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Andra Day won a Golden Globe on Sunday night for best actress in a drama motion picture for her role as Billie Holiday in a newly released movie about the jazz legend raised in Baltimore.
The Lee Daniels-directed film reveals the tortures she faced throughout her career: racism, persecution, drug addiction, censorship, child sexual assault. Holiday later returned to Baltimore at the age of 22 with a critically acclaimed performance at The Royal Theatre in October 1937.
“The United States vs. Billie Holiday,” debuted Friday on Hulu.
Baltimore Sun writer Carl Schoettler wrote of Holiday’s “extraordinary musicianship, the incomparable diction, phrasing, sense of timing and dramatic delivery that made her singing unique. ... She forged one of the great American singing styles from a childhood lived poor and hard and mean on Durham Street in [Upper] Fells Point.”
[ Movie review: Andra Day excels in overstuffed ‘The United States vs. Billie Holiday’ ]
Several years ago a neighborhood-based arts project paid homage to the block where Holiday lived, if only for a relatively brief time, in the 1920s. There are painted screens and murals and other inventive references to her.
She is also honored locally with Billie Holiday Court, in East Baltimore. There is a park named in honor at Pennsylvania and Lafayette avenues where there’s also a large bronze statue of her.
The other nominees for the award were Viola Davis, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”; Vanessa Kirby, “Pieces of a Woman”; Frances McDormand, “Nomadland”; and Carey Mulligan, “Promising Young Woman.”
Baltimore Sun reporter Jacques Kelly contributed to this article.
[ In new movie, Lee Daniels and Andra Day take on legacy of jazz vocalist Billie Holiday ]
The 78th Golden Globe Awards winners are below from the Los Angeles Times:
Best motion picture — drama
WINNER | “Nomadland”
“The Father”
“Mank”
“Promising Young Woman”
“The Trial of the Chicago 7”
Actress in a motion picture — drama
WINNER | Andra Day, “The United States vs. Billie Holiday”
Viola Davis, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
Vanessa Kirby, “Pieces of a Woman”
Frances McDormand, “Nomadland”
Carey Mulligan, “Promising Young Woman”
Actor in a motion picture — musical or comedy
WINNER | Sacha Baron Cohen, “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”
James Corden, “The Prom”
Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
Dev Patel, “The Personal History of David Copperfield”
Andy Samberg, “Palm Springs”
Best motion picture — musical or comedy
WINNER | “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”
“Hamilton”
“Music”
“Palm Springs”
“The Prom”
Director — motion picture
WINNER | Chloé Zhao, “Nomadland”
Emerald Fennell, “Promising Young Woman”
David Fincher, “Mank”
Regina King, “One Night in Miami”
Aaron Sorkin, “The Trial of the Chicago 7”
Actor in a motion picture — drama
WINNER | Chadwick Boseman, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”
Riz Ahmed, “Sound of Metal”
Anthony Hopkins, “The Father”
Gary Oldman, “Mank”
Tahar Rahim, “The Mauritanian”
Limited series, anthology series or motion picture made for television
WINNER | “The Queen’s Gambit”
“Normal People”
“Small Axe”
“The Undoing”
“Unorthodox
Actress in a limited series, anthology series or motion picture made for television
WINNER | Anya Taylor-Joy, “The Queen’s Gambit”
Cate Blanchett, “Mrs. America”
Daisy Edgar-Jones, “Normal People”
Shira Haas, “Unorthodox”
Nicole Kidman, “The Undoing”
Supporting actress — television
WINNER | Gillian Anderson, “The Crown”
Helena Bonham Carter, “The Crown”
Julia Garner, “Ozark”
Annie Murphy, “Schitt’s Creek”
Cynthia Nixon, “Ratched”
Supporting actress in a motion picture
WINNER | Jodie Foster, “The Mauritanian”
Glenn Close, “Hillbilly Elegy”
Olivia Colman, “The Father”
Amanda Seyfried, “Mank”
Helena Zengel, “News of the World”
Television series — drama
WINNER | “The Crown”
“Lovecraft Country”
“The Mandalorian”
“Ozark”
“Ratched”
Motion picture — foreign language
WINNER | “Minari” (United States)
“Another Round” (Denmark)
“La Llorona” (Guatemala/France)
“The Life Ahead” (Italy)
“Two of Us” (France)
Actor in a television series, drama
WINNER | Josh O’Connor, “The Crown”
Jason Bateman, “Ozark”
Bob Odenkirk, “Better Call Saul”
Al Pacino, “Hunters”
Matthew Rhys, “Perry Mason”
Actress in a motion picture — musical or comedy
WINNER | Rosamund Pike, “I Care a Lot”
Maria Bakalova, “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”
Kate Hudson, “Music”
Michelle Pfeiffer, “French Exit”
Anya Taylor-Joy, “Emma.”
Television series — musical or comedy
WINNER | “Schitt’s Creek”
“Emily in Paris”
“The Flight Attendant”
“The Great”
“Ted Lasso”
Actor in a television series — musical or comedy
WINNER | Jason Sudeikis, “Ted Lasso”
Don Cheadle, “Black Monday”
Nicholas Hoult, “The Great”
Eugene Levy, “Schitt’s Creek”
Ramy Youssef, “Ramy”
Original song — motion picture
WINNER | “Io Si (Seen)” (“The Life Ahead”)
“Speak Now” (“One Night in Miami”)
“Fight for You” (“Judas and the Black Messiah”)
“Hear My Voice” (“The Trial of the Chicago 7”)
“Tigress & Tweed” (“The United States vs. Billie Holiday”)
Original score — motion picture
WINNER | “Soul” — Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross and Jon Batiste
“The Midnight Sky” — Alexandre Desplat
“Mank” — Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
“News of the World” — James Newton Howard
“Tenet” — Ludwig Göransson
Actress in a television series — drama
WINNER | Emma Corrin, “The Crown”
Olivia Colman, “The Crown”
Jodie Comer, “Killing Eve”
Laura Linney, “Ozark”
Sarah Paulson, “Ratched”
Screenplay — motion picture
WINNER | Aaron Sorkin, “The Trial of the Chicago 7”
Florian Zeller and Christopher Hampton, “The Father”
Jack Fincher, “Mank”
Chloé Zhao, “Nomadland”
Emerald Fennell, “Promising Young Woman”
Actor in a limited series, anthology series or motion picture made for television
WINNER | Mark Ruffalo, “I Know This Much Is True”
Bryan Cranston, “Your Honor”
Jeff Daniels, “The Comey Rule”
Hugh Grant, “The Undoing”
Ethan Hawke, “The Good Lord Bird”
Motion picture — animated
WINNER | “Soul”
“The Croods: A New Age”
“Onward”
“Over the Moon”
“Wolfwalkers”
Actress in a television series — musical or comedy
WINNER | Catherine O’Hara, “Schitt’s Creek”
Lily Collins, “Emily in Paris”
Kaley Cuoco, “The Flight Attendant”
Elle Fanning, “The Great”
Jane Levy, “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist”
Supporting actor — television
WINNER | John Boyega, “Small Axe”
Brendan Gleeson, “The Comey Rule”
Dan Levy, “Schitt’s Creek”
Jim Parsons, “Hollywood”
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Donald Sutherland, “The Undoing”
Supporting actor in a motion picture
WINNER | Daniel Kaluuya, “Judas and the Black Messiah”
Sacha Baron Cohen, “The Trial of the Chicago 7”
Jared Leto, “The Little Things”
Bill Murray, “On the Rocks”
Leslie Odom Jr., “One Night in Miami”