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Boseman, best known for the superhero movie
"Black Panther," was awarded the Golden Globe for lead actor in
a movie drama for his role as an ambitious trumpet player in
1920s jazz drama "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom."
His widow, Simone Ledward Boseman, delivered a heartbreaking
speech while accepting the award through tears on Boseman's
behalf.
"He would say something beautiful," she said. "Something
inspiring. Something that would amplify that little voice inside
of all of us that tells you you can. That tells you to keep
going ... and I don't have his words."
"Ma Rainey" was Boseman's last film performance, and Sunday's
Golden Globe marked the biggest Hollywood award for Boseman in
his career in film and television. He has also won posthumous
awards for the "Ma Rainey" role from several movie critics
groups but was never Oscar- or Golden Globe-nominated while he
was alive.
Boseman died in August 2020, having kept secret a four-year
battle with colon cancer.
In "Ma Rainey," the screen adaptation of August Wilson's stage
play of the same name, Boseman plays trumpet player Levee,
hungry for change, who clashes with blues singer Ma, played by
Viola Davis, on a hot 1920s day in a Chicago recording studio.
In one of the play's key moments, Levee rails against God for
turning his back on Black people in a speech that fellow cast
members said gave them the chills when filming, even though they
were unaware he was struggling with cancer.
"Something very spiritual happened in that moment. It was
something you could not look away from. ... It was an
extraordinary moment. It was a terrifying moment as well," actor
Michael Potts said in an interview last year.
Boseman is also nominated for a Screen Actors Guild award next
month, and is widely expected to be a strong Oscar contender
when nominations are announced in mid-March.
"And honey, you keep 'em coming," Ledward Boseman said at the
end of her Globes speech.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; editing by Jonathan Oatis)
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