Schwarze (Schauspieler) in Hollywood
Filmszenenabend Feb 2017: Knapp vor der diesjährigen Oscar-Verleihung präsentieren wir eine Filmauswahl, bei der die Prioritäten anders liegen als bei der US-Filmakademie: Im Mittelpunkt stehen schwarze Schauspieler/innen, auch schwarze Filmschaffende hinter der Kamera sind dabei.
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- DirectorVictor FlemingStarsClark GableVivien LeighThomas MitchellA sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.Hattie McDaniel bekam für ihre Rolle als erste schwarze Schauspielerin einen Oscar (beste weibliche Nebenrolle).
- DirectorOtto PremingerStarsHarry BelafonteDorothy DandridgePearl BaileyContemporary version of the Bizet opera, with new lyrics and an African-American cast.Dorothy Dandrige schaffte es hiermit zu einer Oscar-Nominieriung (beste weibliche Hauptrolle). Letztlich gab es dann aber nur Oscars für die Musik.
- DirectorsOtto PremingerRouben MamoulianStarsSidney PoitierDorothy DandridgeSammy Davis Jr.A woman whose past is scorned by nearly everyone around her meets a man who'd love her regardlessly - if only everyone else would allow them to.Sidney Poitier erhielt 1964 als erster Schwarzer einen Oscar für die Hauptrolle. 2002 bekam er zusätzlich einen Ehrenoscar.
- DirectorNorman JewisonStarsSidney PoitierRod SteigerWarren OatesA black Philadelphia police detective is mistakenly suspected of a local murder while passing through a racially hostile Mississippi town, and after being cleared is reluctantly asked by the police chief to investigate the case.Nochmal Sidney Poitier.
- DirectorRobert MulliganStarsGregory PeckJohn MegnaFrank OvertonA widowed lawyer in Depression-era Alabama defends a black man against a false rape charge while teaching his young children about the sad reality of prejudice.
- DirectorJack HillStarsPam GrierAntonio FargasPeter BrownA vigilante takes a job as a high-class prostitute to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.Ein typischer Blaxploitation-Film mit Pam Grier (die von Tarantino später als Jackie Brown erneut ins Rampenlicht geholt wurde).
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsDanny GloverWhoopi GoldbergOprah WinfreyA tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry.Whoopie!
... Ihren Oscar bekam sie erst 1991 für Ghost (beste Nebenrolle). - DirectorSpike LeeStarsDanny AielloOssie DavisRuby DeeOn the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.Spike Lee als Regisseur in Hochform.
Der Filmkritiker der Chicago Tribune bezeichnet den Film im Booklet zur DVD als "wichtigsten und besten Film des Jahres - der Oscar ging dann aber natürlich nicht an ihn, sondern an Miss Daisy und ihr Chauffeur". - DirectorRichard AttenboroughStarsDenzel WashingtonKevin KlineJosette SimonSouth African journalist Donald Woods is forced to flee the country after attempting to investigate the death in custody of his friend, the Black anti-Apartheid activist Steve Biko.Denzel Washington, bekam später auch einen Oscar für eine Nebenrolle.
- DirectorJohn SingletonStarsCuba Gooding Jr.Laurence FishburneHudhail Al-AmirFollows the lives of three young males living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence, and future prospects.Cuba Gooding, auch für einen anderen Film mit einem Oscar für eine Nebenrolle ausgezeichnet.
- DirectorWayne WangStarsHarvey KeitelWilliam HurtGiancarlo EspositoA Brooklyn smoke shop is the center of neighborhood activity, and the stories of its customers.Harold Perrineau, Jr.
- DirectorsLana WachowskiLilly WachowskiStarsKeanu ReevesLaurence FishburneCarrie-Anne MossWhen a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.Laurence Fishburne als Mentor von Keanu Reeves.
- DirectorJohn SingletonStarsSamuel L. JacksonVanessa WilliamsChristian BaleNew York City police detective John Shaft (nephew of the original 1970s detective) goes on a personal mission to make sure the son of a real estate tycoon is brought to justice after a racially-motivated murder.Quasi eine Fortsetzung des Blaxploitation-Films aus dem 70ern, mit dem Original-Shaft Richard Roundtree und seinem Neffen: Samuel L. Jackson!
- DirectorMarc ForsterStarsBilly Bob ThorntonHalle BerryTaylor SimpsonAfter a family tragedy, a racist prison guard re-examines his attitudes while falling in love with the African-American wife of the last prisoner he executed.Der erste Oscar für eine schwarze Hauptdarstellerin: Halle Berry!
- DirectorPaul HaggisStarsDon CheadleSandra BullockThandiwe NewtonLos Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.
- DirectorDavid S. GoyerStarsWesley SnipesKris KristoffersonParker PoseyBlade, now a wanted man by the FBI, must join forces with the Nightstalkers to face his most challenging enemy yet: Dracula.Wesley Snipes
- DirectorLee DanielsStarsGabourey SidibeMo'NiquePaula PattonIn New York City's Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that she can re-route her life in a better direction.Mo'nique: Oscar für beste Nebenrolle.
- DirectorTate TaylorStarsViola DavisEmma StoneOctavia SpencerAn aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African American maids' point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis.Octavia Spencer, Viola Davis
- DirectorLee DanielsStarsForest WhitakerOprah WinfreyJohn CusackAs Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this man's life, family, and American society.Forest Whitacker, Oprah Winfrey
- DirectorSteve McQueenStarsChiwetel EjioforMichael Kenneth WilliamsMichael FassbenderIn the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.Chiwetel Eijofor
- DirectorAva DuVernayStarsDavid OyelowoCarmen EjogoOprah WinfreyA chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.Oscar nur für den Filmsong
Ava DuVernay ist die erste schwarze Regisseurin, die für einen Golden Globe nominiert wurde
Bei der Oscar-Verleihung 2015 erhielt der Film eine Auszeichnung in der Kategorie Bester Song. Bei den Nominierungen gab es Kritik, dass weder der schwarze Hauptdarsteller David Oyelowo noch sie berücksichtigt worden seien. - DirectorFrancis LawrenceStarsWill SmithAlice BragaCharlie TahanYears after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure.Will Smith!
- DirectorBarry SonnenfeldStarsTommy Lee JonesWill SmithLinda FiorentinoJames, an NYC cop, is hired by Agent K of a secret government agency that monitors extraterrestrial life on Earth. Together, they must recover an item that has been stolen by an intergalactic villain.Auch Will Smith!
- DirectorsAlbert HughesAllen HughesStarsDenzel WashingtonMila KunisRay StevensonA drifter fights his way across a ravaged, post-apocalyptic America while protecting a sacred book that holds the secrets to humanity's salvation.Denzel Washington, der 2002 einen Oscar als bester Haupdarsteller bekam.
- DirectorClint EastwoodStarsHilary SwankClint EastwoodMorgan FreemanFrankie, an ill-tempered old coach, reluctantly agrees to train aspiring boxer Maggie. Impressed with her determination and talent, he helps her become the best and the two soon form a close bond.Morgan Freeman, Oscar für die beste Nebenrolle.
