Michael B. Jordan and Ryan Coogler talk history-making ‘Sinners’ collaboration
Michael B. Jordan and Ryan Coogler joined ‘GMA’ to discuss their record-breaking film. (ABC News)
Sinners star Michael B. Jordan and director Ryan Coogler are opening up on making Oscar nominations history.
The actor-director duo sat down for an interview with Good Morning America‘s Chris Connelly to discuss Sinners, which gathered a record-breaking 16 Oscar nominations, and their partnership, which has been over a decade in the making.
Coogler and Jordan recalled meeting in a Starbucks in 2011 to discuss their first joint project, Fruitvale Station.
“He reassured me. ‘Mike, I think you’re a movie star. Let’s go do this,'” Jordan said Coogler told him at the time.
The pair also discussed the moment they both realized that they had broken Oscars history on Oscar nomination morning.
Jordan said he woke up to missed messages and called his mother. “It felt great. You know, just to kind of hear her happiness and joy and knowing how much that she poured into me.”
Coogler said he watched the nominations with his spouse, Zinzi Coogler, who is also nominated as a producer on the film, and the pair celebrated with waffles.
Sinners marks the fifth collaboration between Coogler and Jordan, a partnership that includes the Creed movies and Black Panther.
Coogler reflected on what makes Jordan such an effective presence on screen.
“There’s a magic to Mike that I think like Tom Hanks has, where you see him and you care about him,” Coogler said. “As a character, he does everything. So what that gives him is an incredible amount of empathy when he’s on the screen,” Coogler said, adding that he also has “incredible drive.”
The pair said working together for as many years as they have has allowed them to work in sync.
“We complement one another,” said Jordan.
“You kind of know what the other person might need at a particular time to achieve a certain goal,” Coogler added.
Phoebe Dynevor attends the St. Regis World Snow Polo Championships 2025 at Rio Grande Park on Dec. 18, 2025, in Aspen, Colorado. (Greg Doherty/Getty Images for St. Regis)
Phoebe Dynevor is joining the Emily Henry rom-com universe.
The Bridgerton actress will star in the film adaptation of the bestselling novel Beach Read, ABC Audio has learned.
Beach Read follows the character January Andrews, a romance novelist who struggles with writer’s block due to her grief after the death of her father and her discovery of the secrets he kept.
January spends the summer at her father’s Michigan beach house as she prepares to sell it. While there, she reconnects with Gus Everett, a fellow author and her formal college rival. The pair spark an unexpected romance after they agree to partake in a writing challenge to get them out of their respective writing ruts.
There is currently no word on any other casting for the film.
Yulin Kuang, who co-wrote the Netflix film adaptation of Henry’s novel People We Meet on Vacation, will direct Beach Read for 20th Century Studios from her own script.
This is the latest adaptation of one of Henry’s works, following the January release of People We Meet on Vacation. Three of her other novels — Book Lovers, Funny Story and Happy Place, are also currently being adapted for the screen.
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The 98th annual Academy Awards, airing March 15 on ABC. (The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)
Nomination day has arrived for the 2026 Oscars.
The nominees in all categories for the 98th Academy Awards were revealed Thursday morning in a live presentation from the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Los Angeles.
Oscar-nominated actress Danielle Brooks and actor Lewis Pullman announced the nominations, which includes this year’s newest category: casting.
The 2026 Oscars will air on Sunday, March 15, at 7 p.m. ET on ABC.
Here’s a list of the nominees:
Best picture Bugonia F1 Frankenstein Hamnet Marty Supreme One Battle After Another The Secret Agent Sentimental Value Sinners Train Dreams
Best director Chloé Zhao, Hamnet Josh Safdie, Marty Supreme Paul Thomas Anderson, One Battle After Another Joachim Trier, Sentimental Value Ryan Coogler, Sinners
Best actor Timothée Chalamet, Marty Supreme Leonardo DiCaprio, One Battle After Another Ethan Hawke, Blue Moon Michael B. Jordan, Sinners Wagner Moura, The Secret Agent
Best actress Jessie Buckley, Hamnet Rose Byrne, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You Kate Hudson, Song Sung Blue Renate Reinsve, Sentimental Value Emma Stone, Bugonia
Best supporting actress Elle Fanning, Sentimental Value Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, Sentimental Value Amy Madigan, Weapons Wunmi Mosaku, Sinners Teyana Taylor, One Battle After Another
Best supporting actor Benicio Del Toro, One Battle After Another Jacob Elordi, Frankenstein Delroy Lindo, Sinners Sean Penn, One Battle After Another Stellan Skarsgård, Sentimental Value
Best original score Bugonia, Jerskin Fendrix Frankenstein, Alexandre Desplat Hamnet, Max Richter One Battle After Another, Jonny Greenwood Sinners, Ludwig Göransson
Best live action short film Butcher’s Stain Jane Austen’s Period Drama A Friend of Dorothy The Singers Two People Exchanging Saliva
Best adapted screenplay Bugonia, Will Tracy Frankenstein, Guillermo Del Toro Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell and Chloé Zhao One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson Train Dreams, Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar
Best original screenplay Blue Moon, Robert Kaplow It Was Just an Accident, Jafar Panahi Marty Supreme, Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie Sentimental Value, Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt Sinners, Ryan Coogler
Best animated short film Butterfly Forevergreen The Girl Who Cried Pearls Retirement Plan The Three Sisters
Best animated feature film Arco Elio KPop Demon Hunters Little Amélie or the Character of Rain Zootopia 2
Best casting Hamnet, Nina Gold Marty Supreme, Jennifer Venditti One Battle After Another, Cassandra Kulukundis The Secret Agent, Gabriel Domingues Sinners, Francine Maisler
Best original song “Dear Me” from Diane Warren: Relentless “Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters “I Lied to You” from Sinners “Sweet Dreams of Joy” from Viva Verdi! “Train Dreams” from Train Dreams
Best documentary feature film The Alabama Solution Come See Me in the Good Light Cutting Through Rocks Mr. Nobody Against Putin The Perfect Neighbor
Best documentary short film All Empty Rooms Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud Children No More: Were and Are Gone The Devil is Busy Perfectly a Strangeness
Best international feature film Brazil, The Secret Agent France, It Was Just an Accident Norway, Sentimental Value Spain, Sirât Tunisia, The Voice of Hind Rajab
Best film editing F1, Stephen Mirrione Marty Supreme, Ronald Bronstein and Josh Safdie One Battle After Another, Andy Jurgensen Sentimental Value, Olivier Bugge Sinners, Michael P. Shawver
Best sound F1 Frankenstein One Battle After Another Sinners Sirāt
Best visual effects Avatar: Fire and Ash F1 Jurassic World Rebirth The Lost Bus Sinners
Best cinematography Frankenstein Marty Supreme One Battle After Another Sinners Train Dreams
Best makeup and hairstyling Frankenstein Kokuho Sinners The Smashing Machine The Ugly Stepsister
Best costume design Deborah L. Scott, Avatar: Fire and Ash Kate Hawley, Frankenstein Malgosia Turzanska, Hamnet Miyako Bellizzi, Marty Supreme Ruth E. Carter, Sinners
Best production design Frankenstein Hamnet Marty Supreme One Battle After Another Sinners
Luigi, Yoshi, Mario and Toad in ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.’ (Nintendo, Illumination)
Nintendo? More like Ninten-dough. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie has taken over the top spot at the box office in the year’s biggest global film debut.
The animated sequel to 2023’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie took in just under $131 million domestically in its first weekend, and worldwide, it earned $372.5 million, according to Box Office Mojo. As perVariety, that’s the biggest debut of the year, smashing the record previously set by Project Hail Mary. The Ryan Gosling sci-fi film took in just over $97 million worldwide when it debuted in March.
The Super Mario franchise is now the only animated franchise to have two installments each open with over $350 million globally, notes Variety.
Project Hail Mary slipped to #2 this weekend with $30.6 million, while A24’s new Robert Pattinson/Zendaya dark comedy, The Drama, debuted at #3 with just under $14.4 million.
The only other new debut in the top 10 was A Great Awakening, a historical drama about the real-life friendship between Benjamin Franklin and English priest and preacher George Whitefield. It came in at #6 with $2.1 million.
Here are the top 10 films at the box office:
1. The Super Mario Galaxy Movie — $130.9 million 2. Project Hail Mary — $30.65 million 3. The Drama — $14.38 million 4. Hoppers — $5.8 million 5. Reminders of Him –– $2.2 million 6. The Great Awakening — $2.11 million 7. They Will Kill You — $1.9 million 8. Dhurandhar The Revenge — $1.82 million 9. Ready or Not 2: Here I Come —$1.8 million 10. Undertone — $1.07 million
