• F1
• Jurassic World Rebirth
• Sinners
• The Lost Bus

Best live action short

• A Friend of Dorothy
• Butcher’s Stain
• Jane Austin’s Period Drama
• The Singers
• Two People Exchanging Saliva

Best animated short

• Butterfly
• Forevergreen
• Retirement Plan
• The Girl Who Cried Pearls
• The Three Sisters

Best documentary short 

• 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
• Perfectly a Strangeness

Best casting

• Hamnet
• Marty Supreme
• One Battle After Another
• Sinners
• The Secret Agent

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