Following the controversy’s flareup in digital media, cable news shows are now dissecting the depiction of president Lyndon B. Johnson clashing with Martin Luther King Jr. over voting rights in critically acclaimed drama “Selma.”
MSNBC led the charge with hosts Steve Kornacki, Chris Matthews and Chris Hayes all dedicating segments on their respective programs to analyzing the controversy surrounding director Ava DuVernay‘s film. Despite the outcry among political insiders, the film has received universal praise from film critics on review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes, and is nominated for four Golden Globe awards.
Also Read: ‘Selma’ Controversy Grows Over...
MSNBC led the charge with hosts Steve Kornacki, Chris Matthews and Chris Hayes all dedicating segments on their respective programs to analyzing the controversy surrounding director Ava DuVernay‘s film. Despite the outcry among political insiders, the film has received universal praise from film critics on review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes, and is nominated for four Golden Globe awards.
Also Read: ‘Selma’ Controversy Grows Over...
- 1/6/2015
- by Greg Gilman
- The Wrap
It was inevitable, with so many inspired-by-a-true-story films in the Oscar race, that there would be grumbling about the inaccuracies of various awards-contending movies. This year, however, all those complaints seemed to emerge at once, mostly during the past week. And the gripes are especially bitter, seemingly aimed not just at questioning the movies' factuality but also at sabotaging their chances of winning awards. It's this sort of mudslinging that has many observers wondering if those who complain are actually doing the bidding of campaigners for competing films and performers.
The loudest trash talk last week came from gold-medal-winning Olympic wrestler Mark Schultz, who is played by Channing Tatum in the awards-contender "Foxcatcher." Noticing that reviewers of the recently-released films have found a subtext of homosexuality in the movie (though it's all in the way that creepy coach John du Pont, played by Steve Carell, behaves toward Schultz, and not...
The loudest trash talk last week came from gold-medal-winning Olympic wrestler Mark Schultz, who is played by Channing Tatum in the awards-contender "Foxcatcher." Noticing that reviewers of the recently-released films have found a subtext of homosexuality in the movie (though it's all in the way that creepy coach John du Pont, played by Steve Carell, behaves toward Schultz, and not...
- 1/5/2015
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
Days away from the wide release of “Selma,” a controversy around the film is gaining steam as historians take issue with its depiction of president Lyndon B. Johnson clashing with Martin Luther King, Jr. over voting rights.
In a lengthy New York Times story about historians taking issue with the movie, Diane McWhorter, the author of “Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution,”argued Thursday that the movie is not truthful in depicting Lbj (played by Tom Wilkinson) fighting King on staging protests in Selma.
“Everybody has to take license in movies like this,...
In a lengthy New York Times story about historians taking issue with the movie, Diane McWhorter, the author of “Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution,”argued Thursday that the movie is not truthful in depicting Lbj (played by Tom Wilkinson) fighting King on staging protests in Selma.
“Everybody has to take license in movies like this,...
- 1/2/2015
- by Alicia Banks
- The Wrap
Oscar voting opened Monday, and like clockwork, the haters have come calling. As Deadline’s Pete Hammond wrote on Monday, ’tis the season for controversy over fact-based awards contenders: Now, Bennett Miller’s real-life Olympian tragedy Foxcatcher and Tim Burton’s art exposé Big Eyes have joined Mlk Jr. drama Selma, the Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game and Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken in ducking for cover over accuracy issues in mixing fact-based stories with narrative structure.
Olympic wrestler Mark Schultz, who’s played by Channing Tatum in Foxcatcher, publicly supported the film through its November theatrical release. That changed drastically in a series of angry online rants this week as Schultz turned on the Golden Globe-nominated pic, which won Miller the Best Director prize at Cannes. He blasted Miller and the film on Facebook after he read reviews dwelling on the suggestion of a sexual relationship between him and...
Olympic wrestler Mark Schultz, who’s played by Channing Tatum in Foxcatcher, publicly supported the film through its November theatrical release. That changed drastically in a series of angry online rants this week as Schultz turned on the Golden Globe-nominated pic, which won Miller the Best Director prize at Cannes. He blasted Miller and the film on Facebook after he read reviews dwelling on the suggestion of a sexual relationship between him and...
- 1/1/2015
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
For the next nine days, Oscar voters can cast their ballots to choose the nominees for the 67th Academy Awards.
That’s nine days for the oddest, most unsettled Oscar race in years to start making sense — but from the looks of things, it’s going to take the nominations themselves to bring a small amount of clarity to a year of few sure things, lots of question marks and no real frontrunners.
The last week has seen a number of contenders finally open in theaters, including “Selma,” “Unbroken,” “American Sniper,” “Into the Woods” and “Big Eyes.” This week, “A Most Violent Year...
That’s nine days for the oddest, most unsettled Oscar race in years to start making sense — but from the looks of things, it’s going to take the nominations themselves to bring a small amount of clarity to a year of few sure things, lots of question marks and no real frontrunners.
The last week has seen a number of contenders finally open in theaters, including “Selma,” “Unbroken,” “American Sniper,” “Into the Woods” and “Big Eyes.” This week, “A Most Violent Year...
- 12/30/2014
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Esther Zuckerman reports, "In the wake of criticisms of 'Selma'’s characterization of President Lyndon B. Johnson, director Ava DuVernay argued that people should 'interrogate history.' In a Dec. 26 opinion piece for The Washington Post, Joseph A. Califano Jr., who was Johnson’s top assistant for domestic affairs, wrote that Selma 'falsely portrays President Lyndon B. Johnson as being at odds with Martin Luther King Jr. and even using the FBI to discredit him, as only reluctantly behind the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and as opposed to the Selma march itself.' Califano argued that 'Selma was Lbj’s idea' and concluded that 'the movie should be ruled out this Christmas and during the ensuing awards season.' On Sunday, Selma director DuVernay took to Twitter to combat Califano’s claims. She wrote that the 'notion that Selma was Lbj’s idea is jaw dropping and offensive to Sncc,...
- 12/30/2014
- Gold Derby
In the wake of criticisms of Selma's characterization of President Lyndon B. Johnson, director Ava DuVernay argued that people should "interrogate history." In a Dec. 26 opinion piece for The Washington Post, Joseph A. Califano Jr., who was Johnson's top assistant for domestic affairs, wrote that Selma "falsely portrays President Lyndon B. Johnson as being at odds with Martin Luther King Jr. and even using the FBI to discredit him, as only reluctantly behind the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and as opposed to the Selma march itself." Califano argued that "Selma was Lbj’s idea" and concluded that "the movie...
- 12/29/2014
- by Esther Zuckerman
- EW - Inside Movies
In Ava DuVernay's acclaimed new film Selma, Martin Luther King Jr. works to forge an uneasy alliance with President Lyndon B. Johnson in order to constitutionally codify voting rights — a quest that the film portrays as a long and arduous one, since Johnson's initial reluctance to address the issue was what prompted King to stage his famous march from Selma to Montgomery. Over the weekend, DuVernay's film came under criticism from one of Johnson's top aides, Joseph A. Califano Jr., who wrote in the Washington Post, "Contrary to the portrait painted by Selma, Lyndon Johnson and Martin Luther King Jr. were partners in this effort. Johnson was enthusiastic about voting rights and the president urged King to find a place like Selma and lead a major demonstration." DuVernay forcefully rebutted that notion on Twitter, calling Califano's claims "jaw-dropping and offensive," but in the meantime, you can check out her...
- 12/29/2014
- by Kyle Buchanan
- Vulture
And we're truly off. Ballots are in hands. Academy voters, who hopefully spent as much time soaking up the year's offerings through screeners and screenings over the holiday break as they did hitting the slopes, will be putting pencil to paper, finger to keyboard beginning Monday with an 11-day voting window closing on Jan. 8. Let's see what's happening in the lead-up to that stretch… At the box office, "Unbroken" is all the rage. The film, already riding the coattails of a best-selling book, took advantage of a holiday release frame that had very little in the way of adult drama competition. It was ultimately critic-proof, as audiences are digging it and Academy members may well, too. On the limited release side of things, meanwhile, was "American Sniper," which sailed to a record $212,000 average from four theaters over the four-day weekend. Each film landed in the "A" Cinemascore range with audiences,...
- 12/29/2014
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
Political satirist Stephen Colbert comes in at No. 4 in "Extra's" Entertainer of the Year poll.
Surprising? Not really. Since the comedian took his "The Daily Show" persona and created his own Comedy Central show "The Colbert Report" in 2005, his particular slant on today's political scene has been a hit, mixing comedy with politics.
This year has been an especially hilarious one for the bombastic host, in which he has skewered everything from the oil spill,...
Surprising? Not really. Since the comedian took his "The Daily Show" persona and created his own Comedy Central show "The Colbert Report" in 2005, his particular slant on today's political scene has been a hit, mixing comedy with politics.
This year has been an especially hilarious one for the bombastic host, in which he has skewered everything from the oil spill,...
- 11/16/2010
- Extra
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