The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed its list of nominees for this year’s Academy Awards, commonly known as the Oscars.
“Sinners,” the Ryan Coogler-directed vampire film set in early-20th-century Mississippi, made history with a record-breaking 16 Academy Award nominations. The most nominations any film had ever received before this was 14.
The nominations for “Sinners” include best director for Coogler, actor in a leading role for Michael B. Jordan, actress in a supporting role for Wunmi Mosaku and actor in a supporting role for Delroy Lindo. The movie was also nominated in various musical and technical categories. Jordan, Mosaku and Lindo are first-time Oscar nominees.
Other notable nominees include actress-singer-choreographer Teyana Taylor, who notched her first nomination for actress in a supporting role for “One Battle After Another;” “KPop Demon Hunters,” which is nominated for best animated feature; Chloe Zhao for best director for “Hamnet;” Geeta Gandbhir, who is nominated in both the documentary feature and documentary short categories; Wagner Moura, nominated for leading actor in “The Secret Agent;” and Benicio del Toro, for actor in a supporting role in “One Battle After Another.”
This year’s Academy Awards ceremony will be March 15 at the Dolby Theater at Ovation Hollywood in Los Angeles.
See more nominees at the Academy Awards web site.
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