The film adaptation of the Broadway musical "The Color Purple" is finally getting the recognition it has deserved throughout the recent awards season circuit.
"The Color Purple" won eleven NAACP Image Awards, including Outstanding Motion Picture.
2024 NAACP Image Awards: 'The Color Purple'
The highly reviewed "The Color Purple" received its rightful recognition at the NAACP Image Awards on March 16, 2024. (via People Magazine)
The film won Outstanding Motion Picture, Outstanding Hairstyling, Outstanding Make-up, and Outstanding Costume Design. The cast won Outstanding Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture, while its original soundtrack bagged the Outstanding Soundtrack/Compilation Album. Director Blitz Bazawule won Outstanding Breakthrough Creative (Motion Picture) for his direction in the film.
Newcomer Phylicia Pearl Mpasi bagged the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Breakthrough Performance in a Motion Picture for playing the Young Celie in "The Color Purple."
Colman Domingo, who played "Mister" Johnson in the film, won two acting awards-Best Supporting Actor for his role in "The Color Purple" and Best Actor for his outstanding performance as civil rights activist Bayard Rustin in "Rustin."
Meanwhile, Taraji P. Henson was the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for her role as Shug Avery, beating fellow castmates Halle Bailey, who played Young Nettie, and Academy-Award-nominated actress Danielle Brooks, who played Sofia.
Fantasia's win for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture was emotional as it is phenomenal. She even got emotional and sang her heart out in her acceptance speech.
"I didn't prepare a speech, because I didn't think I was going to win," she tearfully revealed. "I was afraid to play Celie, but I'm glad I did. Because I kept saying, 'If I don't win an award, the awards that I will win will come from the people who watched 'Color Purple' and the women who will relate to her and feel like Oscars when they walk out.' "
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'The Color Purple' Snubbed
Despite being one of the year's biggest films, "The Color Purple" failed to earn many wins and nominations many had anticipated before its release.
At the Academy Awards, where the original film earned ten nominations, only Danielle Brooks earned a nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She lost to Da'Vine Joy Randolph from "The Holdovers."
Brooks also earned Best Supporting Actress nominations from the Golden Globes, People's Choice, Critics' Choice, and Screen Actors Guild Awards, but she lost those, too. Fantasia was nominated at the Golden Globes for Best Actress in Comedy or Musical but lost to Emma Stone.
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