Nominated for Best Actress 
Billie Holiday (Andra Day) is a beautiful and talented jazz singer. Jimmy Fletcher (Trevante Rhodes) is a young up-and-comer in the new FBI undercover narcotics squad, led by Harry Ainslinger (Garrett Hedlund). Ainslinger wants Holiday arrested and sends Fletcher to get close to her and report back on any drug use. Holiday is arrested for possession of heroin, but Fletcher begins to suspect that her targeting is less about drugs and more about her refusal to stop singing "Strange Fruit," a song about the prevalence of lynchings across the country.
Like I said, bleak. Day carries this film from the opening frame to close, portraying a deeply damaged woman who clawed her way from being trafficked as a minor to an international superstar only for her own country to hound her into an early grave for daring to say that Black people should be treated like human beings. It's currently streaming on Hulu.
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