Chadwick Boseman Honoured With Posthumous Emmy For Performance In Animated Marvel Series

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Chadwick Boseman’s final role has won him another award. On Saturday night at the 2022 Creative Arts Emmys, the late “Black Panther” star won Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance. READ MORE: Lupita Nyong’o Pays Tribute To Chadwick Boseman Two Years After His Death Boseman won the posthumous award for the Marvel animated series “What If…?”, in which he put a different spin on his superhero character, playing him as the “Guardians of the Galaxy” mash-up Star Lord T’Challa.

Also nominated this year for posthumous awards were Norm MacDonald and Jessica Walter, who was nominated in the same category at Boseman for her role in “Archer”. “When I learned that Chadwick had been nominated for this award, I started thinking about everything that was going on when he was recording it, what was going on in the world and what was going on in our world and being in such awe of his commitment and his dedication,” said Boseman’s widow Taylor Simone Ledward, accepting the prize on his behalf. “What a beautifully-aligned moment it really is, that one of the last things he would work on would not only be revisiting a character that was so important to him in his career and to the world, but also that it would be an exploration of something new, diving into a new potential future,” continued. READ MORE: Angela Bassett On Losing Co-Stars Like Whitney Houston And Chadwick Boseman: ‘The Loss Can Be Overwhelming’ Ledward concluded, “Particularly with everything he said about purpose and finding the reason that you are here on the planet at this very time and how you can’t understand your purpose unless you’re willing to ask, ‘What if?’ Unless you’re willing to say, ‘What if the universe is conspiring in my favor?