As hard as it may be to believe, not a single Black director has taken home the prize for Best Director in the Oscars’ nearly 100-year history. Yes, you read that right, and no, it’s not hyperbole.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hollywood rarely gives Black female filmmakers many chances to direct and knock it out of the park. However, ...

Sundance Festival has launched countless top Black filmmaking talent like Barry Jenkins, Ryan Coogler, Dee Rees, and more. Film icon Robert Redford died Tuesday at the age of 89, but not before ...

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Have you seen Pariah? The 2011 coming-of-age film about a young lesbian was a Sundance darling. What about An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, a film that blended real-life actors with animation to ...

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Celebrating the Black film director visionaries behind the lens who have challenged narratives, redefined genres, and transformed the landscape of cinema. Black movie directors have always been at the ...

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Black movie directors have always been at the forefront of the film scene, whether we’re talking about the golden age of cinema or more modern movie-making. But everyone knows Black filmmakers don’t ...