Mira Nair
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‘Mississippi Masala’ Is Still Denzel Washington’s Most Vulnerable Performance, Mira Nair Says
“He tells me himself that this is the only time where he completely let his guard down,” the director says of the recently re-released 1991 indie romance
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Why ‘A Suitable Boy’ Director Mira Nair Needed to Be the One to Adapt Novel: ‘It Is Us Who Need to Tell This Story’ (Video)
TIFF 2020: “Because it’s so much a portrait of our country and our culture and our people that it is us who need to tell this story”
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Natalie Portman Responds to Rose McGowan Diss: ‘I Agree’ I’m Not ‘Brave’
McGowan tore into Portman after she wore a cape embroidered with the names of snubbed female directors to the Oscars
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Cannes’ Female Troubles: Women Directors Have Always Been Scarce
TheWrap Cannes magazine: Since the festival began, only 4.3 percent of its competition films have been directed by women — and while the percentage is improving, it’s doing so slowly
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Oscars Gender Gap: Docs, Foreign Films Twice as Likely to Have Female Directors
Women directed just 11 percent of English-language features on the Academy’s eligibility list – compared to 19 percent of foreign-language submissions and 31 percent of documentaries
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11 Best Movies of 2016, From ‘La La Land’ to ‘Queen of Katwe’ (Photos)
TheWrap Best & Worst 2016: Film reviews editor Alonso Duralde breaks down the highlights from a very competitive year
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Oscar Dark Horse David Oyelowo on Finding ‘Rough Edges’ of a Saint in ‘Queen of Katwe’
TheWrap Magazine: Actor calls his role as a chess teacher “treacherous territory, because it could come off too sanctimonious or syrupy sweet”
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Could ‘Fences’ and ‘Hidden Figures’ Replace #OscarsSoWhite With #OscarsSoBlack?
Those films, along with “Loving,” “Moonlight,” “Collateral Beauty” and more, have the potential to spur a near-record number of non-white nominees
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‘Queen of Katwe’ Toronto Review: David Oyelowo Mentors a Chess Champ in Uplifting Tale
Toronto 2016: Director Mira Nair gives “inspirational” a good name with the powerful true story of real-life Ugandan chess champion Phiona Mutesi
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Toronto Film Festival Adds ‘Transparent’ Premiere, Conversations With Jonathan Demme and Cheryl Boone Isaacs
Five TV shows will debut in the Primetime section, while Demme, Isaacs and others will highlight the TIFF Industry Conference
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Watch First ‘Queen of Katwe’ Trailer: Lupita Nyong’o and the Joy of Chess (Video)
Fact-based film, also starring David Oyelowo, opens on Sept. 23
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All Female Directors’ Movies From the 6 Major Studios (Photos)
The number of women directing big-studio films has finally surpassed single digits. Here’s the complete list.
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Lupita Nyong’o and David Oyelowo in Talks for Disney’s ‘Queen of Katwe’
Mira Nair is directing from a script by William Wheeler
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‘Reluctant Fundamentalist’ Review: Missed Opportunity to Weigh In on Anti-Muslim Discrimination
This story of an America-loving Pakistani radicalized by post-9/11 racism couldn’t be more zeitgeist-y, but the film is an overblown slog
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Tribeca Film Fest Is Talkin’ to Clint Eastwood, Jay Roach, Whoopi Goldberg and More
"Tribeca Talks" programs will also include Ben Stiller, Darren Aronofsky, Gloria Steinem and Richard Linklater