That helps to explain why the Academy voters did far better with their 2017 Oscar nominations than the year before, when their 6,000 members failed to nominate
any actors of color at all.
The SAG Awards were anything but #SoWhite after honoring several
actors of color at its 22nd annual ceremony including Idris Elba, Viola Davis, Queen Latifah, and Uzo Aduba.
Not exact matches
Morrison is adept not just
at superhero spectacle but
at illuminating and photographing, for clarity and beauty, the skin tones
of a cast full
of actors of color that includes rising newcomers and veterans like Angela Bassett and Forest Whitaker.
Come on, the lead actress could've been a multicultural set
of nominees with both Constance Wu and Tracee Ellis Ross in the mix besides Rodriguez, just as Randall Park and Anthony Anderson in lead
actor, because there's no way that's happening
at the Emmys, Also, instead
of Niecy Nash in supporting you've got a white woman portraying a woman
of color in whiteface.
It's worth noting both Boyega and Fisher are people
of color, so if all the
actors are up for the same role, the casting process is pretty open (
at least compared with what we're used to).
Blu - ray extras: Director's intro; «From Page to Screen: A Roundtable Discussion» delves into the film's making; «Crowning
of a New King» explores the world
of «Black Panther» in all its
color and complexity; «The Warriors Within»: the Wakanda's women and the
actors who portray them; «The Hidden Kingdom Revealed»; «Wakanda Revealed: Exploring the Technology»; deleted scenes; gag reel»; exclusive sneak peek
at «Ant - Man and The Wasp»; «Marvel Studios the First Ten Years: Connecting the Universe»; director's commentary.
PICTURE Inside Llewyn Davis (runner up: American Hustle) DIRECTOR Joel and Ethan Coen Inside Llewyn Davis (runner up: Alfonso Cuaron) ACTRESS Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine (runner up: Adéle Exarchopoulus)
ACTOR Oscar Isaac, Inside Llewyn Davis (runner up: Chiwetel Ejiofor) SUPPORTING ACTRESS Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle (runner up: Lupita Nyong «o) SUPPORTING
ACTOR James Franco, Spring Breakers (runner up: Jared Leto) FOREIGN FILM Blue is the Warmest
Color (runner up: A Touch
of Sin) NON-FICTION [tie] The Act
of Killing &
At Berkeley) EXPERIMENTAL FILM Leviathan
And Marsha P. Johnson (played by Otoja Abit), one
of the trans women
of color at the Stonewall on the first night
of the riots, seems to be represented prominently, albeit played by a cis male
actor.
Anderson's first film is an interesting look back
at the development
of filmmaker's now signature style: the methodical cinematography, with its bright
coloring and compulsive need to center - frame the
actors, along with humor so dry you'd better pack a canteen.
«Black Panther's» rule
at the top
of the box office finally came to an end last weekend, but it was dropped into the second place by another movie starring a person
of color: the Universal action sequel «Pacific Rim Uprising,» led by «Star Wars»
actor John Boyega, opened
at $ 28 million in North America.
After an eight year period
of silence following his time travelling Sundance Grand Jury Prize winning debut Primer, Shane Carruth returns to his position not only
at the helm with his latest masterpiece, Upstream
Color, but once again as writer,
actor, cinematographer, sound designer, editor and even distributor.
Cagney's a great
actor,
of course, but both he and Day seemed totally lacking in energy, as did the direction by Charles Vidor — I swear there were only two camera setups through the first 30 + minutes
of he film: Day on stage in a flat composition in front
of musicians and a solid
color backdrop with neither camera nor
actors moving much
at all and Day and Cagney in her dressing room arguing about something.
In fact, while most
of the supporting
actors are consigned to only a few scenes each, it's in these moments where the film shines the brightest; and that's quite a feat considering just how dark this movie is, both visually (the
colors are so washed out that it's like watching with sunglasses on
at times) and thematically.
There is new DLC (included with preorders and
at a cost
of $ 4.99 now) that will allows the game to be played as Duke Nukem, a Gearbox owned character, who does fit perfectly in the dystopian future setting, with his original voice
actor spouting off -
color jokes.
This work, in which found objects become
actors in the drama
of space and
color, is exemplary
of the many objects gathered together for this retrospective look
at Stockholder's self - contained assemblages since 1988.
A set
of monochromatic illustrations to The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky from the late 1930s incorporate a greater sense
of narrative than many
of Neel's other compositions and show the
actors at various key stages
of the existential drama; her own life is referenced in often richly
colored, quotidian scenes depicting herself in the company
of her lovers.
While filming the scenes set on Endor in the heavily forested Pacific Northwest
of the United States for the 1983 film Return
of the Jedi, Peter Mayhew — the
actor who played Chewbacca — was required to be escorted by a crew
of assistants wearing brightly -
colored safety vests
at all times while costumed in order to prevent hunters from mistaking him for the legendary cryptid Big Foot.