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#BlackExcellence: Taraji P. Henson To Receive Star On Hollywood Walk Of Fame

Posted on January 21, 2019 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

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B lack women are starting the year off strong in the entertainment industry. Just weeks after Regina Hall became the first Black woman to receive a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress and Marsai Martin made history as Hollywood’s youngest executive producer, actress Taraji P. Henson has hit a major career milestone. According to Essence , Henson will be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Give @TherealTaraji all of her roses: https://t.co/HMrsRZmQ6X — ESSENCE (@Essence) January 20, 2019 The Empire actress is slated to receive her star on January 28, the news outlet writes. Walk of Fame representatives say that the honor is well-deserved as Henson has played pivotal roles in films and on television. “Taraji P Henson is a powerful woman and a powerful actress.  She is an entertainer that fans cannot take their eyes off of due to her great acting ability,” said Walk of Fame producer Ana Martinez , according to the news outlet. “We welcome her bright star on our Walk of Fame.” Henson recently took to Instagram to share her excitement. “This is for those lovely scary nay sayers who doubted me!!!! Welp I had a dream aaaaaannnnnnnd thank GOD I used all of your doubt to propel me to my greatness!!!,” she wrote. “I love you and I needed you!!!!” Her movie What Men Want is slated to be released on February 8. When Henson isn’t in front of the camera, she’s leading philanthropic efforts . In 2018, she launched a non-profit—dubbed the Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation—that is designed to provide resources for individuals battling with mental illness. “My dad fought in the Vietnam War for our country, returned broken, and received little to no physical and emotional support. I stand now in his absence, committed to offering support to African-Americans who face trauma daily, simply because they are Black,” she said in a statement about the organization. SEE ALSO: Taraji P. Henson To Launch Non-Profit That Addresses Mental Health Stigma In The Black Community From Taraji P. Henson To Thurgood Marshall: Famous HBCU Alums [ione_media_gallery src=”https://newsone.com” id=”3843475″ overlay=”true”]

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Chicago Film Critics Name ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Best Picture

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

The group gave Zero Dark Thirty its top Best Picture and Best Director prizes in addition to Best Actress for Jessica Chastain , while Lincoln ‘s Daniel Day-Lewis took Best Actor with the Chicago Film Critics Association Monday. [ Related: Golden Globes Unveil 70th Edition Nominees And ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Takes Top National Board Of Review Honors ] [ Related: LA Film Critics Name ‘Amour’ Best Picture, Boost ‘The Master,’ Jazz Up Oscar Race ] The wins follow: Best Picture: Zero Dark Thirty Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow, Zero Dark Thirty Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis , Lincoln Best Actress: Jessica Chastain , Zero Dark Thirty Best Supporting Actor: Phillip Seymour Hoffman , The Master Best Supporting Actress: Amy Adams , The Master Best Original Screenplay: Zero Dark Thirty by Mark Boal Best Adapted Screenplay: Lincoln by Tony Kushner Best Foreign Language Film: Amour Best Documentary: The Invisible War Best Animated Feature: ParaNorman Best Cinematography: Mihai Milaimare Jr. , The Master Best Original Score: Jonny Greenwood , The Master Best Art Direction: Moonrise Kingdom Best Editing: William Goldenberg & Dylan Tichenor , Zero Dark Thirty Most Promising Performer: Quvenzhané Wallis , Beasts of the Southern Wild Most Promising Filmmaker: Benh Zeitlin , Beasts of the Southern Wild [ Related: NY Film Critics Circle Spices Up Oscar Race With ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Best Picture Pick ]

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Academy Names 15 As Best Documentary Oscar Contenders; ‘Central Park Five’ Snubbed

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Fifteen docs advanced to the final stages for Oscar consideration Monday. While the films making the cut are, of course, notable, some others that did not are also. Today’s winner of the New York Film Critics Circle for Best Non-Fiction film of 2012, Central Park Five , which made headlines recently because New York City officials attempted to gain access to the film’s outtakes related to a pending civil suit, did not make the cut. Other high profile docs also left out were Toronto’s West of Memphis and Sundance’s Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present as well as Magnolia’s The Queen of Versailles . While distributor IFC Films will likely be disappointed by the CP5 omission by the Academy, it will celebrate the inclusion of How To Survive a Plague , an AIDS doc that opened quietly, but to acclaim for its bravery. The distributor also had its Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry in the list. [ Related: Movieline’s Central Park Five coverage ] Tribeca’s Bully , which opened to controversy for its R-rating from the MPAA to pushback from distributor The Weinstein Company, also made the cut. The 15 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production companies (information provided by AMPAS):

     Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry , Never Sorry LLC
    Bully , The Bully Project LLC
    Chasing Ice , Exposure
    Detropia , Loki Films
    Ethel , Moxie Firecracker Films
    5 Broken Cameras , Guy DVD Films
    The Gatekeepers , Les Films du Poisson, Dror Moreh Productions, Cinephil
    The House I Live In , Charlotte Street Films, LLC
    How to Survive a Plague , How to Survive a Plague LLC
    The Imposter , Imposter Pictures Ltd. 
    The Invisible War , Chain Camera Pictures
    Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God , Jigsaw Productions in association with 
Wider Film Projects and Below the Radar Films
    Searching for Sugar Man , Red Box Films
    This Is Not a Film , Wide Management
    The Waiting Room , Open’hood, Inc.

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Lawbreakers, Unite: After NYFCC Awards, Is Matthew McConaughey An Oscar Contender?

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

All right, all right, all right. Awards season has officially gotten down in the dirt with a little bit of glorious stank. The New York Film Critics Circle , an august body despite three years of madness under Armond White’s leadership, has named Matthew McConaughey the year’s best supporting actor for his work in both Magic Mike and Bernie . With this double-gun recognition, my guess is that the group felt this was a salute to McConaughey’s leading performance in Killer Joe , and all the forced fried chicken-sucking it included, too. It’s quite a comeback. For years McConaughey served merely two purposes: appearing in dreadful rom coms like Failure to Launch and having a last name that drove copyeditors crazy. But we knew – we knew that beneath the skin of that shirtless Texan beat the heart of a courageous and unpredictable performer who could, when given a chance, deliver. I don’t know a single person who hasn’t been itching for an excuse to love this guy again. McConaughey’s turn as Dallas , the “Den Father,” I guess you could call him, of the strippers in Steven Soderbergh’s Magic Mike , is now a genuine contender for the Golden Globes and the Oscars . (No diss to Bernie , but Magic Mike was a bonafide box office hit, has Warner Bros. behind it and, you know, ass chaps.) Plus he’s already gotten a nomination for it and Killer Joe at the Spirit Awards in the bag. Our suggestion to M-McC: just keep livin’. The rest of the world is now hip to how awesome you can be. Of course, not everyone can recognize greatness when they see it. A sampling on Twitter shows jubilant critics (someone pass CinemaBlend’s Katey Rich some smelling salts) but more than one wiesenheimer suggests that a McConaughey win for his acting prowess is actually part of the Mayan’s countdown to extinction. What do you make of the McConaughey NYFCC win? Will he gyrate his way into the Oscar race now? Follow Jordan Hoffman on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .

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‘That Jackass’: Armond White Charms Again at the NYFCC Awards

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Looker proprietor and all-around swell guy Lawrence Levi braved last night’s New York Film Critic’s Circle Awards so you (read: I) didn’t have to, submitting to Twitter one of the juicier exchanges overheard on a night when anecdotal blips rained down like thumbs at an Adam Sandler flick. Perhaps obviously — despite the attendance of such luminaries as Brad Pitt, Robert De Niro and others — we turn the spotlight to contrarian messiah Armond White, in conversation with Best Supporting Actor award-winner Albert Brooks about a certain recently laid-off Village Voice institution : At NY Film Critics Circle awards dinner, I overheard Albert Brooks ask Armond White, “Is J. Hoberman here?” White replied, “That jackass.” Tue Jan 10 04:17:19 via web Lawrence Levi lawlevnyc Yowza! I mean, at least this year White downgraded from ” That racist ,” but… Anyway. This guy! [ @lawlevnyc ]

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NYFCC Nudges Awards Vote Back 24 Hours, Adds Twitter Component

Posted on November 22, 2011 by | Leave a comment

The New York Film Critics Circle retreated a bit today from its controversial decision to move its annual 2011 awards vote up to Nov. 28 — thus becoming the first in the country — by delaying it 24 hours to Nov. 29. NYFCC chairman John Anderson cited “conflicting schedules” as the motive. Meanwhile, you can follow the announcements live on the NYFCC’ s new awards Twitter account — @NYFCC2011 — next Tuesday morning. Or just keep an eye out here at Movieline for all the results as they happen. [Press release]

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The Social Network Sweeps The National Society Of Film Critics Awards

Posted on January 10, 2011 by | Leave a comment

We may be getting into an unstoppable Titanic -like streak here. The Social Network , having already been named Best Picture by over seventeen separate critics’ groups — including New York Critics Circle, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco,and the National Board of Review — claimed the crown again , this time from the National Society of Film Critics. The Facebook flick also racked up wins for Best Director, David Fincher, Best Screenplay, Aaron Sorkin, and Best Actor, Jesse Eisenberg. The full list after the break. [ EW ]

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Bill Erwin, ‘Seinfeld’ Actor, Dies At 96

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

The veteran character actor received an Emmy nomination for portraying a crotchety shut-in on a 1993 episode of the sitcom. By Eric Ditzian Bill Erwin as Sid Fields in “Seinfeld” Photo: Sony Pictures Television Bill Erwin, an actor best known for his Emmy-nominated turn as a crotchety old man on “Seinfeld,” died at his home in Studio City, California, on Wednesday at 96 of age-related causes, the Los Angeles Times reported . A well-respected character actor whose career spanned films, television and the stage, Erwin starred in a 1993 episode of “Seinfeld,” playing an elderly man named Sid Fields with whom Jerry Seinfeld volunteers to spend time. Erwin’s portrayal of the foul-mouthed, paranoid shut-in became one of the more memorable guest spots in the show’s history. Fields is convinced that the CIA is after him, his maid is stealing his money and Jerry has come to kill him. “I wasn’t born yesterday,” Fields says in the episode. “I might drop dead today, but I sure as hell wasn’t born yesterday.” Erwin began his career in Hollywood in the early 1950s, popping up in roles on television shows like “I Love Lucy,” “Perry Mason” and “Leave It to Beaver.” In 1958 he appeared opposite Jack Nicholson in the movie “The Cry Baby Killer,” playing Nicholson’s father. He went on to amass credits on the stage, winning a 1983 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for “Old Friends,” and in TV programs such as “The Twilight Zone,” “Gunsmoke,” “The Golden Girls,” “Growing Pains” and “Who’s the Boss?” In 1980, Erwin played a bellman, to great popular acclaim, in “Somewhere in Time,” a time-travel drama starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour. But it was his irascible “Seinfeld” appearance that remains his best-remembered entertainment moment. He received an Emmy nomination in the Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series category but lost out to David Clennon, who won for his turn on HBO’s “Dream On.”

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COLLAPSE OF AMERICAN LIBERALISM

Posted on September 5, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Chris Hedges: “When you have bankrupt liberalism you descend into moral nihilism” Bio Chris Hedges, whose column is published Mondays on Truthdig, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than 50 countries and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times, for which he was a foreign correspondent for 15 years. He has written nine books, including “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle” (2009), “I Don’t Believe in Atheists” (2008) and the best-selling “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America” (2008). His book “War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning” (2003) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. added by: treewolf39

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George Clooney Arm In Arm With Elisabetta Canalis

Posted on January 14, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

George Clooney is taking over New York City. The hunky Up In The Air star has been traipsing all over the Big Apple arm in arm with girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis . George is rumored to be the front runner for a Best Actor Academy Award, so far picking up a Best Actor Award at the New York Film Critics Circle awards.

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