Chadwick Boseman Remembered During 2022 Oscar Nominations

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Chadwick Boseman once again.During Tuesday's live-streamed announcement of the 2022 Oscar nominees, Phylicia Rashad and students at Howard University's newly-renamed Chadwick A.

Boseman College of Fine Arts helped announced the Best Actor category, in which Boseman was nominated just last year, for his performance in «All of our students here are so inspired by Chadwick Boseman, a Howard grad who was so committed to this university,» Rashad said. «And, as you know, Chadwick was nominated last year for Best Actor, and we are so honored to announce the nominees in this category.»Student John Woods III then announced the nominees, which included Denzel Washington forBoseman and Washington shared a special connection even before the  star — who died in August 2020 at age 43 after a four-year battle with colon cancer -- made it big.

Washington famously helped pay for his and several other Howard University students' acting programs at England's Oxford University.In fact, in a 2018 interview, Boseman revealed that it was Rashad, who was one of Boseman's professors at the time, who had reached out to celebrity friends, including Washington, to ask to sponsor students.Boseman also thanked Washington in a speech during the  star's American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award ceremony in 2019.“Many of you already know the story that Mr.

Washington, when asked by Phylicia Rashad to join her in assisting nine theater students from Howard University who had been accepted to a summer acting program at the British Academy of Dramatic Acting in Oxford, gracefully and privately agreed to contribute," Boseman recalled. «As fate would have it, I was one of the students that he paid for…Imagine receiving the letter that your tuition.