{"id":144767,"date":"2026-01-22T14:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/144767\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T14:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:56:07","slug":"oaklands-ryan-coogler-and-sinners-score-record-16-oscar-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/144767\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland’s Ryan Coogler and Sinners score record 16 Oscar nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oakland native Ryan Coogler, and his Southern-gothic, musical horror epic \u201cSinners,\u201d were the big winners in 2026 Oscar nominations<\/a> Thursday, scoring a record 16 nominations<\/a> for best picture, director and screenplay, along with a \u201cdark horse\u201d nomination for Oakland\u2019s Delroy Lindo for best supporting actor.<\/p>\n

Coogler has indeed rewritten Academy Awards history with \u201cSinners,\u201d considered his most personal and ambitious film yet. Prior to Prior to Thursday, three films in the Academy Award\u2019s 98-year history had scored 14 nominations: \u201cAll About Eve\u201d in 1950, \u201cTitanic\u201d in 1997 and \u201cLa La Land\u201d in 2016.<\/p>\n

Among the other nominations for \u201cSinners\u201d was a nod to star Michael B. Jordan, a longtime collaborator of Coogler\u2019s from \u201cFruitvale Station,\u201d \u201cCreed\u201d and \u201cBlack Panther.\u201d Jordan plays twin brothers in the film, World War I veterans who return to their Mississippi hometown in the Jim Crow South in 1932. Using money stolen from Chicago criminal syndicates, Jordan\u2019s twins, \u201cSmoke\u201d and \u201cStack,\u201d purchase a sawmill in order to start a juke joint. But amid warnings about the sins of blues music, they soon find themselves confronting a supernatural evil.<\/p>\n

In the film, Lindo plays Delta Slim, an old town harmonica player and musical legend. Another nomination for best supporting actress went to Wunmi Mosaku, who plays Annie, Smoke\u2019s estranged wife and a Hoodoo practitioner.<\/p>\n

RELATED:\u00a0Oscars 2026: Full list of nominees<\/a><\/p>\n

Coogler, who also attended Saint Mary\u2019s College in Moraga before earning his undergraduate degree at Sacramento State and his MFA in film at USC, also scored nominations for best director and best original screenplay.<\/p>\n

\u201cSinners\u201d also scored nominations for casting; production design; cinematography; costume design; film editing; makeup and hairstyling; sound; visual effects; original score; and original song for \u201cI Lied to You.\u201d<\/p>\n

In terms of Coogler\u2019s personal achievements with \u201cSinners,\u201d he becomes only the second Black filmmaker nominated in the same year for producing, directing and original screenplay, following Jordan Peele\u2019s triple recognition for \u201cGet Out\u201d in 2017,\u00a0 according to Variety<\/a>. He also is the seventh Black director to receive a best director nomination, following John Singleton, \u201cBoyz n the Hood,\u201d\u00a0 Lee Daniels for \u201cPrecious,\u201d Steve McQueen, for \u201c12 Years a Slave,\u201d Barry Jenkins for \u201cMoonlight,\u201d Jordan Peele and Spike Lee for \u201cBlacKkKlansman\u201d in 2018. None of those directors won.<\/p>\n

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