Rebecca Cohen is a breaking news reporter for NBC News Digital.
Michael B. Jordan just won his first Oscar for best actor and thanked director Ryan Coogler for honoring 'original ideas' in Hollywood. Jordan should perhaps receive two statuettes for his double role as Smoke and Stack in this year's 'Sinners,' a favorite at the box office and in the academy.
Jordan got a standing ovation as he took the stage, and he began his speech by shouting out his mom as well as his dad, who he said flew in from Ghana to see him win an Academy Award. He thanked Michael Payne 'for believing in this, this dream, this vision of Ryan Coogler's and betting on the culture and betting on original ideas and original artistry.' Jordan also called him an 'amazing person.' 'I'm so honored to call you a collaborator and a friend.' Jordan beat out Timothée Chalamet for 'Marty Supreme,' Leonardo DiCaprio for 'One Battle After Another,' Ethan Hawke for 'Blue Moon' and Wagner Moura for 'The Secret Agent.' The competition was neck and neck. Jordan, Chalamet, Hawke and Moura all would have been first-time winners in the category. Online prediction market Kalshi had Jordan in a strong lead as of Sunday before the show after Chalamet’s gaffe about preferred art forms sank his chances in the weeks leading up to the event. 'Sinners,' an action-thriller extravaganza, sets Jordan's characters on two sides of a vampire apocalypse, set in Mississippi in the 1930s. One must fight off the monsters, while the other has been turned. Jordan, in his speech, thanked the 'Sinners' cast, specifically calling out Hailee Steinfeld, Delroy Lindo, Jayme Lawson and Omar Benson Miller. Jordan rose to fame with in 2018's 'Black Panther' and cemented himself as a Hollywood mainstay with the movie's sequel, 'Wakanda Forever.' He also stars in the 'Creed' movies.
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