Netflix To Campaign Delroy Lindo For Best Actor For Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods For Academy Awards

According to Variety, Netflix has confirmed the decision to campaign Delroy Lindo, the star of Spike Lee’s “Da 5 Bloods” in lead actor category for the upcoming Academy Awards. Co-stars Jonathan Majors, Clarke Peters, Norm Lewis, Isiah Whitlock, Jr. and Chadwick Boseman will all campaign in supporting actor. 

In “Da 5 Bloods,” Lindo plays Paul, a Vietnam veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder who travels back to Vietnam in search of the remains of his fallen squad leader.

Co-writer and director Spike Lee has teamed with Lindo many times over his career, including “Clockers” and “Crooklyn.” His role in “Da 5 Bloods” reunites the pair for the first time in 25 years. If Lindo manages to successfully maneuver an upcoming strange and unpredictable awards season, he would be the fourth actor of a Spike Lee joint to receive a nomination from the Academy. He would follow the late Danny Aiello (“Do the Right Thing”), Denzel Washington (“Malcolm X”) and Adam Driver (“BlacKkKlansman”), none of which won their respective categories.