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Actress, producer and director Niecy Nash (Getting On, When They See Us) is set to host the virtual ceremony for the 32nd annual GLAAD Media Awards which will stream on YouTube April 8 at 8pm ET. For the first time ever, the ceremony will also stream on Hulu on April 8 at 10pm ET. The 32nd Annual GLAAD Media Awards…

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…

UPDATED, 7:35 PM: Days ahead of its annual Golden Globe Awards, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has responded to criticism about the lack of diversity among its ranks. The group was the target of a scathing exposé by the Los Angeles Times on Sunday that noted HFPA has no Black journalists among its 87…

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…

George Clooney will receive the Cinema Audio Society's Filmmaker Award during the virtual 57th annual CAS Awards ceremony on April 17. "George embodies a strength of character that not only shows in the integrity and preeminence of his works but in the way he regards and is regarded by his creative teams and…

The African American Film Critics Association announced that Ma Rainey's Black Bottom director George C. Wolfe, Mariah Carey, streaming giant Netflix, and voter suppression documentary, All In: The Fight for Democracy will receive AAFCA Special Achievement Awards at the 12th Annual AAFCA Awards, taking place April…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. Will this now-eight-month awards season ever end? In a normal year, the way it was originally planned, we’d be spending this Valentine's Day weekend checking out the BAFTA Awards and prepping for the Oscars just two weeks from now. Instead Monday…

EXCLUSIVE: The Oscar Animated Feature race just got reduced by one. Paramount and Nickelodeon’s The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run has withdrawn from the competition, so now instead of 27 entries — as the Academy announced on January 28 — there are 26 remaining, providing all of them meet eligibility requirements…

Continuing its recent nominations rout at the Golden Globes and SAG nominations last week, Netflix starts this week in the same mode scoring 46 noms in the Critics Choice Awards, with David Fincher’s Mank landing in an impressive 12 categories to lead the field. A24’s tender drama of a Korean American family seeking a…

“Chadwick Bosman was an amazing artist. We’ve all been thrilled, and excited, and overwhelmed by the depth of his work,” said Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom director George C. Wolfe who presented the late actor Chadwick Bosman with Performance of the Year Award at Critics' Choice Association’s virtual annual celebration Of…

At a virtual ceremony, Natalie Qasabian was awarded the 2021 Sundance Institute / Amazon Studios Producers Award for Fiction Filmmaking  for her film, Run. The awards honor bold vision and a commitment to continuing work as a creative producer in the independent space. Qasabian's husband/partner Sev Ohanian won the…

The Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) has revealed its annual Top Ten List as well as winners of its film awards which was topped by Nomadland. In addition, The Chloé Zhao American wanderlust drama was named Best Picture. Also on the list is Pixar’s Soul which was also named Best Animated Feature. "This list of…