From ‘One Battle After Another’ To ‘Sinners’, Canada Reviews

This year’s Oscar nominations have been announced and, as expected, it was one nomination after another for Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another and Ryan Coogler’s Sinners.

Coogler’s blues-and-vampires epic scored a record-breaking 16 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Michael B Jordan, Best Supporting Actor for Delroy Lindo, and Best Supporting Actress for Wunmi Mosaku.

One Battle After Another is in hot pursuit with a total of 13 noms, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Leonardo DiCaprio, Best Supporting Actor shouts for Benicio del Toro and Sean Penn, Best Support Actress for Teyana Taylor, and Best Director for Anderson himself.

Joachim Trier’s family drama Sentimental Value earned itself a stunning nine nominations, including acting nods for Stellan Skarsgård, Renate Reinsve, Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas and Elle Fanning.

Announced by Danielle Brooks and Lewis Pullman, the nominations didn’t throw up too many fresh surprises in what’s looking like the most predictable Oscar race in recent times – although the scale of love for Sinners may just tip the Best Picture race back in its favour.

Ethan Hawke (Best Actor for Blue Moon) and Kate Hudson (Best Actress for Neil Diamond-y dramedy Song Sung Blue) weren’t on everyone’s bingo cards, and like Brad Pitt’s racing driver, F1 has made a late bid for glory. It’s up for four Oscars, including Best Picture and picked up an always significant Best Editing nod.

Here’s the nominees in full:

Best Picture

One Battle After Another
Sinners
Train Dreams
Frankenstein
Marty Supreme
Hamnet
The Secret Agent
Bugonia
F1
Sentimental Value

Best Director

Chloé Zhao – Hamnet
Josh Safdie – Marty Supreme
Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another
Ryan Coogler – Sinners
Joachim Trier – Sentimental Value

Best Actor

Leonardo DiCaprio – One Battle After Another
Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent
Timothée Chalamet – Marty Supreme
Michael B Jordan – Sinners
Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon

Best Actress

Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Jessie Buckley – Hamnet
Kate Hudson – Song Sung Blue
Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value
Emma Stone – Bugonia

Best Supporting Actor

Benicio Del Toro – One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi – Frankenstein
Delroy Lindo – Sinners
Sean Penn – One Battle After Another
Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value

Best Supporting Actress

Elle Fanning, Sentimental Value
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value
Amy Madigan, Weapons
Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners
Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another

International Feature

The Secret Agent (Brazil)
It was Just An Accident (France)
The Boice of Hind Rajab (Tunisia)
Sirât (Spain)
Sentimental Value (Norway)

Best Animation

Arco
Elio
KPop Demon Hunters
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
Zootopia 2

Original Screenplay

Blue Moon
It Was Just an Accident
Marty Supreme
Sentimental Value
Sinners

Adapted Screenplay

Bugonia
Frankenstein
Hamnet
One Battle After Another
Train Dreams

Best Documentary

The Alabama Solution
Come See Me in the Good Light
Cutting Through Rocks
Mr. Nobody Against Putin
The Perfect Neighbor

Best Production Design

Frankenstein
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Hamnet

Editing

One Battle After Another
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Marty Supreme
F1

Make-up and Hairstyling

Frankenstein
Kokuho
Sinners
The Smashing Machine
The Ugly Stepsister

Costume Design

Avatar: Fire and Ash
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Sinners

Cinematography

Frankenstein
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Train Dreams

Best Score

Jerskin Fendrix – Bugonia
Alexandre Desplat – Frankenstein
Max Richter – Hamnet
Jonny Greenwood – One Battle After Another
Ludwig Göransson – Sinners

Best Original Song

‘Dear Me’ from Diane Warren: Relentless
‘Golden’ from KPop Demon Hunters
‘I Lied to You’ from Sinners
‘Sweet Dreams of Joy’ from Viva Verdi
‘Train Dreams‘ from Train Dreams

Best Sound

F1
Frankenstein
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Sirât

Best Visual Effects

Avatar: Fire and Ash
F1
Jurassic World Rebirth
The Lost Bus
Sinners

Animated Short Film

Butterfly
Forevergreen
The Girl Who Cried Pearls
Retirement Plan
The Three Sisters

Documentary Short

All the Empty Rooms
Armed Only With a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
Children No More: Were and Are Gone
The Devil Is Busy
Perfectly a Strangeness