A year ago Jordan Peele was best known for the sketch comedy series “Key and Peele,” but after the show ended he stepped behind the camera, writing, directing and producing the horror comedy “Get Out.” Now Peele has the chance to make history as the first black writer to win an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
Suzanne de Passe and Lonne Elder made history as the first black writers ever nominated for Oscars. De Passe was up for Best Original Screenplay for “Lady Sings the Blues” (1972), shared with Chris Clark and Terence McCloy. That same year Elder was nominated in Best Adapted Screenplay for “Sounder.” But neither won.
Seventeen years later Spike Lee was the second black writer up for Original Screenplay, for his classic “Do the Right Thing” (1989). Two years after that John Singleton reaped a bid for “Boyz n the Hood” (1991).
Black writers would go 18 years without receiving...
Suzanne de Passe and Lonne Elder made history as the first black writers ever nominated for Oscars. De Passe was up for Best Original Screenplay for “Lady Sings the Blues” (1972), shared with Chris Clark and Terence McCloy. That same year Elder was nominated in Best Adapted Screenplay for “Sounder.” But neither won.
Seventeen years later Spike Lee was the second black writer up for Original Screenplay, for his classic “Do the Right Thing” (1989). Two years after that John Singleton reaped a bid for “Boyz n the Hood” (1991).
Black writers would go 18 years without receiving...
- 2/2/2018
- by Amanda Spears
- Gold Derby
Sasha Stone considers a potential history-making Oscar bid for indie film "Middle of Nowhere": "If Ava DuVernay is nominated for an original screenplay Oscar for 'Middle of Nowhere' — a slim possibility, if more people see it — she will be only the second black female screenwriter in 85 years of Oscar history to do so. You have to yawn all the way back to 1972 to find the one and only co-writer of 'Lady Sings the Blues,' Suzanne De Passe nominated alongside Terence McCloy and Chris Clark. DuVernay will be the first writer/director nominated as an individual." Awards Daily Will "Bwakaw" earn the Philippines its first Oscar? "That question from Funfare’s Big Apple correspondent Edmund Silvestre is the same one that I and I’m sure those who have seen the movie are asking — will 'Bwakaw' earn for the Philippines its first Oscar? Keep our collective fingers crossed.
- 10/11/2012
- Gold Derby
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