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Los Angeles, Feb 26 (IANS) Filmmaker Ryan Coogler’s ‘Sinners’ has emerged as a cultural force, earning a record-breaking 16 Oscar nominations. For nearly a century, the Academy has handed out the best director award without ever placing it in the hands of a Black filmmaker. This year that streak, long reduced to a footnote, may move from the margins of history to the center, and Ryan Coogler is the reason, reports ‘Variety’.Ryan Coogler’s directing nod makes the 39-year-old Oakland n…