Sinners was saintly at the 2026 Black Reel Awards, dominating with a record 14 wins Monday including Outstanding Film, Director and Screenplay along with all three acting categories. See the full list below.

The smash Warner Bros film’s Ryan Coogler tied Gina Prince-Bythewood for the most directing Bolts and joined Jordan Peele (Get Out) and Cord Jefferson (American Fiction) as the only producing-writing-directing triple winners for the same movie. Its sweep of the acting races by Michael B. Jordan (Lead), Wunmi Mosaku (Supporting) and Miles Caton (Breakthrough) was the first since the categories were restructured. Jordan is the third person to win two Bolts for Lead Actor, following Denzel Washington, Chiwetel Ejiofor and the late Chadwick Boseman.

The 14 wins for Sinners beat the Bolts record of 10 set by Black Panther at the 19th Black Reel Awards in 2019. The film’s Autumn Durald Arkapaw became the first woman to win Outstanding Cinematography, Hannah Beachler extended her record with a third win for Outstanding Production Design, and Ludwig Göransson made Black Reels history as the first person to win Outstanding Score and Original Song (“I Lied to You”) in the same year. The latter was shared by Caton, who performed the song, giving him two wins.

There were two other double winners at the 26th annual Bolts: Geeta Gandbhir took Outstanding Documentary for The Perfect Neighbor and Short Film for The Devil Is Busy, while R.T. Thorne won Outstanding Independent Film and Emerging Director for 40 Acres. Both made Black Reels history with those achievements.

Elsewhere, Avatar: Fire & Ash star Zoe Saldaña became the first female actor to win two career Bolts for Outstanding Voice Performance, and Paul Tazewell joined Black Panther‘s Ruth E. Carter as the only multiple winners for Costume Design.

Here are the winners at the 26th annual Black Reel Awards, followed by a list of wins by film:

OUTSTANDING FILM
Sinners
Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian, Ryan Coogler, producers

OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR
Ryan Coogler
Sinners

OUTSTANDING LEAD PERFORMANCE
Michael B. Jordan
Sinners

OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Wunmi Mosaku
Sinners

OUTSTANDING SCREENPLAY
Ryan Coogler
Sinners

OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY
The Perfect Neighbor
Geeta Gandbhir, director

OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE
Sinners
Francine Maisler, casting director

OUTSTANDING INTERNATIONAL FILM
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
Zambia, UK, Ireland

OUTSTANDING VOICE PERFORMANCE
Zoe Saldana
Avatar: Fire and Ash

OUTSTANDING SCORE
Sinners
Ludwig Göransson, composer

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SONG
“I Lied to You” from Sinners
Miles Caton, performer
Raphael Saadiq & Ludwig Göransson, writers

OUTSTANDING SOUNDTRACK
Sinners

OUTSTANDING INDEPENDENT FILM
40 Acres
R.T. Thorne, director

OUTSTANDING INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY
We Were Here – The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe
Fred Kudjo Kuwornu, director

OUTSTANDING SHORT FILM
The Devil is Busy
Geeta Gandbhir & Christalyn Hampton, directors

OUTSTANDING EMERGING DIRECTOR
R.T. Thorne
40 Acres

OUTSTANDING BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
Miles Caton
Sinners

OUTSTANDING FIRST SCREENPLAY
Syreeta Singleton
One of Them Days

OUTSTANDING CINEMATOGRAPHY
Autumn Durald Arkapaw
Sinners

OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN
Paul Tazewell
Wicked: For Good

OUTSTANDING EDITING
Michael P. Shawver
Sinners

OUTSTANDING HAIR & MAKEUP
Ken Diaz, Mike Fontaine, Sian Richards & Shunika Terry
Sinners

OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION DESIGN
Hannah Beachler, production designer; Monique Champagne, set decorator
Sinners

Wins by Film

Sinners – 14
40 Acres – 2
Avatar: Fire & Ash – 1
The Devil Is Busy – 1
On Becoming A Guinea Fowl – 1
One Of Them Days -1
The Perfect Neighbor – 1
We Were Here: The Untold Story of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe – 1
Wicked: For Good – 1