Andra Day should win the Oscar!

#OscarsSoIrrelevant

She meets my requirement.

R2 Oh stop! 😂

She’s so fucking raw and real in this.

I’ve always liked her since Private Practice.

OP/R3/R4 = same person.

And.... ?

She's really fucking good in it, but the film is such an awful mess.

The reviews for the film have been shit; Andra has been receiving raves.

Lee Daniels is a horrible director.

No, that was meant for me, R7.

It's really important to try to hurt me, isn’t it, R6?

...If it’s starting all over again, the lying, the covering up, the disappearing for hours, I will not stand for it! I can't stand for it! I really can’t!

R8 I think she saves it though. Besides, her work towers over the shit that has won in the last two decades.

She deserves Oscah!

Even in that gif she looks so much like Eartha Kitt.

R12 She gives Billie teas too, though.

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Stunning.

Her vocals though.

This scene. 😭

75% of posts in this thread will be by OP. Who really really likes Andra Day and is fingering his mussy feverishly while typing with one hand.

What the fuck was Leslie Jordan doing in this movie with that hair?

I've never heard of her.

R21 Please refer to my hole as “cunt.”

R22 Leslie needs to play a woman 😂

He’d be fantastic.

It's release is similar to Lady Sings the Blues in the sense that Blues also got mostly poor to middling reviews, but they loved Diana Ross. Mediocre film, Great Performance!

R26 Agreed!

If the character is a singer, it always helps when the actress is able to effectively vocalize the part. When you watch Viola in "Ma Rainey" you know that voice is not hers. Even though the performance scenes are brief, it is jarring.

Great interview.

Sublimity infinity.

It’s strange to me that Billie Holliday isn’t discussed as a songwriter very much.

She composed Don't Explain, Fine and Mellow, God Bless the Child, Lady Sings the Blues and others.

R31 She was brilliance incarnate.

I just got this feeling that Day is going to win. It’ll be a way to honor Holiday as much as Day’s remarkable work.

R31, It is a shame. I suppose her personal life and tragic ending overshadow her professional achievements.

I'm blacker and have suffered more.

I lent her my wig assistant (little homosexual boy)

Over my dead body

R37 God, I love Ross in Lady Sings the Blues. She should’ve been the first black actress to win Oscah.

Day’s win can be a nod to her great work too.

It's a Lee Daniels film - this will be shit.

R39 Day transcends and lifts the film.

She is going to win the Oscar.

I heard the movie was badly received

R41 It was but her performance has received universal praise. She also just won the Globe for Best Actress. She deserves to win.

Jesus, those musical clips sound crappy. Joey Arias does a better Holiday; Audra McDonald does a better Holiday. Jennifer Holiday does a better....oh, never mind. And the arrangements?! Shite!

She ain't winning no Oscar, not if Viola Davis has anything to do with it!

OP, would you mind sending us a picture of yours while we place an order for sharp pins?

I've never heard of her.

Poor Glennie....another loss coming up.

R44 I'll say. If that bitch wins my Oscar I'll rip her fucking tits off through zoom.

St V at R44, the best way to protest an upset loss would be to lift your gown and literally show the world Ma Rainey's Black Bottom if any name other than yours is called.

Sorry I meant St V at R47, not R44

Im glad Andra Day is good in this. I like her and I was hearing bad reviews on the film.

Suck my cunt, Buckwheat.

NY Times: 24 Hours With Andra Day: Afrobeat and the Nixon Tapes

At home in Los Angeles, the star of “United States vs. Billie Holiday” finds inspiration in African music and the autobiography of Assata Shakur.

God, I love her.

No, no, no, no, no!!!! This is MY year! I'm not going to sit around and watch this Andy come lately win MY Oscar! I need to up my game and remind the voters that Miss Day only portrayed suffering on screen whereas I have actually suffered in life.

I can see her winning as well. At the beginning, she was a long shot for even a nomination, but her performance has gained a lot of momentum. Now she has a real chance.

Lady Sings the Blues is a beloved classic in the African American community. Ross' performance is considered by many to have been criminally snubbed of the oscar.

And there's no competition. McDormand already has two. Viola has one, and Chadwick is getting all the momentum for that movie. Carey Mulligan's has fizzled. Amy Adams was never really in the race to begin with.

R53 read R51.

She seems like a nice enough young lady but that hospital scene wasn’t good acting.

R56 No, it was phenomenal acting.

Congratulations to Ms. Day for her Oscar nomination!

I hope she wins.

Nope, Andra Day So a Conner

R59 WTF are you saying?

Day FOREVAH!

She looks like Tami from the Real World

R62 omg. Bitch!

I sort of see it. 😂

I will cut all you nasty, ungrateful bitches who are suggesting Miss Day will win MY Oscar.

I take back what I taught you sluts before. You isn't kind, you sho ain't smart and you isn't important.

Black actors, when they are taking on a historical figure, always act like they are giving speeches and striking a pose. Yes, I know those are important roles but they don't need to act so important.

This chick will win.

I can’t wait.

She was hella good but im still rooting for carey mulligan.

Day all fucking day.

It could easily happen and nobody would mind, I'd feel bad for Diana Ross though -- who could've long ago been the first AA woman to win the Oscar had they just held back the movie's release one year. And she would've beaten her idol, Streisand.

we all prayin she does win......hell of a performance, bless u andra.....

I have a feeling she will.

too bad the whole movie kinda sucked tho, way too down, negative and humorless....tho she was fab.

I loved her performance in this. It wasn't a bad movie, it just took a long time to say what it did.

Come on, mama, get it!

She's fine, but the film itsel is awful! The damn editing is so fucked up there is no sense of time or place, and the male characters make no sense.

Andra Day, Anzac Day?🧐

Nah it's Mulligan's year... one hopes.

omg she got robbed......france n not deserve it

FRANNY won and that makes up for Andra losing!

fRANNY and her drab dull depressed person roles.....noo thx

R81 She was raw, gritty, riveting, and astonishing in a tour de force performance!

That's all she wrote, boys! Just call me a three-time winner!

Andi day showin up lookin like a hoe

Too much titty.

I enjoyed Andra Day's 'Purple Rain' commentary on the Oscars. As for the award, she clearly made an impact. She'll have other shots in the future.

R85 😂

FOUR-time Oscar winner.

The Academy don't like no titty.

Andra Day should have won, but I’m glad Carey “a critic said I’m not as hot as Margot Robbie, woe is me” Mulligan didn’t win, so go Frances.

HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!

She was very bitchy about Purple Rain

And where do you keep your Oscar Miss Ross?

I would have been fine with her winning. It was a pretty great film debut, but the movie itself wasn’t very good, despite showing some fine black men naked.

I believe she received doggy nude on screen that’s worth a somethin

[quote] Day shoots, penetrates, and burns like a red-hot laser

MARY!!!

DL, you bitches gave me false hopes and led me to believe I was going to win. I lost to an ugly old woman who seems to shower only once every 2 years.

You had me worried that my big threats were actually Carey Mulligan, who looks and acts like she is 39 going on 80, and greasy ass Viola who seemed to have just risen from a deep fryer to play Ma Rainey. Why didn't y'all warn me about this Fern beeyatch?