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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 ...
Hidden Figures: Won [62] Best Female Images in a Movie Hidden Figures: Won Best Movie about Women Hidden Figures: Won Invisible Woman Award Hidden Figures: Won Josephine Baker Award Hidden Figures: Won Karen Morley Award Hidden Figures: Won World Soundtrack Awards: February 11, 2017 Best Original Song "Runnin'" (Pharrell Williams) Nominated [63]
Spencer's roles as other black women in 1960s America, as Dorothy Vaughan in the biopic Hidden Figures (2016) and a cleaning woman in the fantasy The Shape of Water (2017), earned her two consecutive nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first black actress to achieve such feat, as well as the first, and to ...
Thirty-nine of the top 100 films of 2018 featured a woman in a leading or co-leading role, up from 33 in 2017 and just 20 in 2007, according to a study by the Annenberg School for Communications ...
In 2016, she starred as NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson in the biographical drama Hidden Figures, which won her a MTV Movie Award for Best Hero and an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Henson and her co-stars were selected as the Best Cast from the National Board of Review and won Best Cast from the Screen Actors Guild ...
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Also featured is Christine Darden, who was the first African-American woman to be promoted into the Senior Executive Service for her work in researching supersonic flight and sonic booms. [5] [6] Hidden Figures explores the biographies of three African-American women who worked as computers to solve problems for engineers and others at
Image credits: garythebikeboy Lauren Modery is the woman behind the original Threads post about Jeff Goldblum.Born in Central New York, her childhood obsession with film led her to Los Angeles at ...