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Ryan Coogler's vampire movie about Black sharecroppers in Jim Crow Mississippi just broke a 76-year-old Oscar record with 16 nominations, beating Titanic, La La Land, and every film since 1950's All About Eve. Sinners got nominated in literally every eligible category, made 368 million dollars worldwide, and turned Ruth E. Carter into the most-nominated Black woman in Oscar history with her fifth costume design nod. The Academy added a new casting category this year which technically makes records easier to break, but you still have to be excellent in 16 different areas to pull this off, and Coogler did it with a commercially successful period horror film that Hollywood usually runs from.