“The Help” cleaned up last night with wins for Best Ensemble cast, Best Actress for Viola Davis and Best Supporting Actress for Octavia Spencer at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. The stain of racism and sexism is not just for people of color and women,” Davis said. “It’s all of our burden, all of us.” […]
And the award goes to…Viola Davis. The “Help” star snagged the Outstanding Performance By A Female Actor In A Leading Role award during the Screen Actors Guild Awards in Hollywood last night. Decked in a white Marchesa gown, Davis thanked actresses Cecily Tyson and Meryl Streep for inspiring her to become an actress. “What is […]
Carlos de Abreu, the Founder and Executive Director of the event, says that no fewer than a dozen of the film’s actors — including all of those who play its principal characters — have indicated that they will collect the award in-person at a gala ceremony on October 24, 2011, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, […]
Did Kathryn Stockett use her brother’s African-American maid as the basis for a character in the bestselling novel-turned-movie “The Help?” For now, that question may go unanswered, by a court anyway. A Mississippi judge threw out a lawsuit Tuesday in which Ablene Cooper alleged Stockett used her likeness without permission in a book about relationships […]
Viola Davis came off acclaim and an Academy Award nomination for Doubt and immediately went back to work in theatre and in small supporting roles in film and television. One of her theatre choices, last year’s Fences, won her a Tony award. With “The Help” currently in theaters generating critical acclaim and Oscar buzz, star […]
With all the hubbub about ‘The Help,’ a group of Black female historians have made their opposition to the film known. The Association of Black Women Historians recently released a statement criticizing the movie, which chronicles the story of African-American maids in Jackson, Mississippi during the 1950′s and 1960s, Entertainment Weekly reports. “Despite efforts to […]
VIA: ESSENCE.COM ESSENCE August cover girl Viola Davis, 45, is having one heck of a summer. She’s already starring in one of the most-talked about movie of the year, and now she’s about to be a new mommy. On the red carpet of “The Help” premiere last night, Davis told E News that she and […]
Based on the best seller list the book The Help has become a star studded movie. The movie features stars, Viola Davis, Emma Stone, and Bryce Dallas Howard. Set in Mississippi during the 1960s, Skeeter (Stone) is a southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends’ lives […]
