{"id":2559,"date":"2026-01-25T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=2559"},"modified":"2026-01-25T01:58:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T01:58:33","slug":"sinners-breaks-records-at-2026-oscar-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=2559","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Sinners&#8217; breaks records at 2026 Oscar nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The horror film &#8220;Sinners&#8221; by Ryan Coogler\u00a0broke\u00a0Oscar\u00a0history by earning a total 16 Oscar nominations on Thursday for the 98th Academy Awards, which will be presented on March 15. The previous record of 14 had been held by &#8220;All About Eve,&#8221; &#8220;Titantic&#8221; and &#8220;La La Land.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The nominations were&nbsp;additionally notable as&nbsp;horror films tend to be excluded from Oscar honors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kizz Daniel, Tekno - Buga (Official Video)\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bLF90M96m2Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Directed by Ryan Coogler, the film features actor Michael B. 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In addition to &#8220;Sinners,&#8221;\u00a0&#8220;One Battle After Another&#8221; and &#8220;Sentimental Value&#8221; are also seen as strong contenders.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The latter, &#8220;Sentimental Value,&#8221; a family drama, recently swept the European Film Awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other best picture nominees are&nbsp;&#8220;Bugonia,&#8221; &#8220;F1,&#8221; &#8220;Frankenstein,&#8221; &#8220;Hamnet,&#8221; &#8220;Marty Supreme,&#8221; &#8220;The Secret Agent,&#8221; and &#8220;Train Dreams.&#8221; The films were selected out&nbsp;of 201 contenders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;One Battle After Another,&#8221; a father-daughter revolutionary saga, placed second for total nominations, with a total of 13 nods that included&nbsp;best director (Paul Thomas Anderson) and four best actor awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alongside Coogler and Anderson, the other contenders for best director are Chloe Zhao (&#8220;Hamnet&#8221;), Josh Safdie (&#8220;Marty Supreme&#8221;)&nbsp;and Joachim Trier (&#8220;Sentimental Value&#8221;).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Timothee Chalamet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ethan Hawke, Michael B. 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