Oscar Predictions: It’s ‘One Battle After Another’ vs. ‘Sinners’ in One Battle for the Ages

This year’s Oscars really will be one battle after another.

And it’ll be one battle after another between “One Battle After Another” and “Sinners,” as those two films face off in a record 11 different categories.

The numbers are ridiculous.  “Sinners,” Ryan Coogler’s genre-bending rampage that looks at race relations through the lens of a vampire story, has a record-shattering 16 nominations; “One Battle After Another,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s wild look at revolutionary fervor over decades...