UPDATED with latest winner: The Palm Springs Film Festival continues revealing this year’s film-awards honors, on Monday saying that Leslie Odom Jr will receive the Spotlight Award, Actor for his work in Amazon’s One Night In Miami.Odom, a Tony-winning alum of Hamilton, plays Sam Cooke in Regina King’s directorial debut, which centers on the night in 1964 after Cassius Clay beats Sonny Liston that spurred a gathering of Clay (Eli Goree), Cooke, Malcolm X (Kingsley Ben-Adir) and Jim Brown (Aldis Hodge) to celebrate.
Odom wrote the performs the original song “Speak Now” in the pic.Past recipients of the Spotlight Award, Actor include Timothée Chalamet, Bryan Cranston, Jamie Foxx, Andrew Garfield, Sam Rockwell and J.K.
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