Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

The Best Picture win also made Steven McQueen “the first black producer ever to have received the award and the first black director to have directed a Best Picture winner” “Kuiper, Kathleen” The movie itself was based off a book written by Solomon Northup in 1853 about his hardships faced after being abducted in 1841 and sold into…

Singin’ in the Rain, and The Band Wagon from 1948 until 1953. The most popular of the bunch is Singin’ in the Rain, which is one of the best musicals of all time. The movie contains unforgettable songs that leave the film viewer wanting more. One of the actors from Singin’ in the Rain, Jean Hagen, was nominated for an Academy Award for best supporting actress. Hagen plays Lina Lamont in the movie and provides “a truly hilarious performance” as said by Colin…

one women started it all. Hattie McDaniel was the first African American to win an Oscar in 1940. McDaniel was also one of the first African American Females to be heard on radio, where she performed a song. Hattie McDaniel, an African American Actress, born on June 10th, 1893 in Wichita Kansas. She was the fourteenth child by her parents Henry McDaniel, a Civil War veteran and Susan Holbert, a homemaker. Her father was also a Baptist preacher, her mom a singer in the same church, and McDaniel…

medication and also needed medication in order to sleep (http://www.biography.com/people/judy-garland-9306838). In 1939, she got one of her greatest successes in The Wizard of Oz. It showed off her singing and acting abilities. She was awarded with an Academy Award for playing Dorothy. She later made many more musicals such as Strike Up the Band, Babes of Broadway, and For Me and My…

James Byron Dean was a famous man, and I am telling you how his life lead up to him being famous. He might not of had the best family to grow up in, but it is interesting to learn about him. You have no clue how awesome it is to learn about someone who past away before you were born. I hope you enjoy this essay. I hope you enjoy it as much a I did. James Dean was born on February 8, 1931, in Marion, Indiana, to Winton Dean and Mildred Wilson. James’s Dad was a farmer, but quit to become a…

Don't judge a movie by its cover can definitely be used to describe Blood and Lace. Looking at that sweet artwork above, you wouldn't be wrong in thinking it's going to be some bloody revenge fare, but alas, Blood and Lace is something completely different and in this case, different doesn't mean bad, but just... well different. Read on to see what I mean... PRODUCT INFORMATION PLOT SUMMARY She searched through the dark corridors of the unknown, only to find… the unbearable. Available for…

Additionally, Winfrey’s humanitarian efforts date back to the early 1990’s. In 1991, Winfrey started the National Child Protection Act, which seeks to positively impact lives through education initiatives such as The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls (Oprah, 2008). In December 2000, Winfrey visited Nelson Mandela and made a vow to build a state - of - the - art all - girls school in South Africa. Exactly two years later, December 6, 2002, Mandela, Professor Kader Asmal, then the…

that everyone dies at the end. However, the question between artists and fellow art appreciators is what defines a tragedy? At the Academy Awards how is it possible to pick one film over all of the others? Aristotle answered this question back in his lifetime of 384-322 B.C. Aristotle’s opinion of a true Tragedy is still effective to this day. His favorite play, and best example of a tragedy, is Oedipus Rex, this Greek tragedy has all the aspects that Aristotle considers to contain the greatest…

Oprah Winfrey, an entrepreneur, actress, director, producer, and philanthropist, has a net worth of $3.1 billion (Forbes). With all of this in mind, before I began reading about her, I assumed Oprah had a sturdy childhood, a sturdy family, and a sturdy upbringing. I couldn 't have assumed anything farther from the truth. Oprah endured many hardships throughout her life as a child. She was an African American child in the late 1960s when they were aggressively demanding their rights, she was a…

The American Film industry, even in the 1940’s, was thought to be a progressive space full of liberal ideologies and access to diversity, but unfortunately, this was not the case for African Americans, especially pre-dating the Civil Rights Movement.“Classical Hollywood, in its role as America’s dream factory largely maintained the myth of Black inferiority while minimizing America’s long history of racial injustice.”African Americans were discriminated against in all areas of society, including…