3 d. ago Oscars history made as Sinners designer sets new nomination record

Ruth E Carter’s nomination for her work as a costume designer on the horror film created a significant piece of history

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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 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 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 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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