Yahoo Web Search

Sign In

Search results

    • Filmmaker Ava DuVernay is a director

      Image courtesy of atlantablackstar.com

      atlantablackstar.com

      • Filmmaker Ava DuVernay is a director known for 'Selma,' '13th' and 'A Wrinkle in Time.' She is the first African American female director to receive a Golden Globe nomination and have a film nominated for a Best Picture Oscar.
      www.biography.com/movies-tv/ava-duvernay

      Ava DuVernay: Biography, Director, Movies, Age & Facts

  2. People also ask

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Selma_(film)Selma (film) - Wikipedia

    Selma is a 2014 historical drama film directed by Ava DuVernay and written by Paul Webb. It is based on the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches which were initiated and directed by James Bevel [5] [6] and led by Martin Luther King Jr., Hosea Williams, and John Lewis.

  4. www.imdb.com › title › tt1020072Selma (2014) - IMDb

    Selma: Directed by Ava DuVernay. With David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Jim France, Trinity Simone. A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.

    • (96K)
    • Biography, Drama, History
    • Ava DuVernay
    • 2015-01-09

  5. Images

    • Five Facts About 'Selma' Director Ava DuVernay - Essence
    • Selma Director Ava Duvernay Makes History Again ,Becoming The First ...
    • Selma Director Ava DuVernay to Helm Robert DeNiro's CBS Pilot
    • Interview: 'Selma' Director Ava DuVernay : NPR

    View all

  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Ava_DuVernayAva DuVernay - Wikipedia

    For her work on Selma (2014), a biopic about Martin Luther King Jr., DuVernay became the first African-American woman to be nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Director; the film went on to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

  7. www.npr.org › 2015/01/08 › 375756377Interview: Ava DuVernay, Director Of 'Selma' : NPR

    Jan 8, 2015 · Ava DuVernay, director of 'Selma' DuVernay says the heart of the story was the look on the marchers' faces as Alabama state troopers attacked them on what became known as "Bloody Sunday."...

  8. Videos

    View all

  9. www.bfi.org.uk › walk-with-me-ava-duvernay-selmaWalk with me: Ava DuVernay on Selma | Sight and Sound - BFI

    Jun 5, 2020 · Taking place mostly in 1965, when King was in Selma to organise marches pushing for legislation to end racial discrimination practices in voting and voter registration, DuVernay’s film captures an especially fraught and signifcant chapter in the battle for civil rights and in King’s life.

  10. www.biography.com › movies-tv › ava-duvernayAva DuVernay: Biography, Director, Movies, Age & Facts

    Mar 8, 2024 · Ava DuVernay worked in film publicity and marketing, and established her own agency, before deciding to become a filmmaker. She directed the Oscar-nominated historical drama Selma (2014),...

  11. www.bbc.com › culture › articleA fascinating exposé of global bigotry - BBC

    Sep 6, 2023 · In Ava DuVernay's startlingly scholarly drama about a black academic and her journey in writing a book about "caste" – the hierarchies created within human societies – our protagonist Isabel...