Oscars: Post-Oscar sales jump for ’12 Years a Slave’ book
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...
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‘Gravity,’ ’12 Years a Slave’ share Hollywood producers’ top prize
(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
(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
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
(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
(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’
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
(Reuters) – Set in the plantations of sweltering southern Louisiana and based on the 1853 memoir of a free black man sold into slavery, “12...