Blood and Sinners has set a new record at the Oscars, earning 16 nominations in total. The film is up for awards in every major category: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Lead Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Production Design, Best Original Score, Best Original Song, Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Hair, Best Sound, Best Visual Effects, and Best Casting. The previous record holders-tied at 14 nominations each-were All About Eve (1950), Titanic (1998), and La La Land (2017).
In the Best International Feature Film category, Mascha Schilinski’s In die Sonne schauen (“Looking into the Sun”) will not be considered. The Academy has instead selected The Secret Agent (Brazil), A Simple Accident (France), Sentimental Value (Norway), Sirat (Spain), and The Voice of Hind Rajab (Tunisia) as the nominees.
German-born composer Max Richter has been nominated for Best Original Score for the drama Hamnet. His competitors are Jerskin Fendrix for Bugonia, Alexandre Desplat for Frankenstein, Jonny Greenwood for One Battle After Another, and Ludwig Goransson for Blood and Sinners.
The list of films competing for Best Picture includes Bugonia, F1, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, One Battle After Another, The Secret Agent, Sentimental Value, Blood and Sinners, and Train Dreams.
Best Actress nominees are Jessie Buckley (Hamnet), Rose Byrne (If I Had Legs I’d Kick You), Kate Hudson (Song Sung Blue), Renate Reinsve (Sentimental Value), and Emma Stone (Bugonia).
Best Actor nominees feature Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme), Leonardo DiCaprio (One Battle After Another), Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon), Michael Jordan (Blood and Sinners), and Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent).
