Michael B. Jordan won his first Oscar for his role in Sinners. He was just 12 years old when he started acting in television shows before landing his breakout role as Oscar Grant in Fruitvale Station, alongside budding director Ryan Coogler.
Jordan’s dual role as twin brothers, Smoke and Stack, earned him his first Oscar nomination and win, beating out stiff competition from Leonardo DiCaprio, Timothée Chalamet, Ethan Hawke, and Wagner Moura.
Michael B. Jordan and Coogler established themselves as an exceptional team, creating cinematic magic with subsequent blockbusters such as Creed, Black Panther, and their latest theatrical collaboration, Sinners, which garnered four out of 16 Oscar nominations.
The actor has joined an elite class of actors who have won the Best Actor Oscar. Prior to Jordan’s win, the Oscar had gone to the likes of Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Halle Berry, Sidney Poitier, Forest Whitaker, and his mentor, Denzel Washington.
Audiences and peers praised Jordan for embodying Smoke and Stack’s personalities so convincingly that even the cast believed Jordan was two separate people stepping into each scene, as Jordan switched between personalities and mannerisms to portray the complexity of the twin brothers.
Taking to the stage to accept his Academy Award, an overwhelmed Jordan thanked the “Sinners” cast and crew, his family, and those who came before him and reminded fans and the “Sinners” audience that it was they who pushed and supported him on the road to winning his first Oscar.
Jordan celebrated his Oscar win by making a stop at the California fast-food staple, In-N-Out, where he enjoyed a burger and fries and congratulations from ecstatic fans, whom he took pictures with, proudly holding the gold statue in hand.
