Bayard Rustin got the long-awaited big-screen treatment many have hoped to see with Netflix’s 2023 release of “Rustin,” a biopic starring Colman Domingo as the civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in Alabama’s history — and now it’s Oscar-nominated.

The film, which is now streaming on Netflix, tells the story of Bayard Rustin, an openly gay Black civil rights leader who dedicated his life to a quest for racial equality. It finally has a trailer, which you can watch in the video above.

Domingo (“Euphoria,” “If Beale Street Could Talk”) stars as the man many know as the driving force behind the 1963 March on Washington in the new film from DGA Award and three-time Tony Award-winning director George C. Wolfe (“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom”).

Domingo’s fellow nominees this year include Bradley Cooper (“Maestro”), Paul Giamatti (“The Holdovers”), Cillian Murphy (“Oppenheimer”) and Jeffrey Wright (“American Fiction”). Read the full list of Oscar nominees.

“Rustin” is also a hit with critics, currently holding a 85% rating on Rotten Tomatoes with 157 reviews. The Critics Consensus: “Colman Domingo is sensational in Rustin, a stirring biopic that shines an overdue light on a remarkable legacy of public service.”

“Domingo’s outsize performance gets across how he survived and succeeded through charm and sheer force of will,” writes David Sims of The Atlantic.

“Far from a stuffy history lesson, it’s a film that’s at once urgent, rousing, and alive,” raves Nick Schager of The Daily Beast.

“From the back rooms of power to the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, the new film tells the story of the civil rights movement from a never-before-seen perspective,” a Netflix press release said.

“Bayard Rustin was one of the greatest activists and organizers the world has ever known,” the release continued. “He challenged authority, never apologized for who he was, what he believed or who he desired. And he did not back down. He made history, and in turn, he was forgotten. Rustin shines a long overdue spotlight on the extraordinary man who, alongside giants like the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., Adam Clayton Powell Jr. and Ella Baker, dared to imagine a different world and inspired a movement in a march toward freedom.”

AL.com’s Roy S. Johnson counts Rustin among “the less-sung crafters of the civil rights movement.”

“Raised from his earliest days in Pennsylvania on the Quaker values of peace and non-violence, he’s credited with influencing a young preacher in Montgomery to pursue a strategy of non-violence in the pursuit of equality,” Johnson writes. “The young preacher, of course, was Dr. Martin Luther King. Rustin is also widely credited as the architect of the historic 1963 March on Washington, weaving together from behind the curtain the tenuous organizational elements needed to create the movement’s most impactful moments and images.”

Johnson also notes Rustin’s role in Birmingham that same year, when he “thrived amid the tension and terror that hung over the city that was ground zero for the Ku Klux Klan. He was a quiet, but essential force, behind King and Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and the Children’s Crusade to end segregation in downtown stores.”

Rustin also wrote The Meaning of Birmingham, an essay originally published in The Liberation, which Johnson writes was a pacifist magazine that was the first to publish King’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”

The film features a star-studded cast playing historical figures, including Chris Rock as Roy Wilkins, Glynn Turman as A. Philip Randolph, Aml Ameen as Martin Luther King Jr., Gus Halper, CCH Pounder as Dr. Anna Hedgeman, Jeffrey Wright as Adam Clayton Powell Jr. and Audra McDonald as Ella Baker.

Wolfe previously directed the Oscar-nominated “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” about the famed singer from Alabama known as the “Mother of the Blues” (played in the film by Viola Davis).

“Rustin” is now streaming on Netflix. Watch the trailer above.

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