This spring the 98th annual Academy Awards will present the Oscars in a live television event.  This year will be historic with the vampire film “Sinners” breaking the previous record to set a new high with 16 total nominations.

The comedy “One Battle After Another” followed close behind with 13 nominations.  “Frankenstein”, “Marty Supreme”, “Sentimental Value”, and “Hamnet” also garnered multiple nominations.

While a big hit at the box office, the third installment of the “Avatar” franchise “Avatar: Fire and Ash” earned only costume and visual effects nominations; it is the first of the “Avatar” films not to earn a Best Film nomination.

And the second part of the “Wicked” film “Wicked: For Good” failed to earn any nominations at all.

Also new this year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is adding a new award for casting.

Every category in this year’s awards has an international nominee and for the eighth year in a row, an international film is among the nominees for Best Film.

The 98th annual Academy Awards will air on March 15 in a live television event from Los Angeles with Conan O’Brien hosting the gala event.

And the nominees are:
Best Picture:
“Bugonia”
“F1”
“Frankenstein”
“Hamnet”
“Marty Supreme”
“One Battle After Another”
“The Secret Agent”
“Sentimental Value”
“Sinners”
“Train Dreams”

Best Actor:
Timothée Chalamet in “Marty Supreme”
Leonardo DiCaprio in “One Battle After Another”
Ethan Hawke in “Blue Moon”
Michael B. Jordan in “Sinners”
Wagner Moura in “The Secret Agent”

Best Actress:
Jessie Buckley in “Hamnet”
Rose Byrne in “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”
Kate Hudson  “Song Sung Blue”
Renate Reinsve in “Sentimental Value”
Emma Stone in “Bugonia”

Best Supporting Actor:
Benicio del Toro in “One Battle After Another”
Jacob Elordi in “Frankenstein”
Delroy Lindo in “Sinners”
Sean Penn in “One Battle After Another”
Stellan Skarsgård in “Sentimental Value”

Best Supporting Actress:
Elle Fanning in “Sentimental Value”
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas in “Sentimental Value”
Amy Madigan in “Weapons”
Wunmi Mosaku in “Sinners”
Teyana Taylor in “One Battle After Another”

Best Director:
Chloé Zhao for “Hamnet”
Josh Safdie for “Marty Supreme”
Paul Thomas Anderson for “One Battle After Another”
Joachim Trier for “Sentimental Value”
Ryan Coogler for “Sinners”

Best Original Screenplay:
“Blue Moon”
“It Was Just an Accident”
“Marty Supreme”
“Sentimental Value”
“Sinners”

Best Adapted Screenplay:
“Bugonia”
“Frankenstein”
“Hamnet”
“One Battle After Another”
“Train Dreams”

Best Animated Feature Film:
“Arco”
“Elio”
“KPop Demon Hunters”
“Little Amélie or the Character of Rain”
“Zootopia 2”

Best International Feature Film”
“The Secret Agent” from Brazil
“It Was Just an Accident” from France
“Sentimental Value” from Norway
“Sirât” from Spain
“The Voice of Hind Rajab” from Tunisia

Best Casting:
“Hamnet”
“Marty Supreme”
“One Battle After Another”
“The Secret Agent”
“Sinners”

Best Cinematography:
“Frankenstein”
“Marty Supreme”
“One Battle After Another”
“Sinners”
“Train Dreams”

Best Production Design:
“Frankenstein”
“Hamnet”
“Marty Supreme”
“One Battle After Another”
“Sinners”

Best Editing:
“F1”
“Marty Supreme”
“One Battle After Another”
“Sentimental Value”
“Sinners”

Best Original Score:
“Bugonia”
“Frankenstein”
“Hamnet”
“One Battle After Another”
“Sinners”

Best Original Song:
“Dear Me” by Diane Warren from “Relentless”
“Golden” from “KPop Demon Hunters”
“I Lied to You” from “Sinners”
“Sweet Dreams of Joy” from  “Viva Verdi!”
“Train Dreams” from “Train Dreams”

Best Sound:      
“F1”
“Frankenstein”
“One Battle After Another”
“Sinners”
“Sirât”

Best Visual Effects:
“Avatar: Fire and Ash”
“F1”
“Jurassic World Rebirth”
“The Lost Bus”
“Sinners”

Best Makeup and Hairstyling:
“Frankenstein”
“Kokuho”
“Sinners”
“The Smashing Machine”
“The Ugly Stepsister”

Best Costume Design:
“Avatar: Fire and Ash”
“Frankenstein”
“Hamnet”
“Marty Supreme”
“Sinners”

Best Animated Short Film:
“Butterfly”
“Forevergreen”
“The Girl Who Cried Pearls”
“Retirement Plan”
“The Three Sisters”

Best Live-Action Short Film:
“Butcher’s Stain”
“A Friend of Dorothy”
“Jane Austen’s Period Drama”
“The Singers”
“Two People Exchanging Saliva”

Best Documentary Feature Film:
“The Alabama Solution”
“Come See Me in the Good Light”
“Cutting Through Rocks”
“Mr. Nobody Against Putin”
“The Perfect Neighbor”

Best Documentary Short:
“All the Empty Rooms”
“Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud”
“Children No More: Were and Are Gone”
“The Devil Is Busy”
“Perfectly a Strangeness”