On Thursday, for the first time, Michael B. Jordan became an Oscar nominee. Amid a record-breaking 16 nominations for Sinners, Jordan is being celebrated for his double-duty role as twins Smoke and Stack in Ryan Coogler’s period vampire film. Speaking to Deadline shortly after the…

In California early Thursday morning, Ryan Coogler said he and the Sinners team — his partner in production and in life, Zinzi Coogler, and their longtime co-producer Sev Ohanian — were still taking in the reality of a “pretty crazy” 16 Oscar nominations. Sinners has broken all previous…

It’s a real ring-a-ding-ding for the cast and crew of Sinners. With a total of 16 Oscar nominations announced on Thursday morning, Sinners made record-breaking history for the most nominated film of all time. Amongst the throngs of accolades is Wunmi Mosaku, who conjured up her first Oscar nomination…

Now a resounding box office success with over $368 million grossed worldwide following glowing critic reviews, Sinners seems poised to be nominated for the Oscars multiple times over. But at the beginning of the pitching process to star Michael B. Jordan, filmmaker Ryan Coogler initially thought his…

Not many teenagers can say they played a world stadium tour and still managed to make it back in time for prom and high school graduation in one fell swoop. And yet, here was Sinners star Miles Caton, chatting casually with me via Zoom on a Tuesday morning. When I make the accusation that he’s simply…

When the London Critics Circle shortlisted Delroy Lindo as one of their five nominees for Best Supporting Actor this year, for his part as Delta Slim in Ryan Coogler's Sinners, it's possible but unlikely that every last one of them knew that they were, essentially, voting for a local. It's a measure…

The Directors Guild of America revealed its feature film nominees Thursday for the 78th DGA Awards, with the helmers behind awards-season stalwarts One Battle After Another, Sinners, Frankenstein, Marty Supreme and Hamnet scoring noms in the Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature…

Ryan Coogler detailed the original vision for Black Panther 2 ahead of star Chadwick Boseman’s death from colon cancer at the age of 43 in August 2020. “I finished it, and I hit him up to read it, and he was too sick to read, bro. That was kind of how the timing was,” he explained on a new…

Here at Deadline we are fortunate to have the opportunity to interview some of the industry’s best and brightest. The topic of these interviews is generally fairly serious — covering the dedication to their art, diligence, persistence and love of the craft — because making art is, after all, a pretty…

The devil works hard but Delroy Lindo and Denzel Washington work harder. Washington, who famously stays off the grid when it comes to the latest pop culture moments, hosted his first ever movie screening for Ryan Coogler's cultural phenomenon Sinners at the Harmony Gold theater on Thursday…

Deadline's Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the awards season's most talked-about movies continues with Warner Bros’ Sinners, written and directed by Ryan Coogler who reteamed with Michael B. Jordan for the genre-bending blockbuster. Sinners has emerged as a major…

After pulling off one of the most acclaimed horror movies of the year, Ryan Coogler recalled one of the most difficult scenes to film for Sinners had nothing to do with vampire or the period setting. The 2x Oscar nominee recently recounted “the day I almost lost my mind” trying to film Michael B…