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The producing team of Ryan Coogler, Shaka King and Charles D. King became the first all-Black producing team to win Outstanding Film in Black Reel Award history. In addition, Kaluuya joined Lupita Nyong'o as only the second person and first male to win the Black Reel Award "Triple-Crown" for Lead, Supporting and Breakthrough categories.
The film, which in the end grossed $15 million, [13] was, among many others, acclaimed by the Black Panthers for its political resonance with the black struggle. His son Mario's 2003 film BAADASSSSS! tells the story behind the making of Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song; father and son presented the film together as the Closing Night selection ...
100 Greatest African Americans is a biographical dictionary of one hundred historically great Black Americans (in alphabetical order; that is, they are not ranked), as assessed by Temple University professor Molefi Kete Asante in 2002.
Passing is a 2021 American historical drama film written and directed by Rebecca Hall in her feature directorial debut.Adapted from the 1929 novel of the same name by Nella Larsen, set in 1920s New York City, the film follows the intertwined life of a black woman (Tessa Thompson) and her white-passing childhood friend ().
The Black List: Volume 3 (2010) The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution; The Czar of Black Hollywood; Dark Girls; The Fab Five; Freedom Riders * Hale County This Morning, This Evening; Hidden Colors, part 1: The Untold History Of People Of Aboriginal, Moor, and African Descent (2011) Hidden Colors, part 2: The Triumph of Melanin (2012)
Issa Rae, actress (African-American mother) Emmy Raver-Lampman,actress; Rihanna, singer; Sam Richardson, actor and comedian; Amber Riley, actress and singer; Evan Ross, actor and musician (African-American mother) Kelly Rowland actress and singer; Amanda Seales, actress (African-American father) Gabourey Sidibe,actress; Brian Michael Smith, actor
African-American women and African-American gay and lesbian women have also made advances directing films, in Radha Blank's comic The 40-Year-Old Version (2020), Ava DuVernay's fanciful rendition of the children's classic A Wrinkle in Time [1] [59] or Angela Robinson's short film D.E.B.S. (2003) turned feature-length adaptation in 2004.
First time multiple African-American actresses from the same film are nominated in the same category. First film to feature African-American nominees for both Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. Winfrey's debut film performance. Oprah Winfrey: Sofia Nominated 1990: Whoopi Goldberg: Ghost: Oda Mae Brown Won