Michael B Jordan Wins Best Actor 98th Oscars Speech 2026

And the Oscar goes to Michael B. Jordan. Michael B. Jordan. God is good. God is good. And, um, yeah, mama, what's up? Y'all know how I feel about my mother and my father's here. Yeah, pops, where you at? My dad came in from Ghana. He flew in from Ghana to be here. My brother, my sister's here. My family. I want to thank Warner Brothers. I want to thank Mike and Pam for believing in this dream, this vision of Ryan Coogler. Embedding on a culture. Embedding on original ideas and original artistry. And you're an amazing, amazing person. I'm so honored to call you a collaborator and a friend. And you gave me the opportunity and space for me to be seen. And I love you too, bro. Love you to death. I would like to thank my incredible cast. Woonie, thank you so much for giving Smoke an opportunity to be him. Haley at home, you know, she's getting ready to have a baby right now. Thank you so much for being the other half of Stack. Miles, Delroy, Jamie, everybody. Lili, Omar, the entire cast. I thank you guys for supporting me through this. My team, Phil's son, Greg Slewett, Lindsey, Gatlin. Man, y'all. I stand here because of the people that came before me. Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Jamie Foxx, Forrest Whitaker, Will Smith. And to be amongst those giants, amongst those greats, amongst my ancestors, amongst my guys. Thank you everybody in this room and everybody at home for supporting me over my career. I feel it. I know you guys want me to do well. And I want to do that because you guys bet on me. So thank you for keeping, for keep betting on me. And I'm going to keep stepping up. And I'm going to keep being the best version of myself I can be. So I just want to say thank you for everybody in this room that has something to do with my success. I love you guys. And everybody at home who supported Sinners, who went to go see the movie once, twice, three, four, five times. Thank you. Because you guys made this movie what it is. I love you.