Sinners’ Smashes All-time Oscar Nomination Record

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The Academy announced Thursday that vampire period horror film ‘Sinners’ smashed the all-time Oscars record with 16 nominations.

According to the AFP report, director Ryan Coogler’s blues-inflected drama set in the 1930s segregated US South received nominations in nearly every category, including Best Picture.

It broke the previous record of 14, jointly held by ‘All About Eve,’ ‘Titanic’ and ‘La La Land.’

The tally included a best actor nomination for Michae;l B. Jordan, who plays twins battling supernatural forces and racists, plus everything from screenplay to score.

‘Sinners’ also picked up a nomination for best casting, the first new category to be added to Hollywood’s most prestigious awards in more than two decades.

‘One Battle After Another’ came in second place with 13 nods including best picture, best actor for Leonardo DiCaprio and best director for Paul Thomas Anderson.

But its female lead, 25-year-old newcomer Chase Infiniti, was surprisingly snubbed by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voters.

Both of the top two nomination getters came from Warner Bros, the movie studio that is currently the target of a bidding war between Netflix and Paramount.

Guillermo del Toro’s monster epic ‘Frankenstein,’ Timothee Chalamet’s ping-pong drama ‘Marty Supreme’ and Norwegian arthouse favorite ‘Sentimental Value’ each bagged nine nominations.

‘Hamnet,’ a period drama in which William Shakespeare and his wife struggle to cope with the loss of their son in plague-ravaged Elizabethan England, secured eight.

The nominations set the stage for the 98th Oscars ceremony on March 15.

DiCaprio, Chalamet and Jordan will battle for the best actor Oscar, along with Ethan Hawke for Broadway period drama ‘Blue Moon,’ and Wagner Moura from Brazilian political thriller ‘The Secret Agent.’

For best actress, Buckley will compete with Emma Stone playing an alien — or is she? — in conspiracy theorist drama ‘Bugonia,’ Renate Reinsve in ‘Sentimental Value,’ Kate Hudson in quirky music biopic ‘Song Sung Blue,’ and Rose Byrne as a struggling mom in indie hit ‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.’

Recently appointed Academy president Lynette Howell Taylor opened the early-morning announcement in Los Angeles with a warning about the threat of artificial intelligence.

‘We live in a time of limitless technology that enables us to push the boundaries of our cinematic experience,’ she said.

‘And our profound belief is that the heartbeat of film is and will always remain unmistakably human.