2025's 10/10 Horror Movie Sees Global Streaming Revival After Winning Major Awards

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With results for the 2026 awards season coming in, and the highly anticipated Oscar nominations set to be announced on January 22, Sinners has reemerged as a Top 10 movie on streaming. Ryan Coogler's vampire horror masterpiece is widely agreed to be one of the best movies of 2025, and is a frontrunner among the likely 2026 Best Picture nominees.

Sinners was a massive streaming hit when it was initially released on HBO Max this past summer. Now, as of today, January 14, Sinners has re-entered HBO Max's global Top 10 Movies charts at No. 9, per FlixPatrol. The action horror movie's biggest competitor for Best Picture, One Battle After Another, remains at No. 1, having more recently been released on the streaming platform.

Sinners is currently outpacing 2025's Jurassic World Rebirth, the box office hit starring Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, and Mahershala Ali. Movies falling behind One Battle After Another and ahead of the Sinners on the worldwide charts include the live-action How to Train Your Dragon, Clown in a Cornfield, Karate Kid: Legends, all also from 2025.

Sinners' crew and cast, which is led by Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O'Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, and Delroy Lindo, are on the awards circuit, having appeared in the Critics' Choice Awards and the Golden Globes in the last two weeks. Jordan, in particular, is known for his frequent and critically acclaimed collaborations with director Ryan Coogler.

Smoke, Stack and the others stand in the doorway of Club Juke looking grave in Sinners

Sinners won the key Best Casting and Ensemble award at Critics' Choice, acknowledging both casting director Francine Maisler and the performances by the entire cast. While Coogler did not get Best Director, nor did the movie win Best Picture (losing to One Battle After Another in both cases), Coogler won for Best Original Screenplay, Caton for Best Young Actor, and Ludwig Göransson for Best Score.

At the Golden Globes, Sinners again lost some of the top prizes to the fierce competition. While One Battle After Another was considered in the Comedy and Musical category, Hamnet ended up taking home Best Drama rather than Sinners, after Sinners was recognized overall with the Cinematic and Box Office Achievement award.

Paul Thomas Anderson was again named Best Director and, somewhat surprisingly, won Best Screenplay as well, while Sinners again won Best Score, and Jordan was nominated for Best Actor. Overall, most people probably would regard Sinners as one of the Top 3 movies of the awards season lineup, but it will likely lose several Oscars to the other Top 3 movies.

Sinners, however, may break the all-time Oscars record for the most nominations for one movie, according to some predictions. Sinners seeing a resurgence on streaming in the middle of awards season makes sense and helps it stay in the discussion, proving that enthusiasm for it hasn't gone anywhere.