Sinners was saintly on the 2026 Black Reel Awards, dominating with a document 14 wins Monday together with Excellent Movie, Director and Screenplay together with all three performing classes. See the complete record beneath.
The smash Warner Bros movie’s Ryan Coogler tied Gina Prince-Bythewood for essentially the most directing Bolts and joined Jordan Peele (Get Out) and Wire Jefferson (American Fiction) as the one producing-writing-directing triple winners for a similar film. Its sweep of the performing races by Michael B. Jordan (Lead), Wunmi Mosaku (Supporting) and Miles Caton (Breakthrough) was the primary for the reason that classes had been restructured. Jordan is the third particular person to win two Bolts for Lead Actor, following Denzel Washington, Chiwetel Ejiofor and the late Chadwick Boseman.
The 14 wins for Sinners beat the Bolts document of 10 set by Black Panther on the nineteenth Black Reel Awards in 2019. The movie’s Autumn Durald Arkapaw turned the primary lady to win Excellent Cinematography, Hannah Beachler prolonged her document with a 3rd win for Excellent Manufacturing Design, and Ludwig Göransson made Black Reels historical past as the primary particular person to win Excellent Rating and Authentic Music (“I Lied to You”) in the identical yr. The latter was shared by Caton, who carried out the track, giving him two wins.
There have been two different double winners on the twenty sixth annual Bolts: Geeta Gandbhir took Excellent Documentary for The Good Neighbor and Quick Movie for The Satan Is Busy, whereas R.T. Thorne received Excellent Impartial Movie and Rising Director for 40 Acres. Each made Black Reels historical past with these achievements.
Elsewhere, Avatar: Hearth & Ash star Zoe Saldaña turned the primary feminine actor to win two profession Bolts for Excellent Voice Efficiency, and Paul Tazewell joined Black Panther‘s Ruth E. Carter as the one a number of winners for Costume Design.
Listed here are the winners on the twenty sixth annual Black Reel Awards, adopted by a listing of wins by movie:
OUTSTANDING FILM
Sinners
Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian, Ryan Coogler, producers
OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR
Ryan Coogler
Sinners
OUTSTANDING LEAD PERFORMANCE
Michael B. Jordan
Sinners
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Wunmi Mosaku
Sinners
OUTSTANDING SCREENPLAY
Ryan Coogler
Sinners
OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY
The Good Neighbor
Geeta Gandbhir, director
OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE
Sinners
Francine Maisler, casting director
OUTSTANDING INTERNATIONAL FILM
On Turning into a Guinea Fowl
Zambia, UK, Eire
OUTSTANDING VOICE PERFORMANCE
Zoe Saldana
Avatar: Hearth and Ash
OUTSTANDING SCORE
Sinners
Ludwig Göransson, composer
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SONG
“I Lied to You” from Sinners
Miles Caton, performer
Raphael Saadiq & Ludwig Göransson, writers
OUTSTANDING SOUNDTRACK
Sinners
OUTSTANDING INDEPENDENT FILM
40 Acres
R.T. Thorne, director
OUTSTANDING INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY
We Had been Right here – The Untold Historical past of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe
Fred Kudjo Kuwornu, director
OUTSTANDING SHORT FILM
The Satan is Busy
Geeta Gandbhir & Christalyn Hampton, administrators
OUTSTANDING EMERGING DIRECTOR
R.T. Thorne
40 Acres
OUTSTANDING BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
Miles Caton
Sinners
OUTSTANDING FIRST SCREENPLAY
Syreeta Singleton
One in all Them Days
OUTSTANDING CINEMATOGRAPHY
Autumn Durald Arkapaw
Sinners
OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN
Paul Tazewell
Depraved: For Good
OUTSTANDING EDITING
Michael P. Shawver
Sinners
OUTSTANDING HAIR & MAKEUP
Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine, Sian Richards & Shunika Terry
Sinners
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION DESIGN
Hannah Beachler, manufacturing designer; Monique Champagne, set decorator
Sinners
Wins by Movie
Sinners – 14
40 Acres – 2
Avatar: Hearth & Ash – 1
The Satan Is Busy – 1
On Turning into A Guinea Fowl – 1
One Of Them Days -1
The Good Neighbor – 1
We Had been Right here: The Untold Story of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe – 1
Depraved: For Good – 1
