Los Angeles, March 17 – Hollywood actor Jamie Foxx has expressed his admiration for Oscar-winning actor Michael B. Jordan. Foxx, who starred in ‘Django Unchained’, shared that he is incredibly proud of Jordan for his win at the Oscars.
The 58-year-old award-winning actor posted several messages on social media congratulating Jordan after Jordan thanked Foxx in his acceptance speech at the 2026 Oscars, according to ‘People’ magazine.
“I can barely breathe right now, you were absolutely incredible in this film,” Foxx wrote in the caption of an Instagram video, showing the moment Adrien Brody announced Jordan’s win for the Academy Award for Best Actor in ‘Sinners’. He praised Jordan as “an amazing actor, a truly amazing director, and all of the above”.
He further added, “Honestly, you deserve two Oscars for this. When I sat down to watch the movie, I already knew it was going to be special the moment I saw a pair of Jordans on screen. Then the first line, ‘Are you guys twins?’ and you hit us with, ‘No… we cousins’, man, I was hooked from there”.
According to ‘People’, in the film, directed by Ryan Coogler, Jordan played twins Smoke and Stack. Another post by Foxx was a clip of Jordan, who became the sixth Black man to win the Oscar for Best Actor in the ceremony’s 98-year history, onstage thanking those who came before him.
“I stand here because of the people who came before me, Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Halle Berry, Jamie Foxx, Forest Whitaker, Will Smith,” Jordan said during the televised event. "And to be amongst those giants, amongst those great 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 believe in me”.
Leonardo DiCaprio, Ethan Hawke, Timothee Chalamet, and Wagner Moura were also nominated for Best Actor.