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“There’s a strong argument that this art form, Delta blues, is our country’s most important contribution to global popular culture. You know, I think it’s probably [Black people’s] most important artistic contribution in the world”, Coogler said Democracy now! last spring. “And it was such a profound discovery that this music created by people who, you know, were living, for all intents and purposes, under a grueling form of American apartheid, you know, denied their humanity on a daily basis, would create something so artistically excellent that it would affect world culture from that time on.”
Sinnershe is 16 years old nominations eclipse record of 14 All about Eve (1950), Titanic (1997), and The The Earth (2016) all shared. Her costume designer, Ruth E. Carter, also becomes the most nominated black woman in Oscar history after being nominated in five categories. Other Best Picture nominees, like Paul Thomas Anderson’s daring film One battle after another, Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet, and that of Josh Safdie Marty Supreme, will offer Coogler fierce competition.
Win or lose, Coogler has made history and continues to produce a strong catalog of noir blockbusters, Black Panther has Fruitvale Station has Creed has Sinners—which will be appreciated for years to come.
