‘Twilight’ Meets ‘Goodfellas’ in the Vampire Super-Hit Taking Over HBO Max

As the race for the 2027 Academy Awards continues to gather momentum, much of the talk surrounds a particularly tight Best Actor competition. Andrew Scott, for his stunning turn in the devastating drama Elsinore, and John Malkovich, for his arguably career-best work in Martin McDonagh‘s Wild Horse Nine, are the favorites to leave the ceremony with the Golden Statue, but plenty of other names are also in the running.

This includes Matt Damon, who is sure to be one of many nominations from Christopher Nolan‘s epic adaptation of Homer‘s The Odyssey; Robert Pattinson, who is predicted to pick up a nomination for his lead role in Primetime; Sebastian Stan, who led the way in the Palme d’Or winner, Fjord; and Tom Cruise, who defied the movie’s poor critical reception by earning acclaim for his lead role in Digger. As the battle to become the next Best Actor continues, the winner of the award at this year’s ceremony is back among the streaming elite.

At the time of writing, Sinners is one of the most-watched movies on HBO Max in the U.S., a list topped by a 2027 Oscars contender, The Invite. Sinners won a total of four awards at the 98th ceremony, with Autumn Durald Arkapaw winning Best Cinematography, Coggler winning Best Original Screenplay, and Ludwig Göransson, unsurprisingly, winning Best Original Score. Thanks to a PR nightmare from Timothée Chalamet, Jordan defied the odds and took home Best Actor in a win celebrated and appreciated worldwide. A twisted horror crime thriller combination of Twilight and Goodfellas, Sinners follows Jordan as two twin brothers who move back to their hometwon to open a juke joint, only to receive a not-so-friendly visit from a charismatic vampire.

• The first film not in the English language to win Best Picture, in the Academy’s
  92-year history to that point.
• It took four Oscars in one night: Picture, Director, Original Screenplay and International
  Feature.
• It won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2019 by a unanimous jury vote, the first Korean film
  to do so.
• The Park family’s modernist house was not a location. It was built from scratch on an
  outdoor lot.

• Seven Oscars, including three acting wins for Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan and Jamie Lee
  Curtis.
• Michelle Yeoh became the first Asian woman to win Best Actress.
• The visual effects were handled by a team of fewer than ten people, most of them
  self-taught.
• Ke Huy Quan had all but left acting for two decades before this role brought him back.

• Seven Oscars, including Nolan’s first wins for directing and for Best Picture.
• Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr. both took their first Academy Awards for it.
• Kodak engineered a black-and-white 65mm stock that did not previously exist so Nolan could
  shoot those sequences on IMAX.
• A three-hour, R-rated drama about theoretical physics that passed 950 million dollars
  worldwide.

• Four Oscars, among them Best Picture and Best Director for Iñárritu.
• Emmanuel Lubezki’s win here was the middle of three consecutive cinematography Oscars,
  after Gravity and before The Revenant.
• Antonio Sánchez’s improvised drum score was ruled ineligible for the score category,
  which caused a minor uproar.
• The long-take illusion was built from a handful of extended shots joined by hidden cuts.

• Four Oscars: Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, and Supporting Actor for Javier Bardem.
• Adapted from Cormac McCarthy’s 2005 novel, with much of his dialogue carried over
  intact.
• Carter Burwell’s score runs about sixteen minutes and is nearly inaudible by design.
• Roger Deakins was nominated twice that year, for this and The Assassination of Jesse James,
  and won for neither.

Was ‘Sinners’ a Box Office Hit?

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So Sinners was one of the most critically successful movies of last year, but could it replicate its triumph at the box office? The answer is yes, with the beloved vampire film turning a reported budget of $90 million into a global haul of $369 million, split between $280 million in domestic revenue and a further $89 million from overseas markets. This was enough for Sinners to be one of the 20 highest-grossing movies of 2025 worldwide, as well as becoming the highest-grossing original film of the decade in North America.

Sinners is currently one of the most-watched movies on HBO Max in the U.S. Make sure to stay tuned to Collider for all the latest streaming stories.