By John Corrado

The 98th Academy Award nominations have just been announced. Ryan Coogler’s Sinners is way out front, leading the pack with a record-breaking sixteen nominations. For context, the previous record for a single film was fourteen, held by All About Eve, Titanic and La La Land. It’s followed closely by Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another with thirteen nominations.

The Best Picture lineup is rounded out by Bugonia, F1, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, The Secret Agent, Sentimental Value, and Train Dreams. The biggest surprise here is probably F1, but it makes a lot more sense in hindsight for this blockbuster from Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski to get in, considering the film’s box office success and below the line support in several tech categories.

Delroy Lindo made a surprise appearance in Supporting Actor, another notch in the belt for Sinners in terms of nominations. Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value had a strong showing with nine nominations, including Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas and Elle Fanning both getting in to Supporting Actress. Elsewhere, Kate Hudson got a surprise Best Actress nomination for Song Sung Blue.

Among the biggest snubs was Paul Mescal missing for Hamnet, especially since his co-star Jessie Buckley remains the Best Actress frontrunner. It’s also surprising that, after the first film did so well last year, Wicked: For Good was completely shut out, not even getting Ariana Grande in for Supporting Actress. Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident failed to crack the Best Picture lineup, with the Iranian filmmaker also missing a Director nomination. But the most egregious snub was Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice, which didn’t even make the International lineup.

The Animated Feature nominees went to the expected five (Arco, Elio, KPop Demon Hunters, Little Amélie or The Character of Rain, and Zootopia 2). The nomination I’m most happy with is probably Come See Me in the Good Light in Documentary Feature. I’ve been banging the drum for this one since seeing it at Hot Docs, and I hope this encourages more people to watch this tremendously moving non-fiction film.

The full list of nominations in all 24 categories, including Best Casting (the first new category in 25 years), are below. The winners will be announced on Sunday, March 15th starting at 7:00 PM.

Best Picture
Bugonia
F1
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Train Dreams

Best Director
Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another
Ryan Coogler – Sinners
Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme
Joachim Trier – Sentimental Value
Chloé Zhao – Hamnet

Best Actress
Jessie Buckley – Hamnet
Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Kate Hudson – Song Sung Blue
Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value
Emma Stone – Bugonia

Best Actor
Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme
Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another
Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon
Michael B. Jordan – Sinners
Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent

Best Supporting Actress
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value
Amy Madigan – Weapons
Wunmi Mosaku – Sinners
Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another
Elle Fanning – Sentimental Value

Best Supporting Actor
Benicio Del Toro – One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein
Delroy Lindo – Sinners
Sean Penn – One Battle After Another
Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value

Best Adapted Screenplay
Bugonia – Will Tracy
Frankenstein – Guillermo Del Toro
Hamnet – Maggie O’Farrell & Chloe Zhao
One Battle After Another – Paul Thomas Anderson
Train Dreams – Clint Bentley & Greg Kwedar

Best Original Screenplay
Blue Moon – Robert Kaplow
It Was Just an Accident – Jafar Panahi, Nader Saeivar, Shadmehr Rastin & Mehdi Mahmoudian
Marty Supreme – Ronald Bronstein & Josh Safdie
Sentimental Value – Joachim Trier & Eskil Vogt
Sinners – Ryan Coogler

Best Animated Feature
Arco
Elio
KPop Demon Hunters
Little Amélie or The Character of Rain
Zootopia 2

Best Documentary Feature
The Alabama Solution
Come See Me in the Good Light
Cutting Through Rocks
Mr. Nobody Against Putin
The Perfect Neighbor

Best International Feature Film
It Was Just an Accident – France
The Secret Agent – Brazil
Sentimental Value – Norway
Sirāt – Spain
The Voice of Hind Rajab – Tunisia

Best Casting
Gabriel Domingues – The Secret Agent
Nina Gold – Hamnet
Cassandra Kulukundis – One Battle After Another
Francine Maisler – Sinners
Jennifer Venditti – Marty Supreme

Best Cinematography
Frankenstein
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Train Dreams

Best Costume Design
Avatar: Fire and Ash
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Sinners

Best Film Editing
F1
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sentimental Value
Sinners

Best Make-Up & Hairstyling
Frankenstein
Kokuho
Sinners
The Smashing Machine
The Ugly Stepsister

Best Production Design
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners

Best Original Score
Bugonia – Jerskin Fendrix
Frankenstein – Alexandre Desplat
Hamnet – Max Richter
One Battle After Another – Jonny Greenwood
Sinners – Ludwig Goransson

Best Original Song
“Dear Me” – Diane Warren: Relentless
“Golden” – KPop Demon Hunters
“I Lied to You” – Sinners
“Sweet Dreams of Joy” – Viva Verdi!
“Train Dreams” – Train Dreams

Best Sound
F1
Frankenstein
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Sirāt

Best Visual Effects
Avatar: Fire and Ash
F1
Jurassic World: Rebirth
The Lost Bus
Sinners

Best Animated Short Film
Butterfly
Forevergreen
The Girl Who Cried Pearls
Retirement Plan
The Three Sisters

Best Documentary Short Film
All the Empty Rooms
Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
Children No More: ‘Were and are Gone’
The Devil is Busy
Perfectly a Strangeness

Best Live Action Short Film
Butcher’s Stain
A Friend of Dorothy
Jane Austen’s Period Drama
The Singers
Two People Exchanging Saliva