{"id":348276,"date":"2026-03-16T00:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T00:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/348276\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T00:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T00:52:09","slug":"oscars-2026-live-ryan-cooglers-sinners-wins-its-first-oscar-of-the-night-as-award-for-best-live-action-feature-is-a-tie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/348276\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscars 2026 live: Ryan Coogler’s Sinners wins its first Oscar of the night, as award for best live action feature is a tie"},"content":{"rendered":"

The small Mississippi town behind Sinnerspublished at 00:40 GMT<\/p>\n

00:40 GMT<\/p>\n

\"\"Ana Faguy
US Reporter<\/p>\n

\"RyanImage source, Reuters\/ Kevin WurmImage caption, <\/p>\n

Ryan Coogler travelled to Clarksdale to present free screenings of his film<\/p>\n

Last year, I visited Clarksdale, Mississippi, a landmark for
\na bygone era of American blues music that also happens to be the town that
\ninspired the hit film Sinners. <\/p>\n

The genre-defying film, that just won the Oscar for original screenplay, earned more than $300m (\u00a3220m)
\nglobally, against a $90m (\u00a367m) budget, and attracted the world’s attention to
\na historic small town.<\/p>\n

Ryan Coogler, who created the movie, said it was his Uncle
\nJames, a Mississippi native who loved Delta blues, who helped inspire the film.<\/p>\n

And in May he and other creators from the film went to
\nClarksdale for a screening. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s where I met some locals who were elated with their
\ntown\u2019s representation. <\/p>\n

“It was time traveling back to 1930’s in Clarksdale, in
\nour town, so this is the lives of my great grandma,” Tyler Yarbrough, a
\nClarksdale native, said of the movie.<\/p>\n

“The history from the farms to the
\njuke joints was on full display.”<\/p>\n

Edna Luckett, a blues singer, watched the movie listening
\nclosely to the characters’ dialect. She watched to see if the land in the
\nbackdrop of the film was as flat and green as it is in real life.<\/p>\n

“It was,” she said with a smile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The small Mississippi town behind Sinnerspublished at 00:40 GMT 00:40 GMT Ana FaguyUS Reporter Image source, Reuters\/ Kevin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-348276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}