82nd Golden Globe® Nominations Announced
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David Oyelowo

David Oyelowo (born in Oxford, England, April 1, 1976), a British Nigerian theater actor, acted in The Paperboy (2012) with Nicole Kidman in The Butler (2013) with Forest Whitaker, both directed by Lee Daniels, A Most Violent Year (2014) by J.C. Chandor. He was directed by Ava DuVernay in Middle of Nowhere (2012) and in Selma (2014) where he played Martin Luther King. On television he acted in BBC’s Small Island (2009), HBO’s Nightingale (2015). In 2016 he acted in Nina with Zoe Saldana, A United Kingdom with Rosamund Pike, Queen of Katwe by Mira Nair with Lupita Nyong’o. Oyelowo acted in Gringo (2018) with Charlize Theron and Joel Edgerton, The Midnight Sky (2020) directed by George Clooney, Chaos Walking (2021) by Doug Liman, See How They Run (2022).

On television he played Javert in Les Misérables (2019), acted in The Girl Before (2021) with Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Silo (2023) with Rebecca Ferguson, Lawmen: Bass Reeves (2023).

Read David Oyelowo (Selma) by Elisabeth Sereda.

Golden Globe Awards

  • 2024 Nominee
    Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or a Motion Picture Made for Television
  • 2016 Nominee
    Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or a Motion Picture Made for Television
  • 2015 Nominee
    Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama