Tag: Ava DuVernay

The headline at Democracy Now! reads "Selma Director Ava DuVernay on Hollywood’s Lack of Diversity, Oscar Snub and #OscarsSoWhite Hashtag." ...

You guys, please don't give me a hard time for posting two Ava DuVernay items in a row, ok? I'm ...

Ava DuVernay was invited to screen Selma at the White House on Friday, Jan 16, for President Obama, wife Michelle, ...

The one bright spot on nominations day, a day of so many terrible and pointless snubs, that the one name ...

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell delivers the Last Word with a lesson about how and why filmmakers dramatize real life events. "Movies ...

This year’s Best Picture race is wide open except for the film right at the top of the list and ...

Women directors have much to live down before they can be taken seriously. Most of the heads of the five ...

Kathryn Bigelow has seen Selma twice and did this Q&A with the director - DuVernay just posted this on Facebook. ...

The Oscar race has never been as divisive as it is in 2014, with factions splitting from the whole to ...

It's  hard to get the kind of publicity big time movie stars get if you're headed into the Oscar race. ...

In addition to Angelina Jolie's Unbroken, which is being screened and will be reviewed soon, many women already have taken ...

“If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that ...

"Selma is the story of a movement. The film chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther ...

(Press Release) LOS ANGELES, CA, October 31, 2014 – AFI FEST 2014 presented by Audi, a program of the American ...

A small gathering of folks were invited to see five minutes of Selma, the Martin Luther King film directed by ...

The New York Times selected six directors to talk about the films that made them want to make movies. Featured ...

Writer/Director Ava DuVernay posted this photo from the set of her upcoming film Selma with the following passage: "If it ...

Short notice, I know, but for those of you who never got a chance to see Ava DuVernay's brilliant Middle ...

There are so many articles lately about how difficult it is for women to get ahead in Hollywood. The subject ...