Ryan Coogler's blues-steeped vampire epic "Sinners" led all films with 16 nominations to the 98th Academy Awards, setting a record for the most in Oscar history. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voters showered "Sinners" with more nominations Thursday than ever before, breaking the 14-nomination mark set by "All About Eve," "Titanic" and "La La Land." Coogler was still trying to process the record-breaking haul when reached by The Associated Press this morning. Paul Thomas Anderson's father-daughter revolutionary saga "One Battle After Another" trailed in second with 13 nominations of its own, making it a banner day for Warner Bros.

As fresh fires raced across the Los Angeles region, an embattled movie industry has lined up behind the Netflix narco-musical about transgender identity "Emilia Pérez" in Oscar nominations Thursday. Another musical, "Wicked," came away with nearly as many nominations. Jon M. Chu's lavish "Wizard of Oz" riff scored 10 nominations, including best picture and acting nods for its stars Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande. "Emilia Pérez" is the most nominated non-English language film ever, surpassing Netflix's own "Roma," which landed 10 nominations in 2019. "All About Eve," "Titanic" and "La La Land" are the only three films to score more nominations in Academy Awards history.