Chadwick Bosemanearned a posthumous nomination at the 2021 Golden Globe Awards.
Thenominations were revealed Wednesday morning, with Boseman honored in the best actor in a motion picture, drama category for his performance in Netflix’sMa Rainey’s Black Bottom. Boseman posthumously appears in his final film oppositeViola Davis, who also earned a nomination.
This marks Boseman’s first Golden Globe nomination.
He died in August at 43 years old after privately batting a stage IV colon cancer diagnosis for four years.
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottomis based on August Wilson’s 1982 play about the “Mother of Blues” Ma Rainey (Davis) and her experience with white management at the time. The movie takes place in 1927 Chicago and explores the racial tension in the music world as white record executives profited off of Black artists.
Chadwick Boseman inMa Rainey’s Black Bottom.David Lee/Netflix
In November, Netflix confirmed its plan to campaign the late star as the lead actor in the film. Netflix will also campaign him for supporting actor awards for his turn in Spike Lee’sDa 5 Bloodslast summer.
Should he be nominated for Best Actor at the 2021 Academy Awards, Boseman will be the first posthumous nominee in the category since Massimo Troisi for 1995’sIl Postino.
If he is nominated for Best Supporting Actor, he would become the third person in Oscar history to do so, following Ralph Richardson in 1984’sGreystoke: The Legend of Tarzan,Lord of the Apesand Heath Ledger in 2008’sThe Dark Knight.
source: people.com
