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Oscars: Post-Oscar sales jump for ’12 Years a Slave’ book

YoopyaMar 4, 2014September 26, 20230

NEW YORK (AP) — 12 Years a Slave is getting a post-Oscar bump — for the book it was based on. The 19th-century memoir by

‘Gravity,’ ’12 Years a Slave’ share Hollywood producers’ top prize

YoopyaJan 21, 2014November 29, 20230

(Reuters) – Hollywood producers injected drama into the race for Oscars on Sunday by choosing not one but two movies as their best films of

’12 Years a Slave,’ ‘American Hustle’ win big at Critics Choice awards

YoopyaJan 17, 2014May 25, 20230

(Reuters) – 12 Years a Slave, Cate Blanchett and Matthew McConaughey were among big winners at the Critics Choice Movie Awards on Thursday, taking honors

List of nominees for 71st Golden Globe Awards

YoopyaDec 13, 2013February 3, 20240

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Nominees for the 71st annual Golden Globe Awards, announced Thursday in Beverly Hills, Calif., by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association:

With cotton and corn husks, actress connects to her ’12 Years a Slave’ character

YoopyaNov 21, 2013February 14, 20240

(Reuters) – In preparing for her first film role as a petite, hard-laboring slave in “12 Years a Slave,” actress Lupita Nyong’o sized herself up

In ’12 Years a Slave,’ all eyes on actor Chiwetel Ejiofor

YoopyaOct 19, 2013March 10, 20240

(Reuters) – One of the most memorable scenes in the film “12 Years a Slave” is a long close-up of actor Chiwetel Ejiofor’s eyes, wide

A pronounced rise for Ejiiofor in ’12 Years’

YoopyaOct 16, 2013March 31, 20240

TORONTO (AP) — Chiwetel Ejiofor arrived, he thought, prepared for the first day of shooting “12 Years a Slave.” To play Solomon Northup, a free

’12 Years a Slave:’ an American story unearthed by British filmmaker

YoopyaSep 10, 2013April 3, 20240

(Reuters) – Set in the plantations of sweltering southern Louisiana and based on the 1853 memoir of a free black man sold into slavery, “12