Sinners might not take house the Oscar for Finest Image at this 12 months’s ceremony, but it surely has achieved an excellent rarer feat.
Ryan Coogler’s masterpiece has been seen as a frontrunner for the highest prize because it hit theaters in April 2025, and is decidedly top-of-the-line films of 2025. It has already been nominated for seven Golden Globes (successful two) and maintains a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 97% and a Metacritic rating of 84%.
With this morning’s 2026 Oscars nominations announcement, Sinners has damaged the all-time file for probably the most nominations garnered by one film with 16 nominations. Beforehand, the file was tied by three films — All About Eve (1950), Titanic (1997), and La La Land (2016) — with 14 nominations every.
Sinners has been nominated for the next Academy Awards:
- Finest Image
- Finest Director – Ryan Coogler
- Finest Lead Actor – Michael B. Jordan
- Finest Supporting Actor – Delroy Lindo
- Finest Supporting Actress – Wunmi Mosaku
- Writing (Unique Screenplay)
- Casting
- Movie Enhancing
- Cinematography
- Manufacturing Design
- Costume Design
- Music (Unique Rating)
- Music (Unique Tune) – “I Lied to You”
- Make-up and Hairstyling
- Sound
- Visible Results
Forward of the nominees being confirmed, Sinners was seen as a possible alternative in practically all of the tech and craft classes, plus the brand new award of Achievement in Casting, with some doubts that it may make it into Visible Results. It was additionally anticipated to get the director-picture-screenplay nomination trifecta, in addition to have its lead actor, Michael B. Jordan, be acknowledged.
Sinners did handle to get the Visible Results nomination, in addition to having Wunmi Mosaku within the Finest Supporting Actress class (which might have damaged the file at 15 nominations). However what introduced Sinners as much as not solely breaking the all-time file however elevating it additional was the shock nod for Delroy Lindo in Finest Supporting Actor, one thing that not many individuals had been predicting.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After One other, Sinners’ greatest competitor for Finest Image, introduced in 13 nominations, with the picture-director-screenplay nods in addition to 4 performing nominations towards Sinners’ three. One Battle After One other has up to now triumphed over Sinners in key classes at awards ceremonies, together with the Critics’ Alternative Awards and the Golden Globes.
It stays to be seen if Sinners truly may overtake One Battle After One other by the tip of awards season, with the Oscars scheduled for March 15, with Conan O’Brien returning to host. However whatever the outcomes from right here on out, Sinners has cemented itself as a one-in-a-million landmark movie, an enormous success with critics, the field workplace, and now the awards circuit.
- Launch Date
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April 18, 2025
- Runtime
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138 minutes
- Director
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Ryan Coogler
- Writers
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Ryan Coogler
- Producers
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Sev Ohanian, Zinzi Coogler, Ryan Coogler