Leslie Odom Jr. to Receive Palm Springs Film Festival Spotlight Award — Film News in Brief

The Casting Society of America has made its final callbacks for 2020, unveiling the film nominees for its 36th annual Artios Awards. The winners will be announced during the virtual ceremony April 15.

Emerald Fennell, Regina King and Chloé Zhao all received nominations for their films Promising Young Woman, One Night in Miami, and Nomadland.

The Writers Guild of America announced their film nominees for the delayed 2021 WGA Awards and, once again, the films that didn’t qualify shaped the list of honorees more than those who did. Awards season players “The Trial of the Chicago 7” and “Promising Young Woman” made the cut as expected in the Original Screenplay category.

The WGA on Tuesday unveiled the movie nominations for its 2021 WGA Awards, honoring outstanding achievement in screenwriting of original, adapted and documentary films during 2020. Winners will be March 21 in a virtual ceremony. Check out the full list below.

Antonio Ferme editorThe Palm Springs International Film Festival will honor Daniel Kaluuya with the 2021 International Star Award for his portrayal of Black Panther chairman Fred Hampton in “Judas and the Black Messiah.”The film awards gala will not host an in-person event, but honoree selections will recognize the year’s great performances.

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The Hollywood Reporter’s Mia Galuppo sat down with director Regina King, screenwriter Kemp Powers and stars Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge and Leslie Odom Jr. to discuss their Amazon Studios film,One Night in Miami, in aTHRPresents Q&A powered by Vision Media.

Da 5 Bloods, One Night In Miami, and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom are in the running for top prizes at the 2021 Screen Actors Guild Awards.They will compete with Minari and The Trial of the Chicago 7 for the Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture accolade, while Chadwick Boseman is up for a pair of posthumous acting nods for for his work in Ma Rainey and Da 5 Bloods.In the TV categories, The Crown and Ozark will face off with Better Call Saul, Lovecraft Country, and Bridgerton for

The Miami Film Festival is set to go ahead with a hybrid 2021 edition in March with physical theater and online screenings amid the pandemic. The Festival's March 5-14 run this year will open with an in-theater world premiere of Edson Jean’s Ludi — about a hardworking and exhausted nurse chasing the American Dream in Miami's Little Haiti neighborhood — and close with the debut of Jayme Gershen’s Birthright.

The Many Saints of Newark.The actor, who recently starred in One Night in Miami and Music, told NME about what fans can expect from the forthcoming Sopranos prequel film.“I work for the family,” Odom Jr.

Leslie Odom, Jr. is a dual first-time Golden Globe nominee, recognized both as an actor and singer for his work on the film “One Night in Miami”. The news came on Wednesday, when the full list of nominees for the 78th annual Golden Globes were announced, revealing that the actor is up for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for his portrayal of Sam Cooke and Best Original Song for co-writing and performing the song “Speak Now.”

On Tuesday night, Leslie Odom Jr. went to sleep having never been recognized for the Golden Globes.

Also Read: 'Ted Lasso' Co-Creator Bill Lawrence on 'Cool, Unexpected' Golden Globes Noms - and Where Season 2 StandsOdom, who just earned two Golden Globe nominations for his performance and his original song in “One Night In Miami,” makes one of those connections in a monologue as R&B pop star Sam Cooke that connects to “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” In that August Wilson adaptation, Black artists like Viola Davis’ Ma Rainey and Chadwick Boseman’s Levee are callously exploited by the white

With two of his own Golden Globe nominations—Best Supporting Actor for playing Sam Cooke in Regina King’s One Night in Miami, and Best Original Song for “Speak Now” on its soundtrack—Leslie Odom Jr. says he’s “connecting the dots” between a trio of his projects that have all appeared in this morning’s list. In addition to these nominations, the taped concert film for Hamilton, and the Sia musical Music are both recognized in the Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy list.

Not since the Manchester By the Sea year of 2017 has Amazon Studios generated as many as the 10 Golden Globes nominations it received Wednesday morning.

UPDATED with latest: The Santa Barbara Film Festival on Tuesday unveiled the recipients of its Virtuosos Award, given annually to a group recognizing their noteworthy performances in film. The honors will be bestowed Saturday, April 3.

died at the age of 68, the kind of post-screening chatter that gave some sense of what the voters were thinking has been absent.

UPDATED with latest winner: The Palm Springs Film Festival continues revealing this year’s film-awards honors, on Monday saying that Leslie Odom Jr will receive the Spotlight Award, Actor for his work in Amazon’s One Night In Miami.

Also Read: 'One Night in Miami' Film Review: Regina King Goes the Distance in Impressive Feature Directorial Debut“Leslie Odom Jr. is a truly talented performer,” PSIFF Chairman Harold Matzner said in a statement.