{"id":317341,"date":"2026-03-02T04:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T04:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/317341\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T04:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T04:45:07","slug":"michael-b-jordan-wins-best-actor-for-sinners-at-2026-actor-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/317341\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael B. Jordan Wins Best Actor for ‘Sinners’ at 2026 Actor Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMichael B. Jordan<\/a> won the Actor Award for best actor on Sunday night for his role in Sinners<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tJordan, who stars as twins in Ryan Coogler\u2019s Warner Bros. film, hugged his mother and took to the stage to accept the award. \u201cI wasn\u2019t expecting that. I\u2019m so honored and privileged to be nominated in categories with people and actors and humans that I love, and I love their work and what they contribute to our craft and just rise to has been unbelievable,\u201d he said. So, thank you for welcoming me in and making me feel seen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 39-year-old continued to address the crowd, saying, \u201cI remember watching all the other actors that I looked up to being a part of that club community, and I was like, Man, I want to do that one day. So I remember when I got my SAG-AFTRA card, I was like, \u2018Man, I\u2019m like an entry level member and those guys that were on stage with the awards<\/a> and the nice places like that, that\u2019s what I always wanted. And that kid from North New Jersey is standing here right now. Mom, thank you for driving me back and forth to New York, when we didn\u2019t have enough money to go through the Holland Tunnel.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the 2026 Actor Awards<\/a> (formerly known as the SAG Awards<\/a>), Jordan was nominated alongside<\/a> Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon), Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet (Marty Supreme), Jesse Plemons (Bugonia) and Leonardo DiCaprio (One Battle After Another), who did not attend the ceremony because he is currently filming Martin Scorsese\u2019s What Happens at Night, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tJordan\u2019s win marks his first win at the Actor Awards. Last year, Chalamet took home the prize for best actor for playing Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn Chalamet\u2019s speech, which quickly went viral<\/a>, he said he wanted to be one of the greats. \u201cI know we\u2019re in a subjective business, but the truth is I\u2019m really in pursuit of greatness. I know people don\u2019t usually talk like that, but I want to be one of the greats. I\u2019m inspired by the greats,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m as inspired by Daniel Day-Lewis, Marlon Brando and Viola Davis as I am by Michael Jordan, Michael Phelps, and I want to be up there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tUp next, Jordan is nominated at the Oscars<\/a> on March 15 for best actor. This is also his first Academy Award nomination. <\/p>\n

\n\tShortly after Jordan found out he scored a nod, he spoke with THR<\/a> about what the recognition meant to him and who the first person he called was.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMy mom was my first call. It was great. A lot of tears and the reason why I\u2019m even in this industry and why I\u2019m acting at all \u2014 why that was even an idea. To talk to the woman who started it all first meant the world,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\n\tHe also shared his reaction to Sinners being the most nominated film of all time with 16 noms. \u201cIt\u2019s really a testament to the film as a whole and all the pieces involved and the people that went to go see this movie and watched this film,\u201d Jordan said. \u201cIt meant something to them and they felt something \u2014 to see how it resonated throughout the year with people, man.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 32nd annual Actor Awards was held at the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall in Los Angeles with Kristen Bell as the host. See the full list of 2026 Actor Awards winners here<\/a> and all of the red carpet arrivals here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael B. Jordan won the Actor Award for best actor on Sunday night for his role in Sinners.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[83291,157857,1096,146,85,46,64424,83293,68617],"class_list":["post-317341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-actor-awards","tag-actor-awards-2026","tag-awards","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-michael-b-jordan","tag-sag-awards","tag-sinners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317341","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=317341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}