Oscar Nominations 2026: Vampire Film Sinners Breaks Record

'Sinners' Nominated For 'Best Movie We Have To Nominate Or Else We Will Be Called Racist'

HOLLYWOOD, CA — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released its list of Oscar nominees for 2026, with Sinners being nominated for "Best Movie We Have To Nominate Or Else We Will Be Called Racist."

Ryan Coogler’s vampire epic ‘Sinners’ breaks Oscar nominations record

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.

'Sinners' breaks all-time Oscars record with 16 nominations

Vampire period horror film Sinners has smashed the all-time Oscars record with 16 nominations. The blues-inflected drama set in the 1930s segregated US South...

Ryan Coogler’s Sinners has administered an almighty smackdown to critical favourites One Battle and Hamnet

Coogler’s vampire thriller swept the Oscar nominations over Chloé Zhao’s tearjerker and Paul Thomas Anderson’s counterculture thriller. This genre-defying drama about the black experience could now rule awards season• Full list of nominees• Sinners becomes first film in history to earn 16 Oscar nominationsAgree with them or not, these Oscar nominations deliver a pert slap to the accepted assumptions of awards season. The industry had been expect…

Sinners scores record 16 Oscar nominations

The film moved past previous record holders All About Eve (1950), Titanic (1997) and La La Land (2016), which all garnered 14 Oscar nominations

At the Oscar Nominations Ceremony, ‘Sinners’ Was the People’s Champion

The nominations for the 98th Annual Academy Awards were announced live Thursday, January 22, with press, publicists, and other guests gathering at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in the very early hours of the morning. Attendees were still sleepy as the ceremony began — on the dot, at 5:30 a.m. — but there was also a palpable excitement in the air for Phase Two of awards season to kick off, and to finally find out what films made the final cut in wha…