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Alfre Woodard stuns in first ‘Clemency’ trailer

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“You want to play this good guys and bad guys and I’m one of the bad guys.”

Years of carrying out death row executions have taken a toll on prison warden Bernadine Williams (Alfre Woodard). As she prepares to execute another inmate, Bernadine must confront the psychological and emotional demons her job creates, ultimately connecting her to the man she is sanctioned to kill.

Clemency won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival for director Chinonye Chukwu and recently played the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. Woodard is set for tributes and spotlights from the Mill Valley Film Festival and the Hamptons Film Festival before Neon releases the film on December 27.

The film co-stars Aldis Hodge, Richard Schiff, Wendell Pierce, Richard Gunn and Danielle Brooks.

Here is the first trailer and poster.

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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