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Tag Archives: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
2021 Oscar Winners
The drama Nomadland was the big winner at the 93rd Academy Awards, earning three Oscars: Best Picture, Best Director for Chloé Zhao, and Best Actress for Frances McDormand. Six other features took home two trophies each at the ceremony held … Continue reading
Posted in Awards, Film
Tagged Academy Awards, Glenn Close, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Oscars, Soul
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2021 Oscar Nominees
In a global livestream this morning on the official Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences website, Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas announced the nominees for the 2021 Academy Awards. The 93rd ceremony, which will honor the best films released … Continue reading
2021 NAACP Image Award Nominations
Yesterday, Anika Noni Rose, Chloe Bailey, Erika Alexander, Nicco Annan, and TC Carson announced the nominees for the 52nd NAACP Image Awards in a virtual event on the NAACP Image Awards’ Instagram channel. Netflix led the nominations in the film … Continue reading
2021 Golden Globe Nominations
This morning, Golden Globe winner Taraji P. Henson and four-time winner Sarah Jessica Parker announced the film and TV nominees of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s 78th annual Golden Globe Awards. The winners will be revealed on Sunday, Feb. 28, … Continue reading
2020 AFI Award Honorees
Yesterday, the American Film Institute announced the recipients of its 2020 AFI Awards. Among the musical honorees named on the list of AFI Movies of the Year are the adaptation of August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and the Pixar … Continue reading
Best Musical Moments of 2020
In this unusual year, there wasn’t the usual amount of musical offerings. Broadway stages, movie houses, and TV productions all shut down in March. But some shows did premiere before the lockdown, some series did restart production (with health precautions … Continue reading
Posted in Best of the Year, Reference
Tagged BD Wong, Beauty and the Beast, Cambodian Rock Band, Dan Mertzlufft, Hamilton, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Katy Keene, Kiss of the Spider-Woman, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Mary Neely, Riverdale, Songs from an Unmade Bed, Stephen Sondheim, Take Me to the World, Thanksgiving, The Unsinkable Molly Brown
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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Review Roundup
The musical drama Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, based on the play by August Wilson, has received near universal acclaim from critics. The film recounts the tensions mounting during the course of an afternoon recording session in 1920s Chicago as a … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Shows
Tagged August Wilson, Branford Marsalis, Chadwick Boseman, George C. Wolfe, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Viola Davis
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