Sinners Leads Latino Entertainment Journalists Association Nominations

Ryan Coogler’s Sinners leads this year’s nominations from the Latino Entertainment Journalists Association with 16 nods, including Best Picture. Elsewhere, Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another scored 15 nominations, while Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein earned 14 nods.

This year’s Breakout Award goes to Tonatiuh for his role in Kiss of the Spider Woman. This year’s Activism Award goes to Diego Luna for championing immigrant rights and for using his platform to amplify immigrant communities and encourage support for organizations helping them. LEJA is also honoring actor Benicio del Toro with this year’s Rita Moreno Lifetime Achievement Award.

Full list of nominations below. The winners will be announced on February 9.

Best Picture

Belén
Bob Treviño Likes It
Frankenstein
Hamnet
It Was Just an Accident
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Sinners

Best Director

Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
Ryan Coogler, Sinners
Guillermo del Toro, Frankenstein
Dolores Fonzi, Belén
Kleber Mendonça Filho, The Secret Agent
Chloé Zhao, Hamnet

Best Actor

Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme
Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another
Oscar Isaac, Frankenstein
Michael B. Jordan, Sinners
John Leguizamo, Bob Treviño Likes It
Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent

Best Actress

Jessie Buckley, Hamnet
Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
Dolores Fonzi, Belén
Luisa Huertas, We Shall Not Be Moved
Chase Infiniti, One Battle After Another
Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value

Best Supporting Actor

Benicio del Toro, One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein
Diego Luna, Kiss of the Spider Woman
Paul Mescal, Hamnet
Sean Penn, One Battle After Another
Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value

Best Supporting Actress

Elle Fanning, Sentimental Value
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value
Amy Madigan, Weapons
Tânia Maria, The Secret Agent
Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners
Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another

Best Original Screenplay

Jafar Panahi, It Was Just an Accident
Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme
Kleber Mendonça Filho, The Secret Agent
Eskil Vogt and Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value
Ryan Coogler, Sinners
Zach Cregger, Weapons

Best Adapted Screenplay

Dolores Fonzi, Laura Paredes, Agustina San Martín, & Nicolás Britos – Belén
Will Tracy, Bugonia
Guillermo del Toro, Frankenstein
Chloé Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell, Hamnet
Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another
Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar, Train Dreams

Best Animated Feature

Arco
Elio
In Your Dreams
KPop Demon Hunters
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
Zootopia 2

Best Documentary

2000 Meters to Andriivka
Afternoons of Solitude
The Alabama Solution
Apocalypse in the Tropics
The Perfect Neighbor
Selena y Los Dinos

Best Non-English Film

Belén
It Was Just an Accident
A Poet
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Sirât

Best Ensemble Casting

Bob Treviño Likes It (Kate Geller and Kathy Campbell)
Frankenstein (Robin D. Cook)
One Battle After Another (Cassandra Kulukundis)
The Secret Agent (Gabriel Domingues)
Sentimental Value (Yngvill Kolset Haga and Avy Kaufman)
Sinners (Francine Maisler)

Best Youth Performance (Under 18)

Rebeca Andrade, A Poet
Everett Blunck, The Plague
Cary Christopher, Weapons
Shannon Gorman, Rental Family
Jacobi Jupe, Hamnet
Nina Ye, Left-Handed Girl

Best Voice Performance

Yonas Ascunsion Kibreab, Elio
Ke Huy Quan, Zootopia 2
Anthony Ramos, Bad Guys 2
Zoe Saldaña, Avatar: Fire and Ash
Zoe Saldaña, Elio
Shakira, Zootopia 2

Best Cinematography

Dan Laustsen, Frankenstein
Michael Bauman, One Battle After Another
Evgenia Alexandrova, The Secret Agent
Autumn Durald Arkapaw, Sinners
Mauro Herce, Sirât
Adolpho Veloso, Train Dreams

Best Editing

Stephen Mirrione, F1
Evan Schiff, Frankenstein
Andy Jurgensen, One Battle After Another
Matheus Farias and Eduardo Serrano, The Secret Agent
Michael P. Shawver, Sinners
Cristóbal Fernandez, Sirât

Best Production Design

Tamara Deverell and Shane Vieau, Frankenstein
Fiona Crombie and Alice Felton, Hamnet
Florencia Martin and Anthony Carlino, One Battle After Another
Thales Junqueira and Mariana Kinker, The Secret Agent
Hannah Beachler and Monique Champagne, Sinners
Nathan Crowley and Lee Sandales, Wicked: For Good

Best Costume Design

Kate Hawley, Frankenstein
Malgosia Turzanska, Hamnet
Colleen Atwood, Kiss of the Spider Woman
Rita Azevedo, The Secret Agent
Ruth E. Carter, Sinners
Paul Tazewell, Wicked: For Good

Best Hair & Makeup

Frankenstein
Sinners
The Smashing Machine
The Ugly Stepsister
Weapons
Wicked: For Good

Best Score

Alexandre Desplat, Frankenstein
Max Richter, Hamnet
Jonny Greenwood, One Battle After Another
Kangding Ray, Sirât
Ludwig Göransson, Sinners
Bryce Dessner, Train Dreams

Best Song

“Dream as One” from Avatar: Fire and Ash
“The Girl in the Bubble” from Wicked: For Good
“Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters
“I Lied to You” from Sinners
“Train Dreams” from Train Dreams
“Zoo” from Zootopia

Best Sound

F1
Frankenstein
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Sirât

Best Visual Effects

Avatar: Fire and Ash
F1
Frankenstein
Sinners
Superman
Wicked: For Good

Best Stunts

Ballerina
F1
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Warfare

Special awards

Latino Breakout Award: Tonatiuh, Kiss of the Spider Woman

Latino Activism Award: Diego Luna

Rita Moreno Lifetime Achievement Award: Benicio del Toro

Author: Doug Jamieson

From musicals to horror and everything in between, Doug has an eclectic taste in films. Both a champion of independent cinema and a defender of more mainstream fare, he prefers to find an equal balance between two worlds often at odds with each other. A film critic by trade but a film fan at heart, Doug also writes for his own website The Jam Report, and Australia’s the AU review.

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