Michael B. Jordan Brought His Mom as His Date to the Actor Awards

Emily BurackMon, March 2, 2026 at 12:26 AM UTC

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Michael B. Jordan Brings His Mom to Actor Awards Neilson Barnard - Getty Images

Michael B. Jordan has arrived at the Actor Awards in a gray double-breasted suit, with a very special date: His mom, Donna Jordan.

Donna and Michael on the red carpet. Neilson Barnard - Getty Images

He is nominated this evening for playing twins Elijah “Smoke” and Elias “Stack” Moore in Sinners, set in Jim Crow South in Mississippi in 1932. Jordan’s father’s family is from Hope, Arkansas and Shreveport, Louisiana. “You see them as old, your grandmother’s been old your entire life, but now you understand how they grew up,” he said. “Going down there to make this movie, I guess the thing that clicked was like, she was 20 once, and it was like we made a movie about my grandparents, and my great-grandparents, and my cousins, and what it was like for them, the circumstances of living in survival on a day-to-day basis.” He added, “I got an education through this process; the movie unlocked a bunch of things I took for granted or hadn’t dived that deeply into.”

In 2019, Jordan won his first Actor Award with the cast of Black Panther. Tonight, however, he is nominated for an individual acting award for the first time.

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Michael B. Jordan who won Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture with the Black Panther cast in 2019. John Shearer - Getty Images

Last weekend, Jordan and Sinners co-star Delroy Lindo became the center of a controversy at the BAFTAs. A racial slur, shouted by John Davidson, a man with Tourette’s, occurred when the two men went to present an award, and was not edited out of the broadcast. “Early in the ceremony a loud tic in the form of a profoundly offensive term was heard by many people in the room,” BAFTAs later said in a statement. “Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage at the time, and we apologise unreservedly to them, and to all those impacted. We would like to thank Michael and Delroy for their incredible dignity and professionalism.”

Davidson later said in an interview, “As I reflect on the auditorium, I remember there was a microphone just in front of me, and with hindsight I have to question whether this was wise, so close to where I was seated, knowing I would tic.” Jordan has not commented on what happened, though Lindo said he wishes “someone from BAFTA spoke to us afterwards.”

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