{"id":253517,"date":"2026-01-23T12:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T12:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/253517\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T12:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T12:19:08","slug":"delroy-lindo-was-in-bed-when-he-found-out-he-had-received-his-first-oscar-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/253517\/","title":{"rendered":"Delroy Lindo was in bed when he found out he had received his first Oscar nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"

British actor Delroy Lindo says he was “in bed” when his son rang to tell him he had been nominated for his first Oscar.<\/p>\n

The 73-year-old London-born star told the BBC’s Colin Patterson he “never” gave up hope of getting an Academy Award nod.<\/p>\n

Lindo was a surprise nomination for best supporting actor for his role in the Vampire horror film Sinners.<\/p>\n

Co-star Wunni Mosaku and Lindo are the only two British actors nominated this year, carrying the UK’s hopes at the ceremony next month.<\/p>\n

Read more: Vampire film Sinners breaks Oscar nominations record<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British actor Delroy Lindo says he was “in bed” when his son rang to tell him he had…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[458,146,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-253517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}