Chadwick Boseman Honored As Best Actor By African American Film Critics Association

The late Chadwick Boseman was honored with the Best Actor award at the 12th annual African American Film Critics Association Awards on Wednesday.

Boseman, who died of cancer at age 43 last year, won for his performance in Ma Raineys Black Bottom, which was released to Netflix in November. He portrayed trumpet player Levee Green in the adaptation of August Wilsons 1982 play. It was his final screen performance.

The AAFCA announced its winners last month ahead of its virtual ceremony honoring awardees on Wednesday.

Bosemans wife, Taylor Simone Ledward, accepted the award on his behalf.

Thank you so much for honoring my husbands work with an AAFCA Best Actor award, she said during her speech, in part. He would be so grateful for the recognition of everything that he gave to Levee Green. While the work would always remain paramount, the work is made possible by the process. The process allows you to reach your inner voice, so you have to protect it.

Thank you, Chad, for always doing the work, she later added.

Congratulations to @chadwickboseman for winning the #AAFCA award for Best Actor for his role in @MaRaineyFilm #AAFCA12 #AAFCAAwards #RIPKING pic.twitter.com/FaIARxmAoT

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Congratulations to @chadwickboseman for winning the #AAFCA award for Best Actor for his role in @MaRaineyFilm #AAFCA12 #AAFCAAwards #RIPKING pic.twitter.com/FaIARxmAoT
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Bosemans performance in Ma Raineys Black Bottom has earned him wide praise this award season.

He posthumously won a Golden Globe for the role in the Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama category in February. In March, his performance earned him an Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture award at the NAACP Image Awards. He also won an Image Award for his role in Da 5 Bloods, which also released to Netflix last year.

Boseman became the first person to earn four Screen Actors Guild film nominations in a single year this year. He won in the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role in a Motion Picture category at the ceremony earlier this month, also for Ma Raineys Black Bottom.

The Levee Green role also earned him an Oscar nomination for lead actor last month.

Viola Davis, who starred in Ma Raineys Black Bottom in the title role, accepted the AAFCAs Icon Award on Wednesday.

I have been blessed and fortunate in every single way to be able to literally give you all the human beings, the Black and brown human beings that Ive embodied, and to give them to you and to help you to feel less alone through their stories, she said in her speech. I thank you for this honor. I will continue to leave a legacy of hope, of life, of humor, of pathos, of humanity for as long as God will have me here.

Honored to receive the Icon Award last night! Thank you @theaafca!! pic.twitter.com/VUaSDKfGA1

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Honored to receive the Icon Award last night! Thank you @theaafca !! pic.twitter.com/VUaSDKfGA1
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The AAFCA Awards aired to a private audience on Wednesday but will be presented to the public on April 17 and 18 on the AAFCA Channel on Comcasts Xfinity, the organization stated.