Mahershala Ali

It was his first win and second nomination, when Mahershala Ali took to the stage as Best Supporting Actor in Green Book in 2019 and gave the most gracious speech, honoring his director Peter Farrelly and his co-stars Viggo Mortensen and Linda Cardellini. .

Truth be told, 2016 was a good year for Golden Globe nominee Mahershala Ali. He had been playing the role of President Francis Underwood’s press secretary on the Golden Globe-winning series House of Cards for three seasons.

Pink popped, like frosting on the carpet. Men went staid except for Billy Porter, in a Disney silhouette – fitted bodice, flounced skirt for the most part.

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Mahershala Ali, nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture Globe in 2016 for Moonlight, (for which he won at the Academy), has another shot at the Globe this year, albeit in a vastly different role. Ali could play any role with ease and conviction, transforming from a tough yet sensitive drug dealer in Moonlight to high-class artist.

Director Peter Farrelly, one half of the sibling duo more noted for broad quirky comedies like Dumb and Dumber and There's Something About Mary, takes a more traditional turn with Green Book, a road movie biopic set in 1962. The movie recounts the true story of Dr.

Shine is here for the season, yellow, pink and ‘unusual' continue their climb into normal.

The movie that the New Orleans Film Festival picked for their opening night could not have been better: director Peter Farrelly's Green Book is based on the true story of African American concert pianist Don Shirley, who decides to tour the Deep South. A great idea except it is 1962 and he needs protection, so the record company hires Italian-American New Yorker Tony “Lip” Vallelonga to drive him around and run interference in dicey situations.

Green Book, a sleeper hit among the big hits of Toronto International Film Festival, won the event’s People’s Choice Award. In previous years, TIFF’s audience prize has launched the trajectory of several films, among them Slumdog Millionaire, 12 Years a Slave, The King’s Speech, American Beauty and Chariots of Fire.

Even as American policy cracks down on immigration from Muslim majority countries, there are signs that in Hollywood attitudes are changing towards practitioners of that religion. While official policy out of Washington may constitute an official endorsement of islamophobia, this year, for first time in its history, the Academy honored a Muslim actor, Mahershala Ali.