Selma (2014 film)

CTL-E-5471 · Work · film · 2014

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Selma, directed by Ava DuVernay from Paul Webb's screenplay and distributed by Paramount Pictures, opened in limited release on December 25, 2014, and wide on January 9, 2015, dramatizing the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery marches and the campaign that produced the Voting Rights Act — events this graph's timeline wave records as CTL-E-5427 and CTL-E-5429. It holds two firsts: the first film directed by a Black woman to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and, in DuVernay's Golden Globe nomination, the first Best Director nomination for a Black woman. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for 'Glory,' written and performed by John Legend and Chicago's own Common, and was named Outstanding Motion Picture at the NAACP Image Awards, where David Oyelowo won Outstanding Actor for his portrayal of King. DuVernay's extensive uncredited rewriting of the screenplay has been reported since; the credit line stands as filed. The graph places Selma as the film shelf's civil-rights centerpiece — the movement's most consequential ninety days, made by the director who inherited its camera.

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• Also known as: Selma

Notes

Statistics: Paramount Pictures, 2014. Companion graph records: Selma to Montgomery Marches (CTL-E-5427) and Voting Rights Act of 1965 (CTL-E-5429), landed in Wave 1 of this same run. Director Ava DuVernay holds no graph Person record — flagged as a future candidate. · Curator's Judgment: DRAFT — for founder review: Selma did not ask permission to be the movement's prestige film; it arrived with the marches' own structure — patience, provocation, federal answer. The graph files it where it belongs: one shelf from the events themselves, so a reader can walk from the record of 1965 to its definitive dramatization in two steps. · 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.

Sources

• Wikipedia, 'List of accolades received by Selma' — supports: the Best Picture first, DuVernay's Golden Globe directing first, the Best Original Song Oscar for 'Glory,' and the NAACP Image Awards (Outstanding Motion Picture; Oyelowo, Outstanding Actor) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accolades_received_by_Selma
• BroadwayWorld, 'Ava DuVernay's Critically Acclaimed Epic SELMA Out on Blu-ray…' (2015) — supports: director and Paramount distribution, the December 25, 2014 / January 9, 2015 release pattern — https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/Ava-DuVernays-Critically-Acclaimed-Epic-SELMA-Out-on-Blu-ray-Combo-Pack-Today-20150504
• NPR Illinois, 'The Chi Falls Short Of Giving The South Side Its Own Wire' (2018) — supports, at the bounded level this record claims: Common identified in Chicago coverage as a Chicago artist and executive producer of The Chi — https://www.nprillinois.org/arts-life/2018-01-12/the-chi-falls-short-of-giving-the-south-side-its-own-wire

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