Ryan Coogler : 2025 blockbuster nets 16 Oscar Nominations -- one for the record books

 Sinners

2 hour 17 mins. horror fantasia

earned the lion's share of March 15, 2026 

nominations for possible/likely Wins for

a film set in Black Culture of the 1930s

Mississippi.

BEST PICTURE (10 in category)

Best Actor MICHAEL B. Jordan

(five in category)

Best Actress WUNMI Mosaku

Best Supporting ACTOR Delroy Lindo

Best Director Ryan Coogler

Best Original Screenplay

Best Cinematography

Best Film Editing

Best Production Design

Best Costume Design

Best Sound

Best Make-up HairStyling

Best Achievement Music

Best Achievement Visual Effects

Best Casting

Closely following in today's OSCAR

announcements is Paul Thomas Anderson's

One Battle After Another.

The Oscars Ceremony held annually in

Hollywood and televised on ABC will

air on

March 15; host will

be Conan O'Brien.

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Previous 14-total Oscar-category

nominated films were

Titanic

All About Eve

La La Land (2016)