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...including the newest installment, Casino Royale. Spies make for demanding customers. "I need 20 suits exactly the same for Bond but also the stand-ins, the stuntmen," she says in a phone interview from the Royale movie set in Prague where filming has just begun with the new Bond, actor Daniel Craig...
While it may appear to the naked eye that the Oscar situation has been improving for black performers in recent years—with Jamie Foxx’s best actor win last year, Halle Berry and Denzel Washington’s simultaneous best actress and actor victories in 2002, Morgan Freeman’s reception of best supporting actor honors, and increasingly abundant nominations across categories—this perception represents a grave oversimplification of reality. In terms of their treatment of black actors and films, the Academy Awards have often been at best disappointing, and at worst, downright...
Howard’s nomination for Best Actor for “Hustle & Flow,” while certainly encouraging for Howard as an individual, proves far more troubling for black people in the film industry as a whole. Don’t get me wrong, no one is saying that the acting skills Howard displayed in his portrayal of a desperate, struggling black man living a life of crime and exploitation weren’t worthy of some praise, but he also did a fantastic job this year in “Crash,” portraying an upper...
...Moms, not agents, got credit for this year?s successes. Best Actor winner Philip Seymour Hoffman gave a shout out to his mom, who raised him and three siblings on her own. Crash director Paul Haggis shared that he was wearing his late mother?s ring. Best Director Ang Lee sent a message to his Mama in Mandarin. Just about every winner named Mom as an inspiration. Hopefully Dads cleaned up at the Technical Awards...
...78th Annual Academy Awards, as the film won Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay honors. The biggest film story of the night was that stories portraying the lives of gay, bisexual and transgender individuals broke through to attract mainstream attention and critical acclaim. Philip Seymour Hoffman won Best Actor for his potrayal of an openly gay author in “Capote.” But “Brokeback,” which garnered top honors at the Golden Globes, failed to turn in an encore performance at the Oscars last night. The co-chair of the Bisexual...