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Hidden Figures is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder.It is loosely based on the 2016 non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly about three female African-American mathematicians: Katherine Goble Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe), who worked ...
This is an alphabetical list of film articles (or sections within articles about films). It includes made for television films. See the talk page for the method of indexing used. It covers film titles that begin with a number, whether written in Arabic numerals or spelled out. Excluding articles (e.g., "a", "an", "the" in English), it does not ...
The idea for the film originated from a suggestion by Michael Ferris Gibson, who had made the 2005 documentary 24 Hours on Craigslist. [12] Gibson, a producer on the film, met with co-director Nic Hill. [2] Gibson financed Hill's travels while making the film. [2] The working title for the film was Truth in Numbers: The Wikipedia Story. [1]
Hidden Figures: Won Outstanding Song – Traditional "I See a Victory" (Kim Burrell and Pharrell Williams) Won Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture: Octavia Spencer: Nominated National Board of Review Awards: January 4, 2017: Best Cast: Hidden Figures: Won [48] Top 10 Films: Hidden Figures: Won [g] Online Film Critics Society ...
In Drowning by Numbers, number-counting, the rules of games and the repetitions of the plot are all devices which emphasise structure. Through the course of the film each of the numbers 1 to 100 appear, the large majority in sequence, often seen in the background, sometimes printed on cattle, sometimes spoken by the characters. [4]
Tom Hanks at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. Tom Hanks is an American actor and filmmaker who has had an extensive career in film, television and stage. Hanks made his professional acting debut on stage, playing Grumio in a 1977 Great Lakes Theater production of The Taming of the Shrew. [1]
The movie made US$231.3 million. The budget of the film was US$25 million. While the film is based on the book, author Margot Lee Shetterly agrees that there are differences between the two, and she finds that to be understandable. For better or for worse, there is history, there is the book and then there's the movie.
Death by Numbers is a 2024 American short documentary film co-produced and directed by Kim A. Snyder. The film, in which Sam, a survivor of the 2018 Parkland school shooting , confronts her assailant in a poetic journey to empowerment and features extensive footage from the ensuing trial .