3 d. ago Oscar nominations 2026 – the biggest snubs and surprises, from F1 to Sinners cast members

This year’s Oscar nods threw up a series of shock omissions and lovely inclusions

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3 d. ago Delroy Lindo: the Sinners Oscar nominee who could make Spike Lee’s secret British weapon rather less secret

Lining up for best supporting actor in the year’s most hotly-tipped film, the Lewisham-born actor has long been a favourite of the Malcolm X director and is poised for brighter limelightIn the aftermath of the Oscar nominations, Wunmi Mosaku was heralded as Britain’s saviour after her best supporting actress nod at Hollywood’s most prestigious awards. The UK had been facing its first nomination-less year in the acting categories since 1986.But the Sinners star was joined by a fellow cast member, Lewisham-born, Delroy Lindo, who will also be representing Britain on the big night on 15 March. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Sinners’ Delroy Lindo reveals sweet way son told him about Oscar nomination

Sinners star Delroy Lindo has revealed the sweet way he discovered that he had been nominated for an Oscar.

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4 d. ago Ruth E. Carter makes Oscar history again with costume designer nomination for 'Sinners'

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4 d. ago Oscar nominations 2026 – live: Sinners director Ryan Coogler reacts after film breaks record as fans express shock at best picture nods

’Sinners’ and ‘One Battle After Another’ leads this year’s movie crop

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4 d. ago Miles Caton shares Sinners cast reaction to historic Oscar 2026 nominations

The film’s star speaks to the Standard after the vampire thriller becomes the most nominated film in Academy Awards history

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4 d. ago Which films dominated the Oscar nominations and how to watch them

Oscar nominations were announced Thursday and “Sinners” led the pack with 16 nods

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4 d. ago Ryan Coogler’s Sinners has administered an almighty smackdown to critical favourites One Battle and Hamnet

Coogler’s vampire thriller swept the Oscar nominations over Chloé Zhao’s tearjerker and Paul Thomas Anderson’s counterculture thriller. This genre-defying drama about the black experience could now rule awards season• Full list of nominees• Sinners becomes first film in history to earn 16 Oscar nominationsAgree with them or not, these Oscar nominations deliver a pert slap to the accepted assumptions of awards season. The industry had been expecting landslides for classy upmarket fare such as Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet, Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, and also for Josh Safdie’s delirious comedy Marty Supreme. And that’s what they got.But perhaps no one expected these titles to get quite as colossal a smackdown as they got from Ryan Coogler’s vampire drama thriller Sinners: a violent, high-energy fantasia about racism, music and the black experience, which has soared ahead with 16 nominations – the most for any film in 97 years of the Ac...

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4 d. ago Sinners BREAKS Titanic's Oscars record as it earns most nominations of any movie in history

The record was previously held by Titanic, All About Eve and La La Land, which earned 14 nominations apiece in a three-way tie.

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4 d. ago Wunmi Mosaku: who is the Sinners actor who's just been nominated for an Oscar?

You might recognise the Mancunian star from Luther, Lovecraft Country, and Loki

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4 d. ago Jessie Buckley scores Oscar nomination while Sinners makes history with 16 nods

The Irish star is up for the best actress Academy Award for Hamnet.

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4 d. ago Watch in full: Oscar nominations 2026 announced as Sinners breaks record

Watch as the Oscars nominations are announced on Thursday, 22 January, ahead of the 98th Academy Awards.

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4 d. ago Oscar nominations 2026: Full list of Academy Award nominees as Sinners makes history

The Ryan Coogler vampire film broke the record for most Oscar nominations

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4 d. ago Sinners makes Oscars history with record number of nominations

No film had ever earned more than 14 nominations until this year

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4 d. ago Sinners becomes first film in history to earn 16 Oscar nominations

Ryan Coogler’s ghost story breaks recordsOne Battle After Another in second with 13 nodsMarty Supreme, Sentimental Value and Frankenstein score nine apieceMescal, Clooney, Paltrow and Wicked snubbedFull list of nomineesSinners, Ryan Coogler’s critically and commercially acclaimed supernatural thriller, has become the first film to be nominated for 16 Academy Awards.The film starring Michael B Jordan as twin brothers setting up a blues club in 1930s Mississippi while battling racism and vampires has so far taken $368m worldwide. It is nominated for trophies including best picture, director, leading actor, supporting actor (for the British actor Delroy Lindo), supporting actress (for British-Nigerian actor Wunmi Mosaku) and the Academy’s inaugural casting prize. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Oscar nominations are this morning. 'Sinners' could make history

Horror films have traditionally been left out of the Oscars, but when nominations are announced for the 98th Academy Awards, Ryan Coogler’s vampire tale “Sinners” could make history

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2 w. ago Jessie Buckley scores Actor Award nod after Critics Choice Awards triumph

The 36-year-old received a nod for her role as William Shakespeare’s wife Agnes Hathaway – historically known as Anne – in historical drama Hamnet.

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3 w. ago PSG and Paris FC are just 44 metres apart but they live in different worlds

Paris FC put up a good fight at the Parc des Princes on Sunday but this derby does not yet feel like a rivalryBy Get French Football NewsThe first of two Paris derbies in the space of eight days gave Paris Saint-Germain a chance to make a statement against their upstart neighbours. The tifo display in the Parc des Princes – which read “Paris c’est nous” – could be read as both a nod to the clubs’ shared history and a reminder of the one-sided nature of the derby.For a few years, they were the same club. Paris Saint-Germain are the result of a merger between Stade Saint-Germain and Paris FC in 1970, which the latter split from a few years later. PSG were soon winning trophies but Paris FC went through decades of obscurity before emerging as Ligue 2 regulars in the years before they were taken over by the Arnault family and Red Bull. Continue reading...

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