I will remain hopeful the film gets its due, rooting for them from behind my television screen. Sinners took over my timeline and the box office for the majority of 2025. It brought superb performances from Delroy Lindo — who, after 50 years in Hollywood, has now received his first Oscar nomination ever —Jack O’Connell from Skins UK and a powerful cast of women actors, Li Jun Li, Jayme Lawson, Hailee Steinfeld, and the impressive Wunmi Mosaku. It was handcrafted by Coogler with 70mm cinematography, weaving a story about Jim Crow and fantasy in way that’s never been done before on the big screen.
But if ultimately Sinners ends the night with fewer wins than hoped for, it won’t be a failure. It will be another data point in a long-standing pattern of culture-shifting Black art being recognized loudly, while rewards remain silent and barren.
