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Recording Studio | Chicago, Illinois
Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Adapted from August Wilson's play.
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Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Adapted from August Wilson's play.
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Best Female Lead | 2021 | Viola
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Best Actress | 2021 | Viola
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Best Adapted Screenplay | 2021 | Ruben
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Best Actor | 2021 | Chadwick
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Best Adapted Screenplay | 2021 | Ruben
Best Costume Design | 2021 | Ann
Best Use of Music in a Film | 2021
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Best Adapted Screenplay | 2021 | Ruben
Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama | 2021 | Viola
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Best Actor | 2021 | Chadwick
Best Actress | 2021 | Viola
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Best Director | 2020 | George C.
Best Actress | 2020 | Viola
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Best Supporting Actor | 2020 | Colman
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In 2015, Denzel Washington announced that he would be bringing all ten of August Wilson's "Century Cycle" plays to the big or small screen. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is the second filmed Wilson adaptation Washington has produced in this cycle, after Fences (2016). In September 2020, Washington told the New York Times that the third film in the series would be The Piano Lesson, and that he hoped to cast his own son John David Washington and Samuel L. Jackson, with Barry Jenkins directing.
Denzel Washington, who produced this film, was a mentor to Chadwick Boseman since his college years. When Denzel Washington received his 2019 AFI Lifetime Achievement Award, Boseman recounted that he was one of nine of Phylicia Rashad's Howard University acting students for whom Washington paid the full summer-program tuition at the British Academy of Dramatic Acting in Oxford.
This is Viola Davis' second appearance in a film adaptation of a play by August Wilson. She previously appeared in Fences (2016), which garnered her an Academy Award.
This is Chadwick Boseman's last film. He died on August 28, 2020, after a 4-year battle with colon cancer. Unbeknownst to his fellow cast members, Boseman was receiving cancer treatment while filming this movie.
Singer Maxayn Lewis provides most of the vocals for Ma Rainey. However, when Ma Rainey sings "These Dogs of Mine" while fondling Dussie Mae (Taylour Paige), it is Viola Davis's actual voice.
"Ma Rainey: They don't care nothin' about me. All they want is my voice. Well, I done learned that. And they gonna treat me the way I wanna be treated, no matter how much it hurt them."
"Levee: Life ain't shit. You can put it in a paper bag and carry it around with you. It ain't got no balls. Now death... . death got some style. Death will kick your ass and make you wish you never been born. That's how bad death is. But you can rule over life. Life ain't nothing. Nigga talking about life is fair and ain't got a pot to piss in."
