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The end of this very long, and very unusual movie awards season is upon us. Final voting for the Oscars begins Thursday, and among those names on the Best Actress ballot is a first-time film actress, Andra Day, for her exceptional work playing Billie Holiday as she fights the government in director Lee Daniels’ The Uni…

It goes without saying that when performer lands the role of a cultural icon, there is a certain amount of pressure. Oscar-nominated actress Andra Day immediately felt it, when she found out she was going to play the legendary Billie Holiday in Lee Daniels' The United States vs. Billie Holiday. "It was all fear for…

Fresh off her surprise Golden Globes best actress win, The United States vs. Billie Holiday star Andra Day has secured her first career Oscar nomination. In Hulu’s The United State vs. Billie Holiday, Day transforms into the iconic jazz singer as she battles against the federal government to perform her controversial…

EXCLUSIVE: The United States vs. Billie Holiday, Hulu’s dramatic retelling of the “Strange Fruit” singer’s battle against the federal government, originated as a single chapter in Johann Hari’s 2015 book Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs. When tapped by director Lee Daniels to pen the…

AARP The Magazine on Thursday unveiled its winners for the annual Movies for Grownups Awards, handing Hulu’s The United States vs. Billie Holiday its top prize, Best Picture/Best Movie for Grownups. Sophia Loren for Netflix’s The Life Ahead and Anthony Hopkins for Sony Classics’ The Father were named Best Actor and…

EXCLUSIVE: Hulu is celebrating that Lee Daniels’ The United States vs. Billie Holiday was the streamer’s No. 1 most watched movie this past weekend. The news comes in the wake of Andra Day’s surprise Golden Globe Best Actress Motion Picture Drama win for her turn as Billie Holiday; the Grammy nominee becoming the…

Andra Day, star of The United States vs Billie Holiday, was the surprise winner Sunday in the tightly fought Golden Globes race for Best Actress in a Drama. The win further ratcheted up her chances to land a Best Actress Oscar nomination for the Lee Daniels-directed film, which examines the FBI and Federal Department…

First-time nominee Andra Day won the Golden Globe award tonight for her first major acting role as legendary blues artist and civil rights icon Billie Holiday in The United States vs. Billie Holiday. Day becomes the second Black woman to win this award since Whoopie Goldberg for 1985’s The Color Purple. A visibly…

It is always entertaining and informative when I get the chance to talk with Lee Daniels, as I did for this week’s edition of my Deadline video series Behind the Lens. He is unapologetically honest and authentic in talking about this business, his career, his influences and why he is so happy to be back behind the…

Sony Pictures Classics is set to release awards contender The Father in select New York and Los Angeles theaters today before expanding nationwide March 12 before landing on PVOD on March 26. That’s quite a theater-to-digital journey for the Florian Zeller-directed drama starring Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman. The…

EXCLUSIVE: Billie Holiday is getting the feature treatment in The United States vs. Billie Holiday and now she's also getting a podcast. Audible is launching Billie Was a Black Woman, written, created and hosted by Rebecca Carroll. The four-part series refract Black womanhood through the prism of the life of legendary…

It was less than a week into filming The United States vs. Billie Holiday when Andra Day found herself on set singing "Strange Fruit" in front of an audience filled with extras. They were playing police waiting to arrest the singer for uttering even a word of her politically charged and, at the time, banned song. "I…