Michael B. Jordan Says His Best Actor Oscar Is Currently Living in His Closet
Michael B. Jordan has not figured out where to put his Oscar. And honestly? Fair.
More than a month after taking home Best Actor at the 2026 Academy Awards for Ryan Coogler's "Sinners," the 39-year-old actor told E! News at the premiere of his new Netflix animated film "Swapped" on Sunday that the trophy is not on a mantel, not in a trophy case, and not lit on a pedestal. It's in his closet.
"Right now, it's in my closet," Jordan told E! News's Erin Lim Rhodes at the Netflix Tudum Theater in Los Angeles April 26. "It's in my closet right now."
He's Tested Out a Few Spots
Jordan said he has experimented with placement around the house, but nothing has felt quite right. "It's one of those things that…I don't know," he explained. "You don't really know where to put it, you know? So it's kind of moved around to a bunch of different places."
The bigger reason the Oscar is still in limbo? His attention has already moved on. "It's off," Jordan said, gesturing with his hands to indicate his win is no longer top of mind.
Jordan won Best Actor on March 15 for his performance in "Sinners" — the role widely considered the defining work of his career so far. His acceptance speech leaned hard on gratitude. "Thank you, everybody in this room and everybody at home, for supporting me over my career. I feel it," he said from the stage. "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 keep betting on me. I'm gonna keep stepping up, and I'm gonna keep being the best version of myself I can be."
He took a moment to acknowledge his parents, Donna Jordan and Michael A. Jordan, from the stage. "Y'all know how I feel about my mother, and my father's here. My dad came in from Ghana to be here."
Plenty of Oscar winners have admitted to creative storage solutions. Jamie Foxx has said his manager keeps his 2004 "Ray" Oscar at his own house because Foxx's place gets "too much traffic." Jennifer Hudson's 2007 "Dreamgirls" trophy sits on its own lit pedestal — and no, you cannot touch it. Lupita Nyong'o said hers is just "on a shelf on its own." Viola Davis said her husband Julius Tennon insisted hers go in their office, even though she'd have preferred to leave it in the garage "to keep me humble."
Jordan, for his part, just isn't ready to commit. The closet, for now, is doing the work.
