Warner Bros. leads all studios with 30 Oscar nominations

Warner Bros. led each studios with 30 Oscar nominations, aided by beardown showings from the Leonardo DiCaprio-led “One Battle After Another” and Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners.”

“Sinners” acceptable an Oscar grounds Thursday greeting with 16 nominations, beating the erstwhile precocious of 14, held jointly by 1950’s “All About Eve,” 1997’s “Titanic,” and astir recently, 2016’s “La La Land.” “One Battle After Another” landed conscionable shy of the record, tallying 13 nominations Thursday.

Neon came successful 2nd successful the workplace tally, with 18 nominations. The indie workplace got fractional of them for the Stellan Skarsgård-led “Sentimental Value,” and besides garnered 4 for the Brazilian thriller “The Secret Agent.”

Netflix nabbed 16 nominations, arsenic the streaming elephantine continues its quest for a Best Picture win. The Los Gatos-based steadfast received 9 nominations for Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein.”

Universal-owned Focus Features pulled successful 13 nominations, with 8 for Chloe Zhao’s “Hamnet” and 4 for “Bugonia,” which stars Emma Stone.

A24 scored 11 nominations, astir of which were for pingpong play “Marty Supreme,” portion Apple drew 6 nominations, including 4 for racing movie “F1,” which got a motion for Best Picture. Walt Disney Co. pulled successful 4 nominations, including 2 successful the Best Animated Feature Film class for the container bureau juggernaut “Zootopia 2” and Disney and Pixar’s “Elio.”

Sony Pictures Classics earned 2 nominations for the Ethan Hawke-led “Blue Moon” and Universal Pictures landed 1 information for “Jurassic World Rebirth.”

The slew of nominations for Warner Bros. caps disconnected a tumultuous twelvemonth for the studio.

Early successful 2025, workplace heads Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy were reportedly connected bladed crystal aft a bid of underperforming films including Bong Joon Ho’s sci-fi thriller “Mickey 17” and the Robert De Niro-led mob movie “The Alto Knights.”

Industry observers noted during that clip that their planned lineup for the twelvemonth was dotted with films believed to beryllium high-stakes gambles, including “One Battle After Another” and Zach Cregger’s fearfulness flick “Weapons.”

But by April, the studio’s prospects had begun a turnaround with the merchandise of video crippled deed “A Minecraft Movie,” which yet hauled successful much than $958 cardinal successful worldwide container bureau revenue.

That was the opening of a drawstring of back-to-back theatrical wins for Warner Bros. Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” became a lasting deed astatine the container office, followed by “Final Destination Bloodlines,” “F1: The Movie” (which Warner Bros. distributed), James Gunn’s “Superman,” fearfulness movie “Weapons” and the last installment of “The Conjuring.”

By October, Warner Bros. said it was renewing the declaration for De Luca and Abdy, with Warner Bros. Discovery Chief Executive David Zaslav calling the pair’s enactment “critical to our occurrence this year.”

The nominations haul besides comes arsenic Warner Bros. faces an uncertain future.

In December, the institution said it would merchantability overmuch of its business, including Warner Bros.’ movie and tv studios, to Netflix. Paramount has challenged the merchantability and connected Thursday morning, the David Ellison-led institution extended the deadline for Warner shareholders to merchantability Paramount their shares.