‘Black Panther’s Ryan Coogler Says Directing ‘Sinners’ Helped Him Defeat “Impostor Syndrome”

I recently spoke with Ryan Coogler after he landed his first Golden Globe nomination for Best Director – a huge moment for him! The ceremony is on January 11th, 2026, where he’ll be competing with some incredible filmmakers like Paul Thomas Anderson and Guillermo del Toro. He admitted to me that, surprisingly, he went into making Sinners filled with a lot of self-doubt. It’s fascinating to hear that even someone with his talent questioned himself going into such a project.


![The study demonstrates complementarity between pseudoscalar meson decay and axion-like particle (ALP) contributions to missing-proton-energy events at an Electron-Ion Collider, with sensitivity bounds defined in the [latex]\{g_{a\chi}, f_{a}^{-1}\}[/latex] plane for ALP masses of 0.25 GeV (solid curves) and 1 GeV (dashed curves), assuming negligible background.](https://arxiv.org/html/2601.00068v1/x4.png)



