The 98th Academy Awards opened Sunday evening at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, beginning at 5:00 p.m. PT. Ryan Coogler’s Sinners carried more nominations than any film in Oscar history into a ceremony that also marks the debut of a new award category for the first time in 25 years. Sinners received 16 nominations, surpassing the previous record of 14 shared by All About Eve (1950), Titanic (1997), and La La Land (2016). The film also set a new record for the most Black individuals nominated for a single film, with ten. Among its nominations, Sinners is competing for Best Picture

The 98th Academy Awards opened Sunday evening at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, beginning at 5:00 p.m. PT. Ryan Coogler’s Sinners carried more nominations than any film in Oscar history into a ceremony that also marks the debut of a new award category for the first time in 25 years.

Sinners received 16 nominations, surpassing the previous record of 14 shared by All About Eve (1950), Titanic (1997), and La La Land (2016). The film also set a new record for the most Black individuals nominated for a single film, with ten.

Among its nominations, Sinners is competing for Best Picture, Best Director for Coogler, Best Actor for Michael B. Jordan, and Best Supporting Actor for Delroy Lindo. Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another follows with 13 nominations, also including Best Picture.

All eyes are on Sinners, Hamnet, and Marty Supreme as they compete across major categories tonight.

The ceremony introduces Best Casting as a new competitive Oscar category, the first added since Best Animated Feature in 2001, bringing the total number of competitive awards to 24, according to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Nominees include Francine Maisler for Sinners and Nina Gold forHamnet.

Several individual milestones stand out this year: Timothée Chalamet, nominated for Marty Supreme, became the youngest actor to earn three acting nominations since Marlon Brando, achieving the feat at 30. Wagner Moura became the first Brazilian nominated for Best Actor, while Autumn Durald Arkapaw became the first woman of color nominated for Best Cinematography.

Comedian Conan O’Brien is hosting for the second consecutive year. Ahead of the show, O’Brien told reporters that his team had been working hard and that some elements were “a little more ambitious than last year.” Musical performances will come from Josh Groban, Misty Copeland, Miles Caton, and Raphael Saadiq.

Executive producer Raj Kapoor said the ceremony's design was inspired by human touch and creativity, with the theme of “humanity” running through the show.

The ceremony airs live on ABC and streams on Hulu. Follow this page for winner updates as the night unfolds.

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