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Lupita Nyong’o
- Lupita Nyong’o (born March 1, 1983, Mexico City, Mexico) is a Kenyan actress who won an Academy Award for her film debut in 12 Years a Slave (2013).
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May 9, 2024 · Lupita Nyong’o, Kenyan actress who won an Academy Award for her film debut in 12 Years a Slave (2013). Her other notable films included Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), Queen of Katwe (2016), and Black Panther (2018). Learn more about her life and career.
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May 3, 2024 · 12 Years a Slave—a biopic about Solomon Northup, a black fiddler in New York who somehow wound up a slave in Louisiana from 1841 until the law rescued him in 1853—is the nearly universally acclaimed frontrunner for the Best Picture Oscar.
May 7, 2024 · Rachel Cole David Fiske Rachel Seligman Clifford Brown. Solomon Northup, American farmer, laborer, and musician whose experience of being kidnapped and sold into slavery was the basis for his book Twelve Years a Slave (1853), which was adapted into an award-winning film in 2013.
May 5, 2024 · DIRECTED BY: Steve McQueen. WRITTEN BY: John Ridley. WITH: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Lupita Nyong'o. 2013. 134 min. USA/UK. Color. English. Rated R. DCP. Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation. Chase is the Presenting Partner of Oscar ® Sundays.
May 13, 2024 · 12 Years a Slave (Academy Award nominee) Nominated Idris Elba: Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom: Nominated 2015 David Oyelowo: Selma: Nominated 2016 Will Smith: Concussion: Nominated 2017 Denzel Washington: Fences (Academy Award nominee) Nominated 2018 Roman J. Israel, Esq. (Academy Award nominee) Nominated 2019 John David Washington ...
May 20, 2024 · Steve McQueen. In full: Sir Steven Rodney McQueen. Born: October 9, 1969, Ealing, near London, England (age 54) Awards And Honors: Cannes film festival. Notable Works: “12 Years a Slave” “Hunger” “Shame” “Small Axe”
May 14, 2024 · by PAUL WILLISTEIN pwillistein@tnonline.com. "12 Years A Slave" is a profound film depicting an era of unspeakable horror in the history of the United States, as well as a marker in the evolution of the depiction of slavery and race in American cinema. From the minstrelsy of silent films and early talkies ("The Jazz Singer," 1927) to cinema ...
