Movie:hidden Figures

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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