Best Actress: Meet Lady Day, the Mother of the Blues, and the Queen of Soul
Back 2001, Halle Berry became the first and only black woman to win Best Actress in all of Oscar history. ...
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‘Insecure’ and ‘For Life’ Take Top Honors at the 2nd Annual AAFCA TV Awards
Issa Rae's Insecure can add these honors to its 8 Emmy nominations. The second annual African American Film Critics Association ...
Viola Davis “I, As An Actress, I Have To Mirror Life. That’s My Only Inspiration.”
Interview contains plot spoilers Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Cynthia Erivo, and Elizabeth Debicki take front and center in Steve ...
Julia Roberts and Viola Davis Join the Already Packed Best Actress Race
Both Julia Roberts and Viola Davis are endlessly watchable stars who command the screen like few others can. Since I ...
Viola Davis Brings the Heat in New Trailer for Steve McQueen and Gillian Flynn’s Widows
Viola Davis stars in Steve McQueen's Widows. Gillian Flynn wrote the screenplay. "The best thing we have going for us ...
First Widows Trailer: Watch Viola Davis In The Heist Thriller
It's been five years since Steve McQueen gave us 12 Years A Slave and now he delivers Widows, a modern-day ...
ACLU Announces Bill Of Rights Dinner Honorees
The ACLU of SoCal is hosting its annual BILL OF RIGHTS DINNER on Sunday, December 3, 2017, at the Beverly ...
Watch: Hidden Figures, Denzel Washington, and Mahershala Ali Inspiring Speeches At SAG Awards
Sunday night got political at the SAG Awards as winners used the time to comment about politics. Speeches were emotionally ...
SAG Preview: Can Denzel Washington Win His First SAG? Will Emma Stone or Natalie Portman Win Best Actress?
The 23rd Screen Actors Guild Awards unfolds on Sunday. We have the three-peat of the Eddies on Friday, the Producers ...
Meryl Streep Intros Viola Davis, “One of the Best Actors I’ve ever Work With.”
Meryl Streep worked with Viola Davis in Doubt (along with Amy Adams) and also were competing against each other in ...
Taking the Crookeds with the Straights – the Case for Fences
August Wilson wanted to expand perceptions in America, to tell the stories that don't get told. Even though he began his ...
Interview: Cinematographer Charlotte Bruus Christensen on Why She Shot Fences on Film
Danish cinematographer Charlotte Bruus Christensen has two films out that are on the awards radar -- The Girl on the ...
Fences Earns Raves on Opening Day
Here's to Fences making boatloads of bread. Here is AO Scott, who calls it a critic's pick: Language is also, ...
Best Actress – The Meryl Streep Slot
Meryl Streep is a genius. It must be said. That she now has a permanent slot reserved in the Best ...
The Fences Poster is Here
The poster for Denzel Washington's highly anticipated adaptation of August Wilson's Fences has arrived. Simple and beautiful. Denzel. Viola. Fences. ...
Viola Davis Officially in Supporting – How that Shifts the Race
Now that Viola Davis, as reported by Greg Ellwood, is campaigning in the supporting category for Fences, that opens up ...
Best Actress: Annette Bening Joins the List with 20th Century Women, Chastain and Adams Offer Up Unique Starring Roles
It's the year that a woman is a major party candidate for president for the first time in America's history. ...
Best Actress – Emma Stone and Natalie Portman Lead the Field … for Now
We haven't had such a heated Best Actress contest in a while. The two strongest performances at the moment are ...
Denzel Washington, Viola Davis Deliver Powerhouse Performances in First Fences Trailer
There is a line in a Bob Dylan song about Gregory Peck, standing in line just to see him in ...
Predictions Friday: Best Actress – Looking for Another At Bat for Viola Davis
This year is already looking like Oscars not-so-white, but especially -- at least right now dwelling in the world of ...