{"id":193959,"date":"2016-02-28T02:49:52","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T02:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=193959"},"modified":"2016-02-28T02:49:52","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T02:49:52","slug":"abraham-attah-named-best-male-lead-at-independent-spirit-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=193959","title":{"rendered":"Abraham Attah named best male lead at Independent Spirit Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__deck\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abraham\u00a0Attah\u00a0was named <span class=\"FO_hovarable_search_text\"><span class=\"FO_FirstWord\">best<\/span> male<\/span> lead at the 31st Film Independent <span id=\"cg_intext_rt_search_42\" class=\"cg-intext-span cg-intext-span-reset cgspnlink cg-intext-link-replace\" data-type=\"yahoo\" data-type-id=\"10\">Spirit Awards<\/span> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <em>Beasts of No Nation<\/em> actor, who is 15 years old, beat out fellow actors <span class=\"FO_hovarable_search_text\"><span class=\"FO_FirstWord\">Ben<\/span> Mendelsohn\u00a0<\/span>(<em>Mississippi Grind\u2028)<\/em>, Christopher Abbott (<em>James White)<\/em>, <span class=\"FO_hovarable_search_text\"><span class=\"FO_FirstWord\">Jason<\/span> Segel<\/span> (<em>The End of the Tour\u2028)<\/em> and Koudous Seihon (<em>Mediterranea)<\/em> for the honor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;U8W80xEKajnVMOkw8T9P61uF0Neg1sQ9&#8243;]The smiling first-time performer thanked everyone from his fellow winner and costar <span class=\"FO_hovarable_search_text\"><span class=\"FO_FirstWord\">Idris<\/span> Elba<\/span>to the Netflix film&#8217;s director, Cary\u00a0Fukunaga, to the costume designers when he took the stage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier in the night, Elba brought the young actor up with him to share his best supporting male actor award. &#8220;I couldn&#8217;t have done it without you,&#8221; Elba told Attah.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Attah played <span class=\"st\">child soldier Agu in the African war drama, which was Netflix&#8217;s first original narrative film.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-193961\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/attah.png\" alt=\"attah\" width=\"600\" height=\"344\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"st\">During the show&#8217;s opening monologue, co-hosts <span class=\"FO_hovarable_search_text\"><span class=\"FO_FirstWord\">Kumail<\/span> Nanjiani<\/span> and<em> Kate<\/em> McKinnon joked about the roundup of this year&#8217;s films while mentioning <em>Beast of No Nation<\/em>, <em>Room<\/em> and <em>Spotlight<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"st\">&#8220;This year&#8217;s nominees cover a wide variety of difficult subjects ranging from child abuse to even worse child abuse,&#8221; said Nanjiani. <span class=\"FO_hovarable_search_text\"><span class=\"FO_FirstWord\">Jacob<\/span> Tremblay<\/span>, 9, of <em>Room<\/em>, was also in attendance as a presenter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jessica Chastain presented the award to Attah during the ceremony, which was held at the Santa Monica Pier and aired on IFC.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Attah wasn&#8217;t the only first-time performer to take home an award: <span class=\"FO_hovarable_search_text\"><span class=\"FO_FirstWord\">Mya<\/span> Taylor<\/span> made history as the <span class=\"FO_hovarable_search_text\"><span class=\"FO_FirstWord\">first<\/span> transgender<\/span> winner when the actress won best supporting female for <em>Tangerine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: Hollywood Reporter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abraham\u00a0Attah\u00a0was named best male lead at the 31st Film Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday. The Beasts of No Nation actor, who is 15 years old, beat out fellow actors Ben Mendelsohn\u00a0(Mississippi Grind\u2028), Christopher Abbott (James White), Jason Segel (The End of the Tour\u2028) and Koudous Seihon (Mediterranea) for the honor. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;U8W80xEKajnVMOkw8T9P61uF0Neg1sQ9&#8243;]The smiling first-time performer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showbiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}