did oprah win an oscar for the color purple
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The Color Purple  (film) The Color Purple was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actress for Goldberg and Best Supporting Actress for both Avery and Winfrey. It failed to win any of them, tying the record set by 1977's The Turning Point for the most Oscar nominations without a single win.
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Oprah WinfreyRipped By Ex Co-Star'She Would Have Been a Field N**ger' Oprah Winfrey Ripped By Ex Co-Star 'She Would Have Been a Field N**ger'. 1 7/19/2013 8:00 AM PDT BY TMZ STAFF. 11:00 AM PT -- Rae Dawn Chong just released a video response on YouTube, saying she meant the n-word as a compliment. Oprah Winfrey's former Color Purple co-star Rae Dawn Chong just UNLOADED on the talk show queen -- claiming O is a self-centered fat biotch who would have been a field n**ger back in the slave days.
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TCM On Demand (Comcast) Andrae Crouch helped Michael Jackson arrange the song. The gospel star also arranged music for the 1985 film The Color Purple, which earned him an Academy Award nomination. Crouch was dyslexic and for help him create this song he drew a mirror with an image in it.
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OSCARS 2015: Eddie Redmayne too choked to speak as he takes best actor Oscar for Hawking biopic while Birdman flies off with four statues - and Julianne Moore wins best actress for Still Alice The Oscar went to Graham Moore won for The Imitation Game and thanked 'the Academy and Oprah Winfrey' for the award. Moore revealed in his speech that when he was 16-years-old he tried to commitment suicide.
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The Color Purple Her impressive portrayal is complimented by a distinguished cast that includes Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Avery, Adolph Caesar, Rae Dawn Chong and Akosua Busia. The Color Purple marks a new, more mature color in Spielberg's artistic palette. It is an exquisitely crafted, landmark film that will be treasured and talked about for years to come. NOTE:The disc is a double-sided disc. Please flip over to watch the rest of the movie.
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Academy Award for Best Actress Jessica Lange was nominated five times, winning once in 1994 for her role in Blue Sky. Hilary Swank won this award twice for her roles in 1999's Boys Don't Cry and 2004's Million Dollar Baby. Halle Berry won in 2001 for her lead role in Monster's Ball, thus become the first black actress to win this category. Charlize Theron won in 2003 for her performance in Monster.
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The Color PurpleReunion The Color Purple is a heart-wrenching journey inside a world few films have dared to explore. This critically acclaimed epic, which was adapted from Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel and directed by Steven Spielberg, chronicles the lives of poor African-American women born in Georgia in the early 1900s.
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OTRC: Halle Berry wins Academy Award for 'Monster's Ball' - Oscar History (Video) Throughout this Oscar season, we are looking back at some of the great moments in Academy Awards history. At the 74th Academy Awards in 2002, actress Halle Berry became the first black woman to win an Oscar for Actress in a Leading Role, given for her part in Monster's Ball.. It marked Berry's first Academy Award win overall. Actor Russell Crowe presented her with the Oscar.
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Emmys 2014: Kate Mulgrew loses vanity, wins an Emmy nom for 'Orange' Emmys 2014: Kate Mulgrew loses vanity, wins an Emmy nom for 'Orange'. — that gave the 59-year-old actress her first Emmy nomination on Thursday morning. We spoke with Mulgrew early Thursday from New York, where the series is now shooting its third season.
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Oprah Finally Wins An Oscar â Well Sort Of Oprah Winfrey hasn’t captured that elusive Oscar trophy—but Sunday’s awards show brought the former daytime queen closer than ever before.
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Oscars 2012: The Artist triumphs with five Academy Awards Meryl Streep won her third Oscar last night, but The Artist was evening's big winner taking five awards including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director. By Florence Waters. 7:06AM GMT 27 Feb 2012. The Artist, a black and white tribute to Hollywood's golden age, is the first silent film to take the main award since the Oscars began 83 years ago. The film, which has been described as the most joyful movie of the year, took three of the five big awards at this year's Oscars including Best Actor for Jean Dujardin.
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The Color Purple  (film) Siskel wrote that The Color Purple was a plea for respect for black women. Although acknowledging that the film was a period drama, he praised its ... incredibly strong stand against the way black men treat black women.
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Oscars 2013: Anne Hathaway realizes her dream âcame true,â beaming as her Oscar is engraved Oscars 2013: Anne Hathaway realizes her dream ‘came true,’ beaming as her Oscar is engraved. Hathaway gets emotional as she has her new Oscar engraved. Anne Hathaway was perhaps the most emotional winner at the Oscars Sunday night. The 30-year-old Les Miserables star won her first Academy Award for Supporting Actress after her performance in the movie-musical, and upon winning she kept her composure with a heartfelt list of people to thank. It wasn't until Hathaway got backstage that the reality seemingly set in.
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What Disappoints Halle Berry About Her Oscar Win What Disappoints Halle Berry About Her Oscar Win. To this day, Halle Berry is the only African American actress to win the Best Actress trophy at the Academy Awards for her role in Marc Forster's Monster's Ball. This is a fact that doesn't sit well with the actress who's taken risks, both good and bad, with her post-Oscar career.
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The Color Purple The Color Purple 4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 · rating details · 343,419 ratings · 6,543 reviews. The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction.
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Oscars: The best dresses of all time Oscars: The best dresses of all time – When an Oscar dress in yellow is done right, it becomes unforgettable. The canary gown Michelle Williams wore to the 2006 Oscars, when she was nominated for best supporting actress for Brokeback Mountain, was as buzzed-about as the groundbreaking film.
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From 1955 to Now: The Oscar Dresses We Can't Forget (and Don't Want To!) 2. Grace Kelly, 1955. Grace Kelly won an Oscar for The Country Girl in a classic ice-blue design by Edith Head. The gown, which was originally created for the movie's premiere, was cut from a bolt of $4,000 French satin and paired with a matching evening coat.
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Emmy Awards: HBO, Jon Hamm and Viola Davis win big Emmy Awards: HBO, Jon Hamm and Viola Davis win big. At the 67th Emmy Awards, HBO's Veep won for best comedy series, and its Game of Thrones won for best drama series. HBO's Olive Kitteridge also cleaned up with six wins. Jon Hamm has finally won for lead actor in a drama for Mad Men after many nominations, and Viola Davis became the first African American woman to win for lead actress in a drama.
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- Directed by Stephen Spielberg and written by Alice Walker, it was a dream of Oprah to appear in the 1985 film The Color Purple.
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Pink Sings âSomewhere Over the Rainbowâ at the 2014 Academy Awards Pink Sings ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ at the 2014 Academy Awards. Barbara DeFranco / March 2, 2014. share. Pink was on hand to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the classic film The Wizard of Oz at the 2014 Academy Awards as she sang the classic tune “ Somewhere Over the Rainbow .”. The full 2014 Academy Awards winners list. The 34-year old acrobatic singer kept it simple and serene as she took the stage to honor film legend Judy Garland and her offspring, including Liza Minnelli who was in the audience to commemorate the occasion. Check out the video above to see Pink’s performance of the classic tune.
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- Whoopi Goldberg is one of a very elite group of artists who have won the Grammy (Whoopi Goldberg, 1985), the Academy Award (Ghost, 1991), the Golden Globe (The Color Purple, 1985 and Ghost, 1991), the Emmy (as host of AMC's Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel, 2002 and a Daytime Emmy for The View in 2009) and a Tony ( ...
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- COLOUR. 1  Throughout its first 73 years until March 2002, the Best Actor Oscar had only been won by a black man once-by SIDNEY POITIER for 2  . The Lilies In The Field  in 1963, despite the emergence of strong roles for coloured actors and actresses from the 1960s onwards.
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- Halle Berry Makes History With Oscar Win. A weeping, shaking Halle Berry has become the first black woman to win a best actress Oscar, sending crashing a colour bar that has stood for 74 years.
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'The Color Purple' Is a Cultural Touchstone for Black Female Self-Love And when a friend texted me that she was eloping, I responded by sending her a scene from the movie. Thirty years since its film adaptation, The Color Purple lingers as perhaps the cultural touchstone for black women in America, a kind of lingua franca of familiarity and friendship. Alice Walker—a former Ms. Magazine editor, the daughter of sharecroppers—published The Color Purple in 1982. It was the first work by a black woman to win both the Pulitzer and National Book awards.
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Oprah Winfrey looks unrecognisable in bouffant blonde wig and heavy gold make-up as she films sci-fi flick A Wrinkle In Time Oprah Winfrey looks unrecognisable in bouffant blonde wig and heavy gold make-up as she films sci-fi flick A Wrinkle In Time. By Kate Thomas for MailOnline. Published: 07:29 EST, 3 February 2017 | Updated: 07:30 EST, 3 February 2017