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Pharrell Williams on Celebrating the 'Genius Black Women' of 'Hidden Figures'
Hidden Figures? is a story about the heroic efforts of Katherine Goble Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson. Those three NASA employees, essential to our space race in the 1960s, were three strong women who happened to be played by three strong women, in Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and Janelle Monáe.
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Watch a Supercut of Every Best Picture Oscar Winner
This year marks the 89th Academy Awards — meaning that we have 88 winners of the Oscars’ Best Picture to dig into so far. That’s a large number, and to help you wrap your head around it, Yahoo Movies has compiled a video of clips from every Best Picture winner ever, beginning with the 1927 silent film Wings and ending with last year’s Spotlight. It’s a crash course in Oscar history and film trends. Watch it above!
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Oscars Survey Says: Most Americans Have No Idea What's Nominated for Best Picture, Who's Hosting the Show
2017’s Academy Awards?will be handed?out this Sunday night, and forecasters increasingly expect?it to come down to a battle between Damien Chazelle’s La La Land and Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight?for?Best Picture. According to a new poll on all things Oscars by The Hollywood Reporter, however, couldn’t name?those two films — or any of the other seven contenders?— as nominees?for the award. According to THR’s survey (conducted with the National Research Group in February), 60 percent of the 800 peop
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'Hidden Figures' Set for Free Screenings in 14 Cities for Black History Month
Atlanta, Baltimore, The Bronx, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Oakland, St. Louis, Miami, and Washington, D.C. -- tickets distributed on first come, first served basis
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‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner’ Director’s Widow Praises ‘Hidden Figures’: ‘I Think It Would Have Been a Stanley Kramer Movie’
With $120 million and counting at the box office and the Screen Actors Guild Award for best ensemble cast on its trophy shelf, “Hidden Figures” is emerging as a long-shot?Best Picture rival to the dominant “La La Land” in the closing weeks of the Oscar race. In a recent interview with Yahoo Movies, Karen Sharpe — actress and widow?of legendary Hollywood director Stanley Kramer — called “Hidden Figures”?“my favorite film of the year.”
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SAG Awards: 'Hidden Figures,' Denzel Washington, Emma Stone Lead the Way
Taraji P. Henson, from right, Janelle Monae, Octavia Spencer, Kimberly Quinn, and Saniyya Sidney, foreground left, accept the award for outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture for “Hidden Figures” at the 23rd annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017, in Los Angeles. Fox’s historical drama Hidden Figures won top SAG Award for top ensemble cast on Sunday in an awards show that also saw Fences, Moonlight and La La Land receive re
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SAG Awards: Biggest Snubs and Surprises
The 23rd annual Screen Actors Guild went as expected — it’s an organization that has a habit of rewarding frontrunners and repeat winners, after all. So it came as little surprise that Emma Stone?and Viola Davis?took home trophies. Read More: Awards: The Contenders
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Our Predictions for the 2017 Oscar Nominations
The nominations for the 89th annual Academy Awards will be doled out at the crack of the Los Angeles dawn on Tuesday morning?— and you can watch the livestream here at Yahoo Movies starting 5:18 a.m. PT/8:18 a.m. ET. As always, there’s a healthy dose of suspense in every major race, particularly in three of the four acting categories. (The Oscars themselves will be handed out at the ceremony on Feb. 26.)
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'Hidden Figures' + 'Fences' = 'Hidden Fences'? Stephen Colbert Lets Us See What That Trailer Would Look Like
While interviewing Pharrell Williams on the red carpet before?Sunday’s Golden Globes ceremony,?Jenna Bush accidentally referred to Hidden Figures (a drama about three African-American women who worked for NASA’s space program) as Hidden Fences?— a mistake that referenced Fences, a drama about a working-class African-American family. Conflating those two films was more than a bit indelicate, and Bush’s faux pas became more pronounced when Michael Keaton repeated her blunder on stage. On last ni
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In Theaters This Weekend: A New Jackie Chan Film and Award Contenders Get Wide Releases
It’s the first weekend for new movies in 2017, and there’s a big sampling available if you feel like hitting the theaters.
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'Hidden Figures' Star Taraji P. Henson Almost Gave Up Acting for Electrical Engineering, Failed Her Way Back Into Performing
Taraji P. Henson has come full circle. The 46-year-old actress broke down her ironic trajectory for Yahoo Movies while joined by her costars Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monae, and film/music producer Pharrell Williams (watch above). Instead, Henson and a friend decided to attend an HBCU (historically black college/university) to study math and electrical engineering.
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'Hidden Figures' Trailer: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and Janelle Monae Invent the Math of Space Travel
Math is a superpower in the latest trailer for Hidden Figures, the drama that tells the true story of three black women who helped NASA send the first man into orbit. Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and Janelle Monáe star as three mathematicians recruited by the government to literally “invent” the math that would enable astronauts to circle the Earth. Not only did the women portrayed in the film break down metaphorical barriers in science and space travel, they literally broke down barrier
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'Hidden Figures' Trailer: Watch Taraji P. Henson Win the Space Race
Some of the unheralded heroes of NASA
