After receiving sixteen nominations at this year’s Academy Awards, the runaway hit Sinners took home one of the highest honors of the night, as Ryan Coogler accepted the award for Best Original Screenplay.
Coogler wins on his fifth Oscar nomination — he’s also been nominated for Best Director and Best Picture this year, and previously received a Best Original Song nomination for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, as well as a Best Picture nomination for producing Judas and the Black Messiah.
Sinners is Coogler’s fifth film — and fifth collaboration with star Michael B. Jordan — and his first horror film. Prior to this, his best-known works were Marvel’s Black Panther films, starring Chadwick Boseman and Letitia Wright, and the first Creed film, which arrived after his debut feature Fruitvale Station received critical acclaim. He also executive produced Marvel’s Ironheart spin-off series, and is set to helm a reboot of The X-Files, which just received a pilot greenlight and is set to star Danielle Deadwyler.
This marks the end of a phenomenal run for Sinners, both in theaters as well as during awards season. The film earned $370 million at the global box office, and collectively earned over two hundred awards from various voting bodies across the industry. Among them are two Actor Awards (formerly the SAG-AFTRA Awards), three BAFTA Awards, four Critics’ Choice Awards, two Golden Globes, and four Chainsaw Awards, including Best Director, because the Fango fam knows exactly what’s up.
The FANGORIA team congratulates Coogler on his well-deserved win.
