Michael B Jordan wins best actor Oscar for Sinners

Jordan is the sixth black actor to take the award – and the first person to take the prize for portraying twins Michael B Jordan has won the best actor Oscar for Sinners at the 98th Academy Awards. This is Jordan’s first Oscar, for which he triumphed over a strong field including Timothée Chalamet for Marty Supreme, Ethan Hawke for Blue Moon and Leonardo DiCaprio for One Battle After Another. “God is good,” said Jordan on stage. “God is good.” He then addressed his mother, with whom he had been sitting in the stalls, and shouted out to the rest of his family, sitting elsewhere. Of Coogler, with whom Jordan has collaborated five times, he said he was “so honoured to to call you a collaborator and a friend and a give me an opportunity and space for me to be seen. I love you too, bro.” Jordan, 39, joins a distinguished list of black actors who have won the best actor award; he is the sixth in a list that includes Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland in 2007, Denzel Washington for Training Day in 2002 and Sidney Poitier for Lilies of the Field in 1964. He cited the men who had come before him, which also includes Will Smith and Jamie Foxx, and thanked “everybody in this room a