Warner Bros. led all studios with 30 Oscar nominations, aided by robust showings from Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” and the Leonardo DiCaprio-led “One Battle After One other.”
“Sinners” set an Oscar document Thursday morning with 16 nominations, beating the earlier excessive of 14, held collectively by 1950’s “All About Eve,” 1997’s “Titanic,” and most lately, 2016’s “La La Land.” “One Battle After One other” landed simply shy of the previous document, tallying 13 nominations Thursday.
Neon got here in second within the studio tally, with 18 nominations. The indie studio acquired half of them for the Stellan Skarsgård-led “Sentimental Worth,” and likewise garnered 4 for the Brazilian thriller “The Secret Agent.”
Netflix nabbed 16 nominations, because the streaming large continues its quest for a greatest image win. The Los Gatos-based agency acquired 9 nominations for Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein.”
Common-owned Focus Options pulled in 13 nominations, with eight for Chloe Zhao’s “Hamnet” and 4 for “Bugonia,” which stars Emma Stone.
A24 scored 11 nominations, most of which had been for the ping-pong drama “Marty Supreme,” whereas Apple drew six nominations, together with 4 for the racing movie “F1,” which acquired a nod for Greatest Image. Walt Disney Co. pulled in 4 nominations, together with two within the animated function class for the field workplace juggernaut “Zootopia 2” and Disney and Pixar’s “Elio.”
Sony Footage Classics earned two nominations for the Ethan Hawke-led “Blue Moon,” and Common Footage landed one nomination for “Jurassic World Rebirth.”
The slew of nominations for Warner Bros. caps a tumultuous yr for the studio.
Early in 2025, studio heads Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy had been reportedly on skinny ice after a collection of underperforming movies together with Bong Joon Ho’s sci-fi thriller “Mickey 17” and the Robert De Niro-led mob film “The Alto Knights.”
Trade observers famous throughout that point that their deliberate lineup for the yr was dotted with movies believed to be high-stakes gambles, together with “One Battle After One other” and Zach Cregger’s horror flick “Weapons.”
However by April, the studio’s prospects had begun a turnaround with the discharge of online game hit “A Minecraft Film,” which finally hauled in additional than $958 million in worldwide field workplace income.
That was the start of a string of back-to-back theatrical wins for Warner Bros. “Sinners” grew to become a long-lasting hit on the field workplace, adopted by “Last Vacation spot Bloodlines,” “F1: The Film” (which Warner Bros. distributed), James Gunn’s “Superman,” “Weapons” and the ultimate installment of “The Conjuring.”
By October, Warner Bros. mentioned it was renewing the contract for De Luca and Abdy, with Warner Bros. Discovery Chief Govt David Zaslav calling the pair’s management “essential to our success this yr.”
The nominations haul additionally comes as Warner Bros. faces an unsure future.
In December, the corporate mentioned it could promote a lot of its enterprise, together with Warner Bros.’ movie and tv studios, to Netflix. Paramount has challenged the sale and on Thursday morning, the David Ellison-led firm prolonged the deadline for Warner shareholders to promote Paramount their shares.
