Tensions rise when trailblazing blues singer Ma Rainey and her band gather at a recording studio in Chicago in 1927.Tensions rise when trailblazing blues singer Ma Rainey and her band gather at a recording studio in Chicago in 1927.Tensions rise when trailblazing blues singer Ma Rainey and her band gather at a recording studio in Chicago in 1927.
- Won 2 Oscars
- 84 wins & 192 nominations total
Johanna Elmina Moise
- Ma Rainey's Dancer
- (as Johanna Moise)
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- TriviaIn 2015, Denzel Washington announced that he would be bringing all ten of August Wilson's "Century Cycle" plays to the big or small screen. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is the second filmed Wilson adaptation Washington has produced in this cycle, after Fences (2016). In September 2020, Washington told the New York Times that the third film in the series would be The Piano Lesson, and that he hoped to cast his own son John David Washington and Samuel L. Jackson, with Barry Jenkins directing.
- GoofsThe action of the film takes place on July 2, 1927. Ma Rainey's car in the film is a Model A Ford which were not introduced to the public until December 1927.
- Crazy creditsDuring the first part of the credits, actual photographs of the real Ma Rainey and the musicians who inspired the characters in the play are shown.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Sky News @Breakfast: Episode dated 19 December 2020 (2020)
- SoundtracksDeep Moaning Blues
Written by Ma Rainey (as Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey)
Produced and Arranged by Branford Marsalis
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Poor adaptation of a below average play
Horrific overacting and a script that rambles and goes nowhere. Most of the film is taken up with individual stories about how the white man was evil, which became very tiresome very quickly. A few very daft plot twists that never went anywhere. This was more 'panto' than serious drama and those involved should be ashamed of the mess they produced. This film literally had no redeeming features
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- yurik-lee
- Jan 4, 2021
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- Runtime1 hour 34 minutes
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- 2.00 : 1
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By what name was Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020) officially released in India in Hindi?
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