Tag: When They See Us
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Hollywood, Stop Congratulating Ava DuVernay for Directing ‘Harriet’ and ‘Queen & Slim’
Ava DuVernay is the director of films such as “Selma,” “13th,” and “A Wrinkle in Time,” and she’s had an amazing 2019 thanks to her hugely successful four-part Netflix limited series “When They See Us.” The Central Park Five drama earned 11 Primetime Emmy nominations, including a win for leading actor Jharrel Jerome, and it’s…
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‘Game of Thrones’ Leads Casting Society’s Artios Awards Nominees
Hot on the heels of a shocking Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony, the Casting Society of America announced the television and theatre nominations for the 35th Artios Awards, honoring the contributions of casting directors to the arts.While Netflix’s “When They See Us,” which won casting for a limited series, and HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” which won…
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Lady Gaga, Post Malone Among 2019 World Soundtrack Awards Nominees
Lady Gaga, Post Malone and Kris Bowers are among the contenders for the 2019 World Soundtrack Awards.Other composers nominated for awards include Nicholas Britell (“If Beale Street Could Talk”), Alan Silvestri (“Avengers: Endgame”) and John Powell (“How to Train Your Dragon: Hidden World”) as well as Daniel Pemberton (“Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse”) and Benjamin Wallfisch…
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Central Park Five Prosecutor Slams ‘When They See Us’ as ‘Outright Fabrication’ Amid Backlash
Linda Fairstein, the former Manhattan sex-crimes prosecutor who played a key role in convicting the Central Park Five, is speaking out against Ava DuVernay’s Netflix limited drama series “When They See Us.” Fairstein penned an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal in which she calls the series an “outright fabrication.” Backlash against Fairstein has been…
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‘When They See Us’ Plaintiffs Awarded Additional $3.9M Compensation From New York State
In Netflix’s “When They See Us,” the Central Park Five-focused Ava DuVernay limited series, audiences learn that the five exonerated men sued New York City in 2003. Following a decade of uncertainty, the city finally settled with the plaintiffs for $41 million in 2014, and the five men pursued an additional $52 million in damages…
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‘When They See Us’: Central Park Five Prosecutor Linda Fairstein Faces Backlash After Series Release
Thirty years after the criminal case that tore New York City apart and forever altered the lives of five innocent young men, former Manhattan sex-crimes prosecutor Linda Fairstein is beginning to feel the heat for her involvement in the “Central Park Five” case, thanks to the recent release of Ava DuVernay’s Netflix miniseries “When They…
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‘When They See Us’ Featurette: Ava DuVernay’s New Netflix Show Spotlights Heartbreaking Injustice
The way the criminal justice system treated the Central Park Five – five boys who were arrested and incarcerated in 1989 for a rape they didn’t commit – is so far beyond terrible, so blatantly unjust, that it’s difficult to wrap my head around. But director Ava DuVernay (Selma, Middle of Nowhere) is shining a…
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‘When They See Us’: Ava DuVernay’s Central Park Five Story Is A Harrowing Tale Of American Injustice, Racism, Sorrow & Pain [Review]
From the first clapping boom bap beats of Special Ed and then Public Enemy (“Fight The Power”), director Ava DuVernay‘s four-part Netflix mini-series “When They See Us” surges with a propulsive urgency and harrowing sense of rage, indignation, and heartache that rarely breaks. The series is centered on the infamous Central Park Five case, one…
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Ava DuVernay: ‘I’ve always fiercely held on to my blackness’
The acclaimed film-maker faces her most ambitious project yet with an expansive Netflix miniseries about the injustices faced by the Central Park Five“I’d only be able to make this film now, having done everything I’ve done before,” says Ava DuVernay on an unseasonably warm afternoon in Manhattan. The acclaimed film-maker is answering questions at a…
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7 New Netflix Shows to Binge in May, and the Best Reasons to Watch
1. “When They See Us” (available May 31)Why Should I Watch? Ava DuVernay is bringing her keen directorial eye to yet another medium. The director of features like “Selma,” TV series like “Queen Sugar,” and documentaries like “13th” is trying her hand at the limited series format with “When They See Us,” a four-hour scripted…