{"id":42189,"date":"2026-03-01T03:04:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T03:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=42189"},"modified":"2026-03-01T03:04:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T03:04:38","slug":"sinners-inside-the-most-nominated-film-in-oscar-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=42189","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Sinners\u2019: Inside the most nominated film in Oscar history"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u2018Sinners\u2019 is the most nominated film in the history of the Academy Awards, commonly known as the \u2018Oscars\u2019, with 16 nominations.<\/p>\n

When director Ryan Coogler called Raphael Saadiq to run him through its script, the celebrated R&B singer and songwriter knew the song he wanted to write before he hung up the phone.
\nSaadiq felt guided, picked up a guitar and a few hours later, he and Coogler\u2019s longtime collaborator, composer Ludwig G\u00f6ransson, had written \u201cI Lied to You,\u201d the now Oscar nominated song sung by newbie actor Miles Canton in the role of blues musician Sammie \u201cPreacher Boy\u201d Moore.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was sitting there going \u2018Preacher\u2019s son who plays blues, and it\u2019s gonna be hard for him to get out to church and go do what he wants to do,\u2019\u201d Saadiq recalled in an interview with CNN. \u201cI lived that life. A lot of my friends lived that life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSinners\u201d has felt guided from the beginning by those who have gone before in the Black community, with Coogler bringing all that history and ancestorial memory \u2014\u00a0both the bitter and the sweet \u2014\u00a0to the big screen.<\/p>\n

On its surface, \u201cSinners\u201d is a story about twin brothers returning to their Mississippi hometown for a fresh start, only to face vampires who threaten their dream \u2014 and lives.
\nBut it is so much more than that. It is a statement about racial injustice, how we are all connected by our collective history, religion, faith, music and family trauma, all wrapped in a fantastical, Southern Gothic tale.<\/p>\n

That such a film would go on to break the record for most Oscar nominations \u2014 with 16 including best film and best director for Coogler \u2014 is a fulfillment of the ancestors\u2019 dreams. (The film is produced and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, which is owned by CNN\u2019s parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery.)<\/p>\n

From the future back to the past
\nIronically, it was the success of his hit 2018 film \u201cBlack Panther\u201d that helped bring Coogler\u2019s latest project to fruition. The Afrofuturistic Marvel movie became a box office juggernaut and changed the awards season conversation around \u201ccomic book movies,\u201d much like how \u201cSinners\u201d has shifted that narrative about horror films.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s another Black director who could have gotten the funding to do a movie like \u2018Sinners,\u2019\u201d said Tananarive Due, an acclaimed horror writer. \u201cI think Ryan Coogler was the one who had the capital to bring this vision to life, and boy did he bring it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since the 2013 release of his first film, \u201cFruitvale Station,\u201d which depicted the events leading up to the real-life police killing of a young Black man named Oscar Grant, Coogler has been intentional in his art as a reflection of the Black experience.<\/p>\n

With \u201cSinners,\u201d Coogler told the outlet Junkee, he \u201cgot the chance to dig into my own ancestral history.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis film is about the music that was so special to my uncle and I couldn\u2019t be happier with it.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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