{"id":17540,"date":"2021-03-15T18:12:03","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T18:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=17540"},"modified":"2021-04-26T01:29:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T01:29:51","slug":"beyonce-grammys-viola-davis-oscars","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/beyonce-grammys-viola-davis-oscars\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyonc\u00e9 Kicked Off What Could Be A Historic Award Season For Black Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17543\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17543\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignfull -width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignfull-width size-large wp-image-17543\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/03\/beyonce-black-women-award-season-grazia.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Beyonc\u00e9\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17543\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beyonc\u00e9 at the 2021 Grammys (Photo: Kevin Winter\/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/every-winner-2021-grammy-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2021 Grammy Awards<\/a> were a historic night for Black women. On Sunday, March 14, Mickey Guyton was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/music\/story\/2021-03-14\/mickey-guyton-black-female-solo-country-grammys-2021\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the first Black female country singer to perform<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on the Grammys while <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/dua-lipa-cardi-b-megan-thee-stallion-performance-grammys\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Megan Thee Stallion<\/a> won Best New Artist \u2014 and was the first female rapper to do so since Lauryn Hill took home the award in 1999 for her album, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/beyonce-icy-park-launch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beyonc\u00e9<\/a> led the night with nine nominations (the most of any artist in 2021), taking home four Grammy wins: Best Video For <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/blue-ivy-carter-first-grammy-award\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cBrown Skin Girl,\u201d<\/a> \u2014 which also earned her 9-year-old daughter Blue Ivy, who has a writing credit, a statue \u2014 Best Rap Performance and Best Rap song for \u201cSavage\u201d with Megan Thee Stallion but it was Best R&amp;B Performance for \u201cBlack Parade,\u201d that earned the singer her 28th Grammy win.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Beyonc\u00e9 Wins Best R&amp;B Performance | 2021 GRAMMY Awards Show Acceptance Speech\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QG00h0OASmw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Just minutes before Beyonc\u00e9 won her 27th Grammy, she was tied with Bluegrass singer Alison Krauss\u2019 previous record. \u201cThis is so overwhelming,\u201d Beyonc\u00e9 said in her acceptance speech after a standing ovation. \u201cI\u2019ve been working my whole life, since I was 9 years old. I can\u2019t believe this happened. This is such a magical night, thank you so much.\u201d \u201cBlue, congratulations! She won a Grammy tonight,\u201d added Beyonc\u00e9. \u201cI\u2019m so proud of you, and I\u2019m so honored to be your mommy.\u201d She is now tied with Quincy Jones as the living person with the most Grammys.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And the momentum keeps building, specifically for Black women artists. On Monday, the Academy Awards announced its <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/everything-we-know-about-the-2021-oscars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/everything-we-know-about-the-2021-oscars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">021 Oscar nominations<\/a>. For the first time ever, Black women were nominated for hair and makeup styling: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/12\/17\/movies\/ma-raineys-black-bottom-review.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ma Rainey\u2019s Black Bottom<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> hair department head Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson, Viola Davis\u2019 hair stylist. \u201cThe recognition of my art and talent by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is bigger than me,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2021\/artisans\/news\/mia-neal-jamika-wilson-first-black-women-hair-and-makeup-oscar-1234929537\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wilson told <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Variety<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u201cIt is for every young hairstylist who dreams beyond the salon chair to work on a motion picture set. It is for the young child who tells their parents they want to be a hairstylist to receive a response of \u2018That\u2019s not a real career.\u2019 The nomination is validation that hair styling is an art form, a craft and a skill. It also shows every Black woman or man doing hair that we can achieve, and importantly that our talent and skill is equal and exceptional.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ma Rainey&#039;s Black Bottom | Official Trailer | Netflix\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ord7gP151vk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Viola Davis, Best Actress nominee for Netflix\u2019s <em>Ma Rainey\u2019s Black Bottom<\/em>, just made Oscar history with her 4th nomination. Davis is now the most-nominated Black actress <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ever<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and the only Black woman with two Best Actress nominations. Andra Day is also nominated for Best Actress for her role in Hulu\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/03\/05\/974123011\/andra-day-on-portraying-biliie-holiday-and-the-enduring-strength-of-strange-frui\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The United States vs. Billie Holiday<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. It\u2019s the first time in 48 years that two Black women have been nominated in the Best Actress category since Diana Ross and Cicely Tyson were both nominated in 1973. Tyson was nominated for her role in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sounder<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, while Ross was nominated for playing Billie Holiday in<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Lady Sings The Blues<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Liza Minnelli won for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cabaret<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Andra Day Performs &quot;Strange Fruit&quot; | United States vs. Billie Holiday | Hulu Original\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Epm0v1px2oM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s worth noting both Davis and Day are nominated for roles portraying Black women who fought for their legacies. Ma Rainey and Billie Holiday were glamorous but they weren\u2019t considered docile or submissive (and wouldn\u2019t water themselves down) to the <a href=\"http:\/\/fourteeneastmag.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/21\/11505\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">white gaze<\/a>. Before the Oscar nominations on Monday, Davis was tied with actress Octavia Spencer as the most Oscar-nominated Black actress in history. Spencer was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her roles in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Help<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hidden Figures<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Shape of Water<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Spencer took home the Oscar for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Help.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cFor me, it\u2019s a reflection of the lack of opportunities and access to opportunities people of color have had in this business. If me, going back to the Oscars four times in 2021, makes me the most nominated Black actress in history, that\u2019s a testament to the sheer lack of material there has been out there for artists of color,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2021\/film\/news\/viola-davis-most-oscar-nominated-black-actress-history-1234912631\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Davis told <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Variety<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in February<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u201cThere are a lot of white actresses out there, who are fairly young \u2014 in their 20s or 30s, who have been to the Academy Awards just as many times as me or more than me,\u201d Davis continued. \u201cIt is a reflection of their talent \u2014 but it\u2019s also a reflection of their opportunities. That\u2019s what it is. It\u2019s a reflection of how they had the chance \u2014 those three, four or five roles that were so good that brought them to that place. [Being a Black actress] is like having a fabulous body, but not having the right clothes to show it off.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 2021 Academy Awards will take place Sunday, April 25.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28001,"featured_media":17543,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[23,38,16],"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>Beyonc\u00e9 Kicked Off What Could Be A Historic Award Season For Black Women<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Beyonc\u00e9 won big, now Andra Day, Viola Davis and the cast of \u2018Ma Rainey\u2019s Black Bottom\u2019 could all be up next for award show historics wins.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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