Kingsley Ben-Adir is being campaigned as a leading man at the Oscars for his role as civil rights leader Malcolm X in the drama “One Night in Miami.” If he’s nominated, he wouldn’t be the first to contend for Best Actor for this role. Denzel Washington‘s first Oscar nom as a leading man came for his starring role in Spike Lee‘s 1992 biopic “Malcolm X.” But Washington didn’t win that contest. Can Ben-Adir win where Washington couldn’t?
See‘One Night in Miami’ Oscar categories: Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Goree in lead; Aldis Hodge, Leslie Odom, Jr. in supporting
The 1992 Best Actor contest was memorable in that it pitted Washington’s critically hailed performance (he won prizes ranging from the New York Film Critics Circle to the MTV Movie Award) against the long-overdue Al Pacino for “Scent of a Woman.” Pacino had never won despite seven previous nominations,...
See‘One Night in Miami’ Oscar categories: Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Goree in lead; Aldis Hodge, Leslie Odom, Jr. in supporting
The 1992 Best Actor contest was memorable in that it pitted Washington’s critically hailed performance (he won prizes ranging from the New York Film Critics Circle to the MTV Movie Award) against the long-overdue Al Pacino for “Scent of a Woman.” Pacino had never won despite seven previous nominations,...
- 12/11/2020
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
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