"Sinners" breaks Oscar record with 16 nominations

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"Sinners" breaks Oscar record with 16 nominations

Writer: Heidi Hsia

"Sinners" makes history with record-breaking 15 Oscar noms

23 Jan - The Michael B. Jordan-starrer "Sinners" recently became the movie with the highest Academy Awards nominations, topping previous records of 14 nominations.

The vampire horror is nominated in almost all the major categories including Best Picture, Best Director for Ryan Coogler, Best Supporting Actor and Actress for Delroy Lindo and Teyana Taylor, as well as Best Actor for Jordan himself.

Other categories including Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Song and Score, Best Costume, Best Make-up and Hairstyling, Best Production Design, Editing, Cinematography, Visual Effects, and Best Casting.

Director Ryan Coogler and lead actor Michael B. Jordan are both nominated

When asked about it, Jordan expressed, "It's really a testament to the film as a whole and all the pieces involved and the people that went to go see this movie and watched this film... For all of these pieces to be singled out and acknowledged and honoured with the nomination. it's something that's really hard to put into words right now."

Prior to "Sinners," the films with the most nominations are tied between 1950's "All About Eve," 1997's "Titanic" and 2016's "La La Land".

"La La Land" previously had 14 nominations

The Academy Awards 2026 nominations list

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

Best Actor
Timothee 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
Chloe 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 Amelie 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 Austen'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

Cinema Online, 23 January 2026