US EditionThe 98th Academy Awards Best Moments And Fashions
Sinners won four Oscars including Best Actor, despite Bishop Barron's critique of its divisive cultural themes and subversion of Christian symbols.
- Monday's Academy Awards saw Ryan Coogler's Sinners, nominated for a record 16 Oscars, win four including Best Actor for Michael B. Jordan and Best Original Screenplay for Coogler.
- The film's pre-show criticism came when Bishop Robert Barron wrote in The Free Press on Friday, March 13, 2026, that it divides the world into an 'easy binary of oppressor and oppressed' and raised cultural appropriation concerns.
- Historic firsts punctuated the night, as Paul Thomas Anderson, director of One Battle After Another, won six Oscars including Best Director and Best Picture, saying, 'You can make a guy work hard for one of these', while Cassandra Kulukundis accepted the first-ever Oscar for casting.
- Backstage, Ryan Coogler reflected as his late Uncle James influenced Sinners, which became the buzz of the 98th Academy Awards despite losing Best Picture, while red carpet fashions drew attention.
- As a 1932-set horror allegory, Sinners portrays Jim Crow–era oppression using vampires and the KKK, while filming drew heavily on south Louisiana locations and music rehearsals in New Orleans.
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Louisiana-filmed vampire and blues film ‘Sinners’ wins multiple Academy Awards
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'Sinners' won big in the Academy Awards, but Winona-Rochester bishop finds its messages 'troubling.'
ROCHESTER — The film "Sinners" came away as the big winner of the 98th Academy Awards held Monday, March 16, 2026, winning four Oscars, including Michael B. Jordan coming away with Best Actor. But Winona-Rochester Catholic Bishop Robert Barron, while implicitly lauding the film by predicting it would win Best Picture after he watched it, found some of its underlying themes troubling. While the film didn’t win Best Picture (that honor went to “On…
Oscars 2026: Historic Wins and Major Snubs of 98th Academy Awards
Get latest articles and stories on Entertainment at LatestLY. The 98th Academy Awards, held on March 15, 2026, delivered a night of cinematic triumphs, unexpected twists and historic firsts, as two films dominated the trophies while several heavily tipped contenders left empty-handed. Entertainment News | Oscars 2026: Historic Wins and Major Snubs of 98th Academy Awards.
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