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in Op-edBefore the Gold: Best Leading Actor
This month, we’re taking a look at this year’s Oscar nominees and digging into their past work to find hidden gems that you may have overlooked, or specific credits that may have influenced their Oscar-nominated work this year. Many have rightly noted that this year’s Best Leading Actor lineup is one of the greatest the […] More
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SAG Winners Include Viola Davis, Youn Yuh-jung, and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’
Moments ago, the 27th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards wrapped up, with the 2021 ceremony looking a lot different. Clocking in at one hour and being a pre-recorded affair, SAG opted for brevity. it ran smoothly, though one could argue that the winners deserved more room to breathe. As for the winners, we had the […] More
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NAACP Image Awards Handed Out
The NAACP Image Awards have handed out the awards for their 52nd annual ceremony, with Anthony Anderson hosting for the eighth year in a row. Anderson was already a winner before the televised ceremony, having won an award at Friday’s non-televised ceremony for Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series for Black-ish. Black-ish couldn’t take the Outstanding Comedy Series prize, […] More
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Additional Honorees Added to the Critics Choice Celebration of Black Cinema
The Critics Choice Association has announced additional honorees and presenters for their Third Annual Celebration of Black Cinema. This year’s ceremony will be virtual and is to be hosted by Bevy Smith on February 2nd, 2021. It will then be broadcast on KTLA in Los Angeles on February 6th. The late Chadwick Boseman will receive their Performance of the […] More
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The First Annual Awards Radar Awards (Part One): The Best Performances of 2020
Can you believe the year is over? 2020 was a fuck of a year, no question about it, but to start off this final week before 2021 hits, I’m going to be focusing on the positive. Today, we kick off the First Annual Awards Radar Awards, also known as the Joey Awards (because, when you […] More
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‘Small Axe,’ ‘Promising Young Woman’ Among Winners of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Film Awards
Today the Los Angeles Film Critics Association announced the winners of their 46th annual film awards. Founded in 1975, the LAFCA have been holding the awards every year since. Ever since 2009, the winner of their Best Picture category has gone on to earn an Academy Award nomination for their Best Picture award. This year […] More
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New York Film Critics Circle Announces Winners
The New York Film Critics Circle announced their winners today, and just like years prior, have made some interesting choices sure to shake up preconceived notions about this year’s awards players. Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods made a great showing, being one of only two films to win multiple awards, winning Best Actor for Delroy […] More
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Gotham Awards to Honor Chadwick Boseman and Viola Davis
The 2020 IFP Gotham Awards today announced a posthumous Actor Tribute for the late Chadwick Boseman and an Actress Tribute for Viola Davis. The two performers star in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, which was released in theaters last week and will premiere on Netflix on December 18th. Boseman, who passed away at age forty-three from […] More
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Film Review: ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ Sparks with the Fire of Chadwick Boseman’s Performance
Taking a play and turning it into a film has inherent challenges. After all, if a filmmaker doesn’t open up the world sufficiently, there’s a sense that something is missing. On the flip-side, however, too much of that and the appeal of the source material can be lost. So, it’s a pleasure to report that […] More
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Trailer for ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ Suggests Another Awards Player from Netflix
Denzel Washington and Viola Davis are slowly working their way through film adaptations of all twelve plays in legendary playwright August Wilson’s Century Cycle, which chronicle the black experience in America in the 20th century. Washington and Davis starred in Fences in 2016, which won Davis her first Oscar (for Best Supporting Actress), and now the two are […] More
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Film Review: ‘Da 5 Bloods’ Fights a More Personal Vietnam
Spike Lee has been preaching to us through cinema for decades. But have we been listening? He has been laying down truths through film since his masterpiece. For many it has been easier to turn our heads, ignoring or denying there has been a problem at all. Lee has been persistent in creating films that prime […] More
