Sinners breaks Academy Awards record with 16 nominations

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Ryan Coogler's vampire movie is now the most Academy Award-nominated movie ever

Vampires are back! That's the important news coming out of the 2026 Academy Awards nominations. Sinners, the horror movie set in 1930s Mississippi from writer/director Ryan Coogler (Black Panther), has broken the record for most nominations earned by a single film, with 16 nods total across 24 total categories.

Nominations include the major category awards for Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Director, and Writer. The film also scored nods for below-the-line roles like Makeup and Hairstyling, Sound, and Production Design. With those 16 nominations, Coogler more than doubled the amount of Oscar nods he's received from his three previous movies — Creed and both Black Panther films.

Sinners breaks a record originally set in 1950, when All About Eve earned 14 nominations. It was eventually tied by Titanic in 1998. This year, Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another also reached that achievement, with 14 nominations. Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer came close to matching that number, but fell short at just 13 nominations for the 2024 awards.

While Sinners was the big winner in this year's Oscar nominations, there was also a surprising lack of awards for a massive film. Wicked: For Good was shut out with zero nods. This is a big change from the first Wicked movie, which earned 10 nominations last year and ended up winning two Oscars, for Production Design and Costumes.

The 98th Academy Awards will air on ABC on March 15, at 7 p.m. EDT/4 p.m. PDT.

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