Ruby Dee Nominated for Oscar® Best Supporting Actress

Ruby Dee American Gangster NOMINATED ROLE Ruby Dee portrays Mama Lucas, a poor Southern woman whose son becomes a wealthy New York drug dealer. ACADEMY AWARDS HISTORY This is the first Academy Award nomination for Ruby Dee. FILM SYNOPSIS Ambitious Harlem drug dealer Frank Lucas reaches the pinnacle of the criminal underworld with a scheme to smuggle heroin directly from Thailand to the streets of New York City; a plan made easier by the extensive corruption within the city's police department. Threatening his operation, however, is Richie Roberts, a pugnacious cop unafraid to take on both Lucas and his own dishonest colleagues.