The 2026 Golden Globe nominations dropped Monday, and if you look hard enough, Mississippi is written all over the list.

Delta-based “Sinners” is one of the leading blockbusters heading into the annual TV and film awards. While the Jim Crow-era vampire flick was actually filmed in Louisiana, it’s set in Clarksdale. Ryan Coogler, who is up for best director, drew from his family history to create the film’s plot. His uncle was born in Mississippi, and according to Coogler, would often tell the now-filmmaker when he was growing up about the history of blues music and what he experienced living in a racially divided South.

“He would get off work and all he’d want to do is listen to old blues records and drink Old Taylor Whiskey,” Coogler recounted in an interview on the Filmmaker Toolkit po

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