Remember Oscar-winner Mo’Nique? Robert L. Johnson’s Urban Movie Channel has acquired U.S. rights to the coming-of-age film “Blackbird,” starring Mo’Nique and Isiah Washington. “Blackbird” is Mo’Nique’s first movie since 2009’s “Precious,” for which she won the best supporting actress Oscar. “Isaiah sent me the script and told me that I had to do,” she told […]
Tangerines: First Estonian Film to be Oscar Nominee
February 14, 2015 by
Tangerines is the first Estonian film to ever receive an Oscar nomination.
Oscar Directors: Pollack, Sydney (The Way We Were, Tootsie)
February 13, 2015 by
Born July 1, 1934, in Lafayette, Indiana, Pollack is the son of first‑generation Russian‑Jewish Americans, he was raised in South Bend, where he graduated from high school in 1952, then went to New York and enrolled at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, training under Sanford Meisner. Following a two‑year hitch in the Army […]
Oscar Directors: Redford, Robert–First Time Winner for Ordinary People (1980)
February 12, 2015 by
Robert Redford made a stunning directorial debut in Ordinary People, an effective melodrama about the disintegration of an upper-middle class suburban family.
Oscar Directors: Allen, Woody–One of Five Most Oscar-Nominated Filmmakers
February 12, 2015 by
Woody Allen has been nominated for 7 Best Director Oscars, winning one, in 1977 for Annie Hall, which also won Best Picture and Best Actress for Diane Keaton.
