Vampire film Sinners breaks record

Vampire horror film Sinners has broken the record for the most Academy Award nominations received by a single film, having been nominated for 16 of Hollywood’s most coveted awards.

The film broke the previous record of 14 nominations, and surpassed its closest competitor this year, Leonardo DiCaprio’s thriller One Battle After Another, which was nominated for 13 awards.

Among the contenders for the movie Sinners is its star, Michael B. Jordan, and British stars Wunmi Mosaku and Delroy Lindo.

Other big names nominated for the awards include Timothée Chalamet, who is hoping to get third time’s luck after two previous nominations, and Irish actress Jessie Buckley, who is the front-runner to win the Best Actress award for Hamnet.

However, there was no room for her co-star Paul Mescal, who starred opposite Buckley as William Shakespeare in Hamnet; While Wicked: For Good and its two stars, Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, were completely absent.

The winners will be announced at a ceremony held in Hollywood on March 15.

Most notable films:

• Sinners – 16
• Battle after battle – 13
• Marty Supreme – 9
• Frankenstein – 9
• Emotional value – 9
• Hamnet – 8

Sinners It exceeded expectations and bucked the trend that usually means horror films don’t do well at awards ceremonies.

Michael B. Jordan He was nominated for Best Actor for his role as twin brothers who return home to Mississippi in the 1930s to create the Jock Joint, which is set upon by blood-sucking vampires.

Other Sinners cast members to be nominated include the British-Nigerian actress Wunmi Mosaku He co-starred Delroy Lindowho grew up in London, and the duo carry Britain’s hopes for acting awards this year.

Ryan Coogler For directing, writing and producing, Sinners was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.

BBC Radio 1 film critic Ali Plumb said: “The last time a horror film won best picture was The Silence of the Lambs in the early 1990s. It’s been a long time coming.”

He said it was good to see Sinners getting “such a wide range of accolades and thumbs up from across the entire industry”.

He added that it was “more than just horror.” “Although vampires are clearly involved, there is much more to it than that.”

BBC culture editor Katie Razzall said:“It is, in my opinion, the perfect combination of a thrilling revenge thriller and a provocative, decadent musical journey through issues of race in America, good versus evil, and the power of music – and redemption.

“Who knew that the combination of vampires, Ku Klux Klan racists, ex-gangster twins (both played by Michael B. Jordan), Mississippi Delta folklore and blues history would pay off so spectacularly?”

The previous record was held by All About Eve in 1951, Titanic in 1998, and La La Land in 2018, which was 14 nominations.

The Sinners total has been boosted this year with the addition of a new Best Selection award, although the number of categories has fluctuated over the years.

As sinners deal with the specter of racism in the American South, Battle after battle Gives a look at the current chaotic political climate in the United States.

Leonardo DiCaprio He was nominated for Best Actor for playing a revolutionary fighting a tyrannical American regime, whose past comes back to haunt him.

The film also received nominations for supporting cast members Benicio del Toro, Sean Penn and Teyana TaylorAnd so is the director Paul Thomas Anderson.

It’s been the favorite to win Best Picture all awards season so far, and it could still beat Sinners to the top trophy in March.

The front-runner in the nominations isn’t always the biggest winner that night. In the past 21 years, the film with the most nominations has won Best Picture only six times.

Either way, the nominations are good news for Warner Bros., which has made both Sinners and One Battle after another, as it stands now. In the process of selling itMaybe to Netflix.

DiCaprio and Jordan will face stiff competition from… Timothée Chalametwho is hotly expected to win his first Oscar for his table tennis role as Marty Supreme.

At 30, he became the youngest man to receive three acting nominations since Marlon Brando.

This year’s Best Actor category is complete Ethan Hawkewho received his fifth Academy Award nomination for the movie Blue Moon, and a Brazilian actor Wagner Moura (Secret Agent).

At 37, Emma Stone She became the youngest woman to receive seven Academy Award nominations after being recognized for Bugonia.

She is listed for Best Actress alongside her Kate Hudson (Song Song Blue), Rose Byrne (If I had legs I would kick you) and Norway Renate Rainsvi (Sentimental value) – But Buckley is considered the favorite in this race.

Moura and Rensef are among four acting nominations for non-English shows – the other being Swedish Stellan Skarsgard And the Norwegian actress Inga Ibsdotter Liliasboth in the categories supporting emotional value.

Fan favorite Demon hunters in kpop It was recognized in Oscar nominations as well. The Netflix animated hit takes first place to win Best Animated Feature and Best Song for the hit Golden.

However, there is no room for a Wicked sequel.

This time last year, the first film had received 10 nominations, and the follow-up was widely expected to join Golden in the race for best song (for The Girl in the Bubble) and be nominated for awards like best costume and makeup. But she was gone.

Elsewhere in music categories, Nick’s cave It was nominated for Best Song for the title song from Train Dreams and Radiohead’s guitarist Johnny Greenwood Nominated for Best Original Score for One Battle After Another.

Other British nominees include a fellow composer Nicholas Pikewhich was nominated for Best Original Song for Viva Verdi!; While a Northern Irish author Maggie O’Farrell She was nominated for a screenplay award for the adaptation of her novel Hamnet alongside the director Chloe Zhao.

Chow became the second woman to be nominated for multiple Academy Awards for Best Director, after Jane Campion. Chow won this award for the 2021 film Nomadland.

Meanwhile, the Best Documentary category includes Mr. Nobody is against Putina co-production of BBC Storyville.