by markus schmidt CHESTERFIELD - For the fifth time, the Central Virginia Film Institute will take a bow with Hollywood in celebrating the Academy Awards.
A wide-ranging mix of feature films will be honored with the American Film Institute's AFI Awards 2011, the organization's almanac that records the year's outstanding achievements in movies, TV and other forms of the moving arts. The top 10 AFI movies of 2011 are "Bridesmaids," "The Descendants," "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," "The Help," "Hugo," "J. Edgar," "Midnight in Paris," "Moneyball," "The Tree of Life" and "War Horse.
When takes home her Kennedy Center Honors award on Sunday, her biggest problem may be finding room for it on the mantelpiece. In the course of a relentlessly prolific five-decade career, the singer-actress-diva-of-all-trades already has won just about every artistic honor in existence: multiple Grammys and Academy Awards, five Emmys, eight Golden Globes, the Cable Ace and Peabody awards and the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award.
As executrix, she served as consultant to stage, film and printed productions of [Lorraine Hansberry]'s work in the United States and abroad. She was one of the primary people responsible for the revival of Hansberry's "A Raisin in the Sun" to Broadway in 2004, which had sold-out runs for 12 weeks. Its cast, including Sean Combs and Phylicia Rashad, made it one of the most financially successful plays for the season while winning two Tony awards from its four nominations. Gresham believed in continuing the legacy of Hansberry's work through her commitment to social justice issues. Gresham was born to schoolteacher parents in Wilcox County, Alabama, on October 12, 1922, where education was deeply ingrained in the family. Gresham's formative years were spent on a farm with her brothers an...
... through school while attending Tuskegee Institute, in Tuskegee, Alabama. As an African American she ...
Congrats- to Patricia S. Harris, vice president and global chief diversity officer for McDonald's Corp., who receives the prestigious Coiporate Responsibility Award from Human Resources Development Institute Inc. and HRDI's Foundation at its annual Community Service Awards Luncheon on Feb. 23 at Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority's Theta Omega Community Service Center, 6220 S. Ingleside. Harris has enjoyed a 32year career with McDonald's, joining the Legal Dept. and rising steadily to her current executive position where she is responsible for the development and implementation of diversity strategies throughout McDonald's worldwide. Following a special two-hour, nine minute screening of the film Superfly by Gordon Parks Jr. and starring the late Ron O'Neal, there will be a spirited debate betw...
The West Virginia Division of Culture and History closes out its month of classic films with the 1951 Gene Kelly musical "An American in Paris." Named to the top 100 films of the past 100 years by the American Film Institute, the musical also won six of the eight Academy Awards for which it was nominated in 1952, including best picture, best music, best cinematography and best writing. Full of fun quotes ("I'm a concert pianist. That's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.") and memorable songs ("I Got Rhythm"), it's the story of a struggling American painter in Paris (Kelly) who gets "discovered" by an influential heiress with an eye for more than his art, but he falls instead for a young woman (Leslie Caron) already engaged to someone else. The free film will scree...
... most visible women for her two Academy Awards, eight marriages, ravaging illnesses and work in A...More than for any film role, she became famous for being famous, setting ... Humanitarian Award and an American Film Institute Life Achievement Award. She received a 2002 Kenned...
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: Miranda July makes movies, performances, recordings and combinations of these things. Her short movies (Haysha Royko, The Amateurist, Nest of Tens, Getting Stronger Every Day) have been screened internationally at sites such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum. Nest of Tens and a sound installation, "The Drifters," were presented in the 2002 Whitney Biennial. July's multi-media performances ("Love Diamond," "The Swan Tool," "How I Learned to Draw") have been presented at venues such as the Institute of Contemporary Art in London and The Kitchen in New York. July's stories can be read in The Paris Review and The Harvard Review, and her radio performances can be heard regularly on NPR's The Next Big Thing. July's first feature-length film, Me and You ...
... at the New Orleans Festival, among other awards. Sanders was an associate producer on the 2003 Osc...
VAIL and BEAVER CREEK, Colo., March 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Colorado Film Institute has announced program details for the 2010 Vail Film Festival taking place from April 1-4, 2010 in Vail and Beaver Creek, America's top-rated ski resorts. For the first time, VFF will partner with nearby Beaver Creek, making this the biggest Vail Film Festival to date with over 90 film screenings and more panels, parties and industry talent present than ever before. Tribute Awards will be given to actors Jane Seymour, Zach Braff and Dennis Haysbert. Jane Seymour will receive the Riva Award for Achievement in Acting, Dennis Haysbert will receive the Vanguard Award for Excellence in Acting, with Zach Braff receiving the Festival's Renegade Award for risk-taking in film. Jane Seymour has work...
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