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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…

Producers of One Night in Miami, Promising Young Woman, and Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm spoke about how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted their films at a panel staged by the Producers Guild. Miami producer Jess Wu Calder, Woman producer Ashley Fox and Borat producer Monica Levinson participated in a Producers Guild of…

Kemp Powers debuted his original play One Night In Miami back in 2013. Eight years later and the scribe is deep into the Oscars race, receiving a best adapted screenplay nomination for a play he never envisioned for the big screen. “You’re talking to the new guy here, I’ve never had any experience with anything…

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series, which highlights the buzziest scripts of awards season, included 12 movies that made the cut in the Oscar nominations Monday morning. In the Screenplay races, this year Deadline featured seven out of the 10 films including all five films nommed in the Adapted Screenplay category…

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…

African American Film Critics Association has released its annual list of recipients for the 12th AAFCA Awards with Judas and the Black Messiah being named the year's Best Picture by the world's largest group of Black film critics. The Fred Hampton-Bill O’Neal drama took home the most awards with a Breakout Director…

"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…

This podcast was recorded before Sunday night’s Golden Globes:  Kemp Powers is on a roll this awards season, as the co-director and co-writer behind Disney-Pixar’s two-time Golden Globe animated feature winner Soul and the writer behind Amazon’s Regina King directed movie One Night Miami which has Powers up for WGA…

When Emmy and Oscar-winning actress Regina King visited Deadline’s New Hollywood Podcast, we learned a lot of behind-the-scenes intel about her feature directorial debut One Night In Miami, which has become an awards season frontrunner for King as well as the cast. In addition to that, we got to learn a lot about the…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: The Black Reel Awards (BRAs), an annual event that recognizes the excellence of African-Americans, as well as the cinematic achievements of the African diaspora in the global film industry, has unveiled the nominees for its 21st annual awards ceremony. The event, hosted by the Foundation for the…