Why I’m Predicting Ryan Coogler Will Win the Best Director Oscar: If 16 Nominations for ‘Sinners’ Aren’t Enough, What Will Be?

The numbers say Paul Thomas Anderson. History says it’s time for Ryan Coogler. That tension that exists between what the statistical evidence suggests and what nearly a century of omission demands defines this year’s best director race. It’s a reality the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences cannot sidestep, not at this moment and […]

By Clayton Davis