Chadwick Boseman’s Widow Delivers Moving Speech While Accepting Gotham Award in His Honor: ‘Keep Shining Your Light on Us’

By now, we’ve heard from just about everyone involved with the “Black Panther” franchise about the passing of Chadwick Boseman last year. Unexpected and devastating, it’s obvious why so many of his friends and colleagues have been unable to process his loss and what might happen to his most famous role in the Marvel Studios franchise.

Spike Lee as Best Director.«Lee is one of our greatest filmmakers, a bold auteur with a cinematic vision and an astute perspective on human relationships, focusing at times on that intersection between the personal and the political,» said NBR President Annie Schulhof.While the National Board of Review has never been one to crystal ball the Academy Awards, any accolades are good accolades in this unprecedented awards season.

For Deadline’s Contenders Film awards-season event Netflix brought Da 5 Bloods director Spike Lee and the cast that joined him in Vietnam and Thailand.

Angela Bassett says Chadwick Boseman is «completely irreplaceable.» The actress played the late actor's mother, Ramonda, in, and touched on the recent news that he would not be recast or digitally recreated in the upcoming sequel.Boseman, who tragically died in August at the age of 43 following a quiet battle with colon cancer, starred as T'Challa, a.k.a Black Panther, the king of the technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda.

Spike Lee is paying tribute to Chadwick Boseman.

(CNN)Simone Ledward Boseman tearfully paid tribute to her late husband Chadwick Boseman Monday night during the 30th annual IFP Gotham Awards. She accepted the Actor Tribute award for the actor, who died in August at the age of 43 after a private battle with colon cancer, saying, "As an artist, an actor, and a person, Chad made a practice of telling the truth.""He is the most honest person I've ever met because he didn't just stop at speaking the truth, he actively searched for it.

Angelique Jackson Storied filmmaker Spike Lee is the latest in a long line of auteurs to be awarded honors by the American Cinematheque.The ceremony celebrating Lee’s more than three decade-career was presented virtually due to the ongoing pandemic.

Spike Lee regrets making his Da 5 Bloods star Chadwick Boseman work so hard now he knows the movie star was battling colon cancer.The Black Panther star died last summer (2020) and Lee has said many times he had no idea his leading man was ill.Now the filmmaker tells The Hollywood Reporter he feels bad about some scenes, which featured the late star, and wishes he could have shot them differently.“There was a very small circle that knew he was not going to be here that much longer, and I

During Monday night’s virtual ceremony for the 30th annual Gotham Awards, the late, great Chadwick Boseman was posthumously honored with the Actor Tribute and his wife Taylor Simone Ledward accepted the award on his behalf with a heartfelt and emotional speech.

The late Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman was recently honoured at Gotham Awards 2021, winning a special posthumous Tribute Prize, which his widow Taylor Simone Ledward accepted on the beloved star’s behalf. In her speech, Simone left everyone in tears, she said that Boseman was the most honest person she had ever met, he sought it in himself and woke hard to live in truth.

#WakandaForever.

Also Read: 'Nomadland' Named Best Film at Gotham Awards“He was able to give himself over fully in every moment, to be totally present in his own life and in the lives of people he became. He was blessed to live many lives within his concentrated one,” Ledward continued.

. His widow, Taylor Simone Ledward, accepted the award on her husband's behalf before delivering a moving speech. "He is the most honest person I'd ever met," Ledward said with tears in her eyes.

Chadwick Boseman's wife Taylor Simone Ledward has paid an emotional tribute to the late actor in an acceptance speech for the Gotham Awards Tribute prize. Along with his Ma Rainey's Black Bottom co-star Viola Davis, Boseman was honoured with the posthumous award at yesterday's (January 11) virtual ceremony.

Black Panther actor’s behalf.Taylor Simone Ledward shared a tribute last night (January 11) during the online ceremony, in which Andre Holland, who starred opposite Boseman in 42, also gave a speech.“He was the most honest person I ever met, because he didn’t just stop at speaking the truth: he actively searched for it in himself and those around him and in the moment,” Ledward said, in the speech shared by New York Times journalist Kyle Buchanan on Twitter.“The truth can be a very easy thing

Read more: How Marvel will make Black Panther 2 without Chadwick BosemanBoseman won the award for his role in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, his final movie performance, in which he plays jazz player Levee Green alongside Viola Davis's blues icon Ma Rainey. In a performance which has been lauded by critics – and is likely to bring in many more awards over the coming season – the film takes place in Chicago in 1927, amid an atmosphere of racial tension in the music business.

Chadwick Boseman was awarded a special posthumous Tribute Prize at the 2021 Gotham Awards and his widow Taylor Simone Ledward was on hand to accept the award.