Marvel Boss Kevin Feige Is Rooting For Sinners To Win Best Picture At Oscars 2026 - Here's Why

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B. Jordan's film Sinners, directed by Ryan Coogler, has made Oscar history at the 98th Academy Awards with a record-breaking 16 nominations, including Best Actor for Jordan and Best Picture, a first for a supernatural horror film. Ahead of the Academy Awards, man known for his opinions, Kevin Fiege shared how the Oscars don’t always recognize the movies that are most relevant for audiences.'

Kevin Feige Is Rooting For Sinners At Oscars 2026

Ryan Coogler's audacious genre mash-up Sinners became the Oscars' most nominated film ever with 16 nods. This is only the latest milestone in Sinners‘ extraordinary run since its April release; distributed by Warner Bros., it’s also the highest-grossing movie not based on any preexisting material in North America since 2010’s Inception. Sinners — an original, rollicking entertainment exploring historical traumas with unusual depth for a $90 million film — has marked the moment for his peers to turn the spotlight back on him. Makers confidence rested in a core fact of Sinners, more than any of his past movies, it was made with the audience in mind. The bravura filmmaking, showcasing Coogler’s playful authority behind the camera and the eye of his DP Autumn Durald Arkapaw (who, in March, may become the first woman to win the best cinematography Oscar), proved inviting rather than alienating.

Now, ahead of the Oscars, Kevin Feige said that in his opinion, Sinners must win many titles this year, including Best Picture. Marvel Studios president and Black Panther producer, On Sinners' Oscars nominations, said, "The music was incredibly meaningful to me, and I told Ryan that my jaw was on the floor. It should win best picture for that alone." "The Academy doesn’t always, in my opinion, recognize the movies that are most relevant for audiences today. But, boy, did they hit it with this one," he concluded.

More About Sinners

In Sinners, Jordan plays twin brothers who are trying to leave their troubled lives behind and return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.Written and directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Coogler, Sinners stars Jordan in a dual role, joined by Oscar nominee Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O’Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Omar Miller and Delroy Lindo.