• Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a 2020 American drama film directed by George C. Wolfe and written by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, based on the 1982 play of the...
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  • Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a 1982 play – one of the ten-play Century Cycle by August Wilson – that chronicles the 20th-century African-American experience...
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    Rider Blues" (1925), the blues standard "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" (1927), and "Soon This Morning" (1927). Rainey also collaborated with Thomas Dorsey, Tampa...
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    act until his death in 2020 from the illness. His final film, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, was released posthumously the same year to critical acclaim, earning...
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    in the films Jean of the Joneses (2016), White Boy Rick (2018), Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020), Boogie (2021), and Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (2024). In...
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  • (1990), both of which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1984) and Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1988). In 2006, Wilson was...
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    "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom", a 1920s blues song by Ma Rainey, makes obvious allusions to the dance but is not itself dance music. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom...
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    Lincoln (2012), Selma (2014), If Beale Street Could Talk (2018), Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020), and The Color Purple (2023). For his role as a ruthless...
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    would be cast as the lead in their 2016 production of the play Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Fagbenle led his cast to win the Olivier Award for best revival...
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    performed in Broadway and Off-Broadway adaptations, including Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Drowning Crow, McReele, A Soldier's Play and Carl Hancock Rux's...
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    for playing a 1960s housemaid in The Help (2011) and Ma Rainey in the biopic Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020). She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting...
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    fourth season of the FX black comedy crime drama series Fargo, and starred in the 2020 Netflix film Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Turman was born in New York...
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  • in a Play for his performance in the 2003 Broadway revival of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Byrd earned a Bachelor of Science degree in education from Morris...
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    south in the drama The Help (2011), and the title role in drama Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020). She was also BAFTA-nominated for her roles in the heist...
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    Beale Street Could Talk (2018). He gained acclaim for his roles in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020), Zola (2020), and Rustin (2023). He won the Primetime Emmy...
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    final films were Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods and George C. Wolfe's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. For the latter, he was nominated in the Best Actor category at...
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  • the piano player in the original production of August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. As a young man, Judd served in the United States Navy. After leaving...
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    Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and August Wilson's play Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. She won a Tony Award as a producer of the musical Thoroughly Modern...
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  • five times, winning two awards for The English Patient (1996) and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020). She has also received four nominations for the BAFTA Award...
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    In Denzel Washington Netflix Pic Adaptation Of August Wilson's 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved July 2, 2019. Trumbore, Dave (August...
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    adaptation by the Screen Writers Guild for the film version of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Ruben Hudson was born in 1956 in Lackawanna, New York, the son...
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    Dave (June 19, 2019). "Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman Starring in 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' for Netflix". Variety. Archived from the original on December...
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    for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. In 2020 for his role in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom he received Screen Actors Guild Award and Independent Spirit Award...
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    the ensemble of Ragtime in 2003. She was cast as Ma Rainey in August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom at the Liverpool Playhouse in 2004. In 2004–2005...
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  • Picture. Other winners included The Father, Judas and the Black Messiah, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Mank, Soul and Sound of Metal with two awards each, and...
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    On Broadway, he has performed in Drowning Crow, the revival of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, and the premiere of King Hedley II. Henderson is recognized as...
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    Lucian Msamati (category Black British male actors)
    National Theatre's Olivier award-winning revival of August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom in 2016, Antonio Salieri in the National Theatre's Olivier-award...
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  • wins Fences 2 wins The Inspection 4 wins Love & Basketball 6 wins Ma Rainey's Black Bottom 2 wins Precious 7 wins Rustin' 0 wins Selma 8 wins D - indicates...
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  • years later, Jackson returned to Broadway for the premiere of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, which ran for 276 performances and was chosen "Best Play" by the...
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  • his death in August 2020. His last two films, Da 5 Bloods and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, were released on Netflix. The project was announced as 17 Bridges...
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