Ludwig Göransson wins Oscar for Best Original Score

This marks Göransson’s third Oscar win, as he has previously taken home Oscars for Black Panther and Oppenheimer. Other nominees included Jerskin Fendrix for Bugonia, Alexandre Desplat for Frankenstein, Max Richter for Hamnet, and Jonny Greenwood for One Battle After Another.

Sinners holds a record-breaking sixteen Academy Award nominations, including Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Picture. Earlier in the night, Miles Caton and Raphael Saadiq took to the stage to perform “I Lied To You” — which is also nominated for Best Original Song — and were joined by the likes of Eric Gales, Buddy Guy, Brittany Howard, and more, to recreate the film’s iconic juke joint performance.

“My dad bought his first blues album in Sweden, 1964. It was a John Lee Hooker album, and even though it was on the other side of the world in a place my dad had never been, and a place he could not relate to, the music was so powerful that it changed my dad’s life and he devoted his whole life to music,” Göransson reflects in his acceptance speech.

“When I was about seven years old, a little boy, he put a guitar in my arms and I loved the guitar. It became everything to me. It was the guitar that opened up a lot of doors for and it was the guitar that brought me over to the States. It was the guitar that eventually led me to one of the greatest storytellers of our time: Ryan Coogler. Ryan, thank you for your vision and making a movie that resonated with the whole world. Thank you.”