Vampire thriller "Sinners" breaks Oscar nomination record

• The new "Sinners" record beats out three films with 14 nominations: "All About Eve" (1950), "Titanic" (1997) and "La La Land" (2016).

Driving the news: Michael B. Jordan was nominated for best actor in a leading role.

• Delroy Lindo was nominated for best actor in a supporting role, and Wunmi Mosaku was nominated for best actress in a supporting role.
• Coogler was nominated for directing, best picture and original screenplay.
• The movie was also nominated for casting, cinematography, costume design, film editing, makeup and hairstyling, original score, original song, production design, sound, and visual effects.

Context: "Sinners," which was shot in New Orleans, collected more than $360 million in worldwide box office sales, per Box Office Mojo.

• The film follows twin brothers Elijah "Smoke" and Elias "Stack" Moore, both played by Michael B. Jordan, who return home to Clarksdale, Mississippi, after years in Chicago's criminal underworld.
• The World War I veterans use stolen mafia money to set up a rural juke joint in a building purchased from a Ku Klux Klan member, but their plans get thwarted after white vampires surround the party.

What we're watching: To win the coveted best picture nod, it will have to beat out "Bugonia," "F1," "Frankenstein," "Hamnet," "Marty Supreme," "One Battle After Another," "The Secret Agent," "Sentimental Value," and "Train Dreams."

• In the directing category, Coogler is up against four other directors: Chloé Zhao ("Hamnet"), Josh Safdie ("Marty Supreme"), Paul Thomas Anderson ("One Battle After Another"), and Joachim Trier ("Sentimental Value").

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