{"id":221557,"date":"2026-03-16T03:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T03:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/221557\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T03:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T03:23:08","slug":"michael-b-jordan-wins-oscar-for-sinners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/221557\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael B. Jordan wins Oscar for ‘Sinners’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Michael B. Jordan is a first-time Academy Award winner. <\/p>\n

The \u201cSinners\u201d star won the lead actor Oscar for his dual roles as Smoke and Stack in Ryan Coogler\u2019s Southern Gothic horror film, which received a record 16 Oscar nominations<\/a> including best picture. <\/p>\n

With his win, Jordan became the first performer in more than half a century to top the lead actor category for playing twins. Lee Marvin previously won for portraying twin gunfighters Kid Shelleen and Tim Strawn in the 1965 western spoof \u201cCat Ballou.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI stand here because of the people that came before me,\u201d Jordan said as he accepted the honor Sunday evening, citing venerated Black actors including Denzel Washington. <\/p>\n

\u201cThank you, everybody in this room and everybody at home for supporting me on my career,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Jordan beat out competitors Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet (\u201cMarty Supreme\u201d), Leonardo DiCaprio (\u201cOne Battle After Another\u201d), Ethan Hawke (\u201cBlue Moon\u201d) and Wagner Moura (\u201cThe Secret Agent\u201d) for the award. For the majority of the Oscars race, awards prognosticators concurred that Chalamet was headed for victory, but convictions wavered after Jordan notched a surprise win at the Actor Awards \u2014 to Viola Davis\u2019 great delight<\/a>. <\/p>\n

In preparation to play the prodigal twins in \u201cSinners,\u201d Jordan told The Times<\/a> that he trained with dialect coach Beth McGuire, who also worked on Coogler\u2019s \u201cBlack Panther\u201d and its sequel, \u201cBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI locked myself away and we did some chakra work and explored how childhood trauma manifested itself physically with these guys \u2014 the way they speak, the cadence, how they rest,\u201d Jordan described of the training process. \u201cI started to feel subtle differences as I shifted between Smoke and Stack. It\u2019s crazy because sometimes I\u2019d look in the mirror and say, \u2018Wow, I don\u2019t see myself at all.\u2019 That\u2019s when you know you\u2019re moving in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n

The twins\u2019 differences even trickled down to their footwear, Jordan said. While the calculated Smoke sports a slightly oversized shoe that keeps him slow-moving, Stack wears a too-tight shoe that represents his inability to sit still. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s how he coped with his trauma,\u201d the actor said, \u201cthrough his slick talk and smiling and laughing and going from one thing to the next because he wanted to f\u2014 move on from the pain like it didn\u2019t happen.\u201d<\/p>\n