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

Ryan Coogler's horror movie Sinners is nominated for a staggering 16 Academy Awards, the most of any motion picture 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.

Sinners stars Michael B. Jordan in a dual role as twin brothers with a criminal past who find themselves faced with a vampire menace in the Jim Crow South.

Showered with acclaim, the movie emerged as yet another box office success for the Black Panther director and has now landed him a spot in the Oscars pantheon.

Sinners is competing for prizes including best picture, as well as best director and best original screenplay for Coogler and best actor for Jordan - the latter in a category that pits him against Titanic's leading man Leonardo DiCaprio.

Titanic maintains the record for the most Oscar wins at 11, in another three-way tie with Ben-Hur and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. 

Sinners has also put Delroy Lindo in the running for best supporting actor for his turn as pianist Delta Slim, while Wunmi Mosaku is up for best supporting actress as Annie, the estranged wife of one of the twins Jordan plays.

Sinners is also in contention for its cinematography, score, makeup and hairstyling, editing, production design, sound, visual effects, costume design and casting.

The movie's musical number I Lied to You, written by Ludwig Goransson and Raphael Saadiq and performed by Miles Caton, is nominated for best original song.

Best picture pits Sinners against Bugonia, F1, Frankenstein, Hamnet, Marty Supreme, One Battle After Another, The Secret Agent, Sentimental Value and Train Dreams.

Meanwhile, in order to take home the trophy for best director, Coogler will have to beat Hamnet's Chloe Zhao, Marty Supreme's Josh Safdie, One Battle After Another's Paul Thomas Anderson and Sentimental Value's Joachim Trier.

His screenplay is in competition against those of Marty Supreme, Sentimental Value, the Broadway biopic Blue Moon and the Persian film It Was Just an Accident, the last of which won the Palme d'Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival.

Jordan's rivals for best actor are a similarly formidable group including Timothee Chalamet for Marty Supreme and Leonardo DiCaprio for One Battle After Another.

The category is rounded out by Ethan Hawke as Broadway lyricist Lorenz Hart in Blue Moon and Wagner Moura as a leftist rebel in the Brazilian thriller The Secret Agent. 

Delroy Lindo is up against two supporting actors from One Battle After Another - Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro - as well as Stellan Skarsgard for Sentimental Value and Jacob Elordi as the monster in Frankenstein.

Wunmi Mosaku is similarly competing with two supporting actresses from Sentimental Value - Elle Fanning and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas - alongside Teyana Taylor of One Battle After Another and Amy Madigan of the buzzy horror picture Weapons. 

Another milestone was unveiled with the Oscar nominations, as Timothee Chalamet became the first actor since Marlon Brando to earn three nods by the age of 30. 

Brando netted his first three Oscar nominations for his breakthrough movie A Streetcar Named Desire, Viva Zapata! and Julius Caesar in the early 1950s.

His first win came with his fourth nomination in 1955 for his turn in Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront, and he then triumphed a second time for The Godfather in 1973.

Meanwhile, before Marty Supreme, Chalamet was nominated for Call Me By Your Name in 2018 and the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown last year.

He was beaten the first time by Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour, and the second time by Adrien Brody as a Holocaust survivor in The Brutalist.