Late actor Chadwick Boseman on Sunday received Best Actor in a motion picture-drama prize for his tremendous spectacular efficiency as a proficient jazz musician in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” changing into solely the second posthumous winner within the class’s historical past.
The star was named one of the best lead actor in a drama at the Golden Globe 2021 award ceremony.
“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” a film about an influential blues singer, and dramatizes a turbulent recording session in 1920s Chicago, was launched months after Boseman died.
Boseman died on August 18, 2020, of cancer on the age of 43.
Taylor Simone Ledward Boseman, the late actor’s spouse accepted the award on his behalf as she delivered an emotional speech whereas shedding tears.
“He would thank God,” she mentioned. “He would thank his mother and father. He would thank his ancestors for his or her steering and their sacrifices. He would say one thing lovely, one thing inspiring, one thing that may amplify that little voice within all of us that tells you’ you may’, that tells you to maintain going, that calls you again to what you have been meant to be doing at this second in historical past, she mentioned.
Ledward Boseman additionally thanked Boseman’s co-stars, director George C. Wolfe, Netflix, the Hollywood Overseas Press Association, his mentor Denzel Washington and extra.
Boseman beat out stiff competitors to win the glory. He was up towards Anthony Hopkins (“The Father”), Riz Ahmed (“The Sound of Metal”), Gary Oldman (“Mank”), and Tahar Rahim (“The Mauritanian”).
Different actors who received massive on the Golden Globe 2021 awards are Sacha Baron Cohen, John Boyega, Chloe Zhao, Emma Corrin amongst others.
