Before Sunday’s Oscars ceremony even began, Ryan Coogler’s widely celebrated vampire epic Sinners already stood in the rarest of company.
Indeed, as we reported when nominations were first unveiled back in January, the undeniable blockbuster and critical behemoth stepped into the 98th Academy Awards as the most-nominated film in history with 16 total nominations.
Ultimately, Coogler and company took home four wins, including for Original Screenplay (Ryan Coogler) and Original Score (Ludwig Göransson). It also won in the following categories: Best Actor in a Leading Role (Michael B. Jordan), and Best Cinematography (Autumn Durald Arkapaw).
Best Picture, a category in which Sinners was also competing, went to Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another. All told, no single film managed a full-fledged sweep this year, despite speculation that this could be a possibility.
In the run-up to this year’s Oscars, Coogler achieved an enviable level of virarlity thanks to some soda-minded remarks he made on Amy Poehler’s podcast back in January. Along the way, he also made headlines after paying tribute in a National Board of Review Annual Awards Gala acceptance speech to Renee Good, who was fatally shot by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis earlier this year.
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