Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

movie industry (“Leading By Example”). The Award Academy has also stepped up to solve their own problem. To celebrate more people of color on their board, they have vowed to double the percentage of diversity in their members by 2020. Roughly 683 people, that are deserving, will join the academy board. Of all the invitees, 46% are women and 41% are people of color (Feinberg). Putting more diversity in the Academy does not automatically make it a better Academy but it is progress. It will also…

this, and the white actors who are cast for portraying POC, get awards. While people of colour actors get pushed to the curb. It’s easier for film industries to erase POC history, and cast a white person to portray a person of colour. This misrepresentation isn’t something that filmmakers just started doing. Ever since 1921, hollywood has been pushing POC actors out of roles, and leaving them to reinforce the idea of the stereotypical best friend, or the thug that gets in the way of the white…

not a single black actor received a nomination this year for the Academy Awards ceremony. Are white actors any better than black actors or is the Academy racist? What is keeping perfectly qualified black entertainers from getting any recognition? This deeply cut into the long going conversation about opportunities in entertainment for people of color and inequalities between white and black actors in the entertainment industry. Actress Jada Pinkett-Smith, actor Will Smith, and director Spike Lee…

Marketing came from paramount pictures, they promoted the movie Fences with posters of denzel washington and his costar Viola Davis in a black and white picture looking ahead like they are watching someone, giving them that image of parents watching over their kid. It easily captures our attention on where they are looking at and you can easily feel on what they are feeling. Denzel and Viola are popular actors so seeing them both together you know will be a great movie. Movie trailers are also…

show such as books, movie releases and helped broaden not just women’s point of view and significance but she helped to realize that every human has an importance in the world. The show went on to receive multiple Day Time Emmy Awards and several other prestigious awards. As her show expanded by starting, releasing a monthly magazine called “The Oprah Magazine” that was a monthly for women’s lifestyle publication. The launch of her first magazine was the most successful startup in history. When…

The Crucible by Arthur Miller is one of the most famous American plays in the last hundred years. It was written in the 1950s when the idea of Communists during the Cold War were being compared to witches during the Salem Witch Trials. Arthur Miller wrote the play to warn the people of America of the misinformation they were being fed by the government. He used the Salem Witch Trials as a comparison to what was happening, and people understood. Since the creation of this work, there have been…

She has also disclosed giving birth at age fourteen, but her child died in infancy. Eventually, she moved in with her father in Nashville. Little did she know, her life would turn around quickly; she was going to be an American television host, actress, producer, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. Oprah’s career began at the age of eighteen when she entered into Tennessee State University. She began working in radio and television broadcasting. A local CBS TV station in Nashville offered her a…

the best aspects of this movie is its acting, which received five nominations. The academy wasn’t wrong. Mrs. Miniver features some fine acting. Greer Garson (who won the Oscar for best actress) is good as the titular character. Her acting and character are superficial and stereotypically polite early on, but as the film goes on she becomes increasingly sympathetic and three-dimensional. Walter Pidgeon is wonderfully charismatic as Clem Miniver, never overplaying his role. Theresa Wright (best…

Judith Ohikuare, a journalist and former producer at The Atlantic, examined how portraying a character using method acting can affect the mindset or feelings of an actor. In her case, she looked into how “Obie award-winning” actress, “playwright, and associate professor in Yale University’s undergraduate theater studies program” Deborah Margolin felt about playing an unattractive character on TV. Margolin felt that “the line separating her real self from her stage self became less defined the…

Southern belle of Scarlett O’Hara in “Gone With the Wind” who had dreams of more genteel past, just like Blanche’s character. The film earned 12 Academy Awards nominations, all four were nominated for Oscars, of which three won. Leigh won for best actress in a leading role. Malden for his best actor in supporting role and Hunter for best actress in supporting…