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Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson Are the First Black Women to Be Oscar-Nominated For Hair and Makeup 743 Shares Fresh off the heels of Grammys weekend, the 2021 Academy Award nominations were officially announced on March 15, and even though this year's ceremony won't take place for another month, the nominees are already making history. Chadwick Boseman posthumously received his first-ever Oscar nomination for his role in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, while Viola Davis's best actress nod for her work on the same film officially made her the most nominated Black actress in Oscar history. But it's not ...

Taylour Paige On ‘Boogie,’ Her Bae, And Owning Her Body Of Work “I feel great responsibility to be as intentional as I can about the characters I play and what they’re trying to say" Taylour Paige was all smiles and positivity when we connected via Zoom three days ahead of the release of her latest project. The Santa Monica-born actress and dancer was on a natural high from meditating as she sat on camera with a black sherpa jacket and hair pulled away from her bare face in a half-up, half-down style. “I’m feeling thankful to talk about the work,” she tells ESSENCE before we di...

Taylor Jewell/APTaylour Paige is on the cusp of stardom—even if she may not know it herself. The 30-year-old actress starred as Dussie Mae in Netflix’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom opposite Viola Davis and the late Chadwick Boseman. She was the talk of Sundance last January with the titular role of Zola, a buck-wild viral Twitter thread spun into the hotly anticipated film by Jeremy O. Harris and Janicza Bravo, out June 30. And just hours before our interview, Paige was announced as one of the stars of Lena Dunham’s new shot-in-secret film Sharp Stick that was presented...

Sacha Baron Cohen played '60s activist Abbie Hoffman in Aaron Sorkin's The Trial of the Chicago 7. Your association with Abbie Hoffman goes back decades … When I was 20, I was staying at the YMCA in downtown Atlanta researching a thesis on Jewish involvement in the civil rights movement of the '60s. Abbie Hoffman was one of a bunch of Jewish radicals who went down South to support voter registration for people of color. So I knew about him from the age of 20. Then, 13 years ago, I heard that Spielberg was making a movie about the Chicago Seven and, with characteristic chutzpah, I called hi...

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom director, George C. Wolfe, reflects on his time working with posthumous Golden Globe winner Chadwick Boseman