Michael B. Jordan, the Fruitvale Station, Creed, Black Panther and Sinners star who has become one of Hollywood’s most influential multihyphenates, will receive the 39th American Cinematheque Award. The honor will be bestowed in a ceremony November 20 at the Beverly Hilton.

The news comes as amid the success of Sinners, the Warner Bros vampire horror film that represents Jordan’s fifth collaboration with Ryan Coogler, after both arrived on the scene with 2013’s Sundance Film Festival hit Fruitvale Station.

Sinners has made $319 million at the global box office, making it a major pre-summer success story, as he turns next to The Thomas Crown Affair, in which he is directing, starring and producing via his Outlier Society banner for Amazon MGM Studios. It follows his directing debut on Creed III in 2023 which set multiple box office records including becoming the biggest domestic opening ever for a sports film.

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