Michael B. Jordan

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1987 age 0

   Born

2. 2012 age 25

   CreditChronicle

3. 2015 age 28

   CreditCreed

   CreditFantastic Four

4. 2018 age 31

   CreditBlack Panther

   CreditCreed II

5. 2021 age 34

   CreditSpace Jam: A New Legacy

6. 2023 age 36

   CreditCreed III

   CreditCreed IIIdirector

   CreditCreed IIIproducer

7. 2025 age 38

   CreditSinners

• RCRyan Coogler6 titles
• WHWood Harris4 titles
• LGLudwig Göransson4 titles
• TTTessa Thompson3 titles
• SSSylvester Stallone3 titles
• SOSev Ohanian3 titles
• PRPhylicia Rashad3 titles
• MSMichael P. Shawver2 titles
• IWIrwin Winkler2 titles
• MJMatthew Jensen2 titles

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• To be young, Black and successful — and disruptive — in this industry, there’s a certain navigation to get to the place I need to get to. This is the most open that things have been for somebody who’s in favor right now, and you try to hold that moment and stay in it for as long as you can.

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• My ambition has intersected at this moment where I have the experience and knowledge to direct, the opportunity within a franchise to step behind the camera and [the ability] to maximize it by having a production company. It’s my turn to make my impact while I have the energy and strength. I’ve got to tee up the ones that come after, but at the same time hyper-focus on what needs to be done right now. It’s the moment I’ve waited for my entire life. This is it. This can dictate the next 10, 15, 20 years.

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• There are roles that I passed on that I knew I didn’t have enough life experience to play. I was like, ‘What can I pull from?’. But I finally found what love was.

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• When I was younger, I don’t know if I could have handled the onslaught of opinions and being picked apart, and also being conscious of what the other person’s going to go through. It takes a special person to deal with that.

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• When you walk in my room, you can’t look in one direction without seeing storyboards everywhere. When I’m literally in the depths of the room in the far dark corner, I can play this game. Because if I were to play it out here, I would be looking around, like, ‘What am I doing? I’m playing a video game when I should be doing other things.’

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• I’m always willing to prove myself. When you come from where I come from, and everybody doesn’t get those opportunities and breaks — that luck, or whatever — you start to question why you’re getting the things that you get. Why am I successful in life? Or why did I go this way, and everybody went that way? That builds up on you after a while.

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