The 2015 Juried Bessie Award was given to Pavel Zuštiak for his poetic layering of movement and visual imagery, and conceiving of the stage space as a decentralized world in which the corporeal ...

HBO has a certain level of perfection that viewers expect it to live up to, and the network hit it out of the park with its latest film. Bessie won the 2015 Outstanding Television Movie Emmy, as ...

Emmy-nominated 'Bessie' writer and director Dee Rees talks about how she recreated Bessie Smith's life for HBO and her next projects.

Queen Latifah’s 'Bessie,' a HBO biopic about blues singer Bessie Smith, nabbed four trophies, including Outstanding Television Movie, at the 2015 Emmy Awards.

The 2015 Bessie Awards Steering Committee, responsible for setting policy and providing oversight of the Bessie Awards throughout the year, is comprised of Cora Cahan, Beverly D'Anne, Lane Harwell ...