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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

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    • August Wilson
      In August Wilson

      …was later made into a movie (2020). Fences, first produced in 1985 and published in 1986, is about a conflict between a father and his son in the 1950s; it received a Tony Award for best play, and a film adaptation was released in 2016.

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    • Boseman
      • Chadwick Boseman
        In Chadwick Boseman

        …and gifted musician Levee in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020), based on the play by August Wilson, was a tour de force, for which he received a posthumous Academy Award nomination. It was his final role. Boseman died of colon cancer on August 28, 2020, and it was revealed that…

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    • Davis
      • Viola Davis: Emmy Award, 2015
        In Viola Davis

        …nomination—for her starring turn in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020), an adaptation of Wilson’s play about the legendary blues singer. Davis subsequently appeared in the crime drama The Unforgivable (2021), about a convicted murderer (Sandra Bullock) seeking redemption after being released from prison. In the debut season (2022) of The…

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