{"id":532103,"date":"2026-03-19T04:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T04:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/532103\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T04:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T04:07:11","slug":"michael-b-jordan-nabs-first-oscar-breaking-34-year-old-trend-for-horror-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/532103\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael B. Jordan Nabs First Oscar, Breaking 34-Year-Old Trend for Horror Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After long impressing critics with his performances on the big screen, <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt31193180\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sinners<\/a> star <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0430107\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael B. Jordan<\/a> is now officially an Oscar-winning actor. He landed a major victory at the Academy Awards, breaking a 34-year trend for horror movie actors in the process.<\/p>\n<p>On Mar. 15, Jordan won the Oscar for Best Actor for his dual roles as Smoke and Stack in last year&#8217;s hit movie <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt31193180\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sinners<\/a>. He was among the frontrunners for the Academy Award, as <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm17515965\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sinners<\/a> had more nominations than any other movie at the event. His win puts him in an exclusive club as one of only two actors to ever win Best Actor at the Oscars for a role in a horror film,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After long impressing critics with his performances on the big screen, Sinners star Michael B. Jordan is now&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1508,1509,4,450,236,1510,954,451,1506,206,3,1507,1505,452,453,92],"class_list":["post-532103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-headlines","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}