‘Sinners’ wins Oscar for best original score
Three-time Academy Award winner Ludwig Göransson has received the Oscar for original score for “Sinners.”
Göransson beat Jerskin Fendrix (“Bugonia”), Max Richter (“Hamnet”), Jonny Greenwood (“One Battle After Another”) and Alexandre Desplat (“Frankenstein”) at Sunday’s 98th Academy Awards.
Göransson beforehand received original score Oscars for 2018’s “Black Panther” and 2023’s “Oppenheimer.”
“My dad bought his first blues album in Sweden, 1964,” Göransson mentioned, crediting his dad’s love of music to his personal. He “devoted his whole life to music,” the composer mentioned. Eventually his father gave him a guitar and opened up his world.
“I love the guitar,” he continued. “It was the guitar that eventually led me to one of the greatest storytellers of our time, Ryan Coogler.”
“Sinners” is filmmaker Coogler’s bluesy, vampire, gangster musical in regards to the tenuousness of life within the Jim Crow South. But it is also a narrative of two brothers coming residence to Mississippi in 1932 to launch a juke joint after spending time on the German entrance in World War I after which studying from Al Capone in gangland Chicago, as The Associated Press’ Jocelyn Noveck writes in her overview. It’s additionally a narrative about love, and one about music, particularly the transporting energy of the blues. “Sinners” entered the evening with a record-setting 16 nominations.
When the nominations have been introduced in January, Göransson informed AP that he was grateful for the popularity for this venture specifically.
Miles Caton, far left, performs ‘I Lied to You’ from “Sinners” with Jayme Lawson, Li Jun Li, and Wunmi Mosaku throughout the Oscars on Sunday, March 15, 2026, on the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles. Credit: AP/Chris Pizzello
“We woke up to a bunch of amazing, beautiful texts and calls. And it’s very much like a family affair, this film. Everyone on “Sinners,” we’ve been working together for a long time and we’re kind of like a family,” he mentioned. “What’s cool about this film, and what’s incredible about this movie, is that it’s about blues music. It’s about a guitar player. … Anything we’re hearing today on the radio and from Western culture, you know, wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for blues. Ryan (Coogler) was able to show that in the movie and through the movie.”
