‘Sinners’ Actress Claims ICE Spoiled Her Oscar Nomination

“Sinners” actress Wunmi Mosaku claims she can’t enjoy her Oscar nomination because of ICE enforcing the law amid the protests and recent deaths of anti-ICE agitators. 

“I’ve not been able to celebrate because of what’s going on right now, with the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by ICE agents in Minnesota and the kidnapping of a five-year-old boy,” Mosaku told The Sunday Times in a recently published interview. “It’s difficult to hold both the nomination and the news because one feels beautiful and one is so dark and heavy; truly dystopian — how can I possibly go out and buy some drinks and enjoy the moment?”

“[My husband] is not as shocked as I am at the news,” the actress went on. “There’s a very strange American psyche where terrible things happen and people still can go to work the next day, whereas I’m floored for a week and think, ‘How are people going to crowded places when this has just happened?’ I want a cocoon. My reaction reminds him that this is not normal.”

Mosaku was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the 2026 Academy Awards. The Oscars, hosted by Conan O’Brien, will be held on March 15.

Many Hollywood stars have weighed in with their thoughts on the enforcement of immigration laws, with several showing up to events wearing anti-ICE buttons and making impassioned speeches.

Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny said during his Grammys acceptance speech: “Before I say thanks to God, I’m going to say: ICE out. We are not savage. We are not animals. We are not aliens. We are humans, and we are American.”

“Every day I think I’m not going to be shocked anymore and then I’m shocked,” actress Jamie Lee Curtis told Variety earlier this month, adding that she believes it’s an “abhorrence.”

“It’s just inhuman. It is inhuman the way this administration is treating its citizens and its constituents and people in need,” she said. “The ICE situation is out of control. It’s simply a distraction so that we don’t pay attention to the Epstein files.”

At Sundance Film Festival last month, “Don’t Worry Darling” actress Olivia Wilde suggested that ICE is a criminal organization.

“We can’t go another day accepting this as our new norm. It’s outrageous. People are being murdered, and I don’t want to normalize seeing that violence—on the internet or on film. It’s hideous. If we can do anything to support the movement to cast ICE out and delegitimize this criminal organization, then that’s what we should be doing,” she said at the time.

“Game of Thrones” actor Peter Dinklage recited an extremely cringeworthy poem dedicated to Renee Good, the anti-ICE activist killed by an ICE agent during an altercation in Minneapolis. Singer Bruce Springsteen released a protest song last month that included the lyric, “ICE out of Minneapolis.”