The film studio – currently in acquisition talks with Paramount – earned 11 Academy Awards thanks to its hit films by Ryan Coogler and Paul Thomas Anderson Warner Bros, the studio currently in the final stages of talks over a buyout by rivals Paramount, has taken a record 11 prizes from the 98th Academy Awards. It ties the record for most wins by a studio at the Academy Awards with MGM, who took that number in 1959 with Ben-Hur, Paramount for 1997’s Titanic and New Line Cinema with The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King in 2003. That outfit was later absorbed into Warner Bros. The studio went into the evening with 30 nominations, beating its previous record of 28 from 1943, when the studio’s drama Casablanca took best picture. Neon went into the 2026 ceremony with the second highest number of nominations, having 18, and came away with just one win, for Sentimental Value’s foreign language Oscar. Continue reading...