{"id":1404,"date":"2017-01-27T19:43:39","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T19:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2017-02-27T01:55:23","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T01:55:23","slug":"mahershala-ali-wins-sag-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/?p=1404","title":{"rendered":"Mahershala Ali wins SAG and Oscar Award!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mahershala Ali is an American actor that began his career as a regular on series such as <em>Crossing Jordan <\/em>before his breakthrough role as \u201cRichard Tyler\u201d in the science-fiction series <em>The 4400.<\/em>\u00a0For his performance in the 2016 film as drug dealer Juan in <em>Moonlight<\/em>\u00a0(2016), Ali received universal acclaim from critics and was nominated for an Academy Award\u00a0and Golden Globe Award and won all three, the Oscar Award, the SAG Award\u00a0and the Critic\u2019s Choice Award for Best Supporting Actor. \u00a0The movie\u00a0<em>Moonlight\u00a0<\/em>went on to receive the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture in Drama and Ali also received the NAACP Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/160908_tiff12781.jpg?w=780\" alt=\"Image result for moonlight and mahershala ali\" width=\"308\" height=\"205\" \/>In Ali\u2019s acceptance remarks, his response was \u201cI think what I\u2019ve learned from working on <em>Moonlight<\/em> is we see what happened when you persecute people \u2013 they fold into themselves,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd what I was so grateful about in having the opportunity to play Juan was playing a gentlemen who saw a young man folding into himself as a result of the persecution of his community, and taking the opportunity to uplift him and tell him that he mattered, that he was okay, and accept him. I hope that we do a better job of that.\u201d \u201cWhen we kind of get caught up in the minutiae, the details that make us different, I think there\u2019s two ways of seeing that \u2014 there\u2019s an opport<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kinggossip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/rs_600x600-161212061513-600.Moonlight-Mahershala-Ali-JR1-121216.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for moonlight and mahershala ali\" width=\"261\" height=\"203\" \/>unity to see the texture of that person, the characteristics that make them unique, and then there\u2019s an opportunity to go to war about it, and to say that that person is different from me, and I don\u2019t like you, so let\u2019s battle,\u201d he added. \u201cMy mother is an ordained minister, I\u2019m a Muslim. She didn\u2019t do back-flips when I called her to tell her I converted 17 years ago. But I tell you now, you put things to the side. And I\u2019m able to see her, and she\u2019s able to see me. We love each other and the love has grown. And that stuff is minutiae. It\u2019s not that important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ali has been a familiar face along the awards show circuit this season, nabbing an Oscar nomination, a Golden Globe nomination, and a Critics\u2019 Choice win for his role in the moving Barry Jenkins drama. Though he\u2019s been nominated for five other SAG Awards as a member of ensemble casts, this is his first solo nomination and win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mahershala Ali is an American actor that began his career as a regular on series such as Crossing Jordan before his breakthrough role as \u201cRichard Tyler\u201d in the science-fiction series The 4400.\u00a0For his performance in the 2016 film as drug dealer Juan in Moonlight\u00a0(2016), Ali received universal acclaim from critics and was nominated for an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1484,"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions\/1484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevindkinsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}