Chadwick Boseman's wife pays tribute to star after posthumous award

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© Provided by PinkNews Cicely Tyson, the Oscar-winner who blazed a trail for Black actors over a 70-year career, has died aged 96. Tributes from co-stars, fans and former presidents have poured in for the actor, whose death was confirmed Thursday (28 January).

In the wake of Cicely Tyson's death on Thursday, Shonda Rhimes, Zendaya, Rosario Dawson and more took to social media to pay tribute to the actresswho made television history while forging a sterling career out of portraying women of strength and substance. Tyson died Thursday at 96, according to her longtime manager, Larry Thompson.Tyson died two days after her memoir Just as I Am was published.

Viola Davis is speaking out after the loss of Cicely Tyson, who played her mother on the ABC series How to Get Away with Murder.

according to The Associated Press.This week her latest book, “Just As I Am: A Memoir,” was published. It includes a forward by actress Viola Davis, who wrote of her Tyson’s memorable work, “Every one of these characters has left me with an emotional, spiritual, and psychological inheritance I will forever carry with me.”On Twitter Jan.

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.

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.

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom entered the awards race with impressive credentials. One of two films last year featuring the late Chadwick Boseman, George C. Wolfe’s Netflix film also reunites star Viola Davis with the work of playwright August Wilson, a winning combination that landed her the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for 2016’s Fences.

Michelle Pfeiffer, a three-time Oscar nominee, is stepping into some iconic shoes. Showtime announced on Thursday that the 62-year-old actress will star as Betty Ford in its upcoming anthology series, The First Lady.Ford, who served as first lady from 1974 to 1977, set a precedent as a politically active presidential spouse through her candid nature and work in social policy.

Showtime has tapped Michelle Pfeiffer to star as Betty Ford in its upcoming anthology series, "The First Lady." Pfeiffer joins the previously announced Viola Davis (playing Michelle Obama) for the show, which focuses on the pair, along with Eleanor Roosevelt, and "the roles they played in shaping impactful and sometimes world-changing decisions during their time in the White House," according to The Hollywood Reporter.  The part of Roosevelt has not yet been announced.

Oscar and Emmy nominee Michelle Pfeiffer (French Exit) will portray Betty Ford in The First Lady (working title, fka First Ladies), Showtime’s anthology, executive produced by Viola Davis who stars as Michelle Obama. Emmy and Golden Globe winner Susanne Bier (The Undoing) will direct and executive produce the series.

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.

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.

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.