2020 · 110 min · Drama, Historical
One Night in Miami is Regina King's remarkable directorial debut — a fictionalized account of one real evening in February 1964 when Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown met in a Miami hotel room following Ali's shocking defeat of Sonny Liston. Based on Kemp Powers' play, the film is a riveting conversation about identity, responsibility, artistic freedom, and what Black men owe to the movement for liberation.
One Night in Miami streams on Prime Video.
The film is based on real events — Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay), Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown did meet on the night depicted. The specific conversations in the film are fictionalized by playwright Kemp Powers, who adapted his own stage play.
The film received 3 Oscar nominations: Best Supporting Actor (Leslie Odom Jr.), Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Song. Leslie Odom Jr. also won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor.
Regina King directed the film in her feature directorial debut. King is known as an actress for films like If Beale Street Could Talk and the series Watchmen.
One Night in Miami runs approximately 110 minutes.