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As Deadline exclusively broke on March 31 (and as I also detailed earlier in today’s Notes on the Season column), the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has confirmed that for the first time ever all five nominated songs will not be a part of the actual Oscar ceremony but rather performed in their entirety on…

When it premiered last September at the Venice Film Festival, Regina King's directorial debut One Night In Miami was an early frontrunner for awards. Oscar-nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Song and Best Supporting Actor, the film is based on the acclaimed play by Kemp Powers, which tells a…

Leslie Odom Jr. is certainly having a very good year. He just received not one but two Oscar nominations, the first for his portrayal of musical icon Sam Cooke in One Night In Miami, and another for his original song “Speak Now” which plays over the Regina King-directed film’s end credits. That song had to be put…

Leslie Odom Jr. became a two-time Oscar nominee today for his performance in One Night In Miami. For his role as legendary singer-songwriter Sam Cooke, the actor earned a nomination for Best Supporting actor as well as one for Best Original Song as the composer and performer of the film’s ending credits track, Speak No…

"I mean, Jim Brown always been Jim Brown," laughs One Night In Miami star Aldis Hodge of the NFL legend he portrays in the Regina King-directed film. "The fact that he is still with us adds a different degree of pressure for me because I know that he is going to see it," Hodge added. "And any time you do a biopic, you…

The Golden Globes could have been less glitz and glamour and more pajama party, given the stay-at-home Covid-19 factor this year. But in the spirit of keeping on, nominees leaned into the awards show spirit Sunday and dressed up for their video conference moments. Among the glammed-up stars are Angela Bassett in a…

Leslie Odom Jr. is on track to burst into the Oscar race with a possible double nomination, for Supporting Actor and Original Song, for his contributions to Regina King's One Night in Miami. As part of Deadline x Rolling Stone, a special issue of our AwardsLine print magazine dedicated to music in cinema, Odom tells Ro…

Music somehow was nominated for two Golden Globes last week including Best Picture – Musical/Comedy, but hey guys, everyone makes mistakes. This misguided feature directorial debut from Australian pop singer Sia, the star who’s known for hiding her face, may have had the best of intentions when it was made four (!)…

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. The noms came from a diverse number of films — three for Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (nods for Best Picture, Sacha Baron Cohen for Best Actor and Maria Bakalova for…

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…

"It's a beautiful story of brotherhood, just a display of Black men expressing themselves healthily in a space that we don't get the opportunity to see Black men be," says One Night In Miami director Regina King of what inspired her to make Kemp Powers' play her feature directorial debut. "We don't get to see that in…

Regina King has four Emmys in recent years for her acting as well as a Best Supporting Actress Oscar on her mantel, and now in her debut behind the camera for Amazon’s entertaining and important new film One Night in Miami, deservedly she is earning more acclaim, but this time behind the camera. It isn’t easy for any…