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LONDON, ENGLAND – NOVEMBER 08: Ryan Coogler attends a special screening of “SINNERS” at the Picturehouse Central on November 08, 2025 in London, England. (Photo by Jeff Spicer\/Getty Images for Warner Bros.) <\/p>\n
OAKLAND, Calif. – Oakland\u2019s own Ryan Coogler took home the best original screenplay Oscar for his Jim Crow-era horror film “Sinners”<\/a> on Sunday night.<\/p>\n A momentous occasion <\/p>\n First win:<\/p>\n The win is Coogler\u2019s first Oscar, and also distinguishes him as the second Black writer to win the best original screenplay award, coming after Jordan Peele and his 2018 win for “Get Out.”<\/p>\n “This is an incredible honor. I want to thank my fellow nominees for the gifts that your movies were and your friendship over the past few months,” Coogler said at the ceremony<\/a>.<\/p>\n Record-breaking nominations:<\/p>\n “Sinners” \u2013 which Coogler, 39, also directed \u2013 broke records earlier in the year<\/a> by receiving 16 Oscar nominations, surpassing films such as “Titanic” and “La La Land” to become the most nominated film in history.<\/p>\n “Sinners” also received the best original screenplay award at the BAFTAs and the Writers Guild and Critics Choice awards, and earned a nomination at the Golden Globes.<\/p>\n The inspiration <\/p>\n Coogler \u2013 who also directed highly acclaimed films such as “Creed,” “Black Panther” and “Fruitvale Station” \u2013 described “Sinners” as his most personal film.<\/p>\n “I wrote this script for my uncle who passed away 11 years ago,” Coogler said in an interview following the film\u2019s nominations. “I got to imagine that he\u2019s listening to some blues music right now to celebrate.”<\/p>\n News<\/a>Entertainment<\/a>Oakland<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article LONDON, ENGLAND – NOVEMBER 08: Ryan Coogler attends a special screening of “SINNERS” at the Picturehouse Central…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,1184,967,100,143,145,144,1181],"class_list":["post-221451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-county","tag-ca","tag-entertainment","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}