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To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Viola Davis is accustomed to making history. The 55-year-old South Carolina native and Juilliard graduate got her start on the stage, winning a Tony Award in 2001 for her part in August Wilson’s King Hedley II. Small but memorable turns in film and TV followed, before her breakout as a fearful mother in Doubt (2008), for which she received an Oscar nod. Since then, she’s become the first Black person to achieve the t...

From Doubt to Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, a Look at Viola Davis’s 10 Best Roles Vogue 2 hrs ago © Vogue Viola Davis is accustomed to making history. The 55-year-old South Carolina native and Juilliard graduate got her start on the stage, winning a Tony Award in 2001 for her part in August Wilson’s King Hedley II. Small but memorable turns in film and TV followed, before her breakout as a fearful mother in Doubt (2008), for which she received an Oscar nod. Since then, she’s become th...

Vanessa Kirby has called for more honest conversations about miscarriage, after playing a bereaved mother in Pieces Of A Woman. Speaking about preparing for the role - which has seen her nominated for Lead Actress at all the major award ceremonies this season - the former The Crown star, 32, said: I had a dress rehearsal of birth, which is so crazy, cause Im sure it will be completely different when I actually do it and be like, oh f**k! Oh God!... I had this unbelievable little miracle of bein...

Glen Wilson/Warner Bros. One of the big surprises of the 2021 Oscar nominations was the success of Judas and the Black Messiah, Shaka King’s film about Fred Hampton (played by Daniel Kaluuya), a leader in the Black Panther Party, and his betrayal at the hands of William O’Neal (LaKeith Stanfield). As you can probably guess from that cursory plot summary, O’Neal is the Judas and Hampton the Black Messiah of the film’s title. So when both Kaluuya and Stanfield were nominated for Best Sup...

'Mank' and 'Trial of the Chicago 7' lead the way. Amazon Studios scores 12 nominations.

Celebrity by Wenlei Ma 16th Mar 2021 5:17 AM It was a history-making year for the Oscars with two women competing in the Best Director category. But before it got to the directing category, those watching the nominations live stream were shocked to see Judas and the Black Messiah star Lakeith Stanfield show up in the Best Supporting Actor category. Its not that Stanfields nervy and intense performance as a FBI informant who betr...

Oscars 2021: Rogue nominations as nominees announced for 93rd Academy Awards 15 Mar, 2021 07:48 PM 7 minutes to read news.com.au By: Wenlei Ma It was a history-making year for the Oscars with two women competing in the Best Director category. But before it got to the directing category, those watching the nominations livestream were shocked to see Judas and the Black Messiah star Lakeith Stanfield show up in the Best Supporting Actor category. Its not that Stanfields nervy and intense performan...

Jon Hamm, Viola Davis, Game of Thrones, Olive Kitteridge score top drama Emmys By (0) Actress Viola Davis accepts the award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for How to Get Away with Murder onstage during the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Sept. 20, 2015. Photo by Ken Matsui/UPI. | License Photo Actress Viola Davis accepts the award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for How to Get Away with Murder from actor Adrien Brody durin...

Promising Young Woman wins best picture, actress at 2021 Australian Academy International Awards The 2021 Australian Academy International Awards (their Oscars/Emmys combo) announced their winners today: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- I really want to watch this but I don’t want to pay $20 mte Thats where Im at every time I see an ad. March 6th, 2021, 03:16 pm I know what you mean, but i justified the $20 because I have not been to a movie theater since January 2020 That’s a rea...

Film: Sacha Baron Cohen plays Abbie Hoffman, founding member of the Youth International Party in Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial Of The Chicago 7 Isla captioned the shot: So proud as an Aussie, that the Australian Academy gave my hubby the Best Supporting Actor in film award for The Trial of the Chicago 7!!  Sacha played Abbie Hoffman, founding member of the Youth International Party in  Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial Of The Chicago 7.  The film, which also won Best Screenplay, follows the Chicago S...