'Red Tails' defeats 'Beasts,' 'Django Unchained' and 'Flight' at the NAACP Image Awards

Posted by · 6:43 pm · February 1st, 2013

I suppose it’s a bit of a surprise that the George Lucas-produced “Red Tails” beat out some stiff Oscar competition in Benh Zeitlin’s “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained” and Robert Zemeckis’s “Flight,” so there it is.

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Roundup: Are we getting too precious about 'The Master?'

Posted by · 4:40 am · September 27th, 2012

Plus: Parsing the Bat’s Oscar hopes, and ‘Won’t Back Down’ pushback.

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Viola Davis settles into leading-lady status

Posted by · 3:03 pm · March 13th, 2012

Undaunted by her recent Oscar loss, Viola Davis is asserting her post-Oscar clout by producing her first solo leading vehicle: a biopic of pioneering congresswoman Barbara Jordan.

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