Best Television Limited Series, Anthology Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Black Bird is a six-episode crime drama miniseries based on the 2010 autobiographical novel In with the Devil: A Fallen Hero, A Serial Killer, and a Dangerous Bargain for Redemption written by James Keene.
The show stars Golden Globe winner Taron Egerton as James Keene Jr., a former promising football star sentenced to ten years for dealing narcotics. In jail he is offered a chance to get his freedom back, but, in order to do so, he needs to befriend another inmate and make him confess to fourteen homicides. Paul Walter Hauser, seen in Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell, and last year Craig Gillespie’s Cruella, plays serial killer Lawrence “Larry” Hall, whose confession will be Keene’s way out.
Black Bird also features one of the last screen performances by the late Ray Liotta who plays James “Big Jim” Keene, Jimmy’s father.
The show was developed for Apple TV+ by Dennis Lehane, the Boston-native author of several novels adapted to the screen, including Golden Globe-nominated Mystic River that garnered Golden Globe awards for Sean Penn and Tim Robbins and a Best Director nomination for Eastwood in 2004.
Black Bird has been nominated for three Golden Globe Awards. In the Best Television Limited Series category, while Egerton received his second nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series, and Hauser as a first-time nominee for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Limited Series.