Chadwick Boseman#Death

Chadwick Aaron Boseman was born and raised in Anderson, South Carolina,{{Cite news |date=April 13, 2013 |title=SC natives star in Jackie Robinson biopic "42 |publisher=WMBF-TV |location=Myrtle Beach, South Carolina |url=https://www.wmbfnews.com/story/21970857/sc-natives-star-in-jackie-robinson-biopic-42/ |url-status=live |access-date=June 14, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200614221422/https://www.wmbfnews.com/story/21970857/sc-natives-star-in-jackie-robinson-biopic-42/ |archive-date=June 14, 2020 |quote=Boseman was born and raised in Anderson, where he attended T.L Hanna High School.}}{{Cite news |date=February 20, 2018 |title='Black Panther' star buys hundreds of movie tickets for underprivileged children |publisher=WTIC-TV |url=https://www.fox61.com/article/entertainment/arts/cas-artist/black-panther-star-buys-hundreds-of-movie-tickets-for-underprivileged-children/520-07bc2fb7-931d-4c26-8d6d-6dbbc406dd1b |url-status=live |access-date=June 14, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200614221426/https://www.fox61.com/article/entertainment/arts/cas-artist/black-panther-star-buys-hundreds-of-movie-tickets-for-underprivileged-children/520-07bc2fb7-931d-4c26-8d6d-6dbbc406dd1b |archive-date=June 14, 2020 |quote=Boseman was born and raised in Anderson...}}{{Cite news |last=Field |first=Carla |date=March 7, 2018 |title='Black Panther' star talks about racism he experienced growing up in Anderson |publisher=WYFF |location=Greenville, South Carolina |url=https://www.wyff4.com/article/black-panther-star-talks-about-racism-he-experienced-growing-up-in-upstate/19056299 |url-status=live |access-date=June 14, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200615024051/https://www.wyff4.com/article/black-panther-star-talks-about-racism-he-experienced-growing-up-in-upstate/19056299 |archive-date=June 15, 2020 |quote=He was born and raised in Anderson, where he attended T.L Hanna High School.}} the son of Carolyn (née Mattress){{Cite news |last=Alexander |first=Bryan |date=January 31, 2018 |title=The best things you missed at the 'Black Panther' party (Usher dancing on the tables!) |work=USA Today |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2018/01/31/best-things-you-missed-black-panther-party-usher-dancing-tables/1084379001/ |url-status=live |access-date=March 6, 2018 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20180306234846/https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2018/01/31/best-things-you-missed-black-panther-party-usher-dancing-tables/1084379001/ |archive-date=March 6, 2018}}{{Cite news |title=Chadwick Boseman obituary |work=The Times |url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/film/article/chadwick-boseman-obituary-2ffznl3l3 |url-status=live |url-access=limited |date= August 31, 2020|access-date=March 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215234352/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/chadwick-boseman-obituary-2ffznl3l3 |archive-date=February 15, 2021 |issn=0140-0460}} and Leroy Boseman, both African-American.{{Cite web |last=Barrow |first=Jerry L. |date=February 2018 |title=Father Stretch My Hands: 'Black Panther' & Raising Our Sons To Shine |url=https://www.bet.com/article/cu42av/how-black-panther-explores-fatherhood |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180215080423/https://www.bet.com/celebrities/movies/black-panther/black-panther-fatherhood.html |archive-date=February 15, 2018 |access-date=March 6, 2018 |publisher=BET}} His mother was a nurse, and his father worked at a textile factory and managed an upholstery business.{{Cite magazine |last=Eells |first=Josh |date=February 18, 2018 |title=The 'Black Panther' Revolution |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/features/black-panther-chadwick-boseman-ryan-coogler-cover-story-w516853 |url-access=limited |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180225052231/https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/features/black-panther-chadwick-boseman-ryan-coogler-cover-story-w516853 |archive-date=February 25, 2018 |access-date=February 21, 2018 |magazine=Rolling Stone}} In his youth, Boseman practiced martial arts,{{Cite web |date=September 2, 2020 |title='You are all the Black Panther': the electric theatre of Chadwick Boseman |first=Chris|last=Wiegand|url=http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/sep/02/chadwick-boseman-theatre-black-panther |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231032913/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/sep/02/chadwick-boseman-theatre-black-panther |archive-date=December 31, 2020 |access-date=December 26, 2020 |website=The Guardian}} and continued this training as an adult.{{Cite web |last=Carter |first=Ruth E. |date=December 12, 2020 |title=Chadwick Boseman remembered by Ruth E Carter |url=http://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/dec/12/chadwick-boseman-remembered-by-ruth-e-carter-black-panther-obituaries-of-2020 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201230115513/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/dec/12/chadwick-boseman-remembered-by-ruth-e-carter-black-panther-obituaries-of-2020 |archive-date=December 30, 2020 |access-date=December 31, 2020 |website=The Guardian}} As a child, he wanted to become an architect. According to Boseman, DNA testing indicated that some of his ancestors were Jola people from Guinea-Bissau,{{Citation |title=Chadwick Boseman Talks Black Panther, Turning Down Famous Biopics, Marvel Myths + More | date=February 14, 2018 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6p9L_-Nfwg |language=en |access-date=December 3, 2022}} Krio people and Limba people from Sierra Leone, and Yoruba people from Nigeria.{{Cite interview |last=Colbert |first=Stephen |title=Chadwick Boseman On Bringing Humanity To 'Black Panther' |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCf_dMfAeuE |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180523103208/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCf_dMfAeuE |archive-date=May 23, 2018 |url-status=live |work=The Late Show with Stephen Colbert |place=New York City |date=May 17, 2018}}

Boseman graduated from T. L. Hanna High School in 1995, where he played on the basketball team.{{Cite web |title=Chadwick Boseman: Remember when the 'Black Panther' superhero actor was just 'Chad' |url=https://www.amp.independentmail.com/amp/970875001 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180705191642/https://amp.independentmail.com/amp/970875001 |archive-date=July 5, 2018 |access-date=September 23, 2020}}{{Cite news |date=April 11, 2013 |title=Hanna Grad Chad Boseman Plays Jackie Robinson in '42' |work=Parent Newsletter |publisher=T. L. Hanna High School |issue=47 |url=http://www.anderson5.net/cms/lib02/SC01001931/Centricity/Domain/2867/Parent%20Newsletter%20April%2011%202013.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304071919/http://www.anderson5.net/cms/lib02/SC01001931/Centricity/Domain/2867/Parent%20Newsletter%20April%2011%202013.pdf |archive-date=March 4, 2016}} In his junior year, he wrote his first play, Crossroads, and staged it at the school after a classmate was shot and killed. He competed in Speech and Debate in the National Speech and Debate Association at T. L. Hanna. He placed eighth in Original Oratory at the 1995 National Tournament.{{Cite web |title=Alumni – Speech and Debate |url=https://www.speechanddebate.org/alumni/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120014519/https://www.speechanddebate.org/alumni/ |archive-date=January 20, 2021 |access-date=March 20, 2021}} He was recruited to play basketball at college but chose the arts instead,{{Cite web |title=Remembering the Theatrical Career of Chadwick Boseman |url=https://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city-theater/news/remembering-the-theatrical-career-chadwick-boseman_91364.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224120135/https://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city-theater/news/remembering-the-theatrical-career-chadwick-boseman_91364.html |archive-date=December 24, 2020 |access-date=December 23, 2020 |website=TheaterMania|date=August 29, 2020 }} attending college at Howard University in Washington, D.C., and graduating in 2000 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in directing. While at Howard, he worked in an African American–oriented bookstore near the university, which friend Vanessa German said was important and inspirational to him; he drew on his experience there for his play Hieroglyphic Graffiti.{{Cite web |title=When 'Black Panther's' Chadwick Boseman came to Pittsburgh to direct a play |url=https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/theater-dance/2018/04/26/Chadwick-Boseman-Pittsburgh-play-Hieroglyphic-Graffiti-Black-Panther/stories/201804260066 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231033002/https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/theater-dance/2018/04/26/Chadwick-Boseman-Pittsburgh-play-Hieroglyphic-Graffiti-Black-Panther/stories/201804260066 |archive-date=December 31, 2020 |access-date=December 26, 2020 |website=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette}}

His teachers at Howard included Al Freeman Jr. and Phylicia Rashad, who became a mentor. Rashad helped raise funds, notably from her friend and prominent actor Denzel Washington, so that Boseman and other classmates could attend the Oxford Summer Program of the British American Drama Academy at Balliol College, Oxford, in England, to which they had been accepted. Boseman wanted to write and direct, and initially began studying acting to learn how to relate to actors. He attended the program in 1998, and he developed an appreciation for the playwriting of William Shakespeare; additionally, he studied the works of various dramatists, including Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter. He also traveled to Africa for the first time while at college, working in Ghana with his professor Mike Malone "to preserve and celebrate rituals with performances on a proscenium stage"; he said it was "one of the most significant learning experiences of [his] life".{{Cite web |date=August 30, 2020 |title=Chadwick Boseman, who played Syracuse football's Floyd Little in 'The Express,' embodied Black icons |url=https://www.syracuse.com/celebrity-news/2020/08/chadwick-boseman-who-played-syracuse-footballs-floyd-little-in-the-express-embodied-black-icons.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224120157/https://www.syracuse.com/celebrity-news/2020/08/chadwick-boseman-who-played-syracuse-footballs-floyd-little-in-the-express-embodied-black-icons.html |archive-date=December 24, 2020 |access-date=December 23, 2020 |website=The Post-Standard |agency=Associated Press}} After he returned to the U.S., he took additional course work in film studies, graduating from New York City's Digital Film Academy.{{Cite news |title=Behind The Black Panther: Film School Founder Recalls Early Days Of Chadwick Boseman |first=Travis|last= Bean|work=Forbes |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/travisbean/2019/07/12/behind-the-black-panther-film-school-founder-recalls-early-days-of-chadwick-boseman/ |url-status=live |url-access=limited |date=July 12, 2019|access-date=November 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190713142156/https://www.forbes.com/sites/travisbean/2019/07/12/behind-the-black-panther-film-school-founder-recalls-early-days-of-chadwick-boseman/#592fb7dc1f1e |archive-date=July 13, 2019}}{{Cite web |last=Jain |first=Sara McDermott |date=March 18, 2014 |title=DFA Grad Chadwick Boseman to Play James Brown in Biopic |url=https://www.digitalfilmacademy.edu/dfa-grad-chadwick-boseman-to-play-james-brown-in-biopic/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222171834/https://www.digitalfilmacademy.edu/dfa-grad-chadwick-boseman-to-play-james-brown-in-biopic/ |archive-date=December 22, 2017 |access-date=December 22, 2017 |publisher=Digital Film Academy}}

Boseman lived in Brooklyn, New York City, at the start of his career. In 2000, he was named a Drama League Directing Fellow. He directed productions including George C. Wolfe's The Colored Museum{{Cite web |title=Drama League Directors Project Fellows |url=http://dramaleague.org/about/whoweare/alumni#Directors%2520Project%2520Fellows |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224120136/http://dramaleague.org/about/whoweare/alumni#Directors%2520Project%2520Fellows |archive-date=December 24, 2020 |access-date=December 23, 2020 |website=The Drama League}} (Wolfe would later direct Boseman in his final role){{Cite web |last=Phipps |first=Keith |title=George C. Wolfe on Directing 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' and Chadwick Boseman |url=https://www.gq.com/story/george-c-wolfe-ma-raineys-black-bottom-chadwick-boseman-viola-davis-interview |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224120136/https://www.gq.com/story/george-c-wolfe-ma-raineys-black-bottom-chadwick-boseman-viola-davis-interview |archive-date=December 24, 2020 |access-date=December 23, 2020 |website=GQ|date=December 18, 2020 }} and a staging of Amiri Baraka's Dutchman. He worked as the drama instructor in the Schomburg Junior Scholars Program, housed at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem between 2002 and 2009.{{Cite web |title=Schomburg Center and NYPL Honor the Life of Chadwick Boseman |url=https://www.nypl.org/blog/2020/08/29/chadwick-boseman |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224120136/https://www.nypl.org/blog/2020/08/29/chadwick-boseman |archive-date=December 24, 2020 |access-date=December 23, 2020 |website=The New York Public Library}}

He rose to prominence as a playwright and stage actor in 2002, performing in multiple productions and winning an AUDELCO award in 2002 for his part in Ron Milner's Urban Transitions. As a member of the National Shakespeare Company of New York, he played Romeo in Romeo and Juliet and Malcolm in Macbeth. He directed and wrote plays{{Cite news |last=Williams |first=Kam |date=April 8, 2013 |title=A chat with Chad -'42' star Chadwick Boseman |language=en-US |work=Philadelphia Sun |url=https://www.philasun.com/entertainment/a-chat-with-chad-42-star-chadwick-boseman/ |url-status=live |access-date=September 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910025543/http://www.philasun.com/entertainment/a-chat-with-chad-42-star-chadwick-boseman/ |archive-date=September 10, 2015}}{{Cite web |title=Chadwick Boseman |url=https://www.biography.com/actor/chadwick-boseman |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200831231934/https://www.biography.com/actor/chadwick-boseman |archive-date=August 31, 2020 |access-date=September 6, 2020 |website=Biography |language=en-us}} as part of the Hip-hop theater movement; his works included Rhyme Deferred (co-written with Howard classmate Kamilah Forbes), in which he also performed, and Hieroglyphic Graffiti.{{Cite book |title=Deep Azure |url=https://www.press.umich.edu/special/hiphop/deep_azure |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200902094708/https://www.press.umich.edu/special/hiphop/deep_azure |archive-date=September 2, 2020 |access-date=September 2, 2020 |series=University of Michigan Press |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Wiegand |first=Chris |date=September 2, 2020 |title='You are all the Black Panther': the electric theatre of Chadwick Boseman |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/sep/02/chadwick-boseman-theatre-black-panther |url-status=live |access-date=September 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200902235353/https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/sep/02/chadwick-boseman-theatre-black-panther |archive-date=September 2, 2020 |issn=0261-3077}} Rhyme Deferred was commissioned for a national tour, as well as featuring in The Fire This Time anthology of works, while Hieroglyphic Graffiti was produced at a variety of locations, including the National Black Theatre Festival in 2001. Combining modern African-American culture and Egyptian deities, it is set in Washington, D.C. and was picked up by the New York Hip-Hop Theatre Festival and Tennessee State University's summer stock theatre program in 2002.{{Cite web |title=Mythic Proportions |url=https://www.nashvillescene.com/arts-culture/article/13007481/mythic-proportions |access-date=December 23, 2020 |website=Nashville Scene|date=August 2002 }} It was also the Kuntu Repertory Theatre's 2002–03 season launch production. At the 2002 Hip-Hop Theatre Festival, Boseman also gave a one-man show called "Red Clay and Carved Concrete".{{Cite web |title=Kuntu Repertory Theatre Launches 2002–2003 Season With "Hieroglyphic Graffiti" |url=http://www.news.pitt.edu/news/kuntu-repertory-theatre-launches-2002-2003-season-hieroglyphic-graffiti |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200109195720/http://www.news.pitt.edu/news/kuntu-repertory-theatre-launches-2002-2003-season-hieroglyphic-graffiti |archive-date=January 9, 2020 |access-date=December 23, 2020 |website=University of Pittsburgh News}}

In 2003, Boseman was cast in his first television role, an episode of Third Watch,{{Cite news |last= |date=August 29, 2020 |title=Black Panther actor Chadwick Boseman dies of colon cancer at 43 |work=Hindustan Times |publisher=HT Media Ltd |location=New Delhi |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/videos/entertainment/black-panther-actor-chadwick-boseman-dies-of-colon-cancer-at-43video/video-1bqOhvCm504CfyEaORG4EO.html |url-status=live |access-date=August 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200829212708/https://www.hindustantimes.com/videos/entertainment/black-panther-actor-chadwick-boseman-dies-of-colon-cancer-at-43video/video-1bqOhvCm504CfyEaORG4EO.html |archive-date=August 29, 2020}} and began playing Reggie Montgomery in the daytime soap opera All My Children.{{Cite web |last=Mason |first=Charlie |date=August 29, 2020 |title=Beloved Soap Actor-Turned-Movie Star Dead at 43 After Years-Long Cancer Battle |url=https://soaps.sheknows.com/soaps/news/576619/chadwick-boseman-dead-all-my-children-reggie/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200831012120/https://soaps.sheknows.com/soaps/news/576619/chadwick-boseman-dead-all-my-children-reggie/ |archive-date=August 31, 2020 |access-date=August 30, 2020 |website=Soaps.com |publisher=SheKnows Media |location=United States}} He was fired from All My Children after voicing concerns to producers about racist stereotypes in the script; the role was subsequently re-cast, with Boseman's future Black Panther co-star Michael B. Jordan taking the part. Boseman had wanted to work around the stereotypes of the character, feeling that being in a soap opera would give him more room for improvisation as the writers often do not initially plan a full story;{{Cite magazine |title=Chadwick Boseman and Michael B. Jordan discuss playing the same role on 'All My Children' |url=https://ew.com/tv/2019/01/04/all-my-children-chadwick-boseman-michael-b-jordan/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224120152/https://ew.com/tv/2019/01/04/all-my-children-chadwick-boseman-michael-b-jordan/ |archive-date=December 24, 2020 |access-date=December 23, 2020 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly}} his (then-future) agent said that when Boseman was given the second script and learned that his character's parents were a drug addict and an absent father, Boseman confronted the creators. He reflected on the experience in his 2018 commencement address to Howard University, saying that it "seemed to be wrapped up in assumptions about us as black folks [and he] would have to make something out of nothing." His other early television work included episodes of the series Law & Order, Cold Case, CSI: NY, and ER.

Boseman's best-known play, Deep Azure, was commissioned in 2004 by the Congo Square Theatre Company in Chicago. It was nominated for a 2006 Jeff Award for Best New Work. Boseman said at the time that Deep Azure was "a fusion and progression of [his] previous plays", which he did not feel fit wholly in the Hip Hop theater genre. The play – about police brutality, a daring subject in 2004, and largely delivered in rhyme – was workshopped at the Apollo Theater in New York.{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Chris |title=Chadwick Boseman's play was on Chicago's Congo Square Theatre years ago |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/chris-jones/ct-ent-chadwick-boseman-chicago-plays-jones-0904-20200901-huqwvhc3andvfnsopln2bvohre-story.html |url-access=limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224120204/https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/chris-jones/ct-ent-chadwick-boseman-chicago-plays-jones-0904-20200901-huqwvhc3andvfnsopln2bvohre-story.html |archive-date=December 24, 2020 |access-date=December 23, 2020 |website=Chicago Tribune|date=September 2020 }} Drama critic Chris Jones in the Chicago Tribune highly praised the work.{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Chris |date=September 22, 2005 |title=Fascinating 'Deep Azure' is verbal feast |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2005-09-22-0509220274-story.html |url-access=limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224120204/https://www.chicagotribune.com/ |archive-date=December 24, 2020 |access-date=December 23, 2020 |website=Chicago Tribune}} In 2008, Boseman turned Deep Azure into a screenplay. Michael Greene, who would become his agent, picked it up and contacted Boseman when Tessa Thompson and Omari Hardwick expressed an interest in playing the lead roles, prompting Boseman's move to Los Angeles.{{Cite web |title=Chadwick Boseman's Agent: He Chose Roles "Always Bringing About Light" |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/chadwick-bosemans-agent-he-chose-roles-always-bringing-about-light |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224120203/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/chadwick-bosemans-agent-he-chose-roles-always-bringing-about-light |archive-date=December 24, 2020 |access-date=December 23, 2020 |website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=September 2, 2020 }} He also directed, wrote, and produced the short film Blood Over a Broken Pawn in 2007, which was honored at the 2008 Hollywood Black Film Festival.{{Cite web |year=2008 |title=Blood Over A Broken Pawn |url=http://hollywoodblackff.festivalgenius.com/2008/films/bloodoverabrokenpawn_hollywoodblackff2008 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025142008/http://hollywoodblackff.festivalgenius.com/2008/films/bloodoverabrokenpawn_hollywoodblackff2008 |archive-date=October 25, 2020 |access-date=September 15, 2020 |website=Hollywood Black Film Festival}}

In 2008, Boseman moved to Los Angeles to pursue his film and acting career. He was cast in a recurring role on the television series Lincoln Heights as Nathaniel Ray Taylor, an army veteran with PTSD who was later revealed to be the son of the main character before re-enlisting.{{Cite web |date=February 12, 2018 |title=Pre Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman Was Nate On Lincoln Heights |url=https://www.lifeandstylemag.com/posts/chadwick-boseman-lincoln-heights-153754/ |first=Jennifer|last= Maldonado|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180625023825/https://www.lifeandstylemag.com/posts/chadwick-boseman-lincoln-heights-153754 |archive-date=June 25, 2018 |access-date=December 23, 2020 |website=Life & Style}} He also appeared in his first feature film in 2008, The Express: The Ernie Davis Story, as running back Floyd Little. He landed his first regular role in the 2010 television series Persons Unknown as the Marine Graham McNair.{{Cite web |title=Persons Unknown: "Pilot" Review |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2010/06/08/persons-unknown-pilot-review |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224120205/https://www.ign.com/articles/2010/06/08/persons-unknown-pilot-review |archive-date=December 24, 2020 |access-date=December 23, 2020 |website=IGN|date=June 8, 2010 }} The show received mediocre reviews that felt the characters were all archetypes with little development.{{Cite web |title=Persons Unknown: Season 1 |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/persons_unknown/s01 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224120205/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/persons_unknown/s01 |archive-date=December 24, 2020 |access-date=December 23, 2020 |website=Rotten Tomatoes}}{{Cite web |title=Persons Unknown – "Pilot" |url=https://www.avclub.com/persons-unknown-pilot-1798165168 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224120221/https://tv.avclub.com/persons-unknown-pilot-1798165168 |archive-date=December 24, 2020 |access-date=December 23, 2020 |website=The A.V. Club|date=June 7, 2010 }} In July 2013, Boseman's second short film as director, Heaven, premiered at the HollyShorts Film Festival.{{Cite web |title=Exclusive: World Premiere of Chadwick Boseman's 'Heaven' Will Open HollyShorts Film Festival |url=https://shadowandact.com/exclusive-world-premiere-of-chadwick-bosemans-heaven-will-open-hollyshorts-film-festival |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224120215/https://shadowandact.com/exclusive-world-premiere-of-chadwick-bosemans-heaven-will-open-hollyshorts-film-festival |archive-date=December 24, 2020 |access-date=December 23, 2020 |website=Shadow and Act}}

File:040213 FLOTUS FilmWorkshop HD.webm at a film workshop of 42 in the State Dining Room of the White House, April 2013.]]

Boseman's breakthrough role came in 2013 with the film 42, in which he portrayed the lead role of baseball legend Jackie Robinson.{{Cite web |last=Borrelli |first=Christopher |date=April 11, 2013 |title=Robinson actor swings for the fences |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-xpm-2013-04-11-sc-mov-0409-chadwick-boseman-42-20130411-story.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200831012117/https://www.chicagotribune.com/ |archive-date=August 31, 2020 |access-date=August 31, 2020 |website=Chicago Tribune}} Boseman had been directing an off-Broadway play in the East Village when he auditioned for the role, and was considering giving up acting to pursue directing full-time. About twenty-five other actors had been seriously considered for the role, but director Brian Helgeland liked Boseman's bravery in choosing to read the most difficult scene, in which Robinson goes down a stadium tunnel and breaks a bat in anger, and cast him after he had auditioned twice.{{Cite web |date=April 12, 2013 |title=Chadwick Boseman says playing Jackie Robinson in '42' had him 'vibrating with excitement' every day |url=https://www.al.com/entertainment/2013/04/chadwick_boseman_says_playing.html |first= Bob|last= Carlton|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224120207/https://www.al.com/entertainment/2013/04/chadwick_boseman_says_playing.html |archive-date=December 24, 2020 |access-date=December 23, 2020 |website=The Huntsville Times}} Part of the audition process involved playing baseball; Boseman had been involved with Little League as a child but was primarily a basketball player growing up, saying that in this part the casting directors likely noticed his athleticism rather than specifically baseball skills. Robinson's widow, Rachel Robinson, commented that Boseman's performance was like seeing her husband again.{{Cite news |last=Coyle |first=Jack |date=August 29, 2020 |title=Chadwick Boseman didn't just play icons. He was one. |work=Associated Press |url=https://apnews.com/65222b7aea6069506d718a7429526d91 |url-status=live |access-date=August 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200829200138/https://apnews.com/65222b7aea6069506d718a7429526d91 |archive-date=August 29, 2020}} To replicate Robinson's mannerisms, Boseman trained for five months with professional baseball coaches who "would tape [his] practices every few weeks, and they would basically split-screen [his technique] with [Robinson's]" to allow him to compare. After having portrayed football player Little in The Express, Boseman was encouraged by stunt coordinator Allan Graf to approach running bases in the same way, as Robinson had also been a college football player.{{Cite web |title=In '42,' A Young Star Suits Up For A Hero's Role |url=https://www.npr.org/2013/04/06/176357603/learning-how-to-steal-bases-like-jackie-robinsonay |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224120205/https://www.npr.org/2013/04/06/176357603/learning-how-to-steal-bases-like-jackie-robinsonay |archive-date=December 24, 2020 |access-date=December 23, 2020 |website=NPR}} Upon taking the role, Boseman first spoke with Rachel Robinson, which he said was of great help in discovering the character. The same year, Boseman also starred in the independent film The Kill Hole, which was released in theaters a few weeks before 42.

File:P040213PS-1159 (cropped).jpg greets Boseman in the East Room, April 2013.]]

Critics, even those who viewed the film negatively, felt that Boseman being a relatively unknown actor was a benefit when playing an icon and an athlete; Mick LaSalle of San Francisco Chronicle wrote that "as [...] played by Chadwick Boseman, Robinson is a hero we can recognize",{{Cite web |last=LaSalle |first=Mick |date=April 11, 2013 |title='42' review: Big league entertainment |url=https://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/42-review-Big-league-entertainment-4427464.php |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224120206/https://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/42-review-Big-league-entertainment-4427464.php |archive-date=December 24, 2020 |access-date=December 23, 2020 |website=San Francisco Chronicle}} and Mary Pols for Time said that "Boseman is not a hugely close physical match to Robinson, except for perhaps in the power he conveys, but he's a great choice to play the ball player".{{Cite news |last=Pols |first=Mary |date=April 12, 2013 |title=42: The Jackie Robinson Biopic Is a Solid Hit |language=en-US |magazine=Time |url=https://entertainment.time.com/2013/04/12/42-the-jackie-robinson-biopic-is-a-solid-hit/ |url-access=limited |url-status=live |access-date=December 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224120207/https://entertainment.time.com/2013/04/12/42-the-jackie-robinson-biopic-is-a-solid-hit/ |archive-date=December 24, 2020 |issn=0040-781X}} The Guardian{{'s}} Mike McCahill noted that "Boseman hits his key scenes out of the park", but felt the film would not interest people who are not baseball fans,{{Cite web |date=September 12, 2013 |first=Mike|last= McCahill|title=42 – review |url=http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/sep/12/42-review |access-date=December 23, 2020 |website=The Guardian}} with Dana Stevens of Slate suggesting that the film made black history "squeaky-clean" and did both Robinson and Boseman's performance as him a disservice.{{Cite news |last=Stevens |first=Dana |date=April 11, 2013 |title=42 |language=en-US |work=Slate |url=http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/movies/2013/04/_42_the_jackie_robinson_movie_reviewed_topic_movies.html |url-status=live |access-date=December 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224120207/http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/movies/2013/04/_42_the_jackie_robinson_movie_reviewed_topic_movies.html |archive-date=December 24, 2020 |issn=1091-2339}}

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In 2014, Boseman starred in another sporting film, Draft Day, as fictional football player Vontae Mack.{{Cite web |last=Anderson |first=Chris |title=Cleveland Browns honor Chadwick Boseman, who played team's top pick in movie 'Draft Day' |url=https://www.cleveland19.com/2020/08/31/cleveland-browns-honor-chadwick-boseman-who-played-teams-top-pick-movie-draft-day/ |date=August 31, 2020| url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224120217/https://www.cleveland19.com/2020/08/31/cleveland-browns-honor-chadwick-boseman-who-played-teams-top-pick-movie-draft-day/ |archive-date=December 24, 2020 |access-date=December 23, 2020 |website=Cleveland 19}} He had workshopped the Tupac Shakur jukebox musical Holler If Ya Hear Me in 2013, but did not continue to Broadway with it in order to take the role of James Brown in 2014's Get on Up. As Brown, Boseman did some singing and all of his own dancing,{{Cite news |last=Stern |first=Marlow |date=August 4, 2014 |title='Get on Up' Star Chadwick Boseman on Becoming James Brown—With A Little Help From Mick Jagger |work=The Daily Beast |url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/04/get-on-up-star-chadwick-boseman-on-becoming-james-brown-with-a-little-help-from-mick-jagger.html |url-status=live |access-date=August 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616223322/http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/04/get-on-up-star-chadwick-boseman-on-becoming-james-brown-with-a-little-help-from-mick-jagger.html |archive-date=June 16, 2016}} working with choreographer Aakomon Jones for five to eight hours a day over two months in preparation. Producer Mick Jagger also directed him on interacting with audiences when performing live music. He had not wanted to take a role in another biopic so soon after playing an icon in Robinson, saying he "wasn't looking to do it again for another 15, 20 years",{{Cite web |last=Moore |first=Dennis |title=Chadwick Boseman gets on up as James Brown in biopic |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2014/07/31/chadwick-boseman-get-on-up-movie/13376727/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224120207/https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2014/07/31/chadwick-boseman-get-on-up-movie/13376727/ |archive-date=December 24, 2020 |access-date=December 23, 2020 |website=USA Today}} but was sought out as director Tate Taylor's only choice. Co-star Dan Aykroyd, who had known Brown, praised Boseman's performance, saying that it was neither replication nor impression and that he "did not have to squint sitting across from [Boseman] to imagine that [he] was talking to [Brown]". Boseman also stayed in character between filming on set; Taylor said this was not a method acting approach, and more a necessity due to Boseman holding his vocal cords unnaturally to imitate Brown's southern drawl.

His performance was praised as the highlight of a generally well received movie, with the Rotten Tomatoes critical consensus reading: "With an unforgettable Chadwick Boseman in the starring role, Get On Up offers the Godfather of Soul a fittingly dynamic homage."{{Cite web |title=Get On Up (2014) |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/get_on_up |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224120210/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/get_on_up |archive-date=December 24, 2020 |access-date=December 23, 2020 |website=Rotten Tomatoes}} Among the critics was Time{{'s}} Richard Corliss (hyperbolically) saying that Boseman "deserves a Pulitzer, a Nobel and instant election to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame."{{Cite magazine |title=REVIEW: 'Get On Up' Is a Loud, Proud and Oscar-Worthy James Brown Biopic |first= Richard|last=Corliss|url=https://time.com/3057251/james-brown-get-on-up-biopic-review/ |date=July 30, 2014|access-date=December 23, 2020 |url-access=limited |magazine=Time}} Eulogizing Boseman, Donald Clarke of The Irish Times said that "Get on Up tested every weapon in the actor's arsenal [and his] performance confirmed that, like a star from Hollywood's golden age, Chadwick Boseman could do it all and do it all with style."{{Cite news |last=Clarke |first=Donald |date=August 29, 2020 |title=Chadwick Boseman, star of Black Panther, was so much more than just a gifted actor |newspaper=The Irish Times |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/chadwick-boseman-star-of-black-panther-was-so-much-more-than-just-a-gifted-actor-1.4342057 |url-status=live |access-date=September 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025221450/https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/chadwick-boseman-star-of-black-panther-was-so-much-more-than-just-a-gifted-actor-1.4342057 |archive-date=October 25, 2020}}

Boseman had sold a thriller screenplay to Universal Pictures in 2014, which he continued to collaborate on with creative partner Logan Coles and planned to star in, and told The Guardian that he still wanted to be a director but would explore his acting career first, adding that "maybe it'll be easier if you're a successful actor".{{Cite news |title=Meet Chadwick Boseman, Your New (and Very Secretive) Black Panther |url=https://www.vulture.com/2014/10/chadwick-boseman-profile-interview-black-panther.html |url-access=limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224120213/https://www.vulture.com/2014/10/chadwick-boseman-profile-interview-black-panther.html |archive-date=December 24, 2020 |access-date=December 23, 2020 |website=Vulture}} In 2016, he starred as Thoth, a deity from Egyptian mythology, in Gods of Egypt. Boseman was one of the few actors of color featured in the film, which had drawn criticism for using a predominantly white cast to portray Egyptian characters. Agreeing with the criticism, Boseman said this had motivated him to accept the role, to ensure one of the film's African characters would be played by someone of African descent. Boseman's own casting was criticized for falling under the "Magical Negro" stereotype. The Independent reported that Boseman shook his head while telling GQ in an interview that "people don't make $140 million movies starring black and brown people".{{Cite web |date=December 9, 2015 |title=Chadwick Boseman believes his own film 'whitewashes' Egypt |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/gods-egypt-chadwick-boseman-agrees-people-who-think-his-film-whitewashes-egypt-a6766026.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224120214/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/gods-egypt-chadwick-boseman-agrees-people-who-think-his-film-whitewashes-egypt-a6766026.html |archive-date=December 24, 2020 |access-date=December 23, 2020 |website=The Independent}} It was his first largely CGI film, and he expressed that he preferred acting alongside people than with blue screens and prop stand-ins. The film was heavily criticized; Jordan Hoffman for The Guardian said that it lacks story or interesting characters, but "Boseman makes for nice comic relief as the witty Thoth",{{Cite web |date=February 27, 2016 |title=Gods of Egypt review – ridiculous, offensive and tremendously fun |url=http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/feb/27/gods-of-egypt-review-ridiculous-offensive-and-tremendously-fun |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224120221/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/feb/27/gods-of-egypt-review-ridiculous-offensive-and-tremendously-fun |first=Jordan|last= Hoffman|archive-date=December 24, 2020 |access-date=December 23, 2020 |website=The Guardian}} with Will Leitch of The New Republic saying that his then-upcoming Marvel Studios role may have to work "to make you forget he was ever in this movie".{{Cite news |last=Leitch |first=Will |date=February 26, 2016 |title=Gods of Egypt: What Were They Thinking? |magazine=The New Republic |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/130592/gods-egypt-thinking |url-status=live |url-access=limited |access-date=December 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224120239/https://newrepublic.com/article/130592/gods-egypt-thinking |archive-date=December 24, 2020 |issn=0028-6583}} Perri Nemiroff for Collider said that Boseman shines as "the only cast member who really seems to understand the movie he's in".{{Cite web |date=February 25, 2016 |title=Gods of Egypt Review: So Bad It's ... Just Bad |url=https://collider.com/gods-of-egypt-review-gerard-butler/ |first=Perri|last=Nemiroff|access-date=December 23, 2020 |website=Collider}}

File:Chadwick Boseman & Lupita Nyong'o (35852213610).jpg at the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con]]

In 2016, Boseman began portraying the Marvel Comics character T'Challa / Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Captain America: Civil War was his first film in a five-picture deal with Marvel Entertainment.{{Cite web |last=Strom |first=Marc |date=October 8, 2015 |title=Marvel Studios Phase 3 Update |url=http://marvel.com/news/movies/25244/marvel_studios_phase_3_update |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180116070518/https://news.marvel.com/movies/25244/marvel_studios_phase_3_update/ |archive-date=January 16, 2018 |access-date=January 12, 2016 |publisher=Marvel Entertainment}} He did not audition for the role, instead having a "discussion about what [Marvel] wanted to do and how [he] saw it and what [he] wanted to do."{{Cite magazine |last=Labrecque |first=Jeff |date=November 20, 2014 |title=Breaking Big: Welcome to The Show, Chadwick Boseman |url=http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/11/20/chadwick-boseman-black-panther/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129034558/http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/11/20/chadwick-boseman-black-panther/ |archive-date=November 29, 2014 |access-date=November 30, 2014 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly}} While working on Civil War, Boseman learned some Xhosa from John Kani, who played his father, and insisted on using the language for the character. Boseman also developed a Wakandan accent himself, and used it during the entire production "whether he was on camera or not".{{Cite web |last=Nugent |first=John |date=May 9, 2016 |title=12 secrets from Captain America: Civil War |url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/captain-america-civil-war-secrets/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160510104913/http://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/captain-america-civil-war-secrets/ |archive-date=May 10, 2016 |access-date=May 15, 2016 |website=Empire}} When asked by journalist Ryan Gilbey if he felt pressure not to "screw up" the beloved comics character, Boseman responded by saying: "It's more positive than that. It's more like: 'Seize it. Enjoy it.{{'"}}{{Cite news |last=Gilbey |first=Ryan |date=August 29, 2020 |title='Seize it. Enjoy it': Chadwick Boseman embraced the joy and gravity of his films |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2020/aug/29/seize-it-enjoy-it-chadwick-boseman-embraced-his-films-joy-and-their-gravity |url-status=live |access-date=December 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224120235/https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2020/aug/29/seize-it-enjoy-it-chadwick-boseman-embraced-his-films-joy-and-their-gravity |archive-date=December 24, 2020 |issn=0261-3077}} He told the Associated Press, though, that he more identified with the Black Panther's nemesis, Killmonger, knowing that his roots to his African past had been severed. Producer Kevin Feige explained that the Black Panther was included in Civil War "because [they] needed a third party. [It] needed fresh eyes [of a character] who wasn't embedded with the Avengers and who has a very different point of view than either Tony or Steve."{{Cite web |last=Faraci |first=Devin |date=June 29, 2015 |title=Sokovia, Vibranium And 'Civil War': Kevin Feige Teases Black Panther! |url=http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2015/06/29/sokovia-vibranium-and-civil-war-kevin-feige-teases-black-panther |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150702055716/http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2015/06/29/sokovia-vibranium-and-civil-war-kevin-feige-teases-black-panther |archive-date=July 2, 2015 |access-date=July 4, 2015 |website=BirthMoviesDeath.com}}{{Cite magazine |last=Breznican |first=Anthony |author-link=Anthony Breznican |date=December 2, 2015 |title=Black Panther: Meet Marvel's fearsome warrior from Captain America: Civil War |url=https://www.ew.com/article/2015/12/02/black-panther-captain-america-civil-war/2 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151204194925/http://www.ew.com/article/2015/12/02/black-panther-captain-america-civil-war/2 |archive-date=December 4, 2015 |access-date=December 2, 2015 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly}} Boseman's performance in Civil War was highly praised, though critics acknowledged the character's inclusion was largely to set up his upcoming headlining movie.Multiple sources:

• {{Cite web |last=Abad-Santos |first=Alex |date=May 5, 2016 |title=Captain America: Civil War will make you remember why we love superheroes |url=https://www.vox.com/2016/5/5/11574504/captain-america-civil-war-movie-review |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231033000/https://www.vox.com/2016/5/5/11574504/captain-america-civil-war-movie-review |archive-date=December 31, 2020 |access-date=December 25, 2020 |website=Vox}}
• {{Cite web |date=May 5, 2016 |title=Review: 'Captain America: Civil War' may split audience between true believers and puzzled newbies |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-0505-captain-america-civil-war-review-20160504-snap-story.html |url-access=limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6hHHC4lsH?url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-0505-captain-america-civil-war-review-20160504-snap-story.html |archive-date=May 5, 2016 |access-date=December 25, 2020 |website=Los Angeles Times}}
• {{Cite news |title=Captain America: Civil War cements Marvel's victory over Hollywood |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/film-reviews/captain-america-civil-war-cements-marvels-victory-over-hollywood/article29859497/ |url-status=live |access-date=December 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190314090153/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/film-reviews/captain-america-civil-war-cements-marvels-victory-over-hollywood/article29859497/ |archive-date=March 14, 2019}}
• {{Cite web |last=Willmore |first=Alison |title=In "Civil War," A Superhero's Toughest Challenge Is Accountability |url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/alisonwillmore/captain-america-civil-war-review |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231033015/https://www.buzzfeed.com/alisonwillmore/captain-america-civil-war-review |archive-date=December 31, 2020 |access-date=December 25, 2020 |website=BuzzFeed News|date=May 2, 2016 }}
• {{Cite magazine |last=Travers |first=Peter |date=May 4, 2016 |title='Captain America: Civil War' Movie Review |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/captain-america-civil-war-121902/ |url-access=limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231033000/https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/captain-america-civil-war-121902/ |archive-date=December 31, 2020 |access-date=December 25, 2020 |magazine=Rolling Stone}}
• {{Cite news |title='Captain America: Civil War' review: 5 reasons it's better than 'Batman v Superman' |url=https://torontosun.com/2016/05/03/captain-america-civil-war-review-5-reasons-its-better-than-batman-v-superman |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201201091322/https://torontosun.com/2016/05/03/captain-america-civil-war-review-5-reasons-its-better-than-batman-v-superman |archive-date=December 1, 2020 |access-date=December 25, 2020 |newspaper=Toronto Sun}}
• {{Cite web |last=Phillips |first=Michael |title='Captain America: Civil War' review: Satisfying superheroism |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/ct-captain-america-civil-war-movie-review-20160502-column.html |url-access=limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231032920/https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/ct-captain-america-civil-war-movie-review-20160502-column.html |archive-date=December 31, 2020 |access-date=December 25, 2020 |website=Chicago Tribune|date=May 3, 2016 }}

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Boseman returned as the Black Panther in Black Panther (2018), directed by Ryan Coogler,{{Cite web |last=Connley |first=Courtney |date=February 23, 2018 |title=How 'Black Panther' director Ryan Coogler went from living in his car to becoming Marvel's youngest filmmaker |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/23/ryan-coogler-became-marvels-youngest-filmmaker-with-black-panther.html |access-date=November 26, 2018 |website=CNBC}} which focused on the character and his home country of Wakanda in Africa. The film opened to great anticipation, becoming one of the highest-grossing films. The role earned Boseman a spot on the 2018 Time 100 as one of the world's most influential people, with Sean Combs writing his entry.{{Cite magazine |title=Chadwick Boseman: The World's 100 Most Influential People |url=https://time.com/collection/most-influential-people-2018/5217574/chadwick-boseman/ |url-access=limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200902025621/https://time.com/collection/most-influential-people-2018/5217574/chadwick-boseman/ |archive-date=September 2, 2020 |access-date=September 23, 2020 |magazine=Time}} It is seen as a landmark in being the first mega-budget movie to have a predominantly black cast and director, as well as the first superhero film to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.{{Cite web |date=August 29, 2020 |title='Our superhero': black British figures praise Chadwick Boseman |first=Molly|last=Blackall|url=http://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/aug/29/our-superhero-black-british-figures-praise-chadwick-boseman |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224120244/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/aug/29/our-superhero-black-british-figures-praise-chadwick-boseman |archive-date=December 24, 2020 |access-date=December 23, 2020 |website=The Guardian}} The film received universal acclaim and Boseman was praised; Matthew Norman for the Evening Standard said that he "brings a measure of sub-Shakespearean gravitas to T'Challa's struggle to bear the weight of his crown";{{Cite web |last=Norman |first=Matthew |date=February 9, 2018 |title=Black Panther is the film we've been waiting half a century to see |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/music/black-panther-review-all-hail-king-tchalla-a3762306.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201210120930/https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/music/black-panther-review-all-hail-king-tchalla-a3762306.html |archive-date=December 10, 2020 |access-date=December 26, 2020 |website=Evening Standard}} Richard Lawson and Sight & Sound{{'s}} Kelli Weston also noted the strength of gravitas Boseman gave to the performance.{{Cite magazine |last=Lawson |first=Richard |title=Black Panther Review: the Marvel Universe Finally Shows Us Something New |date=February 6, 2018|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/02/black-panther-review |url-access=limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231032916/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/02/black-panther-review |archive-date=December 31, 2020 |access-date=December 26, 2020 |magazine=Vanity Fair}} Weston added that he, "despite having the more thankless role [out of T'Challa and Killmonger], carries the film with a quiet dignity one might rightfully expect of a man raised to be king."{{Cite web |title=Black Panther review: an electrifying, Afrofuturist superhero movie {{!}} Sight & Sound |first=Kelli|last= Weston|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/reviews-recommendations/black-panther-electrifying-afrofuturist-superhero-movie |date=March 15, 2018|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231033031/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/reviews-recommendations/black-panther-electrifying-afrofuturist-superhero-movie |archive-date=December 31, 2020 |access-date=December 26, 2020 |website=British Film Institute}} Todd McCarthy and The Village Voice{{'s}} Kristen Yoonsoo Kim saw that while Boseman played his serious character well, the cast was full of charismatic scene stealers.{{Cite web |title='Black Panther': Film Review |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/black-panther-review-1080811 |first=Todd|last= McCarthy| url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180206214759/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/black-panther-review-1080811 |archive-date=February 6, 2018 |access-date=December 26, 2020 |website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=February 6, 2018 }}{{Cite web |title=Ryan Coogler's "Black Panther" Isn't Just Good — It Marks a New Reign |first=Kristen|last= Yoonsoo Kim|date=February 9, 2018|url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/02/09/ryan-cooglers-black-panther-isnt-just-good-it-marks-a-new-reign/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231033033/https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/02/09/ryan-cooglers-black-panther-isnt-just-good-it-marks-a-new-reign/ |archive-date=December 31, 2020 |access-date=December 26, 2020 |website=The Village Voice}} Peter Travers gave much praise to Boseman as the lead, and said that he "digs so deep into T'Challa that you can feel his nerve endings";{{Cite magazine |last=Travers |first=Peter |date=February 6, 2018 |title='Black Panther': Marvel's History-Making Superhero Movie's a Masterpiece |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/black-panther-review-marvels-history-making-superhero-movies-a-masterpiece-198071/ |url-access=limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180208055524/https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/peter-travers-black-panther-is-a-marvel-movie-masterpiece-w516361 |archive-date=February 8, 2018 |access-date=December 26, 2020 |magazine=Rolling Stone}} LaSalle wrote that "Boseman commands every moment of this film, radiating probity and purpose, and it's only later on that you realize that, with another actor, this wouldn't have been a sure thing."{{Cite web |date=February 15, 2018 |title='Black Panther' is a grand-scale and serious action blockbuster|first=Mick|last=LaSalle |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/movies/article/Black-Panther-is-a-grand-scale-and-serious-12611850.php |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231032939/https://www.sfchronicle.com/movies/article/Black-Panther-is-a-grand-scale-and-serious-12611850.php |archive-date=December 31, 2020 |access-date=December 26, 2020 |website=SFChronicle}}

He reprised the role in both Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, which were released in 2018 and 2019, respectively. Both films were the highest grossing of the year they were released, with Endgame going on to become the highest-grossing film of all time.{{Cite news |title=Marvel's 'Black Panther' Will Set Up 'Avengers: Infinity War,' Says Kevin Feige |work=The Hollywood Reporter |first=Graeme|last= McMillan|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/marvels-black-panther-will-set-up-avengers-infinity-war-says-kevin-feige-851523 |url-status=live |access-date=February 13, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101191417/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/marvels-black-panther-will-set-851523 |archive-date=January 1, 2016}} Infinity War was filmed at the same time as Black Panther, and Boseman and other actors playing Wakandan characters improvised chanting scenes in the former that originated in the latter.{{Cite web |last=Parker |first=Ryan |date=August 1, 2018 |title='Black Panther' Actors Surprised Russo Brothers With Unscripted Chants in 'Infinity War' |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/black-panther-stars-added-unscripted-chants-avengers-infinity-war-1131376 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180802013641/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/black-panther-stars-added-unscripted-chants-avengers-infinity-war-1131376 |archive-date=August 2, 2018 |access-date=September 13, 2018 |website=The Hollywood Reporter}} Boseman's last physical appearance as Black Panther was in Endgame, at Tony Stark's funeral; he voiced alternate versions of T'Challa in the 2021 Disney+ animated series What If...?.{{Cite web |title=Kevin Feige Confirms Chadwick Boseman Recorded "Numerous Episodes" Of Marvel Show "What If...?" |first=Rafael|last=Motamayor|date=December 20, 2020|url=https://theplaylist.net/chadwick-boseman-what-if-marvel-20201220/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231033017/https://theplaylist.net/chadwick-boseman-what-if-marvel-20201220/ |archive-date=December 31, 2020 |access-date=December 31, 2020 |website=theplaylist}}{{Cite web|date=July 29, 2021|title=Marvel's What If: Jeffrey Wright Talks Chadwick Boseman's Last MCU Outing|url=https://screenrant.com/marvel-what-if-show-chadwick-boseman-jeffrey-wright-response/|first=Rachel|last=Labonte|access-date=July 29, 2021|website=ScreenRant|language=en-US}}

Boseman portrayed Thurgood Marshall in the biographical film Marshall in 2017. Set years before he became the first African American Supreme Court Justice, the movie focuses on one of Marshall's early cases, the trial of Joseph Spell. It was premiered at Howard University, which both Boseman and Marshall had attended.{{Cite web |title=Marshall |url=https://calendar.howard.edu/event/marshall-screening-and-discussion-law |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926235447/https://calendar.howard.edu/event/marshall-screening-and-discussion-law |archive-date=September 26, 2017 |access-date=September 26, 2017 |website=Howard University|date=September 19, 2017 }}{{Cite magazine |last=Travers |first=Peter |date=October 13, 2017 |title=Chadwick Boseman Electrifies as Young Civil Rights Icon in 'Marshall' |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/marshall-review-chadwick-boseman-electrifies-as-young-civil-rights-icon-202450/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200820111418/https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/marshall-review-chadwick-boseman-electrifies-as-young-civil-rights-icon-202450/ |archive-date=August 20, 2020 |access-date=September 14, 2020 |magazine=Rolling Stone}} Boseman was still worried about being put into a "biopic box", and felt that he didn't look enough like the real Marshall,{{Cite web |last=Bennett |first=Jessica |date=October 27, 2017 |title=Chadwick Boseman Shares Why He Almost Passed on 'Marshall' |url=https://www.ebony.com/entertainment/chadwick-boseman-marshall/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231032943/https://www.ebony.com/entertainment/chadwick-boseman-marshall/ |archive-date=December 31, 2020 |access-date=December 30, 2020 |website=Ebony}} but took the role because he enjoyed the script "separate from the historical relevance"; he had expected big courtroom speeches but found that in the case Marshall was silenced by the judge and had to mentor white co-counsel Sam Friedman (Josh Gad) to take on his first criminal case.{{Cite web |title=Actor Chadwick Boseman On His New Role As 'Marshall' |url=https://www.npr.org/2017/10/14/557832715/actor-chadwick-boseman-on-his-new-role-as-marshall |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231032922/https://www.npr.org/2017/10/14/557832715/actor-chadwick-boseman-on-his-new-role-as-marshall |archive-date=December 31, 2020 |date=October 14, 2017|access-date=December 30, 2020 |website=NPR}} He told The New York Times that he liked this element of the story because "it doesn't allow you as an audience member, no matter what color you are, to hide from the issues".{{Cite news |last=Liptak |first=Adam |date=September 8, 2017 |title=It's Thurgood Marshall to the Rescue in a New Thriller (Published 2017) |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/movies/thurgood-marshall-movie-chadwick-boseman.html |url-status=live |url-access=limited |access-date=December 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231033034/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/movies/thurgood-marshall-movie-chadwick-boseman.html |archive-date=December 31, 2020 |issn=0362-4331}} Boseman researched Marshall extensively before portraying him, as well as studying videos of him speaking and losing muscle to reflect the younger Marshall's wiry frame.{{Cite magazine |last=Smith |first=Krista |title=Chadwick Boseman Takes on Another Real-Life Giant: Thurgood Marshall |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/10/chadwick-boseman-takes-on-real-life-giant-thurgood-marshall |date=October 9, 2017|url-access=limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231033010/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/10/chadwick-boseman-takes-on-real-life-giant-thurgood-marshall |archive-date=December 31, 2020 |access-date=December 30, 2020 |magazine=Vanity Fair}} The film opened to an average critical reception, though Boseman's performance was praised.{{Cite magazine |last=Travers |first=Peter |date=October 13, 2017 |title=Chadwick Boseman Electrifies as Young Civil Rights Icon in 'Marshall' |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/marshall-review-chadwick-boseman-electrifies-as-young-civil-rights-icon-202450/ |url-access=limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200820111418/https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-reviews/marshall-review-chadwick-boseman-electrifies-as-young-civil-rights-icon-202450/ |archive-date=August 20, 2020 |access-date=December 30, 2020 |magazine=Rolling Stone}}{{Cite web |date=October 18, 2017 |title=Marshall review – Chadwick Boseman holds court in powerful civil rights drama |first=Cath|last= Clarke|url=http://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/oct/18/marshall-review-chadwick-boseman-thurgood-marshall-us-civil-rights |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201214015629/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/oct/18/marshall-review-chadwick-boseman-thurgood-marshall-us-civil-rights |archive-date=December 14, 2020 |access-date=December 30, 2020 |website=The Guardian}} However, Vulture criticized his casting, noting that, unlike Boseman, "the real-life Marshall was a light-skinned man, and his place on the color spectrum undoubtedly influenced how he became such a legend."{{Cite web |last=Bastién |first=Angelica Jade |author-link=Angelica Jade Bastién |date=October 19, 2017 |title=How the Thurgood Marshall Film Misunderstands Colorism |url=https://www.vulture.com/2017/10/marshall-misunderstands-colorism.html |url-access=limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231033008/https://www.vulture.com/2017/10/marshall-misunderstands-colorism.html |archive-date=December 31, 2020 |access-date=December 30, 2020 |website=Vulture}} Boseman had been concerned about their differences before taking the role, but was convinced by the director and producer that as the film was telling an insular story it did not matter as much.{{Cite magazine |title=Marshall: Why Chadwick Boseman decided to play another historical figure |first=Chancellor|last=Agard|date=August 15, 2017|url=https://ew.com/movies/2017/08/15/marshall-chadwick-boseman-interview/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231033018/https://ew.com/movies/2017/08/15/marshall-chadwick-boseman-interview/ |archive-date=December 31, 2020 |access-date=December 30, 2020 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly}}

In 2019, he starred in 21 Bridges, an American action thriller film directed by Brian Kirk, as an NYPD detective who shuts down the eponymous twenty-one bridges of Manhattan to find two suspected cop killers. He was approached to work on the film by two of its producers, Avengers directors the Russo brothers, at the Infinity War premiere. While 21 Bridges was filming, the Russos and Boseman were working on Endgame.{{Cite web |last=Thompson |first=Simon |title=All Roads Lead To Chadwick Boseman In '21 Bridges' |date=November 20, 2019|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/simonthompson/2019/11/20/all-roads-lead-to-chadwick-boseman-in-21-bridges/ |url-access=limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231033009/https://www.forbes.com/sites/simonthompson/2019/11/20/all-roads-lead-to-chadwick-boseman-in-21-bridges/ |archive-date=December 31, 2020 |access-date=December 30, 2020 |website=Forbes}} Boseman was also a producer on 21 Bridges, something he said was made clear to him in his early conversations with the production team; the three producers are given a nod in one of the film's opening lines, when a character is described as an "avenger".{{Cite web |title=21 Bridges 2019, directed by Brian Kirk {{!}} Film review |url=https://www.timeout.com/movies/21-bridges |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024011640/https://www.timeout.com/movies/21-bridges |first=Joseph|last=Walsh|date=November 18, 2019|archive-date=October 24, 2020 |access-date=December 30, 2020 |website=Time Out Worldwide}} All of the film's characters were originally conceived as male and white, with Boseman encouraging amendments to this and other parts of the story.{{Cite web |date=November 22, 2019 |title=How Chadwick Boseman made '21 Bridges' a more diverse detective story, and earned his producing stripes |first=Sonaiya|last=Kelley|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2019-11-21/chadwick-boseman-21-bridges |url-access=limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231032936/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2019-11-21/chadwick-boseman-21-bridges |archive-date=December 31, 2020 |access-date=December 30, 2020 |website=Los Angeles Times}} In his capacity as a producer, Boseman sought out Sienna Miller to be his co-star; Miller, who was intending to take a break from acting while her daughter was young, asked for a salary that the studio would not meet, and so Boseman donated the rest from his own pay.{{Cite web |date=September 29, 2020 |title=Chadwick Boseman gave part of his 21 Bridges salary to Sienna Miller |first=Lucy|last=Campbell|url=http://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/sep/29/chadwick-boseman-gave-part-of-his-21-bridges-salary-to-sienna-miller |access-date=December 23, 2020 |website=The Guardian}} He also personally called Stephan James to ask him to play one of the criminals Boseman's detective is hunting; the two actors had been planning to work more together after the film. Boseman said that he and Coles "fought for casting and for actors that brought particular sensibilities and feelings".

As an actor, Boseman developed his character by going on calls with the NYPD and LAPD,{{Cite web |last=Lang |first=Brent |date=April 2, 2019 |title=Chadwick Boseman Plugs Gritty '21 Bridges' as 'Black Panther' Follow-Up |url=https://variety.com/2019/film/news/chadwick-boseman-21-bridges-cinemacon-1203178731/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231032956/https://variety.com/2019/film/news/chadwick-boseman-21-bridges-cinemacon-1203178731/ |archive-date=December 31, 2020 |access-date=December 30, 2020 |website=Variety}} which he said influenced the writing after he fed back his experiences, and learning how to fire blanks and handle a gun with a police weapons specialist.{{Cite web |last=Power |first=Tom |date=November 18, 2019 |title=Chadwick Boseman Talks '21 Bridges', Marvel And How 'Black Panther' Changed Hollywood |url=https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/film/a29828577/chadwick-boseman-interview-21-bridges-black-panther-2/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231032937/https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/film/a29828577/chadwick-boseman-interview-21-bridges-black-panther-2/ |archive-date=December 31, 2020 |access-date=December 30, 2020 |website=Esquire}} While the film received mixed reviews, the cast was praised;{{Cite web |title=21 Bridges (2019) |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/21_bridges |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231033044/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/21_bridges |archive-date=December 31, 2020 |access-date=December 30, 2020 |website=Rotten Tomatoes}} Clarisse Loughrey of The Independent wrote that the film was indelicate in its storytelling, but that Boseman "finds a surprising amount to work with in such a basic, stock character",{{Cite web |date=November 21, 2019 |title=21 Bridges review: Handles themes of police violence with the delicacy of a monster truck |first=Clarrisse|last=Loughrey|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/21-bridges-review-chadwick-boseman-action-thriller-cast-director-a9211836.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231033051/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/21-bridges-review-chadwick-boseman-action-thriller-cast-director-a9211836.html |archive-date=December 31, 2020 |access-date=December 30, 2020 |website=The Independent}} while the Los Angeles Times said that "Chadwick Boseman and thin characters cannot keep 21 Bridges from collapsing".{{Cite web |date=November 21, 2019 |title=Review: Chadwick Boseman and thin characters cannot keep '21 Bridges' from collapsing |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2019-11-21/21-bridges-chadwick-boseman-review |first=Katie|last=Walsh|url-access=limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231032938/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2019-11-21/21-bridges-chadwick-boseman-review |archive-date=December 31, 2020 |access-date=December 30, 2020 |website=Los Angeles Times}} Glenn Kenny of RogerEbert.com was more positive towards the film, writing that "it's no small feat to tie up an intelligent action thriller with such assuredness" and that "Boseman [...] does a lot of running and driving and gun-pointing and car-hood slamming here, but his character also does a lot of thinking{{snd}}and a lot of maneuvering."{{Cite web |last=Kenny |first=Glenn |title=21 Bridges movie review & film summary (2019) |date=November 22, 2019|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/21-bridges-movie-review-2019 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231032943/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/21-bridges-movie-review-2019 |archive-date=December 31, 2020 |access-date=December 31, 2020 |website=RogerEbert.com}}

In 2019, Boseman was announced as part of the cast for the Netflix films Da 5 Bloods, directed by Spike Lee, and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, directed by George C. Wolfe.{{Cite news |last=Hipes |first=Patrick |date=February 12, 2019 |title=Chadwick Boseman Joins Spike Lee's 'Da 5 Bloods' At Netflix |work=Deadline Hollywood |publisher=Penske Business Media, LLC. |url=https://deadline.com/2019/02/chadwick-boseman-spike-lee-da-5-bloods-movie-netflix-1202556104/ |url-status=live |access-date=June 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190213045548/https://deadline.com/2019/02/chadwick-boseman-spike-lee-da-5-bloods-movie-netflix-1202556104/ |archive-date=February 13, 2019}}{{Cite magazine |title=Chadwick Boseman on balancing Marvel movies with bucket-list roles |url=https://ew.com/movies/2019/11/20/chadwick-boseman-marvel-movies-bucket-list-21-bridges/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231032932/https://ew.com/movies/2019/11/20/chadwick-boseman-marvel-movies-bucket-list-21-bridges/ |archive-date=December 31, 2020 |access-date=December 30, 2020 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly}} He took these "bucket-list roles" for opportunities to work with Lee and with Ma Rainey producer Denzel Washington, as well as the opportunity to perform in an August Wilson play, telling Entertainment Weekly that he wanted to make these non-superhero films because "if you don't do the films that you plan to do, I think you wouldn't feel fulfilled as an artist." He was also cast in a film telling the story of Yasuke, the only non-Asian samurai and the first black man in Japan, which he was set to co-produce; Boseman said: "[the story is] not just an action movie, [it is] a cultural event, an exchange, and I am excited to be part of it."{{Cite web |last=Fleming |first=Mike Jr. |date=May 7, 2019 |title=Chadwick Boseman To Play African Samurai 'Yasuke' In Deal With Picturestart, De Luca Productions, Solipsist & X●ception Content |url=https://deadline.com/2019/05/chadwick-boseman-yasuke-african-samurai-black-panther-1202608769/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231032939/https://deadline.com/2019/05/chadwick-boseman-yasuke-african-samurai-black-panther-1202608769/ |archive-date=December 31, 2020 |access-date=December 31, 2020 |website=Deadline}} Time included Boseman on their list of the 10 Best Movie Performances of 2020, for both Da 5 Bloods and Ma Rainey{{;}}{{Cite magazine |title=The 10 Best Movie Performances of 2020 |url=https://time.com/5915528/best-movie-performances-2020/ |url-access=limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201213075306/https://time.com/5915528/best-movie-performances-2020/ |archive-date=December 13, 2020 |access-date=December 31, 2020 |magazine=Time}} for Ma Rainey, Boseman received posthumous nominations in the Best Actor category at the Academy Awards, British Academy Film Awards, Golden Globe Awards, and Screen Actors Guild Awards,{{Cite web |last=Rosen |first=Christopher |date=March 15, 2021 |title=Chadwick Boseman is the first posthumous Oscars acting nominee since Heath Ledger |url=https://www.goldderby.com/article/2021/chadwick-boseman-posthumous-acting-oscars-nominee/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210315130543/https://www.goldderby.com/article/2021/chadwick-boseman-posthumous-acting-oscars-nominee/ |archive-date=March 15, 2021 |access-date=March 15, 2021 |website=Gold Derby}} becoming the eighth person (and seventh man) to receive a posthumous Academy Award acting nomination.{{Cite web |last=Sarkisian |first=Jacob |title=Chadwick Boseman is the 7th actor to receive a posthumous Oscar nomination. Here's who else has received the honor. |url=https://www.insider.com/chadwick-boseman-posthumous-oscar-nomination-2020-11 |url-status=live |archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20210518023257/https://www.insider.com/chadwick%2Dboseman%2Dposthumous%2Doscar%2Dnomination%2D2020%2D11 |archive-date=May 18, 2021 |access-date=March 25, 2021 |website=Insider }}

Da 5 Bloods was released on June 12, 2020.{{Cite web |last=Sharf |first=Zack |date=May 7, 2020 |title=Spike Lee's 'Da 5 Bloods' to Stream on Netflix in June, but It's Still Eligible for Oscars |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2020/05/netflix-spike-lee-da-5-bloods-release-date-1202229868/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200507153918/https://www.indiewire.com/2020/05/netflix-spike-lee-da-5-bloods-release-date-1202229868/ |archive-date=May 7, 2020 |access-date=June 11, 2020 |website=IndieWire}} Lee, in choosing Boseman for the divine-like character of Stormin' Norman, said: "This character is heroic; he's a superhero. Who do we cast? We cast Jackie Robinson, James Brown, Thurgood Marshall, and we cast T'Challa."{{Cite news |last=Arkin |first=Daniel |date=August 29, 2020 |title=Chadwick Boseman played icons — and became one |language=en |work=NBC News |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/movies/chadwick-boseman-played-icons-then-became-one-n1238781 |url-status=live |access-date=August 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200829061932/https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/movies/chadwick-boseman-played-icons-then-became-one-n1238781 |archive-date=August 29, 2020}} Reception of his character was mostly positive; for the Associated Press, Jocelyn Noveck wrote that Boseman played Norman "with movie-star charisma and classic war-movie grit",{{Cite web |date=June 10, 2020 |title=Review: Lee's Vietnam pic is the right movie for right now |url=https://apnews.com/article/351e9ef6ea2c709c64fc26989acd8e96 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201230200033/https://apnews.com/article/351e9ef6ea2c709c64fc26989acd8e96 |archive-date=December 30, 2020 |access-date=December 31, 2020 |website=Associated Press}} and Empire{{'}}s Kambole Campbell said his performance had "regal charisma",{{Cite web |date=June 10, 2020 |title=Da 5 Bloods |url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/da-5-bloods/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231032933/https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/da-5-bloods/ |archive-date=December 31, 2020 |access-date=December 31, 2020 |website=Empire}} while Chuck Bowen of Slant said that he "has a hauntingly gaunt presence, but he's already played too many saints."{{Cite web |last=Bowen |first=Chuck |title=Review: Da 5 Bloods Is a Vibrant, Messy Blend of Genre Film and Political Essay |url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review-da-5-bloods-is-a-vibrant-messy-blend-of-genre-film-and-political-essay/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200616102709/https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review-da-5-bloods-is-a-vibrant-messy-blend-of-genre-film-and-political-essay/ |archive-date=June 16, 2020 |access-date=December 31, 2020 |website=Slant Magazine|date=June 12, 2020 }} The A.V. Club{{'}}s Ashley Ray-Harris felt the lack of digital de-aging for the other characters was unsuccessful in its aims and that "Lee's script doesn't give Boseman much to do outside of this confused, Christ-like characterization and never exposes Norman's own naïveté."{{Cite web |title=Spike Lee goes to Vietnam with his muddled war movie Da 5 Bloods |url=https://www.avclub.com/spike-lee-goes-to-vietnam-with-his-politically-muddled-1843948759 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231032932/https://film.avclub.com/spike-lee-goes-to-vietnam-with-his-politically-muddled-1843948759 |archive-date=December 31, 2020 |access-date=December 31, 2020 |website=The A.V. Club|date=June 10, 2020 }} Conversely, Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian saw it as a reflection that "[he] has grown not old as those that are left grew old", and a way to show how Norman has been romanticized in his comrades' memories;{{Cite web |date=June 10, 2020 |title=Da 5 Bloods review – Spike Lee ignites a Vietnam cocktail of fire and fury {{!}} Peter Bradshaw's film of the week |url=http://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jun/10/da-5-bloods-review-spike-lee-delroy-lindo-vietnam-war |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210110085608/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jun/10/da-5-bloods-review-spike-lee-delroy-lindo-vietnam-war |archive-date=January 10, 2021 |access-date=December 31, 2020 |website=The Guardian}} Odie Henderson of RogerEbert.com had a similar view and said that Boseman was "a perfect casting move", with the actor already carrying such a mythical status in black culture that he does not need to do much to be a believable mythical black icon as Norman.{{Cite web |last=Henderson |first=Odie |title=Da 5 Bloods movie review & film summary (2020) |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/da-5-bloods-movie-review-2020 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231033638/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/da-5-bloods-movie-review-2020 |archive-date=December 31, 2020 |access-date=December 31, 2020 |website=RogerEbert.com}}

{{quote box|For the songs, rituals and folklore that were lost in slavery's middle passage, [August Wilson's] plays are those forgotten songs remixed for the struggles of adapting to these shores [...] In the similar way that Wilson's work was influenced by the blues of Bessie Smith, Muddy Waters and W. C. Handy, my plays were infused with Tupac, Biggie and Black Star.|source=–Boseman on August Wilson, 2013.|width=350px|align=right}}

The film Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, in which Boseman co-stars as trumpeter Levee, was released after the actor's death in 2020. Director Wolfe said that Boseman was excited by the role for the challenge it posed, saying that "it's a monster role and it's a thrilling role, it's a difficult role. All of those things are exhilarating for an actor. And [Boseman] rose to the occasion and more than delivered." The film is based on the August Wilson play of the same name; Boseman was a fan of Wilson and wrote about him and his inspiration on Boseman's own work in a 2013 essay for the Los Angeles Times. According to Chris Jones, Boseman's Levee is "an astonishing, revelatory performance and formidably distinct from the numerous interpretations seen on the stage";{{Cite news |last=Jones |first=Chris |date=December 17, 2020 |title=Column: How Chadwick Boseman took on an August Wilson monologue in 'Ma Rainey,' and embraced his own mortality |work=Chicago Tribune |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/chris-jones/ct-ent-ma-rainey-august-wilson-1220-20201217-blpzdyer6bfmfoklidmyn4hpxm-story.html |url-access=limited |url-status=live |access-date=December 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224120256/https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/chris-jones/ct-ent-ma-rainey-august-wilson-1220-20201217-blpzdyer6bfmfoklidmyn4hpxm-story.html |archive-date=December 24, 2020}} A. O. Scott of The New York Times similarly opined that "it will be hard, from now on, to imagine [...] a Levee to compare with Boseman."{{Cite news |last=Scott |first=A. O. |author-link=A. O. Scott |date=December 17, 2020 |title='Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' Review: All the Blues That's Fit to Sing |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/17/movies/ma-raineys-black-bottom-review.html |url-status=live |url-access=limited |access-date=December 31, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231032956/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/17/movies/ma-raineys-black-bottom-review.html |archive-date=December 31, 2020 |issn=0362-4331}} Angelica Jade Bastién for Vulture wrote at length on Boseman's performance, saying that "many of the important turns in the film hinge on Boseman's presence at the center. [...] In the first of his lachrymose monologues, Boseman is called to embody [anger and] gives the scene his all."{{Cite web |last=Bastién |first=Angelica Jade |author-link=Angelica Jade Bastién |date=December 23, 2020 |title=Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Fails the Woman Behind a Legend |url=https://www.vulture.com/article/ma-raineys-black-bottom-movie-review-on-netflix.html |url-access=limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227064620/https://www.vulture.com/article/ma-raineys-black-bottom-movie-review-on-netflix.html |archive-date=December 27, 2020 |access-date=December 31, 2020 |website=Vulture}} Charlotte O'Sullivan of the Evening Standard said Boseman was brave to take on a "more curdled" role than the heroic leaders he is best known for, and that "as skilful as he was talented, [he] hits the right notes, all the time."{{Cite web |last=O'Sullivan |first=Charlotte |date=December 18, 2020 |title=Ma Rainey's Black Bottom review: Chadwick Boseman should win an Oscar |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/film/chadwick-boseman-ma-raineys-black-bottom-netflix-review-b74952.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201221234134/https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/film/chadwick-boseman-ma-raineys-black-bottom-netflix-review-b74952.html |archive-date=December 21, 2020 |access-date=December 31, 2020 |website=Evening Standard}} Clarisse Loughrey wrote that it was the actor's finest performance, that "when [he] rages against an unjust God [...] it strikes like thunder" and is "delivered with such grace that there's a sense he had another hundred performances like it still in him."{{Cite web |date=December 18, 2020 |title=Ma Rainey's Black Bottom features Chadwick Boseman's last and finest performance – review |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/ma-raineys-black-bottom-review-b1775459.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231032934/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/ma-raineys-black-bottom-review-b1775459.html |archive-date=December 31, 2020 |access-date=December 31, 2020 |website=The Independent}}

In 2022, Boseman posthumously won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance for the What If...? episode What If... T'Challa Became a Star-Lord? at the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards.{{Cite web |title=Chadwick Boseman |url=https://www.emmys.com/bios/chadwick-boseman |access-date=July 12, 2022 |website=Television Academy |language=en}}{{Cite web |last1=Montgomery |first1=Daniel |date=September 3, 2022 |title=2022 Creative Arts Emmy winners list in all categories [UPDATING LIVE] |url=https://www.goldderby.com/feature/2022-creative-arts-emmy-winners-list-1205063473/ |access-date=September 4, 2022 |website=GoldDerby |language=en-US}}

{{See also|Black Panther (film)#Analysis}}

According to film critic Owen Gleiberman of Variety, "Boseman was a virtuoso actor who had the rare ability to create a character from the outside in and the inside out [and he] knew how to fuse with a role, etching it in three dimensions [...] That's what made him an artist, and a movie star, too. Yet in Black Panther, he also became that rare thing, a culture hero".{{Cite news|last=Gleiberman|first=Owen|date=August 29, 2020|title=Chadwick Boseman: An Acting Virtuoso Who Could Do Just About Anything|work=Variety|url=https://variety.com/2020/film/news/chadwick-boseman-black-panther-get-on-up-1234753466/ |url-status=live |access-date=August 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200829113400/https://variety.com/2020/film/news/chadwick-boseman-black-panther-get-on-up-1234753466/ |archive-date=August 29, 2020}} Similarly, reviewer Richard Brody in The New Yorker finds the originality of Boseman's formidable acting technique in his ability to empathize with the interior lives of his characters and render them on screen as fully and completely belonging to the character.{{Cite news|last=Brody|first=Richard|date=August 29, 2020|title=The Lived-In Grace of Chadwick Boseman|magazine=The New Yorker|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/the-lived-in-grace-of-chadwick-boseman |url-status=live |url-access=limited |access-date=August 31, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200906191851/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/the-lived-in-grace-of-chadwick-boseman |archive-date=September 6, 2020}} He was uniquely able to capture and portray the dignity of his characters, according to The New York Times critic Wesley Morris.{{Cite news|last=Morris|first=Wesley|date=August 29, 2020|title=It's Hard to Make Dignity Interesting. Chadwick Boseman Found a Way.|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/movies/chadwick-boseman-appraisal.html |url-status=live |url-access=limited |access-date=September 13, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200912125855/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/movies/chadwick-boseman-appraisal.html |archive-date=September 12, 2020|issn=0362-4331}} Well known for taking biopic roles, Hanna Flint for the BBC said he became the frequent choice because of his dedication to embodying character. Peter Bradshaw wrote of the actor's "beauty, his grace, his style, his presence [...] These made up Chadwick Boseman's persona [and he became] the lost prince of American cinema[,] glorious and inspirational".{{Cite news|last=Bradshaw|first=Peter|date=August 29, 2020|title=Chadwick Boseman: the unbearable loss of a prince of American cinema|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/aug/29/chadwick-boseman-the-unbearable-loss-of-a-prince-of-american-cinema |url-status=live |access-date=August 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200829095202/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/aug/29/chadwick-boseman-the-unbearable-loss-of-a-prince-of-american-cinema |archive-date=August 29, 2020}}

Culture writer Steve Rose, in The Guardian, said that Boseman's career was revolutionary and he "leaves behind a gamechanging legacy", attributing this to the actor's careful planning and selection of roles. Eulogizing him, Rose wrote:{{Cite news|last=Rose|first=Steve|date=August 29, 2020|title=The man with a manifesto: how Chadwick Boseman changed film for ever|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/aug/29/the-man-with-a-manifesto-how-chadwick-boseman-changed-film-forever |url-status=live |access-date=December 31, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201226203710/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/aug/29/the-man-with-a-manifesto-how-chadwick-boseman-changed-film-forever |archive-date=December 26, 2020|issn=0261-3077}}

{{blockquote|Chadwick Boseman began his career playing African American icons and pioneers; he ends it as one himself. His [...] achievements, as an actor and as a cultural force, will surely prove to be as heroic as those of the characters he portrayed. At the very least, he leaves the film-making landscape looking very different to how it was when he entered it.}}

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As the Black Panther, Boseman led a predominantly black cast in a major blockbuster for the first time; Variety said that "the significance of Chadwick Boseman [...] to the African American and Black community is immeasurable."{{Cite web|last=Davis|first=Clayton|date=August 29, 2020|title=What Chadwick Boseman's 'Black Panther' Legacy Means|url=https://variety.com/2020/film/news/chadwick-boseman-legacy-black-panther-1234753760/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231033012/https://variety.com/2020/film/news/chadwick-boseman-legacy-black-panther-1234753760/ |archive-date=December 31, 2020 |access-date=December 31, 2020|website=Variety}} Further expressing the weight of Boseman's legacy, Robert Daniels wrote for Vulture that "his performance [as T'Challa] wouldn't just be a demonstration of craft [...] It'd become a piece of history. He'd face a slew of pressures, because a Black epic, even a period piece, is forever expected to be important, representative of the past, present, and future."{{Cite web|last=Daniels|first=Robert|date=August 29, 2020|title=The Defiant Career of Chadwick Boseman, a Hollywood King|url=https://www.vulture.com/2020/08/the-defiant-career-of-chadwick-boseman-a-hollywood-king.html |url-access=limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231033012/https://www.vulture.com/2020/08/the-defiant-career-of-chadwick-boseman-a-hollywood-king.html |archive-date=December 31, 2020 |access-date=December 31, 2020|website=Vulture}} He told BBC Culture that "through his acting, [Boseman] wrote, rewrote, and reclaimed black history". Boseman's Ma Rainey co-star Viola Davis told Rose that "he is going to be remembered as a hero", both as the Black Panther and for the authentic man he was, and that "his legacy, his body of work, his integrity, is going to influence on generations upon generations to come."{{Cite web|date=December 4, 2020|title='Chadwick will be remembered as a hero': Denzel Washington and Viola Davis on making Ma Rainey's Black Bottom|url=http://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/dec/04/he-will-be-remembered-as-a-hero-denzel-washington-and-viola-davis-on-chadwick-boseman |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231090340/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/dec/04/he-will-be-remembered-as-a-hero-denzel-washington-and-viola-davis-on-chadwick-boseman |archive-date=December 31, 2020 |access-date=December 31, 2020|website=The Guardian}} BBC Culture called him "a film icon who changed Hollywood"; "a symbol of black excellence and of cinematic excellence"; and "a virtuoso and heroic figure, not just because of his iconic turn as Marvel's Black Panther but for how he raised the bar for racial equality and representation on screen."{{Cite web|last=Flint|first=Hanna|title=Chadwick Boseman: A film icon who changed Hollywood|url=https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20201214-chadwick-boseman-a-film-icon-who-changed-hollywood |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231032935/https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20201214-chadwick-boseman-a-film-icon-who-changed-hollywood |archive-date=December 31, 2020 |access-date=December 31, 2020|website=BBC|date=December 24, 2020 }}

Rhea Combs, film curator of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, said that with his screen presence, Boseman "was not only a conduit to the past and the way African-Americans persevered and pushed through so many challenges, he also represented brightness and the promise of tomorrow".{{Cite news|last=Jurgensen|first=John|date=August 29, 2020|title=Chadwick Boseman's Career Amplified Black Culture, History|work=The Wall Street Journal|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/chadwick-bosemans-career/lified-black-culture-history-11598736348 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |access-date=December 31, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201208120622/https://www.wsj.com/articles/chadwick-bosemans-career-amplified-black-culture-history-11598736348 |archive-date=December 8, 2020|issn=0099-9660}} The BBC also noted his impact of infusing African authenticity into his work, including his motivations for taking a role in Gods of Egypt as well as how T'Challa is presented, saying that he "connect[s] African-American audiences with their African heritage".

His alma mater, Howard University, renamed its College of Fine Arts in honor of Boseman on May 26, 2021.{{Cite web|last1=Arkin|first1=Daniel|last2=Dasrath|first2=Diana|date=May 27, 2021|title=Howard University names College of Fine Arts after Chadwick Boseman|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/howard-university-names-fine-arts-college-after-chadwick-boseman-n1268666|url-status=live|access-date=May 26, 2021|website=NBC News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210526192154/https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/howard-university-names-fine-arts-college-after-chadwick-boseman-n1268666 |archive-date=May 26, 2021 }} On March 19, 2024, the Anderson School District Five Board of Trustees, the school district in which Boseman attended, renamed the performing arts center at Southwood Academy of the Arts in his honor.{{Cite web |title=MINUTES BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING ANDERSON SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER FIVE |url=https://4.files.edl.io/77c2/04/10/24/170341-bcea9769-6cff-402b-a499-aae77a11d31d.pdf |website=Anderson School District Five |publication-date=March 19, 2024}} The Harlem Globetrotters honored Boseman by selecting him as their draft pick.{{Cite web |date=2020-11-16 |title=Harlem Globetrotters Instagram |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/CHqDHSCAWEt/ |access-date=2025-06-01 |website=Instagram}}

X-Men '97, the revival of X-Men: The Animated Series, premiered on March 20, 2024, in Disney+ but featured T'Chaka instead of T'Challa as the show's Black Panther despite Fantastic Four having previously established T'Challa as the current Black Panther. When asked about this continuity error on his Twitter account, showrunner Beau DeMayo stated that when developing the show's first season in early 2021, he and Marvel Studios felt it was too soon to feature T'Challa since Boseman's death so they chose to "put humanity before continuity" by featuring T'Chaka instead.{{Cite tweet |number=1837590643776147881 |user=BeauDemayo |title=I don't know why Marvel had certain directors trying to spin and lie about this but we produced #xmen97 Season 1 in early 2021. The loss of Boseman weighed heavily on the studio, as well as on me as a black man. Felt too soon to do #T'Challa. Put humanity before continuity. |first=Beau |last=DeMayo |date=September 21, 2024 |access-date=February 11, 2025 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250124144624/https://x.com/BeauDemayo/status/1837590643776147881 |archive-date=January 24, 2025 |url-status=live}} For Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Marvel opted to not recast T’Challa. They instead had the character die off screen at the beginning of the film. His sister Shuri, played by Letitia Wright, would later succeed him as Black Panther.

Boseman began dating singer Taylor Simone Ledward in 2015.{{Cite web |last=Young |first=Sarah |date=August 29, 2020 |title=Chadwick Boseman and girlfriend privately married before his death |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/chadwick-boseman-death-married-taylor-simone-ledward-colon-cancer-a9695481.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200829205235/https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/chadwick-boseman-death-married-taylor-simone-ledward-colon-cancer-a9695481.html |archive-date=August 29, 2020 |access-date=August 29, 2020 |website=The Independent |language=en}} The two reportedly got engaged by October 2019, and they later married in secret, as revealed by Boseman's family in a statement announcing his death.{{Cite magazine |last=Villarreal |first=Daniel |date=August 28, 2020 |title=Who Is Chadwick Boseman's Wife, Taylor Simone Ledward? |url=https://www.newsweek.com/who-chadwick-bosemans-wife-taylor-simone-ledward-1528509 |url-status=live |magazine=Newsweek |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200829072515/https://www.newsweek.com/who-chadwick-bosemans-wife-taylor-simone-ledward-1528509 |archive-date=August 29, 2020 |access-date=August 29, 2020}}

Boseman was raised a Christian and was baptized. He was part of a church choir and youth group and his former pastor said that he still kept his faith.{{Cite web |last=Remien |first=Shale |title=Anderson native Chadwick Boseman stars as the Black Panther: Local pastor reacts |url=http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/37490051/anderson-native-chadwick-boseman-stars-as-the-black-panther-local-pastor-reacts |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180225074411/http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/37490051/anderson-native-chadwick-boseman-stars-as-the-black-panther-local-pastor-reacts |archive-date=February 25, 2018 |access-date=February 16, 2018 |publisher=WHNS |location=Greenville, South Carolina}}

Outside of performing, Boseman supported various charities. He worked with cancer charities including St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, continuing to support those battling the disease up until his own death from it; in a message to a producer days before he died, Boseman inquired about sending gifts to childhood cancer patients. He donated $10,000 to the Boys and Girls Club of Harlem to provide free tickets for children who wanted to see Black Panther;{{citation needed|date=December 2023}} he did this to support and promote the Black Panther Challenge started by a New Yorker to raise money for similar children across the country. In response, Disney donated $1{{nbsp}}million to the Boys & Girls Clubs to advance its STEM programs.{{Cite news |date=February 27, 2018 |title=Disney 'celebrates' Black Panther by giving $1m to charity |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-43212336 |url-status=live |access-date=December 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224120231/https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-43212336 |archive-date=December 24, 2020}} Boseman advocated for children's charities, with the Jackie Robinson Foundation noting after his death that he helped with their youth outreach. When Disney planned to donate $400{{nbsp}}million to charitable causes, Boseman encouraged the move. In April 2020, he donated $4.2{{nbsp}}million in personal protective equipment to hospitals fighting the COVID-19 pandemic in black communities, starting his own Operation 42 challenge to encourage others to donate PPE.{{cite news |last1=Nelson |first1=Daryl |title=Chadwick Boseman's Video Announcing a $4.2 Million Initiative for Hospitals Derails When Fans Notice His Dramatic Weight Loss |url=https://atlantablackstar.com/2020/04/17/chadwick-bosemans-video-announcing-a-4-2-million-initiative-for-hospitals-derails-when-fans-notice-his-dramatic-weight-loss/ |access-date=1 September 2024 |work=Atlanta Black Star |date=17 April 2020}}{{Cite web |last=Carpenter |first=Perry |date=May 5, 2020 |title='Black Panther' Star Chadwick Boseman Was Still Helping Other Cancer Patients While Losing His Battle |url=https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/black-panther-star-chadwick-boseman-was-still-helping-other-cancer-patients-while-losing-his-battle.html/ |access-date=December 23, 2020 |website=Showbiz Cheat Sheet}}

In politics, Boseman supported the When We All Vote campaign,{{citation needed|date=December 2023}} and his last tweet before his death was congratulating Kamala Harris on her selection as Joe Biden's vice-presidential nominee.{{cite news |last1=France |first1=Lisa Respers |title=Chadwick Boseman's last tweet before he died was in support of Kamala Harris |url=https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/22/entertainment/chadwick-boseman-final-tweet-kamala-harris/index.html |access-date=1 September 2024 |publisher=CNN |date=22 July 2024}} Prior to the 2018 midterm elections, Boseman urged Twitter followers to visit VoteRiders online or call the organization's helpline to ensure eligible voters had the ID needed to cast a ballot.{{Cite tweet|user=chadwickboseman|number=1056708044313128960|title=Voting is as important as it's ever been, but #VoterID laws can be confusing. Don't let them keep you from the polls this November. Head to VoteRiders or call/text the @VoteRiders Helpline at 844-338-8743 to be sure you have your necessary}}

Boseman was diagnosed with stage III colon cancer in 2016. It progressed to stage IV before 2020. He never spoke publicly about his cancer diagnosis, and according to The Hollywood Reporter, "Only a handful of non-family members knew that Boseman was sick... with varying degrees of knowledge about the severity of [his] condition."{{Cite magazine |last1=Siegel |first1=Tatiana |last2=Kit |first2=Borys |date=September 2, 2020 |title=Disney Grapples With How to Proceed on 'Black Panther' Without Chadwick Boseman |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/disney-grapples-with-how-to-proceed-on-black-panther-without-chadwick-boseman |url-status=live |magazine=The Hollywood Reporter |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200902161542/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/disney-grapples-with-how-to-proceed-on-black-panther-without-chadwick-boseman |archive-date=September 2, 2020 |access-date=September 18, 2020}} During treatment, involving multiple surgeries and chemotherapy, he continued to work and completed production for several films, including Marshall, Da 5 Bloods, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, and others.

Boseman died at his Los Angeles home as a result of complications related to colon cancer on August 28, 2020, with his wife and family by his side.{{Cite news |last=Pearson |first=Ryan |date=August 29, 2020 |title='Black Panther' star Chadwick Boseman dies of cancer at 43 |work=Associated Press |url=https://apnews.com/5f4352111fdead278da3651b44d311b8 |url-status=dead |access-date=August 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200829023022/https://apnews.com/5f4352111fdead278da3651b44d311b8 |archive-date=August 29, 2020}}{{Cite news |last1=Maxouris |first1=Christina |last2=Vera |first2=Amir |date=August 29, 2020 |title='Black Panther' star Chadwick Boseman dies at 43 |publisher=CNN |url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/28/entertainment/chadwick-boseman-dies/index.html |url-status=live |access-date=August 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200829044156/https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/28/entertainment/chadwick-boseman-dies/index.html |archive-date=August 29, 2020}}{{Cite web |date=August 28, 2020 |title='Black Panther' star Chadwick Boseman passes away at 43 |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/black-panther-star-chadwick-boseman-dies-of-cancer-at-43/articleshow/77815479.cms |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201221041242/https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/black-panther-star-chadwick-boseman-dies-of-cancer-at-43/articleshow/77815479.cms |archive-date=December 21, 2020 |access-date=August 29, 2020 |newspaper=The Economic Times}} He was 43 years old. He died intestate, and his estate was governed by California law with the representation of Ledward, his widow.{{Cite news |last=Drysdale |first=Jennifer |date=November 19, 2020 |title=Chadwick Boseman's Widow Taylor Simone Ledward Appointed Personal Representative of His Estate |language=en-US |work=Entertainment Tonight |url=https://www.etonline.com/chadwick-bosemans-widow-taylor-simone-ledward-appointed-personal-representative-of-his-estate |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201119204515/https://www.etonline.com/chadwick-bosemans-widow-taylor-simone-ledward-appointed-personal-representative-of-his-estate |archive-date=November 19, 2020}}

A public memorial service was held on September 4, 2020, in Anderson, South Carolina. Speakers included Boseman's childhood pastor as well as Deanna Brown-Thomas, daughter of James Brown, whom Boseman portrayed in Get on Up.{{Cite news |title=Chadwick Boseman Honored as Hometown Hero in Native South Carolina |work=The Hollywood Reporter |agency=Associated Press |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/chadwick-boseman-honored-as-hometown-hero-in-native-south-carolina |url-status=live |access-date=September 18, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200910210800/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/chadwick-boseman-honored-as-hometown-hero-in-native-south-carolina |archive-date=September 10, 2020}} The city announced plans for the creation of a permanent art memorial at the service.{{Cite news |last=Wilson |first=Asia |date=September 4, 2020 |title=Chadwick Boseman's hometown creates Public Art Endowment in his honor |language=en-US |publisher=WSPA-TV |location=Spartanburg, South Carolina |url=https://www.wspa.com/news/top-stories/chadwick-bosemans-hometown-creates-public-art-endowment-in-his-honor/ |url-status=live |access-date=September 18, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028054020/https://www.wspa.com/news/top-stories/chadwick-bosemans-hometown-creates-public-art-endowment-in-his-honor/ |archive-date=October 28, 2020}} Despite reports that Boseman was buried at Welfare Baptist Church cemetery in nearby Belton, South Carolina,{{Cite news |last=Dalton |first=Andrew |date=September 14, 2020 |title=Chadwick Boseman buried near South Carolina hometown |work=Associated Press |url=https://apnews.com/cedc4ec64b08a801e8b9e38a8976e65e |url-status=live |access-date=September 18, 2020 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20201123235659/https://apnews.com/article/chadwick-boseman-anderson-los-angeles-archive-south-carolina-cedc4ec64b08a801e8b9e38a8976e65e |archive-date=November 23, 2020}} the funeral home handling the services and the church pastor both denied this.{{Cite news |date=September 15, 2020 |title=Funeral home, church pastor contradict reports that Chadwick Boseman is buried in hometown |work=Anderson Independent-Mail |location=Anderson County, South Carolina |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2020/09/15/chadwick-boseman-not-buried-hometown-belton-sc-family-church/5809437002/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201002140317/https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2020/09/15/chadwick-boseman-not-buried-hometown-belton-sc-family-church/5809437002/ |archive-date=October 2, 2020 |via=USA Today}}

Many fellow actors and other celebrities paid tribute to Boseman on social media following the announcement of his death, including a number of his Marvel Cinematic Universe co-stars. Marvel Studios president and CCO Kevin Feige called Boseman's death, "absolutely devastating", writing: "Each time he stepped on set, he radiated charisma and joy, and each time he appeared on screen, he created something truly indelible [...] Now he takes his place [as] an icon for the ages."{{Cite web |last=Russian |first=Ale |date=August 28, 2020 |title=Chadwick Boseman's Avengers Costars Mark Ruffalo, Brie Larson & Chris Evans Mourn Him: 'Rest In Power' |url=https://people.com/movies/chadwick-boseman-avengers-costars-react-death/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200829081818/https://people.com/movies/chadwick-boseman-avengers-costars-react-death/ |archive-date=August 29, 2020 |access-date=August 29, 2020 |website=People}}{{Cite web |last=Calvario |first=Liz |date=August 29, 2020 |title=Chadwick Boseman Dead at 43: Celebs Honor 'Black Panther' Star |url=https://www.etonline.com/chadwick-boseman-dead-at-43-sterling-k-brown-oprah-winfrey-and-more-celebs-pay-tribute-to-actor |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200829105822/https://www.etonline.com/chadwick-boseman-dead-at-43-sterling-k-brown-oprah-winfrey-and-more-celebs-pay-tribute-to-actor |archive-date=August 29, 2020 |access-date=August 29, 2020 |website=Entertainment Tonight}} Co-stars from Boseman's other films also paid tribute to him.{{Cite web |last=Namako |first=Tom |date=August 29, 2020 |title=Hollywood, Celebrities, Sports Stars, Politicians, And More Are Mourning The Death Of Chadwick Boseman |url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tomnamako/celebrities-are-mourning-the-death-of-chadwick-boseman |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200829053012/https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tomnamako/celebrities-are-mourning-the-death-of-chadwick-boseman |archive-date=August 29, 2020 |access-date=August 29, 2020 |website=BuzzFeed News}} His alma mater, Howard University, tweeted in reaction that "his incredible talent will forever be immortalized through his characters and through his own personal journey from student to superhero".{{Cite news |last=McNally |first=Brian |date=August 29, 2020 |title=Chadwick Boseman, star of the film '42', dies on Jackie Robinson Day |publisher=NBC Sports Washington |url=https://www.nbcsports.com/washington/nationals/chadwick-boseman-star-film-42-dies-jackie-robinson-day |url-status=live |access-date=August 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200829105823/https://www.nbcsports.com/washington/nationals/chadwick-boseman-star-film-42-dies-jackie-robinson-day |archive-date=August 29, 2020}}

On August 29, 2020, the day after Boseman died, the tweet in which his family announced his death on his Twitter account became the most-liked tweet in history, with over six million likes in under 24 hours,{{Cite tweet |number=1299808792322940928 |user=Twitter |title=Most liked Tweet ever. A tribute fit for a King. #WakandaForever |author=((Twitter)) |date=August 29, 2020}}{{Cite web |last=Del Rosario |first=Alexandra |date=August 29, 2020 |title=Twitter Crowns Chadwick Boseman's Last Post Most Liked Tweet Ever: 'A Tribute Fit For a King' |url=https://deadline.com/2020/08/chadwick-boseman0-twitter-most-liked-tweet-ever-1203026947/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200830020613/https://deadline.com/2020/08/chadwick-boseman0-twitter-most-liked-tweet-ever-1203026947/ |archive-date=August 30, 2020 |access-date=August 29, 2020 |website=Deadline Hollywood}} and accumulating over seven million by August 31, far displacing the previous record holder.{{Cite web |last=Langlois, Shawn |date=August 30, 2020 |title=Barack Obama's 2017 response to the Charlottesville attack is no longer the most liked tweet of all time |url=https://www.marketwatch.com/story/barack-obamas-2017-response-to-the-charlottesville-attack-is-no-longer-the-most-liked-tweet-of-all-time-11598816742 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200831074111/https://www.marketwatch.com/story/barack-obamas-2017-response-to-the-charlottesville-attack-is-no-longer-the-most-liked-tweet-of-all-time-11598816742 |archive-date=August 31, 2020 |access-date=August 31, 2020 |publisher=MarketWatch}} His death was likened to other unexpected deaths of other celebrities in 2020, particularly Kobe Bryant and Naya Rivera.Multiple sources:

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• {{Cite web |title=Famosos que fallecieron en 2020 dejando al mundo de luto |url=https://www.telemundo.com/entretenimiento/latinx-now-espanol/famosos/famosos-que-fallecieron-en-2020-dejando-al-mundo-entero-de-luto-tmna3851109 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201205193619/https://www.telemundo.com/entretenimiento/latinx-now-espanol/famosos/famosos-que-fallecieron-en-2020-dejando-al-mundo-entero-de-luto-tmna3851109 |archive-date=December 5, 2020 |access-date=February 7, 2021 |website=Telemundo |language=es}}
• {{Cite web |last=Spangler |first=Todd |date=December 9, 2020 |title=Google Top Trending Searches 2020: Kobe Bryant, Naya Rivera, Chadwick Boseman Among Most Popular Queries |url=https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/google-top-trending-2020-searches-1234849323/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201209120158/https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/google-top-trending-2020-searches-1234849323/ |archive-date=December 9, 2020 |access-date=February 7, 2021 |website=Variety}} The Associated Press and Clarín noted Rivera and Boseman as Hollywood's most impactful 2020 deaths.{{Cite web |title=AP PHOTOS: The year entertainment went radically off-script |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/ap-photos-year-entertainment-radically-off-script-74799050 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224231618/https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/ap-photos-year-entertainment-radically-off-script-74799050 |archive-date=December 24, 2020 |access-date=February 7, 2021 |website=ABC News |agency=Associated Press}}{{Cite web |last=Maestrutti |first=Silvia |date=December 31, 2020 |title=Desde Hollywood: mucha burbuja, poco trabajo y demasiados protocolos |url=https://www.clarin.com/espectaculos/cine/hollywood-fin-ano-solo-papel_0_1nQURFzY1.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210101000657/https://www.clarin.com/espectaculos/cine/hollywood-fin-ano-solo-papel_0_1nQURFzY1.html |archive-date=January 1, 2021 |access-date=February 7, 2021 |website=Clarín |language=es}}

Major League Baseball and the Los Angeles Dodgers, the franchise for which Jackie Robinson played when the team was at its former home of Brooklyn, New York, issued statements honoring Boseman, in light of his acclaimed portrayal of the player.{{Cite news |date=August 29, 2020 |title=Actor Chadwick Boseman dies at 43; Jackie Robinson role among acting triumphs |publisher=ESPN |url=https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29762813/actor-chadwick-boseman-dies-43-jackie-robinson-role-acting-triumphs |url-status=live |access-date=August 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200829105839/https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29762813/actor-chadwick-boseman-dies-43-jackie-robinson-role-acting-triumphs |archive-date=August 29, 2020}}{{Cite news |last=Calvario |first=Liz |date=August 29, 2020 |title=Dodgers Honor Chadwick Boseman as They Celebrate Jackie Robinson Day |work=Entertainment Tonight |url=https://www.etonline.com/dodgers-honor-chadwick-boseman-well-never-forget-your-iconic-performance-as-jackie-robinson-152206 |url-status=live |access-date=August 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200829105847/https://www.etonline.com/dodgers-honor-chadwick-boseman-well-never-forget-your-iconic-performance-as-jackie-robinson-152206 |archive-date=August 29, 2020}} Several publications noted Boseman died on the observance of Jackie Robinson Day,{{efn|Jackie Robinson Day is April 15, but in 2020 was observed on August 28 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.}} seven years after his having portrayed Robinson.{{Cite magazine |last=Russian |first=Ale |date=August 29, 2020 |title=Chadwick Boseman Died on Jackie Robinson Day 7 Years After He Played the Sports Legend in 42 |url=https://people.com/movies/chadwick-boseman-died-jackie-robinson-day-7-years-after-playing-icon-in-42/ |url-status=live |magazine=People |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200829105848/https://people.com/movies/chadwick-boseman-died-jackie-robinson-day-7-years-after-playing-icon-in-42/ |archive-date=August 29, 2020 |access-date=August 29, 2020}}{{Cite news |last=Quinn |first=Sam |date=August 29, 2020 |title=Chadwick Boseman, Hollywood star and lead actor in '42,' dies at age 43 on MLB's Jackie Robinson Day |work=CBS Sports |url=https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/chadwick-boseman-hollywood-star-and-lead-actor-in-42-dies-at-age-43-on-mlbs-jackie-robinson-day/ |url-status=live |access-date=August 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200829105856/https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/chadwick-boseman-hollywood-star-and-lead-actor-in-42-dies-at-age-43-on-mlbs-jackie-robinson-day/ |archive-date=August 29, 2020}} Prior to the fifth game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Portland Trail Blazers in the NBA playoffs, Boseman was honored with a moment of silence, alongside Cliff Robinson and Lute Olson.{{Cite news |last=Hudson |first=Jamie |date=August 30, 2020 |title=Trail Blazers-Lakers share moment of silence for Cliff Robinson, Lute Olson & Chadwick Boseman |publisher=NBC Sports |url=https://www.nbcsports.com/northwest/trail-blazers/trail-blazers-lakers-share-moment-silence-cliff-robinson-lute-olson |url-status=live |access-date=September 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026082308/https://www.nbcsports.com/northwest/trail-blazers/trail-blazers-lakers-share-moment-silence-cliff-robinson-lute-olson |archive-date=October 26, 2020}} When Lewis Hamilton claimed pole position in qualifying at the 2020 Belgian Grand Prix, he dedicated his lap to Boseman, as well as his race win the following day.{{Cite news |date=August 30, 2020 |title=Lewis Hamilton pays tribute to Chadwick Boseman after Belgian GP victory |publisher=CNN International |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/30/motorsport/belgian-grand-prix-hamilton-boseman-ferrari-spt-intl/index.html |url-status=live |access-date=September 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200831234749/https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/30/motorsport/belgian-grand-prix-hamilton-boseman-ferrari-spt-intl/index.html |archive-date=August 31, 2020}}

{{Wikinews|Tributes paid to recently deceased US actor Chadwick Boseman}}

On August 28, 2020, a Change.org petition was started, seeking to replace a Confederate monument in his hometown of Anderson with a statue of Boseman; it collected more than 50,000 signatures in less than a week, surpassing its original goal of 15,000 signatures.{{Cite web |title=Online petition asks South Carolina town to replace Confederate statue with one of Chadwick Boseman |url=https://www.wltx.com/article/life/people/online-petition-urges-replacing-confederate-monument-with-statue-anderson-southcarolina-native-chadwick-boseman/101-9c6ad924-0502-49da-a1ee-442183d21dd2 |access-date=August 31, 2020 |website=WLTX|date=August 30, 2020 }} Henry McMaster, the Governor of South Carolina, ordered the Statehouse flags be lowered to half-staff on August 30 in honor of Boseman, who was born and raised in the state.{{Cite news |last=Bean |first=Riley |date=August 29, 2020 |title=Gov. McMaster orders flags to be lowered to half-staff for actor Chadwick Boseman |publisher=WIS (TV) |url=https://www.wistv.com/2020/08/29/gov-mcmaster-orders-flags-be-lowered-half-staff-actor-chadwick-boseman/ |url-status=live |access-date=August 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200830170855/https://www.wistv.com/2020/08/29/gov-mcmaster-orders-flags-be-lowered-half-staff-actor-chadwick-boseman/ |archive-date=August 30, 2020}} ABC (which, like Marvel Entertainment, is owned by Disney) aired a commercial-free version of Black Panther, followed by a special about Boseman's life and work titled Chadwick Boseman{{snd}}A Tribute for a King on the same day.{{Cite news |date=August 30, 2020 |title=ABC to Air 'Black Panther' and Chadwick Boseman Tribute Special Tonight |work=Variety |url=https://variety.com/2020/film/news/chadwick-boseman-dead-abc-black-panther-tribute-1234753865/ |url-status=live |access-date=August 31, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200830235907/https://variety.com/2020/film/news/chadwick-boseman-dead-abc-black-panther-tribute-1234753865/ |archive-date=August 30, 2020}}{{Cite web |date=August 30, 2020 |title=Here's How to Watch the Chadwick Boseman and Black Panther TV Specials |url=https://www.eonline.com/news/1183372/heres-how-to-watch-the-chadwick-boseman-and-black-panther-tv-specials |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200831085528/https://www.eonline.com/news/1183372/heres-how-to-watch-the-chadwick-boseman-and-black-panther-tv-specials |archive-date=August 31, 2020 |access-date=August 31, 2020 |website=E! Online}} Also aired on August 30 was the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards; the ceremony was dedicated to Boseman.{{Cite tweet |number=1300222144119537669 |user=vmas |title=RIP Chadwick Boseman. Tonight's #VMAs is dedicated to him. |author=Video Music Awards |date=August 30, 2020 |access-date=August 31, 2020}} On September 24, 2020, Disney unveiled a mural titled King Chad, by artist Nikkolas Smith dedicated to Boseman at Downtown Disney in Anaheim, California.{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Nikkolas |title=This one is special. My King Chad tribute is now on a wall on display at Downtown Disney |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/CFhuNOqFnDJ/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201106160032/https://www.instagram.com/p/CFhuNOqFnDJ/ |archive-date=November 6, 2020 |access-date=September 27, 2020}} In February 2021, another mural dedicated to Boseman was painted at Trilith Studios in Fayetteville, Georgia, by artist Brandon Sadler.{{Cite news |last=Preheim |first=Cheryl |date=January 28, 2021 |title=Mural inspired by 'Black Panther' painted on building at Georgia film studio |work=11Alive.com |url=https://www.11alive.com/article/entertainment/television/programs/the-a-scene/black-panther-mural-inspires-film-community-in-fayette-county/85-c9a80505-3fc7-468f-8b63-c83495b9e184 |access-date=April 6, 2021 }}{{Cite news |last=Stafford |first=Leon |date=February 5, 2021 |title='Black Panther' artist paints massive Trilith soundstage mural |work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |url=https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/black-panther-artist-paints-massive-trilith-soundstage-mural/6BJCT2R7NFFADDEKHA2ZL5S62A/ |url-status=live |access-date=April 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215043158/https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/black-panther-artist-paints-massive-trilith-soundstage-mural/6BJCT2R7NFFADDEKHA2ZL5S62A/ |archive-date=February 15, 2021}} Following his Best Actor win at the Academy Awards in April 2021, Anthony Hopkins said, "I want to pay tribute to Chadwick Boseman, who was taken from us far too early, and again thank you all very much."{{Cite news |date=April 27, 2021 |title= After shocking Oscar win, Anthony Hopkins posts video acknowledging Chadwick Boseman |work=The Hill |url= https://thehill.com/changing-america/enrichment/arts-culture/550420-after-shocking-oscar-win-anthony-hopkins-posts-video |access-date= April 27, 2021}}

Boseman is also memorialized in the 2020 video game Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales. The game includes an after-credits message dedicating it in memory of Boseman, as well as a street called Boseman Way on 42nd Street; the number 42 bears significance in the Miles Morales mythos as well as referring to Boseman's portrayal of Jackie Robinson. A Wakandan flag also appears.{{Cite web |date=November 21, 2020 |title='Spider-Man: Miles Morales' fans find new tribute to Chadwick Boseman |url=https://www.nme.com/en_au/news/gaming-news/spider-man-miles-morales-fans-find-new-tribute-to-chadwick-boseman-2822183 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201224120234/https://www.nme.com/en_au/news/gaming-news/spider-man-miles-morales-fans-find-new-tribute-to-chadwick-boseman-2822183 |archive-date=December 24, 2020 |access-date=December 16, 2020 |website=NME}} Amazon also made Black Panther comic titles available for free on its ComiXology platform in the wake of Boseman's death.{{Cite web |last=Lyons |first=Kim |date=September 5, 2020 |title=Black Panther titles are free right now on Comixology |url=https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/5/21424313/black-panther-comixology-amazon-chadwick-boseman-marvel |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231032953/https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/5/21424313/black-panther-comixology-amazon-chadwick-boseman-marvel |archive-date=December 31, 2020 |access-date=December 31, 2020 |website=The Verge}}{{Cite web |date=September 10, 2020 |title=Comixology offers free Black Panther digital comics in honor of Chadwick Boseman |url=https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/09/10/comixology-offers-free-black-panther-digital-comics-in-honor-of-chadwick-boseman/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928045525/https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/09/10/comixology-offers-free-black-panther-digital-comics-in-honor-of-chadwick-boseman/ |archive-date=September 28, 2020 |access-date=December 31, 2020 |website=Android Police}} On November 29, 2020, Marvel changed the studio's logo animation in the opening of Black Panther on Disney+ to include images of Boseman from the film, as well as his appearances in Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, and Avengers: Endgame, to honor what would have been Boseman's 44th birthday.{{Cite web |last=Bonomolo |first=Cameron |date=November 29, 2020 |title=Black Panther on Disney+ Updated With Marvel Studios Logo Tribute to Chadwick Boseman |url=https://comicbook.com/movies/news/chadwick-boseman-birthday-marvel-studios-logo-update-black-panther-disney-plus/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129143852/https://comicbook.com/movies/news/chadwick-boseman-birthday-marvel-studios-logo-update-black-panther-disney-plus/ |archive-date=November 29, 2020 |access-date=November 29, 2020 |website=Comicbook.com}}

In a 2020 tribute, Ryan Coogler, the director of Black Panther and its 2022 sequel, offered condolences to Boseman's family and said that he had spent the last year "preparing, imagining and writing words for him to say [in the sequel] that we weren't destined to see". Coogler and Marvel Studios executives were unaware of Boseman's illness until his death.{{Cite web |last=Rubin |first=Rebecca |date=August 30, 2020 |title=Ryan Coogler Pays Emotional Tribute to Chadwick Boseman: 'What an Incredible Mark He's Left for Us' |url=https://variety.com/2020/film/news/chadwick-boseman-death-ryan-coogler-tribute-black-panther-1234753958/ |access-date=October 26, 2022 |website=Variety}}{{Cite magazine |last1=Siegel |first1=Tatiana |last2=Kit |first2=Borys |date=September 2, 2020 |title=Disney Grapples With How to Proceed on 'Black Panther' Without Chadwick Boseman |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/disney-grapples-with-how-to-proceed-on-black-panther-without-chadwick-boseman |url-status=live |magazine=The Hollywood Reporter |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200902161542/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/disney-grapples-with-how-to-proceed-on-black-panther-without-chadwick-boseman |archive-date=September 2, 2020 |access-date=September 2, 2020}} By the time of Boseman's death, Coogler was in the middle of writing the script and had already turned in a draft.{{Cite magazine |last=Keegan |first=Rebecca |date=March 31, 2021 |title=Despite History-Making Noms, 'Judas and the Black Messiah's' All-Black Producing Team Find Oscar Success to Be "Bittersweet" |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/judas-and-the-black-messiahs-all-black-team-on-bittersweet-feeling-of-making-oscar-history |url-status=live |magazine=The Hollywood Reporter |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210401030837/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/judas-and-the-black-messiahs-all-black-team-on-bittersweet-feeling-of-making-oscar-history |archive-date=April 1, 2021 |access-date=March 31, 2021}}{{Cite web |last=Sneider |first=Jeff |date=March 17, 2021 |title='Black Panther 2': Martin Freeman on Making the Sequel Without Chadwick Boseman |url=https://collider.com/black-panther-2-martin-freeman-comments-chadwick-boseman/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210318014408/https://collider.com/black-panther-2-martin-freeman-comments-chadwick-boseman/ |archive-date=March 18, 2021 |access-date=March 17, 2021 |website=Collider}} Also paying tribute, Feige confirmed that the role of T'Challa would not be recast.{{Cite web |last=Pearson |first=Ben |date=December 10, 2020 |title='Black Panther II' Will Not Recast T'Challa in the Wake of Chadwick Boseman's Death |url=https://www.slashfilm.com/recast-tchalla/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201211043043/https://www.slashfilm.com/recast-tchalla/ |archive-date=December 11, 2020 |access-date=December 10, 2020 |website=/Film}} Producer Nate Moore said that Boseman "was such an integral part of that character for us, both as the character and as a person, that we could not conceive of a version with having someone else on set".{{Cite web |last=Kaye |first=Don |date=November 11, 2022 |title=How Black Panther 2 Addresses The Passing of Chadwick Boseman |url=https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/how-black-panther-2-addresses-the-passing-of-chadwick-boseman/ |access-date=November 26, 2022 |website=Den of Geek}}

Co-writers Coogler and Joe Robert Cole reworked the script following Boseman's death. The sequel, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022), depicts T'Challa's death from illness and Wakandans processing the resultant grief; the Marvel Studios opening, usually featuring other MCU characters, only depicts the faint sound of wind and images of Boseman.{{Cite web |last=Stolworthy |first=Jacob |date=November 11, 2022 |title=Black Panther 2: How Wakanda Forever addresses Chadwick Boseman's death |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/chadwick-boseman-death-black-panther-wakanda-forever-b2222881.html |access-date=November 26, 2022 |website=The Independent}} T'Challa's sister Shuri (played by Letitia Wright) would eventually succeed him as Black Panther. Wright struggled with becoming Black Panther on the sequel as she felt bitter about how that had come to pass, and felt guilty for doing it. She credited Coogler and her costar Danai Gurira for helping her with the transition.{{Cite web|url=https://collider.com/is-shuri-the-new-black-panther-wankada-forever/|title=Is Shuri the New Black Panther in 'Wakanda Forever'?|first=Aidan|last=Kelley|date=November 11, 2022|website=Collider}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2022-12-28/letitia-wright-becomes-black-panther|title=Why Letitia Wright had to be persuaded she was ready for the Black Panther's claws|date=December 28, 2022|website=Los Angeles Times}} The end credits featured the words "Dedicated to our friend Chadwick Boseman", and The Independent described Wakanda Forever as a "soulful Chadwick Boseman tribute".{{Cite web |last=Rooney |first=David |date=November 8, 2022 |title='Black Panther: Wakanda Forever' Review: Ryan Coogler's Rousing Sequel Doubles as a Soulful Chadwick Boseman Tribute |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/black-panther-wakanda-forever-ryan-coogler-sequel-1235256005/ |access-date=November 26, 2022 |website=The Independent}} Coogler said that while the film was a tribute to Boseman, it was also a tribute to the resilience of the cast to "honor Boseman".

On April 8, 2025, Hannah Beachler revealed on her X page that the way the church in the film Sinners was designed included crossed beams which made the "Wakanda forever" gesture and paid homage to Boseman.{{cite news |url=https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/movies/a64609255/sinners-movie-chadwick-boseman-tribute/ |title=Did You Spot This Subtle Chadwick Boseman Tribute in the ‘Sinners’ Movie? |first=Jade |last=Biggs |publisher=Cosmopolitan |date=April 28, 2025 |accessdate=May 16, 2025}}{{cite news|url=https://screenrant.com/sinners-chadwick-boseman-tribute-explained/|title=Sinners' Hidden Tribute To Chadwick Boseman Explained|first=Hannah|last=Gearan|publisher=Screen Rant|date=May 16, 2025|accessdate=May 16, 2025}}

{{Main|List of awards and nominations received by Chadwick Boseman}}

• Boseman gave the commencement address at Howard University on May 12, 2018.{{Cite web |title=Howard University Alumnus Chadwick Boseman to Deliver 2018 Commencement Address |work=Howard Newsroom |url=https://newsroom.howard.edu/newsroom/article/8236/howard-university-alumnus-chadwick-boseman-deliver-2018-commencement-address-2 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200829035755/https://newsroom.howard.edu/newsroom/article/8236/howard-university-alumnus-chadwick-boseman-deliver-2018-commencement-address-2 |archive-date=August 29, 2020 |access-date=August 30, 2020}}

• Chadwick Boseman: Portrait of an Artist
• List of black Academy Award winners and nominees
• List of posthumous Academy Award winners and nominees
• List of black Golden Globe Award winners and nominees

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{{Cite web |last=Herndon |first=Jessica |date=April 8, 2013 |title=Chadwick Boseman: The Distinguished Rise of Cinema's Next Champion |url=http://flaunt.com/people/chadwick-boseman/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180218090256/http://www.flaunt.com/content/people/chadwick-boseman |archive-date=February 18, 2018 |access-date=April 29, 2015 |website=Flaunt}}

{{Cite news |last=Jenkins |first=Mark |date=April 11, 2013 |title=Jackie Robinson film '42' opens, starring Howard graduate Chadwick Boseman |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/jackie-robinson-film-42-opens-starring-howard-graduate-chadwick-boseman/2013/04/11/dbdc8664-9e02-11e2-a941-a19bce7af755_story.html |url-access=limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160605020012/https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/jackie-robinson-film-42-opens-starring-howard-graduate-chadwick-boseman/2013/04/11/dbdc8664-9e02-11e2-a941-a19bce7af755_story.html |archive-date=June 5, 2016 |access-date=April 29, 2015 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}

{{Cite web |last=Miller |first=Julie |date=April 12, 2013 |title='42' Star Chadwick Boseman on Playing Jackie Robinson, Copying His Baseball Moves, and Being Stood Up by the President |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2013/04/chadwick-boseman-42-interview |url-access=limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150412224106/http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2013/04/chadwick-boseman-42-interview |archive-date=April 12, 2015 |access-date=April 29, 2015 |website=Vanity Fair}}

{{Cite web |last=Fleming |first=Mike Jr. |date=January 30, 2014 |title=Chadwick Boseman Set For Summit's 'Gods Of Egypt' |url=https://deadline.com/2014/01/chadwick-boseman-gods-of-egypt-casting-thoth-674211/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170925012508/http://deadline.com/2014/01/chadwick-boseman-gods-of-egypt-casting-thoth-674211/ |archive-date=September 25, 2017 |access-date=April 29, 2015 |website=Deadline Hollywood}}

{{Cite web |last=Kaye |first=Don |date=April 11, 2014 |title=Chadwick Boseman on 'Draft Day,' Sports Legends, and Becoming James Brown |url=http://news.moviefone.com/2014/04/11/chadwick-boseman-draft-day-interview/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150108141259/http://news.moviefone.com/2014/04/11/chadwick-boseman-draft-day-interview/ |archive-date=January 8, 2015 |access-date=April 29, 2015 |publisher=Moviefone}}

{{Cite web |last=Holsey |first=Steve |date=August 6, 2014 |title=Star On The Rise: Chadwick Boseman |url=http://michronicleonline.com/2014/08/06/star-on-the-rise-chadwick-boseman/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150804131511/http://michronicleonline.com/2014/08/06/star-on-the-rise-chadwick-boseman/ |archive-date=August 4, 2015 |access-date=April 29, 2015 |website=Michigan Chronicle |location=Detroit, Michigan}}

{{Cite web |last=Riley |first=Daniel |date=September 2014 |title=The Surprisingly Sudden Arrival of Chadwick Boseman |url=https://www.gq.com/entertainment/celebrities/201410/chadwick-boseman |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180218065325/https://www.gq.com/story/chadwick-boseman |archive-date=February 18, 2018 |access-date=April 29, 2015 |website=GQ}}

{{Cite web |last=Strom |first=Marc |date=October 28, 2014 |title=Chadwick Boseman to Star in Marvel's Black Panther |url=http://marvel.com/news/movies/23548/chadwick_boseman_to_star_in_marvels_black_panther |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141028201432/http://marvel.com/news/movies/23548/chadwick_boseman_to_star_in_marvels_black_panther |archive-date=October 28, 2014 |access-date=October 28, 2014 |publisher=Marvel Entertainment}}

{{Cite news |last=McDonald |first=Soraya Nadia |date=October 29, 2014 |title=Everything you need to know about Chadwick Boseman — Marvel's new superhero, Black Panther |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/10/29/everything-you-need-to-know-about-chadwick-boseman-marvels-new-superhero-black-panther/ |url-access=limited |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160810131912/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/10/29/everything-you-need-to-know-about-chadwick-boseman-marvels-new-superhero-black-panther/ |archive-date=August 10, 2016 |access-date=April 29, 2015 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}

{{Cite web |last=Rose |first=Steve |date=November 20, 2014 |title=I got the feelin' – Chadwick Boseman on playing James Brown |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/nov/20/james-brown-chadwick-boseman-get-on-up |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170612113148/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/nov/20/james-brown-chadwick-boseman-get-on-up |archive-date=June 12, 2017 |access-date=April 29, 2015 |website=The Guardian |location=UK}}

{{Cite web |last=Strom |first=Marc |date=February 10, 2015 |title=Marvel Studios Schedules New Release Dates for 4 Films |url=http://marvel.com/news/movies/24065/marvel_studios_schedules_new_release_dates_for_4_films |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150213010327/http://marvel.com/news/movies/24065/marvel_studios_schedules_new_release_dates_for_4_films |archive-date=February 13, 2015 |access-date=February 9, 2015 |publisher=Marvel Entertainment}}

{{Cite news |last1=Ugwu |first1=Reggie |last2=Levenson |first2=Michael |date=August 28, 2020 |title='Black Panther' Star Chadwick Boseman Dies of Cancer at 43 |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/movies/chadwick-boseman-dead.html |url-status=live |url-access=registration |access-date=August 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200829052006/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/movies/chadwick-boseman-dead.html |archive-date=August 29, 2020}}

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