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One night in Miami..., 2020

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One Night in Miami... (2020, Regina King, USA)

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Not enough people are talking about Leslie Odom Jr as Sam Cooke in One Night in Miami.

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One Night in Miami... (2020), directed by Regina King; based on the stage play "One Night In Miami..." by Kemp Powers

Kingsley Ben-Adir as Malcolm X; Eli Goree as Cassius Clay; Aldis Hodge as Jim Brown; Leslie Odom Jr. as Sam Cooke

Nominations for the 93rd Academy Awards:

1. Performance by an actor in a supporting role Leslie Odom, Jr.

2. Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song) "Speak Now" music and lyric by Leslie Odom, Jr. and Sam Ashworth https://mymoviemania-oscar-2021.tumblr.com/post/649400310968762368/nominations-for-the-93rd-academy-awards

3. Adapted screenplay Kemp Powers

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Netflix’s One Night in Miami – an Idealized Meeting of Icons – Debuts Jan. 15

  Edited by Naomi Richard

    On the evening of February 25, 1964, four icons of sports, entertainment and activism celebrated one of the greatest upsets in boxing history in a modest motel room in Miami. After claiming the World Heavyweight title for the first time, Cassius Clay (Eli Goree) — who would soon change his name to Muhammad Ali — got together with three friends: human rights activist Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir), music superstar Sam Cooke (Leslie Odom Jr.) and football legend and emerging action-movie hero Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge).  

    One Night In Miami… is a fictional imagining of the historic night these towering figures spent together. Unbeknownst to the others, Malcolm X, who is about to embark on a bold new undertaking that will put him in grave personal danger, has arranged the gathering in the hope of winning Clay’s support. As the evening progresses in surprising ways, the four men engage in passionate debate about their roles as celebrities and leaders at a pivotal moment in the Civil Rights Movement. 

   Director Regina King with Eli Goree on the set of ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI. Photo: Patti Perret/Amazon Studios

     Directed by Academy Award-winner Regina King and written by Kemp Powers based on his award-winning play, One Night In Miami is set on the verge of the momentous political and cultural upheaval of the 1960s.  Today, more than 50 years later, the vital urgency of these trailblazers’ conversations — about racial injustice, about what it means to be successful as a person of color, and concerning the social responsibilities that come with that success — still resonate.

    One Night In Miami also stars Joaquina Kalukango, Nicolette Robinson, Beau Bridges and Lance Reddick. The producers are Jess Wu Calder, Keith Calder and Jody Klein. Executive producers are Regina King, Kemp Powers, Paul O. Davis and Chris Harding.

     Leslie Odom Jr. stars in ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI Photo: Patti Perret/Amazon Studios

         The idea for his play came to Kemp Powers when he learned that after Cassius Clay’s first defeat of Sonny Liston, the 22-year-old Clay went back to the Hampton House Motel in Overtown, Florida — an oasis for African Americans visiting segregated Miami — where he spent an evening in conversation with friends Malcolm X, Sam Cooke and Jim Brown.  

      “It was just one paragraph in a book I was reading about the intersection of sports and the Civil Rights Movement, but it kind of blew my mind,” recalls Powers. “I had to go back and read it a few more times. And then I couldn’t get it out of my mind. After all, these were four of my heroes.”

        Powers says he became obsessed with learning everything he could about how these four men knew each other and why they converged in Malcolm X’s motel room that night. He read multiple biographies and dug up interviews to understand who they were and what their connection was.  Powers reasoned, “The more I learned about them, the more it seemed natural they would have been drawn to one another. They were unapologetic in their art. They were unapologetic in their political beliefs. And in the early 1960s to be a free, unapologetic Black man was quite a rarity.”

      Don’t miss this Netflix Classic set for release January 15, 2021, and for more information visit www.onenightinmiami.movie.

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