VIDEO : Mary J Blige Will Receive Film Festival Award

Mary J. Blige will receive the Breakthrough Performance Award at the 2018 Palm Springs International Film Festival?s Awards Gala, PSIFF organizers announced on Thursday. Blige, who established herself as a Grammy-winning singer and songwriter before acting in films like ?I Can Do Bad All by Myself? and ?Rock of Ages,? will be honored for her performance in Dee Rees? ?Mudbound,? in which she plays the mother in a family of sharecroppers in rural Mississippi in the years before and after World War II.