Lee Daniels

Guess Who's Playing Jackie Kennedy

The Huffington Post | Crystal Bell | Posted 05.24.2012

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Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose. That's apparently what director Lee Daniels was thinking when he cast "Friday Night Lights" star Minka Kelly as o...

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WATCH: The Black Gay Community Speaks Out On The Trayvon Martin Killing

Earnest Winborne | Posted 03.29.2012

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Forest Whitaker May Team With Oprah Winfrey For 'The Butler'

Posted 05.07.2012

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Last month, The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that Oprah Winfrey was negotiating to join "The Butler," director Lee Daniels's ("Precious") biopic ...

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Dee Rees On Hollywood's Race Problem

HuffingtonPost.com | Kia Makarechi | Posted 01.09.2012

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For all the talk of "liberal Hollywood," diversity is not among the movie industry's strengths. Dee Rees, the director of "Pariah," a semi-autobiog...

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Black Filmmakers: Through The Years

Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: John Singleton, Gina Prince-Bythewood, Spike Lee, Tyler Perry, Ossie Davis, Melvin Van Peebles, George Tillman, F. Gary Gray, Albert and Allen Hughes, Malcolm D. Lee, Robert Townsend, Will Packer, Jr., Tracey Edmonds, Lee Daniels, Antoine Fuqua, Black Voices News

Throughout the storied history of American movies, there have been quite a few black filmmakers that have shaped society through their art and left an...

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Judge Rejects Lee Daniels' $1M Bail For Bro-In-Law

nydailynews.com | By John Marzulli | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Film, Precious, Bail, Lee Daniels, NY Culture, New York Condos, New York News

The director of the acclaimed movie "Precious" offered to back a $1 million bail to spring his brother-in-law from prison - but a federal judge was no...

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Anyone Can Be a (DIY) Producer: Part 3

Abe Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Independent Film Distribution, Producers, Independent Film, Film, Lee Daniels, Movies, Nba Playoffs, Entertainment News

If you really want to make features, just do it. Make one within your means right now, and accept that even once you're done your first, you're still a rookie in the game.

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Maya Angelou Celebrates 82nd Birthday, Talks Political Divisiveness

AP | MARTHA WAGGONER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Poet Maya Angelou celebrated a belated 82nd birthday Thursday with a few celebrity friends and a few choice words about po...

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Thoughts on Hosting the 2010 Academy Awards

Alec Baldwin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Just how many remarkably talented people work in the movie business was never more vivid to me than last night while hosting the show. Here are some of the things I will remember about last night's Oscars.

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"Precious" Sweeps Indie Spirit Awards (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

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"Precious" swept the 25th Film Independent Spirit Awards on Friday, nabbing awards in each of the five categories it was nominated, including Best Pic...

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'Precious' Wins Big At NAACP Awards

AP | SANDY COHEN | Posted 05.25.2011

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LOS ANGELES — It was a winning night for "Precious" at the 41st NAACP Image Awards. The heart-wrenching tale of an illiterate and abused teen w...

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The Black List: Volume Three

Eleanor Moonier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hbo, Photography, Precious, Elvis Mitchell, United Negro College Fund, Documentary, Lee Daniels, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Black List, Please-Don't-Retouch-Me, Whoopi Goldberg, Entertainment News

The interviewees' candidness in HBO's The Black List: Vol. 3, along with the aesthetic simplicity of the film, achieves something strikingly authentic -- more oral history than celebrity interview.

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A Big Bold Crack in the Glass Ceiling -- Kathryn Bigelow Wins DGA Prize

Melissa Silverstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jackie Robinson, Sally Ride and now Kathryn Bigelow? Bigelow was the first female to take home the DGA's award for best director, but with every step forward there is always a little push back.

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Geoffrey Fletcher Discusses His Precious Script

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Precious, Sapphire, Geoffrey Fletcher Interview, Lee Daniels, Marshall Fine Interview, Entertainment News

He is guaranteed to be a player in the coming awards season. But screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher knows that not everyone is enamored of Precious, whose screenplay he adapted.

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Does Having a Vagina Make You a Female Director?

Melissa Silverstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow, Precious, Lee Daniels, Entertainment News

Why is it when a woman ventures out of the safety of girlworld does her gender get talked about over and over but the same conversation never happens to the guys?

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Precious in the Age of Obama

Melissa Silverstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oprah Winfrey, Sapphire, Precious, Gabourey Sidibe, Lee Daniels, Entertainment News

can Precious become this year's Slumdog Millionaire?Slumdog was about kids from another country. But Precious is about this country.

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Precious and Painful

Esther Iverem | Posted 05.25.2011

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In Precious, director Lee Daniels returns to the formula that has won him acclaim in the past: stories of poor Black women who are too pathetic, sick and incapable of caring for themselves or their children.

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Directors Guild Nominations: James Cameron Up Against Ex Wife, Tarantino & More

AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 05.25.2011

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LOS ANGELES — The science-fiction blockbuster "Avatar" has earned James Cameron his latest nomination for the top honor from the Directors Guild...

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The Pride of Precious Jones

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

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Almost every African-American knows, is related to, or is acquainted with a Precious Jones or her mother, Mary.

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Tyler Perry Discusses I Can Do Bad All by Myself

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tyler Perry came to Manhattan to offer a lively Q&A session with a broad range of press people. Once it opened it topped the box office.

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Lee Daniels, Former State GOP Leader, Eyes Political Comeback

Chicago Sun-Times | DAVE MCKINNEY | Posted 05.25.2011

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Former House Speaker Lee Daniels is weighing a political comeback after a federal investigation into the misuse of state-paid House Republican staffer...

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Cannes 2009: Mariah Carey in Precious

Karin Badt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Precious, Sapphire, Gabourey Sidibe, Mariah Carey, Paula Patton, Cannes 2009, Lee Daniels, Mo'Nique, Entertainment News

Any spectator of this new dramatic film by Lee Daniels, who has a tad of a self-esteem issue, will identify with the pains of this story.

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