Warner Bros. Reportedly Planning Oscars Campaigns for ‘Sinners’ and ‘Weapons’

In case you haven’t noticed, Warner Bros. is absolutely running the theatrical horror space at the moment. The Conjuring: Last Rites just had the highest global opening weekend in the history of the horror genre, beating previous Warner Bros. releases IT and IT: Chapter Two, and they’re also the studio behind the other three horror movies at the top of this year’s box office charts for the horror genre: Sinners, Final Destination Bloodlines, and Weapons.

Now, it seems Warner Bros. is gunning for a rare Oscar win for the horror genre.

The Hollywood Reporter notes in an article this week about WB’s box office dominance here in 2025, “sources say Warners intends on launching an awards campaign for not just [Paul Thomas Anderson’s] One Battle After Another, but also for Sinners and Weapons.”

“It’s rare for a studio to push a horror feature in the Oscars race, much less two,” THR notes. “But the studio hopes it can follow in the footsteps of Silence of the Lambs, which won five Oscars, including best picture, and Get Out, which took a screenplay statue.”

Of course, campaigning for an Oscar doesn’t ever guarantee an Oscar nomination, and the horror genre has a long history of being snubbed at the Academy Awards, but a campaign is the first step to the genre breaking through into that arena of mainstream awards recognition.

Sinners, in particular, seems primed and ready for nominations including Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Director & Best Actor, while it’s not out of the realm of possibility to imagine Amy Madigan getting a nomination for her performance as Aunt Gladys in Weapons. Madigan, we must remind, is a previous Oscar nominee for Twice in a Lifetime back in 1986.

Stay tuned for more from Warner Bros. Horror as we learn it.