Viola Davis

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – DramaNominees:Cate Blanchett (TÁR)Olivia Colman (Empire of Light)Viola Davis (The Woman King)Ana de Armas (Blonde)Michelle Williams (The Fabelmans).

The Woman King is directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, and stars Viola Davis and South African Thuso Mbedu, along with Sheila Atim, Lashana Lynch and John Boyega. To describe it as an action film might be true, but it leaves out the social significance that might not be immediately obvious to people who are accustomed to seeing themselves represented on all levels of society.

Viola Davis and her Agojie all-female warriors shook the box office out of its doldrums and reigned supreme. The Woman King predicted to earn from $16 million to $18 million, made $19 million instead, catapulting the action-drama-history to the top.

Showtime’s series The First Lady centers on three women who lived at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in the years spanning 1933 to 2020.

CinemaCon, the annual NATO convention of theater owners, took place in Las Vegas at Caesar’s Palace on April 25-28, 2022. Movie studios presented trailers for their upcoming releases with the help of their stars and directors.

Gold teeth, gaudy make-up and a voice that shook buildings: the actress talks about her transformation into real life-mother of the Blues, Ma Rainey in this adaptation of the August Wilson play, and what it took her to become one with her part. .

Viola Davis is the first Black woman to win the triumvirate of an Academy Award, A Prime Time Emmy and two Tony Awards. As impressive is the mark she makes on the red carpet.

Viola Davis is an established performer with a long list of commanding characters among her many credits, including Annalise Keating in the hit small screen legal thriller How To Get Away With Murder, which last year wrapped its sixth and final season. But it’s still astonishing to behold the boldness and sheer dominating energy she brings to Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, in a role for which Davis recently received a Golden Globe nomination, her sixth overall, for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama.

The central figure in a stellar ensemble cast, Golden Globe winner Viola Davis shared with HFPA journalist Barbara Gasser the experience of being directed by Golden Globe nominee Steve McQueen in Widows, a heist drama with deep psychological insights – and how McQueen wooed her with a Sunday visit, and sushi.

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