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10,000 Black Men Named George is a 2002 Showtime TV movie about A. Philip Randolph and his coworkers Milton P. Webster and Ashley Totten. The title refers to the custom of the time when Pullman porters, all of whom were black, were addressed as "George"; a sobriquet for George Pullman, who owned the company that built the sleeping cars (and other Railroad cars) and the industry.
Name Country Film Status Milestone / Notes 1966: Ted Moore: A Man for All Seasons: Won Moore is a South African-born British. Won for Best Color Cinematography. 1991: Stephen Goldblatt: The Prince of Tides: Nominated Goldblatt is a South African-born British. 1995: Batman Forever: Nominated 2002: Dion Beebe: Chicago: Nominated Beebe is a South ...
The following is a list of African films. It is arranged alphabetically by country of origin. Algeria. Angola Benin. Botswana. Year Title Director Genre Notes ...
The Best Man Holiday; The Best Man (1999 film) Beverly Hills Cop III; Beware (film) Big George Foreman; Big Momma's House; Big Momma's House 2; Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son; Biker Boyz; Black Eye (film) Black Fiddlers; Black Film Archive; The Black Godfather (2019 film) Black Gunn; Black Is King; Black Knight (film) Black Lolita; The Black ...
Oscar Devereaux Micheaux (US: / m ɪ ˈ ʃ oʊ / ⓘ; (January 2, 1884 – March 25, 1951) was an American author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films.. Although the short-lived Lincoln Motion Picture Company was the first movie company owned and controlled by black filmmakers, [1] Micheaux is regarded as the first major African-American feature filmmaker, a prominent ...
The 1970s Black variant sought to tell Black stories with Black actors to Black audiences, but they were usually not produced by African Americans. As Junius Griffin, the president of the Hollywood branch of the NAACP , wrote in a New York Times op-ed in 1972: "At present, Black movies are a 'rip off' enriching major white film producers and a ...
African-American filmmaker Spike Lee coined the term, deriding the archetype of the "super-duper magical negro" in 2001 while discussing films with students at Washington State University and at Yale University. [1] [2] The Magical Negro is a subset of the more generic numinous Negro, a term coined by Richard Brookhiser in the National Review. [3]
I Dreamed of Africa is a 2000 American biographical-drama film directed by Hugh Hudson, starring Kim Basinger. It also stars Vincent Perez , Eva Marie Saint , Garrett Strommen , Liam Aiken and Daniel Craig .