After a near awards-season sweep by "One Battle After Another," "Sinners" won best ensemble at the Screen Actors Guild's 32nd Actor Awards on Sunday, setting up a potential nail-biter finale in two weeks at the Academy Awards. Michael B. Jordan won best male actor, upsetting the category favorite, Timothée Chalamet, and handing the 39-year-old Jordan the most significant prize of his acclaimed career. As expected, Jessie Buckley won best female actor for her performance in "Hamnet." Sean Penn won best supporting male actor for "One Battle After Another" and Amy Madigan won best supporting female actor for "Weapons." A month after her death,

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.

NEW YORK (AP) — In a year in which the pandemic shuttered movie theaters for months, Academy Awards nominations went to two female filmmakers …

In 1929, the first year of the Academy Awards, it took host Douglas Fairbanks Sr. (1883-1939) only 10 minutes to hand out the statuettes. Ther…