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That tension that exists between what the statistical evidence suggests and what nearly a century of omission demands defines this year\u2019s best director race. It\u2019s a reality the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences cannot sidestep, not at this moment and not with this film.<\/p>\n
For nearly 100 years, the Academy has handed out the Oscar for best director without ever awarding it to a Black filmmaker. Now comes \u201cSinners<\/a>,\u201d the most nominated film in Oscar history, with 16 nominations. If Coogler were to lose Sunday night, the question would inevitably follow: what does that say about an institution approaching its centennial?<\/p>\n Coogler\u2019s nom makes the 39-year-old Oakland native the seventh Black filmmaker recognized in the category, following John Singleton<\/a>, Lee Daniels<\/a>, Steve McQueen<\/a>, Barry Jenkins<\/a>, Jordan Peele<\/a> and Spike Lee<\/a>.<\/p>\n Only seven nominations,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The numbers say Paul Thomas Anderson. History says it\u2019s time for Ryan Coogler. That tension that exists between what the statistical evidence suggests and what nearly a century of omission demands defines this year\u2019s best director race. It\u2019s a reality the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences cannot sidestep, not at this moment and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2323800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2323799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Why-Im-Predicting-Ryan-Coogler-Will-Win-the-Best-Director.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2323799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2323801,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323799\/revisions\/2323801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2323800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2323799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2323799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2323799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}