With the award season ramping up after the Golden Globes, the Academy has released the official nominations for each category in this year's award ceremony.
Sinners was the most nominated film of the award show, gaining an astounding 16 nominations, something unheard of at the Academy Awards. Some nominations include: Best Picture, Original Screenplay, Casting, Cinematography, Original Score, Original Song, and so many more. Behind Sinners, One Battle After Another received 13 nominations. Up for similar awards, those two films have created the most buzz throughout the past year, making for some stiff competition this award season.
The biggest awards of the show, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Picture, reflect a lot of the same nominations from the Golden Globes, with Bugonia, F1, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, One Battle After Another, The Secret Agent, Sentimental Value, Sinners, and Train Dreams all getting nominated. Along with Best Picture, most of the actors in the films nominated also got nominated for Best Actor/Actress.
Although music isn’t the main focus of the night, it’s hard not to mention those categories. There seems to be a battle of the songs between Sinners and Kpop Demon Hunter with “I Lied To You” and “Golden” up for Original Song. Original Score also has a lot of good entries with Bugonia, Frankenstein, Hamnet, One Battle After Another, and Sinners.
Behind the screen, Chloé Zhao, Josh Safdie, Paul Thomas Anderson, Joachim Trier, and Ryan Coogler were nominated for Best Director. Blue Moon, It Was Just An Accident, Marty Supreme, Sentimental Value, and Sinners are up for Best Original Screenplay, and Bugonia, Frankenstein, Hamnet, One Battle After Another, and Train Dreams for Best Adapted Screenplay. Best Casting was also announced as a new category for this year, starting out strong with Hamnet, Marty Supreme, Sinners, The Secret Agent, and One Battle After Another.
With plenty of great films up for nominations—and many records broken—tune into the Oscars on Mar. 15 to see who wins the biggest awards of the night.
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