{"id":12370,"date":"2021-02-02T23:54:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T23:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=12370"},"modified":"2021-02-04T01:11:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T01:11:40","slug":"zendaya-award-critics-choice-black-cinema","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/zendaya-award-critics-choice-black-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"Zendaya Adds Another Award To Her Growing Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12409\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12409\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignfull -width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12409 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/02\/malcolm-and-marie.jpg\" alt=\"Malcolm &amp; Marie\" width=\"1024\" height=\"553\" data-gz_credit=\"Netflix\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12409\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malcolm &amp; Marie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On the second evening of Black History Month,\u00a0 February 2, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.CriticsChoice.com.\" target=\"_blank\">Critics Choice Association<\/a> virtually presented the third annual Celebration of Black Cinema. This year\u2019s impressive group of honorees was comprised of visionary films, actors, producers, and directors who were honored for their work this season, and their ongoing commitment to telling Black stories on film.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Zendaya &amp; John David Washington accepts Celebration of Black Cinema  Award\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9D7Y84bDq30?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Zendaya and her <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/new-releases-film-series-stream-february-2021\/\"><em>Malcom &amp; Marie<\/em> <\/a>co-star, John David Washington, were honored with the NextGen Awards.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This has been such a special opportunity as a young Black woman to create something, believe in myself &#8211; that means financial, that means creatively and I&#8217;m so lucky I got to do it alongside such an incredible actor and scene partner and also my fellow producer, John David Washington,&#8221; the actress gushed in her acceptance speech.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To be able to explore the beauty of Black love and the power of Black love, how regal we looked, the intelligence of Black love and our relationship as Black people in the industry and the artistry,&#8221; her co-star added. &#8220;It was a dream come true to do this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Back in September, the <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/halle-berry-zendaya-virtual-panel\/\">25-year-old<\/a> won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, for her performance in the HBO Max series, <em>Euphoria,<\/em> becoming the youngest winner of the award. Over the years, she has also racked up honors from The People&#8217;s Choice Awards, The Black Reel Awards, Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards, Saturn Awards, Satellite Awards, Radio Disney Music Awards, Shorty Awards, and Teen Choice Awards.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12556\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12556\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12556\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1179070658.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12556\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ZURICH, SWITZERLAND &#8211; OCTOBER 04: (EDITORS NOTE : This image has been converted to black and white.) Zendaya attends the &#8220;Le Mans &#8217;66&#8221; premiere during the 15th Zurich Film Festival at Kino Corso on October 04, 2019 in Zurich, Switzerland. (Photo by Thomas Niedermueller\/Getty Images for ZFF)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yahya Abdul-Mateen II was honored at the Celebration of Black Cinema with the Breakthrough Award for his role as as Bobby Seale, the national chairman of the Black Panther Party in Aaron Sorkin&#8217;s acclaimed historical legal drama, <em>The Trial Of The Chicago 7<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The message of this film was very simple. It was a challenge to find our moral courage and to ask ourselves what we are willing to do when times get hard,&#8221; said the 34-year-old actor.<\/p>\n<p>Tessa Thompson was honored with the Actor Award for her role in the 1960s set Sylvie&#8217;s Love, which she also executive produced.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ma Rainey&#8217;s Black Bottom<\/em> star, Chadwick Boseman, who <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/celebrity-death-2020\/\">lost his battle with cancer<\/a> last August, was posthumously honored with the Performance of the Year Award. A special donation in the actor&#8217;s name will be designated to provide scholarships to students participating in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences\u2019 Gold Program. The Academy Gold Program is an industry talent development, diversity and inclusion initiative to provide individuals with a focus on underrepresented communities, access, and resources to achieve their career pathways in film making.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12394\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12394\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignfull -width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12394 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1134527335.jpg\" alt=\" Chadwick Boseman \" width=\"1024\" height=\"738\" data-gz_credit=\"Matt Winkelmeyer\/Getty Images for CinemaCon\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12394\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chadwick Boseman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Other honorees included <em>Da 5 Bloods<\/em> star, Delroy Lindo, with the Career Achievement Award, musicians, John Legend and Mike Jackson with the Producers Award, Shaka King with the Director Award for <em>Judas and the Black Messiah<\/em>, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge, and Leslie Odom, Jr. with the Ensemble Award for <em>One Night In Miami,<\/em> Andra Day with Special Honoree Award for <em>The United States vs. Billie Holiday<\/em> and Olympic gold medalist, Tommie Smith, with the Social Justice Award.<\/p>\n<p>The Celebration of Black Cinema honorees were f\u00eated by a prestigious group of presenters including Nnamdi Asomugha, Lee Daniels, Michael Ealy, Dominique Fishback, Taraji P. Henson, Daniel Kaluuya, Jonathan Majors, Kemp Powers, Aaron Sorkin, LaKeith Stanfield, Jesse Williams, and George C. Wolfe.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12378\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12378\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignfull -width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12378 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1300047635.jpg\" alt=\"Third Annual Celebration of Black Cinema\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-gz_credit=\"Getty Images for the Critics Choice Association\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12378\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bevy Smith<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The event, hosted by author and media personality, Bevy Smith, opened with a series of powerful photographs captured by Black filmmaker, Tommy Oliver (<em>40 Years A Prisoner,<\/em> <em>Black Love), <\/em>around Los Angeles in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. Oliver utilized his platform as a multi-hyphenate visual artist to channel the energy of the protests, seeking to inspire, incite, and challenge those who would see the final images.<\/p>\n<p>In partnership with Nexstar Media Group, KTLA will air the 90-minute <em>Celebration of Black Cinema<\/em> special in Los Angeles on Saturday night, February 6 and over 40 cities across the country \u2013 affiliates including WGN, WPHL, KDAF, and KRON \u2013 will air a 60-minute special throughout the month of February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26534,"featured_media":12557,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[23,16],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Zendaya Honored With NextGen Award At Celebration Of Black Cinema<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"At the third annual Critics Choice Association&#039;s Celebration of Black Cinema, held 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