With the announcement of this year’s Oscar nominations, an eye-raising number of records have been and possibly will be broken.

One such record involves the Brazilian film The Secret Agent. Set in 1970s Brazil during its 21-year military dictatorship and inspired by the recent rule of the country’s far-right president Jair Bolsonaro, The Secret Agent has been nominated for both Best Picture and Best International Film. With the former, it would be only the second Brazilian film ever nominated for the top award, after last year’s I’m Still Here, which was the first. With the Best International Film category, if The Secret Agent were to win, it would be the first time in nearly forty years that a country won the award back-to-back (which previously occurred with Denmark winning with 1987’s Babette’s Feast and 1998’s Pelle the Conqueror).

Several more records have been achieved by actress Emma Stone, who has been nominated for her seventh acting award for Bugonia, making her the second youngest person and the youngest woman to reach that milestone. In addition, she has also become the first woman to be nominated twice for acting and producing in a film, with her having previously been nominated for both in 2023’s Poor Things.

A third batch of records involves Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, which has received sixteen nominations, the most ever for a film, surpassing the record set by All About Eve, Titanic, and La La Land. Sinners‘ nominations include Best Picture, Best Director (Coogler’s first nomination and seventh ever for an African-American director), Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor (also Michael B. Jordan’s first nomination), Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Costume Design, Best Original Score, and the newly designated category, Best Casting, among others.

Lastly, thanks to its releasing of Sinners and another heavily nominated film, One Battle After Another, as well as a Best Supporting Actress nod for Amy Madigan in Weapons, Warner Bros. has tied its own studio record for 30 nominations, which it last achieved in 2005 with films such as Million Dollar Baby, The Aviator, and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

The 98th Academy Awards will air on March 15th, hosted by Conan O’Brien.