Regina King wins Critics Choice Award for her role in HBO’s Watchmen

Let’s just come out and say it. Regina King is one of the most talented actors of this or any other generation, and she had a storage unit full of awards to prove it.

King took home another award last night by winning the Best Actress in a Drama Series category at the 25th annual Critics Choice Awards. She won for her role as Angela Abar/Sister Night in the HBO series Watchmen.

This is Regina King’s 3rd Critics Choice Award. She has won previously for her work in the movie If Beale Street Could Talk and the television series American Crime.

Regina King, Mahershala Ali win best supporting actor/actress Oscars at the 2019 Academy Awards

Regina King is now an Oscar winner and Mahershala Ali is a now a two time Academy Award winner. Both won awards in the Best Supporting Actor/Actress categories.

Regina King won her first Oscar to go along with three Emmy Awards. The actress was awarded the best supporting actress statue on Sunday for her role in Barry Jenkins' "If Beale Street Could Talk," in which she plays Sharon Rivers, a matriarch whose spirit is as strong as her love for her family. Watch her acceptance speech below:

Mahershala Ali took home his second supporting actor Oscar in three years on Sunday night, for his role as the black pianist Don Shirley in “Green Book,”. Ali won two years ago, his supporting performance in “Moonlight' and with this win Ali joins Denzel Washington as the only other black actor to win multiple Oscars. Watch his acceptance speech below"

Regina King wins Best Supporting Female for IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK at the 2019 Spirit Awards!

Regina King won the Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female for her role in If Beale Street Could Talk. Watch her acceptance speech below:

The Spirit Awards were founded in 1994 to recognize the talent both in front of and behind the camera in independent films. Check out a complete list of the winners here: https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/here-are-the-winners-of-the-2019-film-independent-spirit-awards/

If Beale Street Could Talk wins 'Best Feature' at 34th annual Spirit Awards

Barry Jenkins film adaption of James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk won the award for Best Feature at the 34th annual Spirit Awards. Watch Jenkins award speech below:

Barry Jenkins film also took home two more honors with Regina King winning the award for Best Supporting Female and Mr. Jenkins himself winning in the Best Director category.

The Spirit Awards were founded in 1994 to recognize the talent both in front of and behind the camera in independent films.

Check out a complete list of the winners here: https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/here-are-the-winners-of-the-2019-film-independent-spirit-awards/

Black Panther, Blackkklansman, and If Beale Street Could Talk nominated for Golden Globe best picture award

By George L. Cook II AfricanAmericanReports.Com

Nominations for the 76th annual Golden Globe Awards were announced on Thursday morning show live from the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

Three films with black directors and predominantly black cast were nominated in the Golden Globes Best Picture-Drama category. Those three films are Black Panther (directed by Ryan Coogler) , Blackkklansman (directed by Spike Lee), and If Beale Street Could Talk (directed by Barry Jenkins).

Blackkklansman received three other nominations. The film was also nominated for best director (Spike Lee) best actor (John David Washington) and best-supporting actor (Adam Driver).

If Beale Street Could Talk also had Regina King nominated in the Best Actress in a Supporting Role in any Motion Picture and Barry Jenkins for Best Screenplay-Motion Picture (“If Beale Street Could Talk”)

Marvel's Black Panther was nominated in the Best Original Score category (Ludwig Goransson), Best Original Song-Motion Picture for the Kendrick Lamar and SZA song "All the Stars."

Although Green Book was not directed by a black director its worth noting that Mahershala Ali was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting in Any Movie.