Voting rights activist Stacey Abrams received the NAACP’s first-ever Social Justice Impact award, which was presented by the former First Lady Michelle Obama at the 52nd annual Image Awards.
08.03.2021 - 23:33 / deadline.com
After dealing with a narcissist in the White House for four years, it may be difficult to imagine a politician who doesn’t make everything about themself. But consider Stacey Abrams, the former Georgia gubernatorial candidate, who nearly won election in 2018 to become the country’s first Black woman governor.
After that campaign made Abrams a national figure and an inspiration to Democrats, documentary directors came-a-calling, she says, but she turned them down.
“I had been asked by many
Voting rights activist Stacey Abrams received the NAACP’s first-ever Social Justice Impact award, which was presented by the former First Lady Michelle Obama at the 52nd annual Image Awards.
EXCLUSIVE: Aaron Abrams, who has starred in Blindspot and Hannibal, is to star in CTV comedy Children Ruin Everything opposite Meaghan Rath.
Clayton Davis The Oscar nominations announced on March 15 didn’t offer too many surprises, but the race for best picture in this unconventional year is still wide open. Here’s how one of these five nominees could win the top trophy on April 25.“Mank” (Netflix)If you’re the most nominated film of the lot — ”Mank” leads all films with 10 nominations —then that typically makes you a heavy favorite to win it all.
Stacey Abrams may have finally made her mark as a producer for her Amazon Prime Video documentary All In, but her film was among the high-profile omissions from the 2021 Oscar nominations, announced Monday morning. Indeed, the best documentary category left out a number of high-profile hopefuls that had been recognized by other documentary awards and critics groups including Boys State, Dick Johnson Is Dead, MLK/FBI, The Truffle Hunters and Welcome to Chechnya.
The pretenders and contenders are out of the way and the awards season main event is finally here with the 93rd Academy Awards nominations unveiled this morning, for better or worse.
On Friday, March 19, Wolfwalkers will be rereleased in theaters, North American distributor Gkids announced today.
Original Screenplay Promising Young Woman (Emerald Fennell) Eight pages into the script, Cassandra (Carey Mulligan), seemingly very drunk, is taken home from a club by Jerry (Adam Brody) for "one more drink." When he tries to have sex with her, his nearly unconscious date suddenly snaps to attention and catches Jerry in his bad behavior, leaving him stunned and embarrassed. When he kisses her, it is completely one-sided, and yet he thinks it's the best kiss of his life," says Fennell.
Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorDirector Erick Oh spent six years working as an animator at Pixar, working on titles such as “Finding Dory and “Inside Out” before joining Tonko House.His nine-minute long animated shortlist contender “Opera” is inspired by the great Renaissance artists such as Michelangelo and Botticelli.
Stacey Abrams is rightfully on the cover of the Changemakers Issue for Marie Claire‘s April 2021 issue.
When the documentary Summer of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) sold for a record $12 million+ out of Sundance, it was just the latest piece of good news in a breakthrough year for production house Concordia Studio.
Got a new agenda,With a new dream,I’m kicking out the old regime,Liberation, elevation, education.
Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorIt’s no surprise Pixar Animation Studios has landed two animated shorts on the Oscar shortlist.With such films as “Inside Out” and “Up,” Pixar can tell stories like no other. Each tale delivers a warm emotional punch.
"What if I will film animals which normally you meet on the plate?" was the question that Russian director Victor Kossakovsky asked when he set out to make Gunda, a black-and-white documentary feature that follows the lives of a pig named Gunda, her piglets, a one-legged chicken and some cows.
Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentFilmmakers need to be a bit psychic. They work on projects for years, not knowing if the fickle audience will connect with the themes and topics when the film eventually opens.
It has been a while, but it looks like the Man of Steel is getting a reboot. Yes, Superman has a new interpretation in the works, and the pedigree involved is really something.
according to the Hollywood Reporter.Author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates is reportedly set to write the script. Hannah Minghella of Bad Robot will produce, though no director has been attached to the project yet.“To be invited into the DC Extended Universe by Warner Bros., DC films and Bad Robot is an honor,” said “Between the World and Me” author Coates in a statement to Shadow and Act.