In 2025's supernatural horror, Sinners, Michael B. Jordan earned himself an Oscar for playing the dual roles of identical twin brothers, 'Smoke' and 'Stack Moore', who return to their hometown in the Jim Crow South. After working for the Chicago mob, they come back and open a juke joint for the local Black community in the 1932 Mississippi Delta, but one night vampires come a-calling. In Director Ryan Coogler's film, Wunmi Mosaku plays 'Annie', Smoke's estranged wife and a Hoodoo practitioner who uses her knowledge of herbs to physically and spiritually protect her community.
Annie movie costume worn by Wunmi Mosaku
in Sinners
This screen-worn costume was photographed on display at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on October 4, 2026 (although, jewelry, belt and shoes shown here are non-original).
Ruth E. Carter is Costumer Designer on Ryan Coogler's horror and the legendary artist was nominated for an Academy Award for her designs.
Interestingly whilst main cast members received custom looks for their characters, background extras and large ensemble cast crowds wore repurposed 1920s and 1930s period garments gathered for Marvel Studio's planned, but aborted, Blade movie reboot.
Co-chairs and CEOs of Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy, really helped champion films like Sinners and Weapons, helping to bring new, original stories to the big screen. With their departure after the Paramount-Skydance merger, and now with James Gunn and Peter Safran out at DC Studios, you have to wonder if we'll get a lot less original films and shows, and more unoriginal content designed to appeal to mass audiences.
Anyway, be sure to check out more of Ruth E. Carter's costume designs on display, from films like Black Panther, Wakanda Forever, Coming 2 America, Dolemite Is My Name and Selma, to name a few.
Sinners movie poster
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