In an exclusive interview with ET Canada, Andra Day opened up about her highly coveted Oscar nomination, Golden Globe win and her unstoppable success in the music and film industry.
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who died in August, was nominated for Best Actor his final role as hot-headed musician Levee in Netflix’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” which also stars Viola Davis who also scored a nomination for Best Actress.Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield will be squaring off in the same category, both nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in “Judas and the Black Messiah.”Maria Bakalova also scored a nod for Best Supporting Actress in “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.” Meanwhile, her “Borat” co-star
.In an exclusive interview with ET Canada, Andra Day opened up about her highly coveted Oscar nomination, Golden Globe win and her unstoppable success in the music and film industry.
As the nominations for the 93rd Academy Awards rolled in on Monday, it was clear that this year’s Oscars would be a ray of hope for people of colour. Infamous for having all-white nominees, the award show received backlash for consistently failing to diversify in the past.
History in the making! Nominations for the 93rd annual Oscars were announced on Monday, March 15, and the impressive list is full of groundbreaking achievements.
Gallery: Everything you missed from the Golden Globes 2021 (BANG Showbiz)Taking to Instagram, he wrote: "Wow! I'm honoured to be nominated by my fellow actors alongside such inspiring performances, and am grateful to the Academy for their support and encouragement. I’m equally thrilled for our visionary writer-director Darius Marder and the brilliant Paul Raci, as well as our editor Mikkel, sound designer Nicolas, and co-writer Abe Marder.
Oscars history after she picked up a nod for Best Actress today (March 15).The actress received her fourth nomination for playing the lead role in Netflix‘s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom at a ceremony earlier alongside Andra Day, Vanessa Kirby, Frances McDormand and Carey Mulligan.She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2017 for Fences, after being nominated in that category in 2009 for her work in Doubt.
We are nearing the crescendo of a very long, very pandemic-y awards season, as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, aka The Academy, released the 2021 Oscars nominations. And though plenty of folks predicted this year could be a historical one, in terms of diversity and inclusivity, those prognosticators were actually right.
The Oscars 2021 nominees announcement was historic in more ways than one. While diversity was at play, several artists like Viola Davis, Chloe Zhao, Riz Ahmed, Steven Yeun and Emerald Fennel made history with their nominations.
The much-awaited Oscars 2021 nominations are finally out and while not everyone is a winner there are some great firsts. This year's awards season has been dominated by late actor Chadwick Boseman and it was a repeat at the Oscars 2021 nominations.
The 2021 Oscar nominations were announced bright and early this morning and there were some major milestones on the list!
The Oscars made history on Monday morning as the Academy has nominated a record 9 nonwhite actors in the acting categories.They are Yuh-Jung Youn, “Minari,” Daniel Kaluuya, “Judas and the Black Messiah,” Leslie Odom, Jr., “One Night in Miami,” LaKeith Stanfield, “Judas and the Black Messiah,” Riz Ahmed, “Sound of Metal,” Chadwick Boseman, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” Steven Yeun, “Minari,” Viola Davis, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” and Andra Day, “The United States vs.
Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” hair department head Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson, hairstylist to Oscar-nominated actor Viola Davis, made history on Monday when they became the first Black women to be nominated for makeup and hairstyling.The award was created by the Academy in 1981 after the 1980 film “The Elephant Man” was not recognized.Neal, who previously worked on “Uncut Gems,” said, “I am overwhelmed with gratitude to be honored by such a prestigious committee.
It is refreshing to see that the Hollywood movie scene isn’t just a young person’s game anymore — as Vogue’s 2021 Hollywood portfolio of the year’s 27 biggest stars contains some names and faces that have been dazzling on the silver screen for many decades now.