Writer-director Andre Gaines takes Amiri Baraka's 1964 play about the encounter between a reserved Black man and a roguish ...

Here, Clay, played by Al Freeman Jr., is a fool too easily lured by Lula ... Additional moments like these, in which Gaines and his actors find their own way through the text, would have made ...

More from The Hollywood Reporter Blake Lively Debuts New 'Simple Favor' Movie to a Warm Welcome at SXSW Amid Legal ... Here, Clay, played by Al Freeman Jr., is a fool too easily lured by Lula’s ...

One of Sidney Poitier’s best movies ... the first Black Actor to ever win the award. Great stuff! In this romantic drama that also stars Richard Gere, Louis Gossett Jr. plays a hard-nosed ...

The 2025 Academy Awards have concluded with Sean Baker’s Cinderella-stripper caper, Anora, becoming the evening’s big winner, ...

Its star Mikey Madison was crowned best actress.Twenty-two years after winning best actor for "The ... Hackman honoredMorgan ...

“Where did we fall in love with the movies? At the movie theater,” Baker ... The night’s first award, presented by Robert ...

"Oppenheimer" won the most awards at the 96th Academy Awards, held March 10, 2024, with the six others being best picture, best director (Christopher Nolan), supporting actor (Robert Downey Jr ...