Angela Bassett, Mel Brooks and Carol Littleton will receive honorary Oscars at this year’s Governors Awards, announced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In addition, the Sundance Institute’s Michelle Satter will receive the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Awards. The four statuettes will be presented at the 14th annual ceremony on Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023, in Los Angeles.
“The Academy’s Board of Governors is thrilled to honor four trailblazers who have transformed the film industry and inspired generations of filmmakers and movie fans,” said Academy President Janet Yang. “Across her decades-long career, Angela Bassett has continued to deliver transcendent performances that set new standards in acting. Mel Brooks lights up our hearts with his humor, and his legacy has made a lasting impact on every facet of entertainment. Carol Littleton’s career in film editing serves as a model for those who come after her. A pillar of the independent film community,...
“The Academy’s Board of Governors is thrilled to honor four trailblazers who have transformed the film industry and inspired generations of filmmakers and movie fans,” said Academy President Janet Yang. “Across her decades-long career, Angela Bassett has continued to deliver transcendent performances that set new standards in acting. Mel Brooks lights up our hearts with his humor, and his legacy has made a lasting impact on every facet of entertainment. Carol Littleton’s career in film editing serves as a model for those who come after her. A pillar of the independent film community,...
- 6/26/2023
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
The Academy Board of Governors voted to present Academy Honorary Awards to Angela Bassett, Mel Brooks and editor Carol Littleton and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award to the Sundance Institute’s Michelle Satter. They will accept the four Oscars at the Academy’s 14th Governors Awards event on Saturday, November 18, 2023, at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles.
“The Academy’s Board of Governors is thrilled to honor four trailblazers who have transformed the film industry and inspired generations of filmmakers and movie fans,” said Academy President Janet Yang in a statement. “Across her decades-long career, Angela Bassett has continued to deliver transcendent performances that set new standards in acting. Mel Brooks lights up our hearts with his humor, and his legacy has made a lasting impact on every facet of entertainment. Carol Littleton’s career in film editing serves as a model for those who come after her. A...
“The Academy’s Board of Governors is thrilled to honor four trailblazers who have transformed the film industry and inspired generations of filmmakers and movie fans,” said Academy President Janet Yang in a statement. “Across her decades-long career, Angela Bassett has continued to deliver transcendent performances that set new standards in acting. Mel Brooks lights up our hearts with his humor, and his legacy has made a lasting impact on every facet of entertainment. Carol Littleton’s career in film editing serves as a model for those who come after her. A...
- 6/26/2023
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
The newest Academy Award winners have been announced.
Angela Bassett, Mel Brooks, and veteran film editor Carol Littleton have been voted Honorary Oscars, and the Sundance Institute’s Michelle Satter the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. All will be presented on Saturday, November 18, during the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 14th annual Governors Awards at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles.
The three Honorary winners have all danced with Oscar before. Brooks won for his Original Screenplay for The Producers in 1968. Littleton received her sole previous nomination for editing E.T. The Extra Terrestrial in 1982. Bassett, coming off a Best Supporting Actress nomination this year for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, also was a Best Actress nominee 30 years ago for her portrayal of Tina Turner in 1993’s What’s Love Got to Do With It.
Satter’s Hersholt award represents the second Sundance-related special Academy Award after creator and founder...
Angela Bassett, Mel Brooks, and veteran film editor Carol Littleton have been voted Honorary Oscars, and the Sundance Institute’s Michelle Satter the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. All will be presented on Saturday, November 18, during the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 14th annual Governors Awards at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles.
The three Honorary winners have all danced with Oscar before. Brooks won for his Original Screenplay for The Producers in 1968. Littleton received her sole previous nomination for editing E.T. The Extra Terrestrial in 1982. Bassett, coming off a Best Supporting Actress nomination this year for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, also was a Best Actress nominee 30 years ago for her portrayal of Tina Turner in 1993’s What’s Love Got to Do With It.
Satter’s Hersholt award represents the second Sundance-related special Academy Award after creator and founder...
- 6/26/2023
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
“Hey Auntie. We love you.”
Five simple words from presenters Michael B. Jordan and Jonathan Majors, directed at Angela Bassett, who was nominated for the best supporting actress Oscar during Sunday night’s ceremony.
As the “Creed III” co-stars took the stage to present the award for best cinematography — two categories after the supporting actress prize went to “Everything Everywhere All At Once” star Jamie Lee Curtis — they took a moment to speak to Bassett, seated before them.
“Hey Auntie,” Jordan began, echoing his dialogue from 2018’s “Black Panther,” as his character Erik Killmonger slyly introduced himself to Bassett’s Queen Ramonda.
Majors picked up from there, adding: “We love you.”
Michael B. Jordan and Jonathan Majors praise Angela Bassett after her Supporting Actress #Oscars loss: "Hi, auntie. We love you." https://t.co/ndiKiHfmID pic.twitter.com/5YwcBzWM1Q
— Variety (@Variety) March 13, 2023
The kind words from Jordan and Majors...
Five simple words from presenters Michael B. Jordan and Jonathan Majors, directed at Angela Bassett, who was nominated for the best supporting actress Oscar during Sunday night’s ceremony.
As the “Creed III” co-stars took the stage to present the award for best cinematography — two categories after the supporting actress prize went to “Everything Everywhere All At Once” star Jamie Lee Curtis — they took a moment to speak to Bassett, seated before them.
“Hey Auntie,” Jordan began, echoing his dialogue from 2018’s “Black Panther,” as his character Erik Killmonger slyly introduced himself to Bassett’s Queen Ramonda.
Majors picked up from there, adding: “We love you.”
Michael B. Jordan and Jonathan Majors praise Angela Bassett after her Supporting Actress #Oscars loss: "Hi, auntie. We love you." https://t.co/ndiKiHfmID pic.twitter.com/5YwcBzWM1Q
— Variety (@Variety) March 13, 2023
The kind words from Jordan and Majors...
- 3/13/2023
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Emmy- and Tony-winning actress Cicely Tyson, who distinguished herself in theater, film and television, died on Thursday afternoon. She was 96.
“I have managed Miss Tyson’s career for over 40 years, and each year was a privilege and blessing,” her manager, Larry Thompson, said in a statement. “Cicely thought of her new memoir as a Christmas tree decorated with all the ornaments of her personal and professional life. Today she placed the last ornament, a Star, on top of the tree.”
Her memoir “Just As I Am” was published on Tuesday.
Tyson broke into movies with the 1959 Harry Belafonte film “Odds Against Tomorrow,” followed by “The Comedians,” “The Last Angry Man,” “A Man Called Adam” and “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.” Refusing to participate in the blaxploitation movies that became popular in the late ’60s, she waited until 1972 to return to the screen in the drama “Sounder,” which captured several...
“I have managed Miss Tyson’s career for over 40 years, and each year was a privilege and blessing,” her manager, Larry Thompson, said in a statement. “Cicely thought of her new memoir as a Christmas tree decorated with all the ornaments of her personal and professional life. Today she placed the last ornament, a Star, on top of the tree.”
Her memoir “Just As I Am” was published on Tuesday.
Tyson broke into movies with the 1959 Harry Belafonte film “Odds Against Tomorrow,” followed by “The Comedians,” “The Last Angry Man,” “A Man Called Adam” and “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.” Refusing to participate in the blaxploitation movies that became popular in the late ’60s, she waited until 1972 to return to the screen in the drama “Sounder,” which captured several...
- 1/29/2021
- by Carmel Dagan
- Variety Film + TV
Park City, Ut — 22 celebrated voices across film, art and culture will bestow this year’s awards on feature-length and short films at the Sundance Film Festival, at a digital ceremony taking place February 2nd. This year’s Festival is fully available online at Festival.Sundance.org; Awards Night will be live-streamed. Award-winning films will be available for special extended-run viewing the day after the ceremony.
The awards, which recognize standout artistic and cinematic achievement, are decided on by 6 section juries. As in years past, Festival audiences have a role in deciding the 2021 Audience Awards, open to films in the U.S. Competition, World Competition and Next categories.
“Our jurors have reached a high level of achievement in their individual fields, and can bring their unique perspective to the process of analyzing and evaluating films,” said Kim Yutani, the Festival’s Director of Programming. “We’re pleased to bring this accomplished,...
The awards, which recognize standout artistic and cinematic achievement, are decided on by 6 section juries. As in years past, Festival audiences have a role in deciding the 2021 Audience Awards, open to films in the U.S. Competition, World Competition and Next categories.
“Our jurors have reached a high level of achievement in their individual fields, and can bring their unique perspective to the process of analyzing and evaluating films,” said Kim Yutani, the Festival’s Director of Programming. “We’re pleased to bring this accomplished,...
- 1/24/2021
- by Grace Han
- AsianMoviePulse
With less than two months to go before Genius: Aretha finally hits the small screen, the Oscar nominee who is portraying the Queen of Soul is hitting this year’s Sundance Film Festival as one of the shindigs’ jurors.
Cynthia Ervio will be joining the likes of Sff alum Raúl Castillo as one of the 22 jurors at this year’s semi-virtual cinema gathering (see the full list of jurors below)
Watching films and conferring from home via the likes of Zoom, the jurors’ decisions in the six selection categories will be unveiled on February 2 at a now digital ceremony. Well, except for
the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize which has already been awarded to Son of Monarchs.
“Our jurors have reached a high level of achievement in their individual fields, and can bring their unique perspective to the process of analyzing and evaluating films,” Festival’s Director of Programming Kim Yutani said Friday.
Cynthia Ervio will be joining the likes of Sff alum Raúl Castillo as one of the 22 jurors at this year’s semi-virtual cinema gathering (see the full list of jurors below)
Watching films and conferring from home via the likes of Zoom, the jurors’ decisions in the six selection categories will be unveiled on February 2 at a now digital ceremony. Well, except for
the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize which has already been awarded to Son of Monarchs.
“Our jurors have reached a high level of achievement in their individual fields, and can bring their unique perspective to the process of analyzing and evaluating films,” Festival’s Director of Programming Kim Yutani said Friday.
- 1/22/2021
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
The 22 jury members for this year’s virtually unfolding Sundance Film Festival have been revealed. Jurors include actors Cynthia Erivo and Daniela Vega, filmmakers Julie Dash and Joshua Oppenheimer, author Hanya Yanagahira (“A Little Life”), and many more. They will bestow awards on features and short films at the festival’s digital closing ceremony on February 2. The event will be live-streamed, and winning films will be available for special extended-run viewing the next day.
The awards, which recognize standout artistic and cinematic achievement, are decided upon by six section juries. As in years past, festival audiences have a role in deciding the 2021 Audience Awards, open to films in the U.S. Competition, World Competition, and Next categories.
As previously announced, the juried Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize was awarded to “Son of Monarchs.” Below are all this year’s jury members, with bios courtesy of the Sundance Film Festival.
The awards, which recognize standout artistic and cinematic achievement, are decided upon by six section juries. As in years past, festival audiences have a role in deciding the 2021 Audience Awards, open to films in the U.S. Competition, World Competition, and Next categories.
As previously announced, the juried Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize was awarded to “Son of Monarchs.” Below are all this year’s jury members, with bios courtesy of the Sundance Film Festival.
- 1/22/2021
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Exclusive: ABC’s Women of the Movement has assembled a team of four accomplished Black female directors for the first installment of the potential anthology that celebrates the women of the civil rights movement. Tina Mabry (Mississippi Damned), Julie Dash (Daughters of the Dust) and Kasi Lemmons (Harriet) will join Gina Prince-Bythewood (Love & Basketball), as directors on the limited series, from creator-writer Marissa Jo Cerar and a producing team that includes Jay-Z, Will Smith and Aaron Kaplan.
The six-episode series, set to premiere in 2021, centers on Mamie Till-Mobley, played by Adrienne Warren, who devoted her life to seeking justice for her son Emmett Till (Cedric Joe) following his brutal killing in the Jim Crow South.
As previously announced, Prince-Bythewood, who executive produces, will direct the first episode., Mabry will direct the second and third episodes, Dash will helm the fourth and fifth episodes and Lemmons will direct the sixth and final episode.
The six-episode series, set to premiere in 2021, centers on Mamie Till-Mobley, played by Adrienne Warren, who devoted her life to seeking justice for her son Emmett Till (Cedric Joe) following his brutal killing in the Jim Crow South.
As previously announced, Prince-Bythewood, who executive produces, will direct the first episode., Mabry will direct the second and third episodes, Dash will helm the fourth and fifth episodes and Lemmons will direct the sixth and final episode.
- 1/13/2021
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Emmy voters continue to prove that overdue narratives don’t factor into their decisions when picking winners. Just ask actors like Martin Sheen (“The West Wing”), Amy Poehler (“Parks and Recreation”) and last year’s Lena Headey (“Game of Thrones”), who were never able to win Emmys for their respective iconic performances. Not everyone can be as lucky as Jon Hamm (“Mad Men”), one of the rare cases of an overdue actor actually being given the Emmy for the final season of their show.
This year, while voters did finally reward overdue favorites like Maya Rudolph and Kerry Washington for the first time, there were numerous actors at the 2020 Emmys who weren’t quite as lucky. Below is a list of the nine Emmy nominees who have now racked up at least five losses from the TV academy.
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Sandra Oh — 12 losses...
This year, while voters did finally reward overdue favorites like Maya Rudolph and Kerry Washington for the first time, there were numerous actors at the 2020 Emmys who weren’t quite as lucky. Below is a list of the nine Emmy nominees who have now racked up at least five losses from the TV academy.
See Here’s the full list of Emmy winners
Sandra Oh — 12 losses...
- 9/21/2020
- by Kevin Jacobsen
- Gold Derby
This year’s Comedy Guest Actress field features past Emmy winners, a “bad bitch” looking for her first victory and a history making double nominee. We’ve put ourselves in the shoes of voters by sitting through all six of their episode submissions to analyze who might come out on top in this tight race. Who will win at the Creative Arts Emmys on Saturday, September 19? Follow the links below for each episode analysis.
See 2020 Emmy nominations complete list: All the nominees for the 72nd Emmy Awards
Angela Bassett, “A Black Lady Sketch Show”
Angela Bassett is a seven-time Emmy nominee. She was previously nominated for “The Rosa Parks Story,” “American Horror Story: Coven,” “American Horror Story: Freak Show,” “Master of None,” “The Flood,” and has an additional nomination this year for narrating “The Imagineering Story.” In order to prevail for this HBO comedy, she has submitted the episode “Angela...
See 2020 Emmy nominations complete list: All the nominees for the 72nd Emmy Awards
Angela Bassett, “A Black Lady Sketch Show”
Angela Bassett is a seven-time Emmy nominee. She was previously nominated for “The Rosa Parks Story,” “American Horror Story: Coven,” “American Horror Story: Freak Show,” “Master of None,” “The Flood,” and has an additional nomination this year for narrating “The Imagineering Story.” In order to prevail for this HBO comedy, she has submitted the episode “Angela...
- 9/17/2020
- by Sam Eckmann
- Gold Derby
Nearly 30 years ago, Daughters of the Dust ruptured the fixed line of film history. It was the first film directed by a Black woman to see theatrical distribution in the United States. It fit neither the Black history Hollywood co-opted, nor the modern Black story they allowed (urban peril). Daughters of the Dust portrayed a day in the life of the Gullah-Geechee community off the coast of South Carolina through their circular perception of time, a past, present and future that runs concurrently. Nana Peazant, the old matriarch, urges her successors to cling to their roots, to hang on to her, as each body holds both “the last of the old and the first of the new.” The younger generations plan to run up the river north, leaving behind Ibo Landing, home to centuries of their ancestors. An unborn child narrates from the future and dawdles through the present day,...
- 7/2/2020
- MUBI
In honor of Juneteenth, we’ve gathered a list of special programming across several networks to commemorate the holiday that celebrates the day in 1865 when Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas, and delivered the news that all enslaved people were free. Juneteenth is still not recognized as a federal holiday, but it is recognized by several states — and this year, many companies are declaring it a paid holiday in light of the Black Lives Matter movement and national protesting that has taken place following the death of George Floyd.
This special programming celebrates black history and educates viewers on the history of the black experience in the United States.
Ovation 24-hour programming block
Starting at 6 a.m. Et, Ovation is presenting a 24-hour programming schedule featuring black voices like Beyoncé, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Alfre Woodard, Michelle Obama and Pharrell Williams. Programming includes “Nina Simone, The Legend,...
This special programming celebrates black history and educates viewers on the history of the black experience in the United States.
Ovation 24-hour programming block
Starting at 6 a.m. Et, Ovation is presenting a 24-hour programming schedule featuring black voices like Beyoncé, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Alfre Woodard, Michelle Obama and Pharrell Williams. Programming includes “Nina Simone, The Legend,...
- 6/19/2020
- by Margeaux Sippell
- The Wrap
Cicely Tyson, whose more than seven decades of work across stage, screen and TV includes iconic small-screen roles as Jane Pittman, Coretta Scott King and the mother of Rosa Parks, was unveiled Monday as the recipient of the Peabody Awards’ Career Achievement Award. The honor is bestowed on individuals whose work and commitment to broadcasting and digital media have left an indelible mark on the field and in American culture.
Tyson has been nominated for 13 Emmys in all and won two for 1974’s The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, the start of a run that included such iconic TV series as Roots (1977), King (1978), The Women of Brewster Place (1989), Always Outnumbered (1998), A Lesson Before Dying (1999), Jewel (2002) and The Rosa Parks Story (2002).
Her TV career began in 1951 and also included credits from Naked City, I Spy and Mission: Impossible to Gunsmoke and East Side/West Side. Most recently she has appeared in...
Tyson has been nominated for 13 Emmys in all and won two for 1974’s The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, the start of a run that included such iconic TV series as Roots (1977), King (1978), The Women of Brewster Place (1989), Always Outnumbered (1998), A Lesson Before Dying (1999), Jewel (2002) and The Rosa Parks Story (2002).
Her TV career began in 1951 and also included credits from Naked City, I Spy and Mission: Impossible to Gunsmoke and East Side/West Side. Most recently she has appeared in...
- 6/8/2020
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Read more from Variety’s Directors on Directors, in which filmmakers praise their favorite movies of the year, here.
“Queen & Slim,” directed by Melina Matsoukas, scripted by Lena Waithe, is one of the most impressive debut features of the year. Matsoukas has crafted a film that’s not only something new; it’s undeniably something more — an unexpected baptism, through cinematic displays of images that haunt us long after she fades to black.
Matsoukas is known for directing viral videos that provoke and redefine us, like “Formation” for Beyoncé, “We Found Love” for Rihanna and “Losing You” for Solange Knowles. Like her multi-award-winning music videos, “Queen & Slim” never disappoints. A rushing tide of fresh possibilities come into sharper focus with Melina’s vision and her unapologetically defiant voice.
Matsoukas knows how to evoke the spirit of our times, and more importantly, the danger of our times, with unforgettable...
“Queen & Slim,” directed by Melina Matsoukas, scripted by Lena Waithe, is one of the most impressive debut features of the year. Matsoukas has crafted a film that’s not only something new; it’s undeniably something more — an unexpected baptism, through cinematic displays of images that haunt us long after she fades to black.
Matsoukas is known for directing viral videos that provoke and redefine us, like “Formation” for Beyoncé, “We Found Love” for Rihanna and “Losing You” for Solange Knowles. Like her multi-award-winning music videos, “Queen & Slim” never disappoints. A rushing tide of fresh possibilities come into sharper focus with Melina’s vision and her unapologetically defiant voice.
Matsoukas knows how to evoke the spirit of our times, and more importantly, the danger of our times, with unforgettable...
- 12/18/2019
- by Julie Dash
- Variety Film + TV
Rosanna Arquette has signed on to star in Chicago 1919, an indie drama inspired by the true story of the Chicago race riots which began with the murder of a young Africa American boy Eugene Williams on July 27, 1919. Julie Dash, the director behind The Rosa Parks Story, starring Angela Bassett, and the upcoming Angela Davis biopic at Lionsgate, is helming the film, which hails from Global Genesis Group.
The pic follows two young African American brothers, and their involvement in the Chicago race riot of 1919, an extremely violent racial conflict provoked by ethnic White Americans against Black Americans that began on the south side of Chicago on July 27, and ended on August 3, 1919. During the riot, thirty-eight people died (23 Black and 15 White). It is considered the worst of the nearly 25 riots in the United States during the “Red Summer” of 1919.
Global, which has worldwide distribution rights, is producing Chicago 1919 along with Seanne N.
The pic follows two young African American brothers, and their involvement in the Chicago race riot of 1919, an extremely violent racial conflict provoked by ethnic White Americans against Black Americans that began on the south side of Chicago on July 27, and ended on August 3, 1919. During the riot, thirty-eight people died (23 Black and 15 White). It is considered the worst of the nearly 25 riots in the United States during the “Red Summer” of 1919.
Global, which has worldwide distribution rights, is producing Chicago 1919 along with Seanne N.
- 9/12/2019
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Julie Dash (“Daughters of the Dust”) is in pre-production on a feature documentary about the life and works of writer, culinary anthropologist, actor, and broadcast journalist, Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor. Titled “Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl,” the project has been awarded a grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities (Neh), as part of the Neh’s mission to preserve American history and cultural heritage. It marks Dash’s first feature film since 2002’s TV movie “The Rosa Parks Story.”
Smart-Grosvenor, who died in 2016 at the age of 79, enjoyed a multifaceted career that locates her at the heart of five twentieth century movements: the Beat Literary Arts Movement, the Black Power/Black Arts Movement, New Black Cinema, and Food as Cultural Memory. She first gained attention with her 1970 book, “Vibration Cooking, or the Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl,” referred to as an autobiographical cookbook, using her rural Allendale County, S.
Smart-Grosvenor, who died in 2016 at the age of 79, enjoyed a multifaceted career that locates her at the heart of five twentieth century movements: the Beat Literary Arts Movement, the Black Power/Black Arts Movement, New Black Cinema, and Food as Cultural Memory. She first gained attention with her 1970 book, “Vibration Cooking, or the Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl,” referred to as an autobiographical cookbook, using her rural Allendale County, S.
- 5/9/2019
- by Tambay Obenson
- Indiewire
Angela Bassett admitted she finds doing voice-over work “more challenging than being in front of a camera” during a Q&A for “The Flood” moderated by Variety’s Jenelle Riley. The Oscar and Emmy-nominated performer narrated this NatGeo documentary special about wildlife in Africa’s Okavango Delta, which undergoes major changes every year due to a massive water deluge. Bassett spoke about her work at a special Earth Day screening for SAG and TV academy members at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood.
See 2019 Emmy predictions in top 16 categories
Doing voice-over is difficult because “it’s just your voice that you have to rely on,” she explained, “and it has to do everything, do all the heavy lifting and tell the story. It’s as if you don’t have the visual to hide behind … so you really have to nail it.” She’s no amateur at it, however,...
See 2019 Emmy predictions in top 16 categories
Doing voice-over is difficult because “it’s just your voice that you have to rely on,” she explained, “and it has to do everything, do all the heavy lifting and tell the story. It’s as if you don’t have the visual to hide behind … so you really have to nail it.” She’s no amateur at it, however,...
- 4/24/2019
- by Zach Laws
- Gold Derby
A feature film is going into development that will tell the inspiring story of the life of civil rights activist Rosa Parks.
It’s kind of surprising that after all these years, this is the first time a feature film biopic about Rosa Parks will be produced. There was a documentary made called Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks and a TV series that was made with Angela Bassett called The Rosa Parks Story.
The film project is called Rosa , and it’s set up at Winter State Entertainment and on the fast-track to production.
The movie is being written by Charlie Kessler and Hamid Torabpour, and the film will “chronicle the first 24-hours as they unfold after the arrest of Parks on December 1, 1955. The project will also recognize the contributions to the civil rights movement that the civil rights advocate/activist made both before and after the racist incident in Alabama.
It’s kind of surprising that after all these years, this is the first time a feature film biopic about Rosa Parks will be produced. There was a documentary made called Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks and a TV series that was made with Angela Bassett called The Rosa Parks Story.
The film project is called Rosa , and it’s set up at Winter State Entertainment and on the fast-track to production.
The movie is being written by Charlie Kessler and Hamid Torabpour, and the film will “chronicle the first 24-hours as they unfold after the arrest of Parks on December 1, 1955. The project will also recognize the contributions to the civil rights movement that the civil rights advocate/activist made both before and after the racist incident in Alabama.
- 12/19/2018
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Exclusive: A feature film about the courageous U.S. activist Rosa Parks is on its way and it just may mark the first time a biopic about Parks will make it into this nation’s theaters. The filmmakers — Winter State Entertainment and a large producing team– are fast-tracking the project to go before the cameras in 2019.
There have been some projects in the past, but not a feature biopic: In the early 2000s, there was an Academy Award nominated documentary Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks (2001) and then Parks herself collaborated on the TV movie The Rosa Parks Story which starred Angela Bassett as the mighty civil rights activist who refused to give up her seat in the whites only section of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama in the 1950s. In addition, Julie Dash and Invisible Pictures announced At The Dark End of the Street which was focusing on...
There have been some projects in the past, but not a feature biopic: In the early 2000s, there was an Academy Award nominated documentary Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks (2001) and then Parks herself collaborated on the TV movie The Rosa Parks Story which starred Angela Bassett as the mighty civil rights activist who refused to give up her seat in the whites only section of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama in the 1950s. In addition, Julie Dash and Invisible Pictures announced At The Dark End of the Street which was focusing on...
- 12/18/2018
- by Anita Busch
- Deadline Film + TV
When you think of police procedurals on TV, you don’t always think “Emmy.” But that could all change this year thanks to Angela Bassett‘s performance as police officer Athena Grant on Fox’s “9-1-1.” The veteran actress received her fourth career Emmy nomination last year for her guest turn on “Master of None” after previously competing for “The Rosa Parks Story” (2002), “American Horror Story: Coven” (2014) and “American Horror Story: Freak Show” (2015). Will this Emmy favorite now earn a Best Drama Actress bid for playing Athena on Ryan Murphy‘s new series?
See‘Versace,’ ‘Ahs: Cult’ and ‘9-1-1’ composer Mac Quayle explains how he scores so many shows at once [Exclusive Video Interview]
Unlike most procedurals that stick close to their case-of-the-week formulas, “9-1-1” also delves into the home lives of its police officers, firefighters and phone operators. Thus, Emmy voters get to see two sides of Athena:...
See‘Versace,’ ‘Ahs: Cult’ and ‘9-1-1’ composer Mac Quayle explains how he scores so many shows at once [Exclusive Video Interview]
Unlike most procedurals that stick close to their case-of-the-week formulas, “9-1-1” also delves into the home lives of its police officers, firefighters and phone operators. Thus, Emmy voters get to see two sides of Athena:...
- 6/20/2018
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
Queen Sugar creator Ava DuVernay is changing the Hollywood game by enlisting an all-female team to direct the Own series, making good on the filmmaker’s mission to create opportunities for women of color. For the two-part midseason premiere, she called on director Julie Dash, whose 1991 film about three generations of Gullah women, Daughters of the Dust, was the first feature-length film directed by an African-American woman to receive theatrical distribution in the U.S. -- and later, was heavily referenced in Beyoncé's visual album, Lemonade.
Despite making history in the ‘90s and helming TV movies, like The Rosa Parks Story starring Angela Bassett, this was her first time directing an episodic series. “I didn’t think we’d still be having these conversations in 2017. The conversation did not change until Ava changed it,” Dash tells Et.
The 64-year-old director admits that getting the call from DuVernay was a dream come true, even if it took...
Despite making history in the ‘90s and helming TV movies, like The Rosa Parks Story starring Angela Bassett, this was her first time directing an episodic series. “I didn’t think we’d still be having these conversations in 2017. The conversation did not change until Ava changed it,” Dash tells Et.
The 64-year-old director admits that getting the call from DuVernay was a dream come true, even if it took...
- 10/5/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Angela Bassett has received her fourth career Emmy nomination for her guest performance on “Master of None.” The actress, who previously competed as Best Movie/Mini Actress for “The Rosa Parks Story” in 2002 and as Best Movie/Mini Supporting Actress for “American Horror Story” in 2014 and 2015, made a strong impression as the mother of […]...
- 7/26/2017
- by Zach Laws
- Gold Derby
For a 25-year-old period drama about a multigenerational African-American family concerned with preserving its past while heading into an unknown future, Daughters of the Dust couldn’t be timelier — and the 1991 movie may finally be having its moment. Chronicling the Peazants, who in 1902 are departing their beloved Dawtuh Island off the East Coast to venture to the U.S. mainland, this poetic, poignant indie has long been overlooked — a movie more rhapsodized about than actually seen. That changes when Daughters returns to theaters on Novemember 18th in a gorgeous restoration,...
- 11/18/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Fans were crushed when Jessica Lange announced she'd be doing just one more season -- the upcoming "Freak Show" -- of "American Horror Story." Before the PaleyFest panel for "American Horror Story: Coven" I got a chance to ask Angela Bassett what she thought about the "queen bee" leaving. The short answer? She's got her co-star's back. Bassett also knows a little something about playing real-life characters. She's been Tina Turner ("What's Love Got to Do with It"), Betty Shabazz ("Malcolm X"), Rosa Parks ("The Rosa Parks Story"), Katherine Jackson ("The Jacksons: An American Dream") and Voletta Wallace ("Notorious"). Last season on "Coven" she tackled yet another real person -- Marie Laveau, a voodoo priestess in Louisiana in the 1800s. Unsurprisingly, she told me she takes playing real people pretty seriously -- and had to face the high standards of New Orleans' dwellers. Yeah, I think she did fine, don't you?...
- 4/1/2014
- by Liane Bonin Starr
- Hitfix
"The Walking Dead" producer Gale Anne Hurd and "Hugo" screenwriter John Logan are among those who will be honored at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television Film Festival this year. Hurd and Logan will be joined by fellow honoree Julie Dash, director of "Daughters of the Dust" and "The Rosa Parks Story." Dash, a UCLA Mfa '85 graduate, will receive the Distinguished Alumnus Award during the festival's opening night on June 8 at the James Bridges Theater. Logan will receive the Excellence in Screenwriting award on June 11, and...
- 5/17/2012
- by Tim Kenneally
- The Wrap
When Viola Davis is cast in a role, we are more than likely to get a commanding performance from the actress, and no role is as commanding as a powerful congresswoman.
Variety says that Davis is currently developing a project based on the life of Congresswoman Barbara Jordan with with director Paris Barclay, and would produce with her husband Julius Tennon and Barclay. Shelly Glasser and Diane Nabatoff are also on board to produce the project.
Paris Qualles (The Rosa Parks Story) is currently writing the screenplay which is based on an adaptation of Mary Beth Rogers‘ book Barbara Jordan: American Hero. Sure Jordan isn’t a household name, but amongst the political spectrum, she is an icon.
Davis’ next roles include a leading role opposite Maggie Gyllenhaal in this fall’s Won’t Back Down, as well as supporting roles in Ender’s Game and Beautiful Creatures. But...
Variety says that Davis is currently developing a project based on the life of Congresswoman Barbara Jordan with with director Paris Barclay, and would produce with her husband Julius Tennon and Barclay. Shelly Glasser and Diane Nabatoff are also on board to produce the project.
Paris Qualles (The Rosa Parks Story) is currently writing the screenplay which is based on an adaptation of Mary Beth Rogers‘ book Barbara Jordan: American Hero. Sure Jordan isn’t a household name, but amongst the political spectrum, she is an icon.
Davis’ next roles include a leading role opposite Maggie Gyllenhaal in this fall’s Won’t Back Down, as well as supporting roles in Ender’s Game and Beautiful Creatures. But...
- 3/10/2012
- by Mike Lee
- FusedFilm
Viola Davis is never one to back down from a crusade.
The Oscar-nominated star of "The Help" will be trading the uneasy domestic politics of the South for the uneasy domestic politics of the White House itself as she's signed on to headline a biography film about political pioneer Barbara Jordan, according to Variety.
The currently untitled film will be based on Mary Beth Rogers' biography, "Barbara Jordan: American Hero," which traces Jordan's rise from a poor Houston neighborhood to an influential member of Congress. Jordan made headlines in 1966 as the first African-American woman to be elected to the Texas senate and in 1972 became the first African-American woman from the South elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
Jordan was known for her powerful public speaking voice. She was a key speaker during the impeachment of President Nixon during the Watergate hearings, with her speech being credited as...
The Oscar-nominated star of "The Help" will be trading the uneasy domestic politics of the South for the uneasy domestic politics of the White House itself as she's signed on to headline a biography film about political pioneer Barbara Jordan, according to Variety.
The currently untitled film will be based on Mary Beth Rogers' biography, "Barbara Jordan: American Hero," which traces Jordan's rise from a poor Houston neighborhood to an influential member of Congress. Jordan made headlines in 1966 as the first African-American woman to be elected to the Texas senate and in 1972 became the first African-American woman from the South elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
Jordan was known for her powerful public speaking voice. She was a key speaker during the impeachment of President Nixon during the Watergate hearings, with her speech being credited as...
- 3/9/2012
- by Bryan Enk
- NextMovie
A photo of Vin Diesel on the set of Riddick, a photo of Ryan Kwanten in the airline supernatural thriller 7500, an international poster for Prometheus which is just a less darkened version of the domestic, and some magazine scans of The Avengers.
"The 23rd Annual Producers Guild Awards have been announced with 'The Artist' taking Best Picture, 'The Adventures of Tintin' winning Best Animated Picture, 'Beats, Rhymes & Life' Best Documentary, 'Downton Abbey' winning best long-form TV, 'Modern Family' best comedy series and 'Boardwalk Empire' best drama series…" (full details)
"Len Wiseman says the trailer for the upcoming remake of "Total Recall" will hit in March while his director's cut, which he's only days away from finishing, runs a flat two hours…" (full details)
"Julie Dash ("The Rosa Parks Story") is in final negotiations to direct "Tupelo 77" this Summer for Angel Entertainment. Written by Rich Mancuso,...
"The 23rd Annual Producers Guild Awards have been announced with 'The Artist' taking Best Picture, 'The Adventures of Tintin' winning Best Animated Picture, 'Beats, Rhymes & Life' Best Documentary, 'Downton Abbey' winning best long-form TV, 'Modern Family' best comedy series and 'Boardwalk Empire' best drama series…" (full details)
"Len Wiseman says the trailer for the upcoming remake of "Total Recall" will hit in March while his director's cut, which he's only days away from finishing, runs a flat two hours…" (full details)
"Julie Dash ("The Rosa Parks Story") is in final negotiations to direct "Tupelo 77" this Summer for Angel Entertainment. Written by Rich Mancuso,...
- 1/23/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Deadline is reporting that Julie Dash will, for the first time since 1991′s Daughters of the Dust, get behind the camera for a feature — this time around, it’s Tupelo 77. Produced by Angel Entertainment and scripted by Rich Mancuso, the film focuses on “a group of people from various backgrounds in a small town in Mississippi who struggle to overcome obstacles of poverty, racial and religious differences and wounds of war.” I smell an ensemble drama comprised of a multi-racial cast!
Oh, speaking of, casting is underway for the project, which is expected to kick off shooting during the summer. (That’s as specific as we can get here.) Deadline’s story doesn’t offer anything else — so if there’s additional, outside coverage worth noting, it’s that Dash is returning from a long break; her last full-length work was the Angela Bassett-starring The Rosa Parks Story, which...
Oh, speaking of, casting is underway for the project, which is expected to kick off shooting during the summer. (That’s as specific as we can get here.) Deadline’s story doesn’t offer anything else — so if there’s additional, outside coverage worth noting, it’s that Dash is returning from a long break; her last full-length work was the Angela Bassett-starring The Rosa Parks Story, which...
- 1/23/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
News on the march…!
In a nutshell… this week and next, two of Julie Dash’s films will be screening the Center for Multicultural Education (Cme), at the University of Northern Iowa – Daughters Of The Dust and The Rosa Parks Story – leading up to a visit by Julie Dash herself, who will be present at the university to speak about her work, as part of a lecture series. All events are Free and open to the public, by the way.
And who says only New York gets all the good stuff
Specific dates, times and locations in the release below…
Cedar Falls, Iowa — Julie Dash, an acclaimed African American movie director, will speak about her work at the University of Northern Iowa at 8 p.m., Wednesday, April 20, in the Maucker Union expansion as part of the Hearst Lecture Series.
Dash has toured internationally with her work and has received numerous awards.
In a nutshell… this week and next, two of Julie Dash’s films will be screening the Center for Multicultural Education (Cme), at the University of Northern Iowa – Daughters Of The Dust and The Rosa Parks Story – leading up to a visit by Julie Dash herself, who will be present at the university to speak about her work, as part of a lecture series. All events are Free and open to the public, by the way.
And who says only New York gets all the good stuff
Specific dates, times and locations in the release below…
Cedar Falls, Iowa — Julie Dash, an acclaimed African American movie director, will speak about her work at the University of Northern Iowa at 8 p.m., Wednesday, April 20, in the Maucker Union expansion as part of the Hearst Lecture Series.
Dash has toured internationally with her work and has received numerous awards.
- 4/11/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
BrandChannel.com is a site that lists all product placement found within #1 studio feature films, going back to 2001.
Something to pay attention to next time you sit down to watch a movie, and to later discuss, when you and your pals go to Starbucks afterward and order cappuccinos, oblivious of the fact that you might be doing so because a character in the movie you just saw was drinking one
For example… Limitless, last week’s number 1 movie, featured brands that include: adidas, Apple, At&T, Bentley, BlackBerry, Bloomberg, Dell, Google, Ibm, Levi’s, Louis Vuitton, Maserati, Mercedes, New York Post, Percocet, Red Bull, Smartwater, St. Regis Hotel, Trump, and Two Men and a Truck.
Several “high end” brands there. I haven’t seen the film however. But since you’re technically supposed to be able to tell who the target audience of the film is, by looking at the brands featured in the film,...
Something to pay attention to next time you sit down to watch a movie, and to later discuss, when you and your pals go to Starbucks afterward and order cappuccinos, oblivious of the fact that you might be doing so because a character in the movie you just saw was drinking one
For example… Limitless, last week’s number 1 movie, featured brands that include: adidas, Apple, At&T, Bentley, BlackBerry, Bloomberg, Dell, Google, Ibm, Levi’s, Louis Vuitton, Maserati, Mercedes, New York Post, Percocet, Red Bull, Smartwater, St. Regis Hotel, Trump, and Two Men and a Truck.
Several “high end” brands there. I haven’t seen the film however. But since you’re technically supposed to be able to tell who the target audience of the film is, by looking at the brands featured in the film,...
- 3/27/2011
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
Today in history… December 1st, 1955… what’s considered to be the birth of the modern Civil Rights movement takes place in Montgomery, Alabama. Rosa Parks is arrested, after she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus. Her arrest sparked a successful year-long boycott of the buses, led by Martin Luther King Jr.
Fast-forward to 2002… Julie Dash directed Angela Bassett in The Rosa Parks Story – a made-for-tv movie, which aired on CBS, during black history month that year.
I vaguely remember the film actually. It’s been awhile… I’d have to watch it again to give my thoughts on it. But it’s available on DVD for any of you who hasn’t seen it and would like to.
Its trailer follows below:...
Fast-forward to 2002… Julie Dash directed Angela Bassett in The Rosa Parks Story – a made-for-tv movie, which aired on CBS, during black history month that year.
I vaguely remember the film actually. It’s been awhile… I’d have to watch it again to give my thoughts on it. But it’s available on DVD for any of you who hasn’t seen it and would like to.
Its trailer follows below:...
- 12/1/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
CBS is developing a two-hour movie based on the life of Harriet Tubman, the abolitionist whose Underground Railroad helped about 300 slaves escape to freedom before the Civil War. Angela Bassett has signed on as star and executive producer. Michael Jaffe and Howard Braunstein's Jaffe/Braunstein Films, which made this year's CBS movie The Rosa Parks Story, will produce, along with Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds and his wife, Tracey Edmonds, and producer Shelby Stone (HBO's Boycott). Sheila Ducksworth, head of Edmonds Entertainment Television (Showtime's Soul Food), will be co-executive producer. No writer is yet attached to the project, though Braunstein said the producers are actively considering several candidates. "Because (Tubman) is such a famous historical figure, we want to bring in a really smart writer and create a story out of all the various information" that exists about her life, Braunstein said.
- 10/30/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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