Black in Period Films

Tonight was a big night for black actors and creatives in period films! Below are a list of all of the nominations and winners that apply to the Blacks in Period Films designation! Best Picture Black Panther BlacKkKlansman Bohemian Rhapsody The Favourite Roma A Star is Born Vice Winner: Green Book Best Director Winner: Roma - Alfonso Cuarón BlacKkKlansman - Spike Lee  Cold War - Paweł Pawlikowski The Favourite - Yorgos Lanthimos Vice - Adam McKay Best Supporting Actress Amy Adams - Vice Marina de Tavira - Roma Emma Stone - The Favourite Rachel Weisz - The Favourite Winner: Regina King - If Beale Street Could Talk Best Supporting Actor Adam Driver - BlacKkKlansman Sam Elliot - A Star is Born Richard E. Grant - Can You Ever Forgive Me? Sam Rockwell - Vice Winner: Mahershala Ali - Green Book Best Original Score Winner: Black Panther - Ludwig Goransson BlacKkKlansmen - Terence Blanchard If Beale Stre...

Here is a  list of 2019 Golden Globe Winners for Blacks in Period Films fans: Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy “Crazy Rich Asians” “The Favourite” “Green Book” “Mary Poppins Returns” “Vice”  Best Actress in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture Amy Adams (“Vice”) Claire Foy (“First Man”) Regina King (“If Beale Street Could Talk”) Emma Stone (“The Favourite”) Rachel Weisz (“The Favourite”)  Best Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture Mahershala Ali (“Green Book”) Timothee Chalamet (“Beautiful Boy”) Adam Driver (“BlacKkKlansman”) Richard E. Grant (“Can You Ever Forgive Me?”) Sam Rockwell (“Vice”) Best Screenplay – Motion Picture Alfonso Cuaron (“Roma”) Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara (“The Favourite”) Barry Jenkins (“If Beale Street Could Talk”) Adam McKay (“Vice”) Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga, Brian Currie (“Green Book”) 

Here is a highlighted list of 2019 Golden Globe Nominations for Blacks in Period Films fans: Best Motion Picture – Drama “Black Panther” “BlacKkKlansman” “Bohemian Rhapsody” “If Beale Street Could Talk” “A Star Is Born” Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama Bradley Cooper (“A Star Is Born”) Willem Dafoe (“At Eternity’s Gate”) Lucas Hedges (“Boy Erased”) Rami Malek (“Bohemian Rhapsody”) John David Washington (“BlacKkKlansman”) Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy “Crazy Rich Asians” “The Favourite” “Green Book” “Mary Poppins Returns” “Vice” Best Actress in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture Amy Adams (“Vice”) Claire Foy (“First Man”) Regina King (“If Beale Street Could Talk”) Emma Stone (“The Favourite”) Rachel Weisz (“The Favourite”) Best Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture Mahershala Ali (“Green Book”) Timothee Chalamet (“Beautiful Boy”) Adam Driver (“BlacKkKlansman”) Richard E. Grant (“Can You Ever Forgive Me?”) Sam Rockwell (“Vice”) B...

Peter Farrelly’s Green Book deserves a round of applause for its win this weekend at The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The Toronto International Film Festival Grolsch People's Choice Award is an annual film award, presented by the Toronto International Film Festival to the film rated as the year's most popular film with festival audiences. The film portrays the true story of Don Shirley, an African-American classical pianist (Mahershala Ali) and his working-class Italian-American chauffeur Tony Lip (Viggo Mortensen) as they go on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South. The name of the film is taken from the famous Negro Motorist Green Book Book by Victor Hugo Green. The book served as a guide to help black travelers safely traverse the violent segregated south. Barry Jenkins' take on James Baldwin's novel If Beale Street Could Talk, came in as first runner up. Previous winners include 12 Years a Slave in 2013  and Hotel Rwanda ...

Set during the Civil War, the drama follows the true story of defiant Southern farmer, Newt Knight, and his extraordinary armed rebellion against the Confederacy: banding together with other small farmers and with the assistance of local slaves, Knight launched an uprising that led Jones County, Mississippi to secede from the Confederacy, creating a Free State of Jones. His marriage to a former slave, Rachel, and his subsequent establishment of a mixed race community was unique in the post-war South. Knight continued his struggle into Reconstruction, distinguishing him as a compelling, if controversial, figure of defiance long beyond the War. Gugu Mbatha-Raw is playing his mixed race wife Rachel and Mahershala Ali is playing a runaway slave named Moses Washington.  I can honestly say this is one of the first movies centered around a Confederate solider that I am actually looking forward to.