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Ryan Coogler\u2019s blues-steeped vampire epic \u201cSinners\u201d led all films with 16 nominations to the 98th Academy Awards on Thursday, setting a record for the most in Oscar history.<\/p>\n
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voters showered \u201cSinners\u201d with more nominations than they had ever bestowed before, breaking the 14-nomination mark set by \u201cAll About Eve,\u201d \u201cTitanic\u201d and \u201cLa La Land.\u201d Along with best picture, Coogler was nominated for best director and best screenplay, and double-duty star Michael B. Jordan was rewarded with his first Oscar nomination, for best actor.<\/p>\n
Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s father-daughter revolutionary saga \u201cOne Battle After Another,\u201d the favorite coming into nominations, trailed in second with 13 of its own. Four of its actors \u2014 Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor, Benicio del Toro and Sean Penn \u2014 were nominated, though newcomer Chase Infiniti was left out in best actress.<\/p>\n
In those two top nominees, the film academy put its full force behind a pair of visceral and bracingly original American epics that each connected with a fraught national moment. Coogler\u2019s Jim Crow-era film \u2014 the rare horror movie to win the academy\u2019s favor \u2014 conjures a mythical allegory of Black life. In \u201cOne Battle After Another,\u201d a dormant spirit of rebellion is revived in an out-of-control police state.<\/p>\n
Both are also Warner Bros. titles. In the midst of a contentious sale to Netflix, the 102-year-old studio had its best Oscar nominations mornings ever, with 33 total nods. In a memo to Warner Bros. Discovery employees, David Zaslav, chief executive, called it \u201ca golden moment for our company.\u201d As the fate of Warner Bros., which Netflix is buying for $72 billion, hangs in the balance amid a challenge from Paramount Skydance, Hollywood is bracing for potentially the largest realignment in the film industry\u2019s history.<\/p>\n