According to report reaching oyogist.com, Chadwick Boseman earned a posthumous Golden Globes nomination for lead actor in a motion picture, drama, his first nod from the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.
The late actor, who died in August at the age of 43 after a three-year-long battle with colon cancer, was nominated for his role as Levee, a gifted but troubled trumpet player in Netflix’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” Directed by George C. Wolfe, the 1920s-set story was adapted by Ruben Santiago-Hudson from the August Wilson play.
That would make the “Black Panther” star the fifth actor to receive a posthumous best lead actor Oscar nomination alongside James Dean (“East of Eden” and “Giant”), Peter Finch (“Network”), Spencer Tracy (“Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?”) and Massimo Troisi (“Il Postino”). Heath Ledger and Ralph Richardson received posthumous supporting actor nods for “The Dark Knight” and “Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes,” respectively.
