Delroy Lindo: ‘The British empire informs how racism manifests in the UK’ Annabel Nugent © Provided by The Independent
Delroy Lindo is hopeful. The Lewisham-born actor, who made it big in Hollywood via films such as
Get Shorty,
Clockers and
Malcolm X, is feeling positive about a lot of things. He’s hopeful about the Black Lives Matter movement, the diversity in stories that are being told on screen, the Oscar chatter that hums quietly around his name. It is all caveated, though, with a caution that manifests in his expression as a knitted brow and in his speech as a spattering of qualifiers and addendums. The phrase “only time will tell” regularly crops up in our conversation like a wagging finger.
Delroy Lindo: The British empire informs how racism manifests in the UK
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Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods, Starring Chadwick Boseman, Named Best Film of 2020 by National Board of Review People 1/26/2021
Da 5 Bloods has been named the best film of 2020 by the National Board of Review.
The NBR announced its 2020 award winners on Tuesday with Lee, 63, taking home the award for best director.
Along with the film and Lee being honored, Chadwick Boseman, who starred in the film, was posthumously awarded the NBR Icon Award, an honor that celebrates the cinematic contributions that are meaningful to history, culture and excellence in motion pictures. The NBR is proud to honor
Da 5 Bloods, Spike Lee, and the film s incredible ensemble cast, along with all of our 2020 awardees, said NBR President Annie Schulhof. Lee is one of our greatest filmmakers, a bold auteur with a cinematic vision and an astute perspective on human relationships, focusing at times on that intersection between the personal and the political.