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Michael B. Jordan has won the first Oscar of his career, taking home the lead actor statue for playing twin brothers Smoke and Stack in the supernatural thriller “Sinners.”
His victory makes him the sixth Black man to triumph in the lead actor category.
This was Jordan’s first Oscar nomination.
Actor Michael B. Jordan
He became the late-breaking frontrunner in the category. Jordan was up against Timothee Chalamet (“Marty Supreme”), Leonardo DiCaprio (“One Battle After Another”) Ethan Hawke (“Blue Moon”) and Wagner Moura (“The Secret Agent”), after scoring a key victory at the Actor Awards, formerly known as the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Prior to that ceremony, he had lost the BAFTA to Robert Aramayo of “I Swear,” the Golden Globe to Moura and the Critics’ Choice to Chalamet.
