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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 ...
The Woman King. Gina Prince-Bythewood's Oscar-worthy (yes, we're still mad about the snub) action saga centers on an all-female group of warriors who protect the African kingdom of Dahomey.
In US cinema, Blaxploitation is the film subgenre of action movie derived from the exploitation film genre in the early 1970s, consequent to the combined cultural momentum of the Black civil rights movement, the black power movement, and the Black Panther Party, political and sociological circumstances that facilitated Black artists reclaiming their power of the Representation of the Black ...
40. The Nutty Professor (1996). Cast: Eddie Murphy, Jada Pinkett, James Coburn, Larry Miller Directed by: Tom Shadyac Professor Sherman Klump, who happens to be a brilliant scientist, invents a ...
The superhero movie also earned Marvel its first-ever Oscar wins.Watch NowUp, Up and AwayThe Disney ChannelUp, Up and AwayThe 2000 Disney Channel original movie about a Black family of superheroes ...
Tom Mix, an actor in Westerns, wearing a white hat. In American films of the Western genre between the 1920s and the 1940s, white hats were often worn by heroes and black hats by villains to symbolize the contrast in good versus evil. [1] The 1903 short film The Great Train Robbery was the first to apply this convention. [2]
Third Black actress following Whoopi Goldberg and Viola Davis to earn multiple Oscar nominations. First Black actress to be nominated after previously winning. 2017: The Shape of Water: Zelda Fuller Nominated First Black actress to be nominated twice after previously winning. First Black actress to be nominated two years in a row. Mary J. Blige ...
Blaxploitation films, regardless of subgenre, spawned from race movies.These were films that started appearing in the 1930s–1940s. They were meant to segregate films featuring an all black cast from mainstream Hollywood movies.