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Who could forget Halle Berry’s emotionally charged Oscar speech in 2002 when she won the Best Actress trophy for Monster’s Ball (she also earned a Golden Globe nomination). At the time, it was a historic win, marking Berry as the first Black woman to ever win in that category.

“I have a geographically scattered background,” replies Ása Hjörleifsdóttir to the question of how she got into writing and directing. The native of Iceland spent years of her childhood in the USA, UK and Canada and had originally aspired to become an actress.

The NAACP Image Awards Luncheon is part of a tradition that started 54 years ago when black artists like Lena Horne, Sidney Poitier and many others gathered to counter the harmful tropes that Hollywood used when representing people of color. This year the event was held Saturday, February 4th.

It took M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin to finally knock off Avatar: The Way of Water from its top position at the box office after seven weeks.

Shazam! Fury of the Gods is another Marvel movie that will release in China on March 17, day and date with North America, according to The Hollywood Reporter. This will be the third Marvel movie to be released this year along with Black Panther: Wakanda Forever on February 7 and Antman and the Wasp: Quantumania on February 17 after an almost four-year ban.

Ellen Barkin received a Golden Globe nomination as Best Actress – Motion Picture – Musical/Comedy in 1992 for Switch, written and directed by Blake Edwards from the 1959 play by George Axelrod, Goodbye Charlie. She spoke to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in 1991 about playing a dead man reincarnated in a woman’s body as punishment for his misogynist behavior, and forced to confront his past from a different perspective.

One stars in The Little Mermaid and The Color Purple, two of the most anticipated films this year; another has the title role in the largely untold, true story of a slave son who became a highly regarded composer and violin virtuoso in 18th century France. Of the three others, one will star as a female soldier disguised as a man in a Western; the other will star in Mel Brooks’ long-awaited anthology series; and the last one, but certainly not the least, landed a role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe epic.

A retired policeman, recently widowed, and recovering from being shot by a white colleague. An adult son newly released from jail, still running a special “business” from his bedroom.

One of the most glamorous stars of the 1930s and 40s in Hollywood, the exotic Merle Oberon had a secret, one she spent her lifetime protecting. In interviews like this one in 1934 with the publication The West Australian, Oberon kept up the fiction of her birth: “I was born in Tasmania but left there when I was a child.

It is never too late to find your true passion. This is what Iona Morris Jackson found out when she got the opportunity to direct.