Sinners, directed by Ryan Coogler, made Oscars history recently when it earned a record 16 Oscar nominations.

One for Best Supporting Actor went to Delroy Lindo, a 73-year-old, widely respected veteran, now receiving his first nomination.

Senior arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown met Lindo recently in New York for our arts and culture series, Canvas.

Go down, go down.

On a dirt road in Mississippi, three men come upon a chain gang.

One of them, Delta Slim, played by Delroy Lindo, exhorts the prisoners.

You're on your head now. Hear me?

Oh, you're here?

Oh, you're here?

Ah!

You move somewhere down?

How allowed them?

It's very specific.

A very particular community, Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1932, but it has, in my estimation, transcended itself and become much more universal.

Lindo is part of the extraordinary ensemble cast of sinners.

Part historical drama of race in the Jim Crow South,

part horror film complete with vampires, all bold filmmaking by director and writer Ryan Coogler.

In the lead, Michael B. Jordan, playing two roles. The Smokestack Twins returned to their

Mississippi Delta home,

determined to build a juke joint, alive with the blues and the musicians who play it,

Miles Caten's Sammy Moore, and Lindo's Delta Slim.

Blues, one foster on us, like that religion. We brought this with us home.

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