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Independent Spirit Awards 2020: Aubrey Plaza’s Best Jokes
Aubrey Plaza hosted the 2020 Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday and, of course, her opening was full of jokes that poked fun at not only attendees but bigger issues plaguing the world.Plaza started her hosting gig with a skit that showed her in the dressing room, having a meltdown before the start of the awards show. Judy Garland (also played by Plaza) suddenly appeared, giving her advice in typical Garland fashion.“Scorsese is doing films for Netflix, Sandler is doing dramas!” Plaza’s Garlan
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7 Things You Didn't See at the 2015 Independent Spirit Awards
Birdman and Boyhood split the day’s top two categories, winners Michael Keaton and Julianne Moore made expectedly touching speeches, and Kristen Bell and Fred Armisen proved a dynamic hosting duo. Here are a few things that happened off-camera at the event, held inside a massive tent on the Santa Monica beach.
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David Oyelowo: Why Ferguson, Racial Injustice Make 'Selma' So Relevant Today
David Oyelowo had a dream to play Martin Luther King Jr. In fact, the way the actor describes it, it was a prophecy that came to him in 2007. Soon after his big move across the pond nearly eight years ago, Oyelowo got the script for Selma, about MLK’s perilous march in Alabama to gain voting rights for black Americans. “How it manifested was I felt a discernable voice, which I know to be God’s voice, saying, ‘You are going to play Dr. King in the film Selma,’” he recalls.
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Tessa Thompson on 'Selma,' 'Dear White People,' and Her Breakthrough Year
Tessa Thompson rushed into the lobby of the Four Seasons Hotel in Manhattan on a warmish winter afternoon that was filled with anticipation. The 31-year-old actress — who’d arrived with her mother — had just put the finishing touches put on her dress for that night’s red-carpet premiere of Selma, the Martin Luther King, Jr. biopic in which Thompson plays civil rights leader Diane Nash. Selma and Dear White People may differ in tone — one a sobering historical drama, the other a whip-smart come
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Behind-the-Scenes of Oprah Winfrey's Dramatic 'Selma' Moment
Selma, the Golden Globe-nominated drama about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 1965 march for voting rights, is filled with horrifying images of racism and brutality that still resonate today. Among the most painful scenes comes near the beginning of the movie, when a woman named Annie Lee Cooper is brought down by police after protecting a man from an officer’s baton. What makes it even more jarring to modern audiences is the fact that Cooper is played by Oprah Winfrey, one of the most beloved a
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'Selma' Cast Talks About Their New York Premiere Protest
The cast and crew of Selma were in New York last night for the premiere of their moving drama, which chronicles the mid-’60s voting-rights efforts of Martin Luther King Jr. The Selma team members weren’t just there to show a movie, though: They also showed solidarity with activists who are marching in cities across the country to protest police brutality and racial inequality. Director Ava DuVernay, star David Oyelowo (who plays Martin Luther King, Jr.), Tessa Thompson, Lorraine Toussaint, Wend
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We Talk With the Map Guru of 'Nightcrawler'
Jake Gyllenhaal covers much of that terrain in Nightcrawler. The 33-year-old actor negotiates L.A. roads at breakneck speeds as Lou Bloom, an ambitious freelance videographer for local television news. The staging of such scenes are so central to Nightcrawler, Yahoo Movies tracked down the film’s mapping mastermind.
