Malcolm X (1992 film)

CTL-E-5470 · Work · film · 1992

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Malcolm X, directed by Spike Lee and co-written by Lee with Arnold Perl from The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley, was released by Warner Bros. in the United States on November 18, 1992 — a three-hour epic following Malcolm Little's path from Boston and Harlem street life through prison conversion to the Nation of Islam, the break with Elijah Muhammad, the hajj, and the assassination this graph's timeline records under 1965. The Library of Congress selected it for the National Film Registry in 2010. Denzel Washington won the New York Film Critics Circle's Best Actor award and was nominated for the Academy Award; Ruth E. Carter was nominated for her costume design. Its completion became a documented case of Black celebrity capital rescuing a Black historical epic: when the completion funds were cut off in post-production, Lee raised money from figures including Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jordan, and Bill Cosby to finish the film on his terms. The graph files the film beside, and distinct from, the Person record and the autobiography — three records, three mediums, one life argued over by all of them.

The record

• Also known as: Malcolm X

Notes

Statistics: Warner Bros., 1992; National Film Registry 2010. Namesake adjudication (Gate A): CTL-E-0364 is the Person; CTL-E-1620 is the autobiography (book). The film was ABSENT and is filed with the year disambiguator. Staged edge: authored_by Spike Lee (CTL-E-1754). · Curator's Judgment: DRAFT — for founder review: Lee fought a studio for the length, the budget, and the meaning of this film, and finished it with a passing of the hat among the famous. The record preserves the financing beside the honors — for a citation graph, how a Black epic got completed is part of the citation. · Photo slot: HELD — poster/key art and production stills for this title are copyrighted studio material and were NOT pulled (per CTL-PHOTO-001 and the wave brief: never force non-free key art); no cleared Commons image was verified for this title in this run. Slot honestly HELD pending a cleared visual.

Relationships

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  Malcolm X (1992 film) was directed by Spike Lee (CTL-E-1754) and co-written by Lee with Arnold Perl, per the film record (Wikipedia, "Malcolm X (1992 film)").

Sources

• Wikipedia, 'Malcolm X (1992 film)' — supports: director and co-writer, the Autobiography basis, Warner Bros., the November 18, 1992 US release, the 2010 National Film Registry selection, Washington's awards line, Carter's nomination, and the completion-financing history (carried here as reported in the production record) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X_(1992_film)

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