critics in the entertainment industry and their honors have successfully predicted Academy Award winners since the late seventies.
For the past eleven years each film they nominated for Best Picture has been nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom won several awards. Chadwick Boseman was post posthumously named Best Actor for his portrayal of the talented and ambitious musician Levee.
Glynn Turman won Best Supporting Actor. He played the pensive piano player who dismisses Levee’s schemes to upstage the lead of their band.
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