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    Netflix Tops NAACP Image Awards With 47 Nominations, Including 2 For Chadwick Boseman

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    This image released by Netflix shows Michael Potts, from left, Chadwick Boseman and Colman Domingo in "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom." Boseman was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for outstanding actor in a motion picture for his performance in the film. Boseman was also nominated in the supporting actor in a motion picture for his role in the SPike Lee film "Da 5 Bloods." (David Lee/Netflix via AP)

    By Jonathan Landrum Jr., Entertainment Writer

    LOS ANGELES (AP) --

    With his final two performances, the late Chadwick Boseman earned two NAACP Image Awards nominations Tuesday, while "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" could make its presence felt at next month's ceremony.

    Boseman scored nods for his work in the Netflix films "Da 5 Bloods" and "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom." The actor, who starred in the blockbuster Marvel film "Black Panther," died at 43 last year after privately battling colon cancer.

    "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" came away with nine nominations. The film delves into the story of blues singer Ma Rainey, who joins her band during a turbulent recording session at a Chicago music studio in 1927.

    The nominees were announced on the organization's Instagram page by Chloe Bailey, Anika Noni Rose and Nicco Annan, along with T.C. Carson and Erika Alexander. 

    Netflix emerged with a leading 48 nominations. Besides the two films Boseman starred in, the streaming giant released other projects like "Bridgerton" and "#blackAF." 

    HBO received 25 nominations.

    Regina King, who won an Academy Award in 2019, has created some Oscar buzz with her feature film directorial debut in "One Night in Miami," which earned four nominations. The Amazon Studios film tells the story of a meeting between Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown and Sam Cooke in a hotel room that turned into a discussion about their roles in the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

    King will compete for entertainer of the year against Tyler Perry, Viola Davis, Trevor Noah and D-Nice, the deejay who created a virtual remedy for pandemic lockdown blues with Homeschool at Club Quarantine on his Instagram.

    "One Night in Miami" will compete for outstanding motion picture along with "Bad Boys for Life," "Da 5 Bloods," "Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey" and "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom." 

    LeBron James, Stacey Abrams, Debbie Allen, April Ryan and Tamika Mallory were nominated in the social justice impact category. 

    In music, Beyoncé scored six nominations in the recording categories, including two for outstanding music video/visual album with "Black is King" and "Brown Skin Girl."

    The nominees for outstanding album include Alicia Key's "Alicia," Brandy's "b7," John Legend's "Bigger Love," Ledisi's "The Wild Card" and "Chilombo" by Jhene Aiko. 

    HarperCollins Publishers led with nine nominations in the literary categories.

    The awards honoring entertainers and writers of color will air on CBS on March 27 at 8 p.m. EST. The awards will also simulcast on BET, MTV, VH1, MTV2, BET HER and LOGO.

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    What To Stream: “”Mother Mary,” “Outer Banks” and Steven Soderbergh’s “The Christophers”

    Monday, August 17, 2026

    The final season of "Outer Banks" and a new album from Anthony Hopkins (yes, Sir Anthony Hopkins) are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.

    Also among the streaming offerings worth your time this week, as selected by The Associated Press' entertainment journalists: Weezer's 20th album, the survival horror game "The Sinking City 2" and "Mother Mary," which kicked off Anne Hathaway's incredibly prolific year in theaters.

    New movies to stream from Aug. 17-23
    — Anne Hathaway's epic year at the movies (which is still going at full throttle with "The End of Oak Street" and the upcoming "Verity") didn't start with "The Devil Wears Prada 2" or "The Odyssey," but with "Mother Mary," David Lowery's experimental film about a pop star (Hathaway) and her estranged designer (Michaela Coel). In his review for the AP, Film Writer Jake Coyle called it "a fitfully spellbinding chamber drama that grows more operatic with every stitch," adding that "Hathaway makes not just a believable pop star but an indelible portrait of an artist's ego in extremes." But, Coyle wrote, "the movie belongs to Coel … 'Mother Mary' is the story of an exorcism, and she's the exorcist." It debuts on HBO Max on Friday.

    — Coel also stars in one of the year's best two-handers, "The Christophers," which arrives on Hulu on Saturday. Written by Ed Solomon and directed by Steven Soderbergh, the film is a kind of heist movie in disguise, in which a pair of wannabe heirs (James Corden and Jessica Gunning) hire a restoration specialist and sometimes forger (Coel) to covertly finish a series of paintings by their famous father Julian Sklar (Ian McKellen). In my review, I wrote that it was "a meditation on art, legacy,... Read More

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