Carla Hay

1 month ago | blacknewsandviews.com | Carla Hay

There’s no question that winning prizes at a televised awards show can increase an artist’s visibility and clout. But for the awards season so far in 2025, Black actors and Black actresses in TV shows have been getting snubbed at televised awards shows open to all racial groups. At this year’s Golden Globe Awards, Critics Choice Awards, and the Screen Actors Guild Awards, no Black artists won in categories for TV actors and TV actresses.

1 month ago | blacknewsandviews.com | Carla Hay

Afro-Latina actress Zoe Saldaña won an Oscar for Best Actress in Supporting Role and costume designer Paul Tazewell made history as the first Black man to win the award for Best Costume Design during Sunday’s 97th annual Academy Awards ceremony, broadcast live from Los Angeles.

1 month ago | blacknewsandviews.com | Carla Hay

Resilience and unity were recurring themes at the 56th annual NAACP Image Awards, held Saturday at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California, and hosted by actor/comedian Deon Cole. Former Vice President Kamala Harris, recipient of the Chairman’s Award, spoke about persistence in adversity during her acceptance speech. The Chairman’s Award is the  ceremony’s highest prize in the noncompetitive categories.

Jan 17, 2025 | blacknewsandviews.com | Carla Hay

Black families haunted by the past, trying to survive the present and holding hope for the future are themes of the Netflix dramatic film “The Piano Lesson,” adapted from August Wilson’s Pulitzer-winning play. With a family at the center of the story, it’s perhaps fitting that making “The Piano Lesson” was a family project for Oscar-winner Denzel Washington and three of his children.

Jan 17, 2025 | blacknewsandviews.com | Carla Hay

The dramatic film “Nickel Boys,” directed by RaMell Ross, takes Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2019 novel “The Nickel Boys” and has made the book into uniquely visual cinematic art, resulting in one of the most acclaimed movies of 2024. Orion Pictures, a subsidiary of Amazon MGM Studios, is releasing “Nickel Boys” in theaters on Friday. “The Nickel Boys” book is loosely based on the real-life story of the Florida School for Boys, also known as the Arthur G.