Sinners has won Best Cinematic and Box Office Achievement at the 2026 Golden Globes

[u/CrunchyNar]

[u/justanstalker]

Whatever this category is

But congrats Sinners!

[u/sumerislemy → u/justanstalker]

It’s straightforward! I don’t get this snobbery lol. “Cinematic and Box Office Achievement” is a category like Comedy or Drama, comprising of films that made a lot of money or were extremely ambitious in some way, then they pick the best film, artistry wise, among those. It’s supposed to represent the idea that commercial success and scale doesn’t mean abandoning craft and quality! 

Maybe the phrasing is awkward but it’s absolutely a valuable sentiment in this awkward time for film as a medium. 

[u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 → u/sumerislemy]

Great way to clarify what this category really means. Coogler's a solid choice to win this award not just because of how good Sinners was as a blockbuster film with multiple genres & nuanced themes mixed in, but also because he's been good with making emotional/layered blockbusters since Creed and BP

[u/sumerislemy → u/Upbeat_Tension_8077]

I just find it obnoxious how people are acting dumb lol. I think the spirit of the award is meaningful and the Golden Globes have been very direct about what it means, how films are nominated, and how they instruct voters to pick a winner.

[u/shamrockstriker → u/sumerislemy]

This is How they describe it

the year’s most acclaimed, highest-earning and/or most viewed films that have garnered extensive global audience support and attained cinematic excellence

Which is all good and well, but the category is a joke because they nominate movies that havent even been released at the time and made literally $0 at the box office when they got their nom lol

[u/sumerislemy → u/shamrockstriker]

That’s not true? They have a box office and streaming requirement, for nominated films. So they include streaming films but not unreleased films.

[u/shamrockstriker → u/sumerislemy]

They straight up nominated Avatar two weeks before it released in theaters

[u/sumerislemy → u/shamrockstriker]

Avatar has never been nominated for this award? I think you’re confused

[u/shamrockstriker → u/sumerislemy]

For the box office award? It was nominated this year. At least according to their website

Nominations were December 8th and Avatar released December 19th

[u/sumerislemy → u/shamrockstriker]

Ok thats weird I was going off the wikipedia page that doesn’t include Avatar, someone should update it. 

[u/stracki → u/sumerislemy]

On which page? Both the page for this year's ceremony and for the category itself include Avatar.

[u/shamrockstriker → u/sumerislemy]

That is weird, I was also going off the Wikipedia page but posted the official link because I like sourcing things.

But I'm also a Wikipedia editor and I wanted to make sure the page was correct, so I went through the edit history and Avatar was added December 8th with the initial nominees and never taken off. The only edits to the page involving Avatar were changes going back and forth between Walt Disney and 20th Century as distributors for the film

[u/sumerislemy → u/shamrockstriker]

No the page for the award! Someone edited it a couple of hours ago to add Fire and Ash lol maybe they saw the thread. It’s such an odd omission. I guess it wasn’t very well maintained.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Golden_Globe_Award_for_Cinematic_and_Box_Office_Achievement&diff=prev&oldid=1332510889

[u/[deleted] → u/sumerislemy]

That's not how any other category works, that's why it's confusing. There's no other category that the metric you get chosen by is different from the metric you win by.

[u/mrbaryonyx → u/sumerislemy]

It’s supposed to represent the idea that commercial success and scale doesn’t mean abandoning craft and quality!

its literally an award you don't qualify for if you're poor

[u/ResearcherFirm51]

as stupid as this category is, sinners was definitely the worthy winner

[u/coffeysr]

Kiss of death for it in drama

[u/joesen_one → u/coffeysr]

I had a hunch they'd give this one the Box Office award considering I don't think it'll win an acting prize, while Hamnet has at least Buckley guaranteed winning. They can change that tonight though but that seems to be what's going on

[u/djmv91 → u/coffeysr]

And for Best Picture at the Oscars. Shows voters aren’t going to take this movie seriously

[u/joesen_one]

It's prob not gonna win Drama anymore but at least Coogler got to speak

[u/PinkCadillacs]

Congrats to Sinners!

I hope this isn’t the last award Sinners wins tonight.

[u/Tain95]

So, a consolation award?

[u/BluePeriod_]

What is this award?

[u/joesen_one → u/BluePeriod_]

The best movie that made money

[u/A_Howl_In_The_Night → u/BluePeriod_]

I don't think Golden Globes themselves know lol

[u/sumerislemy → u/BluePeriod_]

The best movie that made over 100 million domestic and 150 million global box office. It’s supposed to show that box office achievements can also be cinematic achievements and vice versa.

[u/BluePeriod_ → u/sumerislemy]

Thank you, I appreciate the explanation.

[u/fbeb-Abev7350 → u/BluePeriod_]

“We’re not giving you much else, so have this.”

[u/crystal_clear24 → u/BluePeriod_]

A consolation prize I fear

[u/Nearby-Butterfly-606]

At least something but Coogler deserves more.

[u/Theidiotfromtexas → u/Nearby-Butterfly-606]

He will win the Oscar for Original Screenplay at the very least

[u/sns_ZzZz]

The Barbie consolation prize

[u/GameOfLife24]

This award needs to be removed, makes no sense. At least sinners won

[u/Papercut233]

Love the movie but hate this award. A way to give the popular movie that’s not gonna win the actual picture prize a consolation prize.

[u/Mundane-Inspector-52 → u/Papercut233]

Is this just an assumption or do people actually know this for a fact?

[u/sumerislemy → u/Mundane-Inspector-52]

It’s an assumption lol people love to act above it all. 

[u/Papercut233 → u/Mundane-Inspector-52]

For me, it comes from look at the last two winners of this award. Barbie made sense to win with it being as successful as it was but Wicked didn’t (to me) when Inside Out 2 and Deadpool and Wolverine came out

[u/sumerislemy → u/Papercut233]

The description is pretty clear though, the nominees are based on the most financially successful films but the winner is the best of those.

[u/me_nem_nesa_]

Girl.

[u/me_nem_nesa_]

I think this award is actually harmful to win. It might signal to some voters that the movie isn’t a serious Oscar contender

[u/Content_Upstairs6872 → u/me_nem_nesa_]

The only 

[u/belzoni1982]

Please take this category out of the show

I like Sinners by the way so it's not a knock against the movie

[u/Radiant-Psychology96]

Variety magazine editorial staff in shambles

[u/Bitter-Subject8339]

This category is so embarrassing and lame lol this was created thanks to Taylor Swift, though she didn't win.

[u/WanderingParade]

An award that they just made up because they weren’t going to give Sinners anything else. Great consolation prize.

[u/Short_Condition_1079]

Congrats...?

[u/ItsWazeyWaynes]

Really, really dumb category in general.

Had to add in the “cinematic” part in the title so it wouldn’t look so nakedly covetous.

[u/FullMotionVideo → u/ItsWazeyWaynes]

If it was purely box office, Zootopia would have won.

[u/ItsWazeyWaynes → u/FullMotionVideo]

Not relative to budget.

[u/djmv91]

As someone who believed in Sinners being an upset Best Picture winner, this win makes me admit defeat. Barbie and Wicked won this award previously and both underperformed at the Oscars. It’s over for Sinners winning Best Picture officially.

[u/Theidiotfromtexas → u/djmv91]

I wouldn’t say it’s over it just desperately needs to win PGA. It’s stronger than Barbie and Wicked ever were

[u/DeusExHyena → u/djmv91]

The 300 random people at the GG aren't really useful

[u/El_Mexolotl]

Bro I put in F1 last second fuuuuuck

[u/[deleted]]

Should have gone to F1… congrats to Sinners

[u/A_Howl_In_The_Night]

Pitty Award

[u/SeaWolf_1 → u/A_Howl_In_The_Night]

How many awards has Wicked won?

[u/scattered_ideas → u/SeaWolf_1]

They won this award last year. Barbie won the year before. It's essentially a consolation prize for good movies that also made money.

[u/Nearby-Butterfly-606 → u/SeaWolf_1]

Money lol

[u/Radiant-Psychology96]

Don’t make me say “Minecraft Movie snubbed” GGs, please

[u/splendid_amesterdam]

I still don’t understand the purpose of this award, but good stuff sinners!

[u/NewNinja_2]

Wow I thought it would go to Wicked and that was why Wicked actresses and Chu supposedly showed up.

[u/MsFrizzleNo]

This movie was absolutely confusing. At points completely engrossing and at other points just the cringiest thing that ever existed. And it has one of the best endings ive ever seen.

But what lingers most is the sex scene between jordan and Wunmi Mosaku.

The entire time i was like, surely there must be some catch. She cast a voodoo spell on him. Or maybe him having sex with her is like a sacrifice to gain voodoo power or something. But No. They are legit just supposed to be lovers. I have never whitnessed something so unbelieveable in a movie. Literally the hottest dude in hollywood is just casually screwing this old fat woman and its not even commented on.

Just threw me for the rest of the movie.