In 2007, Burton received his seventh Oscar nomination for
Dreamgirls (2006), which at the time tied composer/producer
Quincy Jones for the most Academy Award nominations by an African-American. The record was broken by Denzel Washington, who received his 7th and 8th nominations in 2017 for
Fences (2016) and received his 9th nomination for
Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017) the following year.