Jonathan Demme made a film steeped in black culture and superstitions, where ghosts exist and the dead come back. ![]() Winfrey lacked the acting depth to make the film work, but as producer, and owner to the rights of the book, she wanted the part and cast herself. Let me be clear, without Oprah Winfrey, without her casting in the film, with a real actor, say Angela Basset or a young Viola Davis, this wins the Academy Award and I would consider it a near masterpiece. You can watch several of these black movies on Netflix, Hulu or Amazon Prime. With all that said, here’s the the list of top African-American movies ever made. There was recently a controversy that the Academy was not paying attention to black artists, and slowly, that is being rectified with directors, writers and cinematographers of colour winning and getting nominated for several awards. Each and every character he played was always the smartest guy in the room. Gradually, more and more black actors were nominated for Oscars, but from the eighties, through the 2000s, the door opened and closed for various reasons.Įddie Murphy reigned through the eighties as the top box office star, but his characters were not grounded in any reality. ‘Sounder’ (1972), another popular black film from that period, is an honest exploration of a poverty-stricken family during the Depression. It became very popular among white audiences. ![]() ![]() ‘Shaft’ (1971) played a huge role in changing attitudes about blacks in films. In the seventies, things became better with the cult movement of blaxploitation films.
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