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A Tribute to Sidney Poitier Who Paved the Way for Black Actors in Film

Trailblazing actor Sidney Poitier died yesterday in the Bahamas at the age of 94. Eugene Torchon-Newry, the acting director general of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, confirmed the news of the Academy Award-winning performer’s death, USA Today is reporting. Poitier overcame an impoverished upbringing in the Bahamas to rise to the top of his profession…

NYFF/ Nickel Boys Review: RaMell Ross Triumphs in Daring Adaptation

It’s in the glimpses tragic and poetry happen. In the beginning of RaMell Ross’s extraordinary first narrative feature Nicke Boys, a realization of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, which opens the New York Film Festival, the filmmaker creates a world unlike any other. A child’s hand holds a leaf in the grass, a…

Actor Louis Gossett Jr. Dies at 87: First Black Man to Win Supporting Oscar

©An Officer and a Gentleman/Courtesy of Paramount Pictures  Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win an Oscar for best supporting actor, died in Santa Monica, California on Friday morning. He was 87. No cause of death was revealed, but it is known that Gossett had been suffering from prostate cancer. He had also…

FLC Announces 49th Chaplin Award Gala Honoring Jeff Bridges

@Photo courtesy of John Russo Film at Lincoln Center announces that Academy Award-winning actor Jeff Bridges is the recipient of the 49th Chaplin Award. He will be honored at a gala evening at Lincoln Center on April 29, 2024. An acclaimed actor, producer, and musician, Jeff Bridges has created a range of memorable characters over a rich and varied film career…

FLC Announces 48th Chaplin Award Gala Honoring Viola Davis

FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER ANNOUNCES VIOLA DAVISAS RECIPIENT OF THE 48th CHAPLIN AWARDTO BE PRESENTED ON APRIL 24Photo Credit: AB+DM New York, NY (February 9, 2023) – Film at Lincoln Center announced today that Viola Davis is the recipient of the 48th Chaplin Award. The award will be presented at a gala evening in Davis’s…

Morgan Neville to Direct Apple TV+ Biodoc about Steve Martin

Actor/comedian Steve Martin is the subject of a new two-part documentary directed and produced by Morgan Neville that’s set to be released by Apple TV+. The film, which is expected to debut in late 2023, is being produced by A24 in tandem with Neville and Caitrin Rogers’ Tremolo Productions. Neville has created many film and…

David Oyelowo to Play Boxer Sugar Ray Robinson

British actor David Oyelowo is preparing to play the role of boxer Sugar Ray Robinson in the film Sweet Thunder, which he will write and coproduce. Oyelowo, who played Martin Luther King in Selma, told reporters how much the Robinson project had become an all-consuming priority for him. “Selma” took seven years. I think we’re almost…

Vivica A. Fox Criticizes Jada Pinkett Smith’s ‘Self-Righteous’ Response to Oscars Slap

The latest aftershock came on Thursday’s episode of The Wendy Williams, when an emotional Vivica A. Fox commented on Jada Pinkett Smith’s thoughts about the Will Smith-Chris Rock slapping incident during this year’s Oscar ceremonies. Fox admitted she was brought to tears by Smith’s remarks. “I really felt to be a partner to Will Smith [whose]…