Sinners Officially in the council. The most nominated film for the Academy Awards of the year – and in Academy Awards history – has won the 2026 Best Actor Award for Best Ensemble, a crucial lead in the Oscars race for Best Picture. It is too Sinners“The first major Oscar win so far this season, with… Battle after battle Having effectively run the tables to this point – including at last night’s Producers Guild Awards.
Now we have a race.
Sinners Many would have preferred her to win here, given her strength with the Leading Actor/Group Awards, but SAG-AFTRA tends to award its top award to overall industry favorites — whether obvious front-runners at the Oscars like Oppenheimer and Everything everywhere at once Or the underdogs like parasite and Coda. Naturally, all of these films won the major Academy Award, which is the path to which Sinners We will hope to emulate.
With writer, producer and director Ryan Coogler, watching the film Sinners The actors looked thrilled and amazed when they took the stage. Delroy Lindo was appointed as a spokesman on behalf of the group (he was individually nominated for Oscars, but here he was recognized only as a member of the ensemble). As the audience’s deafening applause slowly subsided, Lindo struggled to find his place. “I’m supposed to be speaking on behalf of our staff. There’s supposed to be a teleprompter and I don’t see it, so I’m just going to speak,” he said.
Lindo then spoke about the importance of the film. “This project has been announced, and with that in mind, we are all invited to be on this amazing journey created by the amazing genius Ryan Coogler,” he said. Lindo continued to shout out others including casting director Francine Meisler, producers Siv Ohanian and Zinzi Coogler, and several other Warner Bros. leaders. Including studio executives Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdi and vice president of publicity Susan Fritz.
Sinners It was nominated at the 2026 Actor Awards against its fellow nominees for the Academy Award for Best Picture One battle, Hamnet, Marty Supreme and Frankenstein. The vampire drama also earned three outstanding individual nominations from SAG-AFTRA for leading man Michael B. Jordan and supporting stars Wunmi Mosaku and Miles Caton. (All of them were also Oscar nominees except for Catton, who the Academy replaced with its star Delroy Lindo.) Jordan pulled off a major upset by winning Best Actor, proving the film’s overall strength with the guild.
Last year’s Actor Awards ended a three-year streak of the Best Ensemble winner winning an Oscar, as well concave Beat the eventual best picture winner Anura. Cast and PGAs are strong predictors of best picture, and can indicate late-stage momentum — and when there’s a split between the two, while the Academy can go either way, the PGA still tends to be more predictive. Kugler Black PantherFor example, he took the band actor home before Green book He went all the way at the Oscars.
We’ll see if things go differently this time.
