What is the best Colman Domingo movie?

By YPB Team

Colman Domingo has emerged as one of Hollywood's most compelling actors with an extraordinary range across drama, horror, and historical biopics. Vote for his best film performance.

Sing Sing

Greg Kwedar's 2024 acclaimed prison drama where Domingo delivers a career-best performance as Divine G, leading an incarcerated theater troupe through the power of art and rehabilitation.

1000pts

The Color Purple

In the 2023 musical remake, Domingo brings unexpected vulnerability to Albert 'Mister' Johnson, the abusive husband whose complexity he reveals in ways that allow the audience to understand a villain.

545pts

Zola

Domingo's scene-stealing 2021 turn as X, a flamboyant pimp entangled in a wild road trip, is one of the decade's great supporting performances — outrageous, menacing, and unforgettable.

444pts

Candyman

Domingo steps into the mythology of Nia DaCosta's 2021 horror sequel as the local Candyman legend's keeper, turning from friendly historian to something far more sinister.

444pts

The Birth of a Nation

Nate Parker's 2016 portrait of Nat Turner's rebellion gave Domingo a powerful early role as Hark Turner, and his natural gravitas made the character's revolutionary resolve palpable.

444pts

Rustin

Domingo earned his first Academy Award nomination playing Bayard Rustin, the brilliant and marginalized civil rights strategist who organized the 1963 March on Washington.

166pts

If Beale Street Could Talk

Domingo brings warmth and charisma to Barry Jenkins' 2018 James Baldwin adaptation as Joseph, a father whose unconditional support is the beating heart of the film.

166pts

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

A powerful 2020 adaptation of August Wilson's play in which Domingo's nuanced portrayal of Cutler, the band's leader, anchors a cast that includes Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman.