Overview
- Carter becomes the most-nominated Black woman in Academy history with a fifth nod for costume design on Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, adding to two prior wins for the Black Panther films.
- Sinners earns a record 16 Academy Award nominations, the most ever for a single film, and leads all contenders this year.
- Ryan Coogler is recognized in producing, directing and original screenplay in the same year and is the seventh Black filmmaker nominated for best director.
- Zinzi Coogler becomes the first Filipina and the third Black woman nominated for Best Picture, and she and Ryan Coogler are the first Black married couple nominated together in that category.
- Autumn Durald Arkapaw is the first woman of color nominated for cinematography, and Hannah Beachler secures a second production design nomination while remaining the only Black woman recognized in that field; final Oscar voting runs Feb. 26–Mar. 5 with the ceremony on March 15 on ABC.