The Hollywood Studio Showdown and Oscar Record Breakers
It’s Oscar season, and you can feel the tension in the Los Angeles air. The 2026 Academy Awards perfectly embody the current studio strife sweeping through Hollywood. Paramount and Netflix are both pulling every string they can to acquire Warner Bros., but while these giants duke it out in the boardroom, Warner has just shattered an Oscar record. Their film Sinners claimed a whopping 16 nominations, blasting right past the previous heavyweights—All About Eve, Titanic, and La La Land—which each held 14 nominations.
Coming in just behind Sinners, Warner snags the next big haul with Paul Thomas Anderson’s highly-favored One Battle After Another. Then, the excitement builds for three films, each securing nine nominations: Marty Supreme from A24, the Norwegian drama Sentimental Value, and—cue dramatic thunder—Netflix’s own darling, Frankenstein, directed by Guillermo del Toro.
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