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Howard University Renaming Arts College After Chadwick Boseman
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-26T19:31:31+00:00“>May 26, 2021 | 3:31pm ET Last summer, Chadwick Boseman unexpectedly passed away from colon cancer at the age of 43. His death shocked fans around the world, many of whom had no idea he was battling cancer in the first place. Now, Howard University is honoring the late Black Panther actor with arguably the most timeless gesture of all: naming its newly re-established College of Fine Arts after Boseman. Back in 2000, Boseman graduated from Howard with a bachelor of arts degree in directing and, in the years that followed, never missed an opportunity to champion the prestigious HBCU. “We are very excited. This is the right thing to do,” Howard President Wayne A.I....
Michael B. Jordan Talks Chadwick Boseman and Oscars: “There’s No Award That Can Validate His Legacy”
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-30T18:08:45+00:00“>April 30, 2021 | 2:08pm ET Like many of us, Michael B. Jordan was surprised when Chadwick Boseman was robbed of the 2021 Academy Award for Best Actor, with voters snubbing his powerhouse performance in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom in favor of Anthony Hopkins. But via The Hollywood Reporter, Jordan is confident that his Black Panther co-star’s body of work is more substantial than any award. “But you know, this is how I honestly and truly really feel about it: There’s like, there’s no award that can validate his legacy,” Jordan said on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show. “There’s no win that can take anything away from the lives around the world that...
Chadwick Boseman’s Family Is Fine With Actor Not Winning An Oscar Award
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: NBC / Getty Last Sunday (April 25), the 93rd annual Academy Awards was held at Union Station in Los Angeles. And while many wondered why viewers choked up when Chadwick Boseman‘s likeness appeared during the customary “In Memoriam” segment, some were upset that King T’Challa didn’t win the “Best Actor” award that night. Millions of Boseman fans felt the late-great actor was deserving of the award for his role as Levee Green in Ma’s Rainy Black Bottom, but ultimately the Oscar went to Anthony Hopkins for his role in The Father. Though fans were upset at the end result, TMZ is reporting that Boseman’s family are actually okay with Hopkins taking home the gold. Taking the high road in the matter, Chadwick’s brother, Derrick says that at the end of the day, e...
Chadwick Boseman Robbed of Best Actor Oscar by Anthony Hopkins
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-26T03:43:28+00:00“>April 25, 2021 | 11:43pm ET In the biggest upset of the night, Chadwick Boseman was robbed of the Best Actor Oscar at the 2021 Academy Awards in favor of Anthony Hopkins. Entering Sunday’s award’s night, Boseman was the easy frontrunner for the Best Actor category. His role as blues trumpeter Levee Green in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom had already earned him trophies at the Golden Globes (where he became only the second posthumous acting winner, following Peter Finch), the Screen Actors Guild Awards, the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards, the Black Film Critics Circle, the Black Reel Awards, the NAACP Image Awards, and more. But when the final award of the night wa...
Chadwick Boseman, Viola Davis Win Big At 2021 Sag Awards
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: SAGAwards2021 / Getty The 2021 Screen Actors Guild Awards have concluded and a number of television and film stars took home honors for their contributions to the arts. Winning big were Viola Davis, Daniel Kaluuya, and the late Chadwick Boseman among many this past Sunday (April 4). The 2021 Sag Awards were prerecorded and much like other awards programs, the rules of social distancing in the pandemic era were in effect. Davis won the Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role in a Motion Picture award for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, with her co-star in Boseman winning Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role in a Motion Picture award opposite of her. Kaluuya’s role as the late Fred Hampton Sr. notched the British actor the...
Chadwick Boseman’s Wife Taylor Simone Ledward Tearfully Accepts Golden Globe Award On His Behalf
Source: NBC / Getty Chadwick Boseman is no longer here with us, but his passing still hurts. The late actor won a posthumous Golden Globe Award for his role in director George C. Wolfe’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. His wife, Taylor Simone Ledward, tearfully accepted the award on his behalf. Many big moments happened for the culture during the awards show, but Simone Ledward’s speech brought out the emotion in everyone watching. Boseman took home the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama for his portrayal as the fictional Jazz trumpeter Levee Green, representing the real-life history of Black music appropriation in America. During her speech, Simone Ledward fought back the tears as she tried to put the words together, speaking on behalf of her late hus...
Chadwick Boseman Posthumously Wins Golden Globe for Best Actor
Chadwick Boseman has posthumously won the 2021 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama, for his final film performance as a blues trumpeter in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Boseman died last summer of colon cancer at the age of 43. As Newsweek reports, he’s only the second actor to receive this accolade posthumously, after Peter Finch won in 1977 for his cracked performance as broadcaster Howard Beale in Network. His wife Simone Ledward Boseman accepted the award on his behalf. “He would thank God, he would thank his parents, he would thank his ancestors for their guidance and their sacrifices,” she said, before tearfully offering gratitude to his cast mates, friends, and director George C. Wolfe. “He would say something beautiful. Something inspiring… And I don’t hav...
2021 Golden Globes Predictions: Who Will Win, Who Shouldn’t Be There, and Who’s Missing
Every year, we say we’re not going to watch the Golden Globes. “They’re pay-for-play opportunists who trade awards for access,” we plea in the mirror. “Remember Pia Zadora?” And yet, just like Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part III, they pull us back in. Maybe it’s the pandemic insisting upon things to look forward to amidst the threat of impending doom. Or, more likely, we just love TV and the people who make it too much to not want to root for them to get recognition — no matter how dubious the award. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, an enigmatic collective of 93 non-American journalists who nonetheless live in LA, give out their trophies every year, and the picks are virtually impossible to guess. Sometimes, it’s recognition of the best work in film and TV that year. Other t...
Chadwick Boseman’s Wife Simone Gives Tearful Tribute at Gotham Awards: “Keep Shining Your Light On Us”
At Monday’s Gotham Awards, Simone Ledwick Boseman accepted an award on behalf of her late husband Chadwick Boseman. Via EW, she offered a tearful tribute honoring “the most honest person I’ve ever met.” Boseman had been nominated for Best Actor for his performance in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, and while Riz Ahmed eventually won for Sound of Metal, Boseman received a posthumous Actor Tribute. His widow made a virtual appearance, offering one of the most emotionally raw speeches of this or any other award ceremony. “He was the most honest person I’ve ever met,” she said, “because he didn’t just stop at speaking the truth, he actively searched for it: In himself, in those around him and in the moment, The truth can be a very easy thing for the self to avoid, but if one does...
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Is an Exclamation Point on Chadwick Boseman’s Inspiring Life: Review
The Pitch: By definition, the word value means “the regard that something is held to deserve; the importance, worth, or usefulness of something.” A person’s value, however, is most often overlooked, under-appreciated or even unknown. To understand one’s worth is a unique ability that not many possess – that attribute alone can change the trajectory of an individual’s life, drastically. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom digs deep into the core of one of America’s most beautiful artforms, during a time where segregation and racial oppression escalated across the country. Based on August Wilson’s Broadway play, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom chronicles an emotional recording session housed within a Chicago studio in 1927. Along with a string of talented actors, George C. Wolfe’s direction explores the dicho...
Top 25 Films of 2020
Our Annual Report continues as we reveal the Top 25 Films of 2020. Stay tuned for more awards, lists, and articles in the days and weeks to come about the best music, film, and TV of the year. If you’ve missed any part of our Annual Report, you can check out all the coverage here. Going to the movies ain’t like it used to be, right? What an understatement. With theaters shuttered up and movie chains filing for bankruptcy, one might argue it’s been a pretty crap year for cinema. Financially speaking, they’re not wrong. But, art is a funny thing. It has a way of enduring even the most arduous obstacles — you know, that whole Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park, “life finds a way” bit — and this year was a testament to that truth. Art had no issue finding a proper stage. That stage, as fate...
Disney+ Pays Homage To Chadwick Boseman’s ‘Black Panther’ For The King’s Birthday
Source: Marvel Studios / Marvel Studios Yesterday (Nov. 29) would’ve marked the 44th year that Chadwick Boseman would’ve been alive and well on this earth. But unfortunately the man who endeared himself to the masses as the King of Wakanda in Black Panther and the MCU passed away months ago after a lengthy, private battle with cancer. To commemorate the memory of the gifted actor, Disney+ released a video tribute to King T’Challa in the form of the customary Marvel movie intro which focuses solely on Boseman’s Black Panther instead of the studio’s various heroes such as Hulk, Iron Man and Captain America. Executive chairman of Disney, Robert Iger took to Twitter to announce the new tribute stating “To all fans of #BlackPanther: watch the film on #DisneyPlus late tonight, for a special trib...
