"Sinners" earns 16 Oscar nominations, making it a top contender for Best Picture.

"Sinners," a genre-bending horror film directed by Ryan Coogler, has received a record 16 Academy Award nominations—the most in a single year since 2002—and is emerging as a strong contender for Best Picture. Though Paul Thomas Anderson's "One Battle After Another" remains the early favorite, "Sinners" has garnered widespread support across Academy branches, owing to its powerful themes of racial injustice and societal unrest. With the preferential ballot system favoring films with strong second- and third-place rankings, a win at the Producers Guild or SAG Awards could shift momentum, similar to previous upsets such as "Moonlight" and "Parasite." Final voting runs until March 5, making "Sinners" a formidable, if unexpected, contender in the race.