#The Piano Lesson

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Danielle Deadwyler and Ray Fisher in The Piano Lesson (2024)

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The Piano Lesson (2024)

Director: Malcolm Washington

Cinematographer: Mike Gioulakis

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A film by Malcolm Washington. THE PIANO LESSON stars Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington, Ray Fisher, Michael Potts, Erykah Badu, Skylar Aleece Smith, Danielle Deadwyler, and Corey Hawkins.

In select theaters November 8 and on Netflix November 22.

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It��s been days and this scene from “The Piano Lesson” hasn’t left my mind. Passion, yearning, sensuality, angst, and softness in Black films >>

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Where was Marianne Jean-Baptiste in the best-actress race, she who has given what is, unquestionably, the performance of the year in Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths, and has so far collected no fewer than 14 film festival and critics’ prizes, as well as BAFTA and Critics’ Choice Award nominations for her efforts?

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Where was her formidable co-star, Michele Austin, who has also been recognized by the British Independent Film Awards and various critics’ voting bodies? Couldn’t she have secured a spot in the best-supporting-actress line-up instead of, say, Conclave’s Isabella Rossellini, who is a never-previously-nominated industry legend, to be sure, but only had seven minutes of screen time in Edward Berger’s papal thriller?

Where, too, was The Piano Lesson’s extraordinary Danielle Deadwyler, who would have been my personal pick to win that category, with her impassioned, scene-stealing tour de force in Malcolm Washington’s haunting August Wilson adaptation? She’s received eight critics’ prizes for it to date, alongside Critics’ Choice, SAG, and Independent Spirit Awards nods, but is notably absent here.

In fact, The Piano Lesson and Hard Truths were both blanked entirely. That was not, thankfully, the case for the aforementioned Nickel Boys, which is nominated for both the Academy’s top prize and best adapted screenplay, but, with that in mind, I was disappointed not to see the sublime work of its anchor, the luminous Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, acknowledged in best supporting actress. She got a Critics’ Choice Award nod and, despite stepping back for certain sections of the film, remains its warm, unfailingly hopeful heart and soul.

The same can be said of Sing Sing’s Clarence Maclin—he’s a deeply moving, endlessly charismatic presence in Greg Kwedar’s gentle prison drama and, in my view, deserved to take home the best-supporting-actor Oscar. He scooped the Gotham Award for outstanding supporting performance and has BAFTA, Critics’ Choice, and Independent Spirit Award nods, too, and given that his film got three nominations in total—for Colman Domingo’s lead turn, best adapted screenplay, and best original song—this snub is rather baffling.

Shout out to other really great films starring people of colour and other marginalised identities that got unrecognised from this year's Oscars So White: Electric Boogaloo

Exhibiting Forgiveness

We Grown Now

Didi

I Saw The TV Glow

All We Imagine As Light

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Barack Obama has shared his list of favorite movies of 2024

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Danielle Deadwyler photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott for W Magazine’s Best Performances Issue

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Erik Tanner photographed John David Washington of "The Piano Lesson" for Netflix. 

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The Piano Lesson | Official Trailer | Netflix

A family clash over an heirloom piano explodes. The battle between brother (John David Washington) and sister (Danielle Deadwyler) — one hopes to sell it, the other refuses to give it up — unleashes haunting truths about how the past is perceived and who defines a family legacy.

Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington, Ray Fisher, Michael Potts, Erykah Badu, Skylar Aleece Smith, Jerrika Hinton, Gail Bean, Danielle Deadwyler, and Corey Hawkins star in Malcolm Washington’s directorial debut based on the Pulitzer-prize winning August Wilson play.

In select theaters November and on Netflix November 22.

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RAY FISHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE MAN THAT YOU ARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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alfre woodard as berniece charles in the piano lesson

primetime emmy award nominee for outstanding lead actress in a limited series or movie

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The Piano Lesson, 1916

- Henri Matisse

Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

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There are not enough Black people on this app. Where are the The Piano Lesson gifs.

I need the Lymon (Ray Fisher) gifs. Real bad.

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Danielle Deadwyler attends the 31st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Louis Vuitton