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
“I was shocked when he (Tidyman) walked into my office, because I was expecting a black person, because Shaft was about African-Americans.”
That’s what French Connection producer Philip D’Antoni recalls about former newspaperman- turned-pulp novelist and writer of Shaft novels Ernest R. Tidyman in the documentary Making the Connection: The Untold Stories.
“Not only was he white, but a very WASPy person from Ohio,” he said.
At the time, Tidyman was a 42 year old former New York Times reporter who, based on the social changes taking place, contemplated and decided to write Shaft.
“The idea came out of my awareness of both social and literary situations in a changing city,” Tidyman told a writer in 1973. “There are winners, survivors and losers in the New York scheme of things. It was time for a black winner, whether he was a private detective or an obstetrician.”
In Shaft’s forty...
That’s what French Connection producer Philip D’Antoni recalls about former newspaperman- turned-pulp novelist and writer of Shaft novels Ernest R. Tidyman in the documentary Making the Connection: The Untold Stories.
“Not only was he white, but a very WASPy person from Ohio,” he said.
At the time, Tidyman was a 42 year old former New York Times reporter who, based on the social changes taking place, contemplated and decided to write Shaft.
“The idea came out of my awareness of both social and literary situations in a changing city,” Tidyman told a writer in 1973. “There are winners, survivors and losers in the New York scheme of things. It was time for a black winner, whether he was a private detective or an obstetrician.”
In Shaft’s forty...
- 2/25/2011
- by Cynthia
- ShadowAndAct
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