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Steve McQueen back in the awards race

LA Times

British filmmaker Steve McQueen, highly honored at home, is back in the Hollywood awards picture with his World War II drama “Blitz,” in which a young boy tries to make his way home through the perils of wartime to his single mother after they are separated. 1 McQueen won a best picture Academy Award for the searing 2013 drama “12 …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Historical drama and TV's reckoning with the past

BBC

Historical drama and TV's reckoning with the past Alamy Far from being a comforting vision of the past, the best period drama reclaims history for now. From the quietly subversive The Crown and Downton Abbey to the jolting, radical Small Axe, The Underground Railroad and Pose – all on BBC Culture's poll of the 100 greatest series of the 21st …

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3 years, 2 months ago

The greatest TV series of the 21st Century: Who voted

BBC

The greatest TV series of the 21st Century: Who voted Efe Suárez/ BBC We polled 206 TV experts from around the world for their greatest TV series of the 21st Century, here are their votes in full. Six Feet Under Jennifer Keishin Armstrong – Freelance TV journalist 1. Friday Night Lights Toby Earle – Freelance TV journalist 1. Game of …

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3 years, 3 months ago

‘How far have we bloody come?’ Inside Steve McQueen’s 40-year Black history project

LA Times

London’s West Indian community and the Black British experience are at the heart of three new documentaries from Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen. Despite the acclaim, “Small Axe” won’t be winning any Emmys during Sunday’s ceremony: The anthology, which won the Los Angeles Film Critics award for best picture late last year, was eligible for TV’s top prize rather than the …

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3 years, 6 months ago

BAFTA TV Awards 2021: Olly Alexander kicks off ceremony with a stellar performance

Daily Mail

Olly Alexander kicked off the 2021 British Academy Television Awards on Sunday with a stellar performance of his single Starstruck. Sensational: Olly Alexander, 30, kicked off the 2021 British Academy Television Awards on Sunday with a stellar performance of his single Starstruck Olly was every inch the showman in his mustard jacket and matching trousers, with both featured a contrasting …

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3 years, 6 months ago

How Colin Firth inspired ‘Bridgerton’ and other surprising stories from 6 top TV bosses

LA Times

Early this month before the confusion of the CDC’s notice that masks are no longer necessary, COVID and its devastating intrusions into life — and television productions — was top of mind for the six storytellers gathered remotely, some from as far away as Amsterdam, for The Envelope’s annual Showrunner Roundtable. “When I see someone even going for a handshake …

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3 years, 7 months ago

Steve McQueen finds the heroes next door in ‘Small Axe’ anthology

LA Times

Director Steve McQueen prepares so well before shooting that he says of filming in the moment, “We know what’s going to happen. The New York Post ran a story about him with the headline: “Steve McQueen knows he’s not very friendly.” McQueen doesn’t dispute it even though he possesses a generosity of spirit and a love for people that can …

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3 years, 7 months ago

BAFTA TV Awards 2021: Steve McQueen's Small Axe, Netflix's The Crown, I May Destroy You lead nominations

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Small Axe received 15 nominations, including the best director nod for Steve McQueen and acting nods for John Boyega and Letitia Wright, among others. Small Axe, a series of dramas exploring the experiences of London’s West Indian community from the 1960s to the 1980s, received 15 nominations on Wednesday for the British Academy Television Awards. Academy Award-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen …

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3 years, 7 months ago

BAFTA TV Awards 2021: Winners

Daily Mail

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3 years, 9 months ago

Steve McQueen explores love and community in ‘Small Axe’

LA Times

I’m Mark Olsen and welcome to the newsletter companion to “The Envelope: The Podcast,” where my cohost, Yvonne Villarreal, and I bring you highlights from each week’s episode. “Let’s all of us make an effort to expand that tent, so that everyone rises and everyone’s story has a chance to be seen and heard.” Where we normally have Times awards …

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3 years, 9 months ago

Golden Globe Awards 2021: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler mock HFPA, James Corden and Kate Hudson

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Tina Fey and Amy Poehler ripped the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for having no black members during their Golden Globes monologue to crowds mostly filled with first responders on Sunday. Sean Penn, pictured, was one of the celebrities who presented in person from Beverly Hills during the 78th Annual Golden Globe Awards Award honorees like Carol Burnett Award winner Norman …

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3 years, 9 months ago

Here’s the list of 2021 Golden Globe winners

LA Times

The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. Chloe Zhao and her film “Nomadland” and Sacha Baron Cohen and his film “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” each won top movie honors, while “Soul” also took home multiple prizes at the 78th Golden Globe Awards. Best motion picture — drama WINNER | “Nomadland” “The Father” “Mank” “Promising Young Woman” “The Trial of the Chicago 7” Actress …

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3 years, 10 months ago

Golden Globe Awards 2021: Lily Collins and Andra Day nominated

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The 78th Golden Globe Awards nominations were announced on Wednesday morning by Sarah Jessica Parker and Taraji P Henson while on the Today Show. Fun with her pooch: The star also shared this image with her dog as she said she was honored Lily Collins who was nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Musical …

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3 years, 10 months ago

Kate Hudson in, Spike Lee out and more Golden Globe chaos

Associated Press

The only thing predictable about the Golden Globe nominations are their unpredictability. Boseman was acknowledged, however, for “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” ANDRA DAY AND TAHAR RAHIM Both Andra Day and Tahar Rahim picked up lead acting nominations for movies that aren’t out yet, “The United States vs. Billie Holiday” and “The Mauritanian.” While Rahim has been widely praised for his …

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4 years ago

Film or television? Who cares? Why the L.A. Film Critics voted ‘Small Axe’ 2020’s best

LA Times

Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe,” an anthology of five films centered on the lives of Black people in Britain, won best picture from the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. GLENN WHIPP: Going into our vote, Justin, I had no idea how we were going to handle Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe” film anthology. With something as magnificent as “Small Axe,” labeling these …

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54 years, 11 months ago

Small Axe: Steven McQueen’s Amazon movies should be watched in this order.

Slate

Most anthology film and TV series don’t demand to be viewed in any particular way. You could ostensibly say the same thing about Steve McQueen’s Small Axe, an anthology film series which is presented as five “episodes” on Amazon, but there’s a logic to the order they’re in: Mangrove, Lovers Rock, Red, White and Blue, Alex Wheatle, and Education. All …

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4 years ago

The costume design in Steve McQueen’s ‘Small Axe’ is a rebellion of style

LA Times

The costume design throughout “Small Axe,” a collection of five films directed by Steve McQueen that depicts British West Indian life during a certain time, is a mosaic of precision details. “The style in ‘Small Axe’ is a small axe itself,” McQueen said, summoning the African proverb, popularized by Bob Marley and the Wailers in 1973. Jacqueline Durran, who won …

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4 years ago

The TV that helped us survive the chaos of 2020

BBC

The TV that helped us survive the chaos of 2020 Alamy We were never more plugged into television than in this extraordinary year – and from Tiger King to Schitt's Creek, it provided solace in myriad different ways, writes Hugh Montgomery. So here's a tribute to the viewing that got us through a year unlike any other: Alamy Reality TV …

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4 years ago

Alex Wheatle, review: Small Axe’s most conventional entry still brims with powerful images

The Independent

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The fourth and penultimate film in the …

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4 years, 1 month ago

‘Small Axe’ brings untold history to the screen. For Steve McQueen, it’s personal

LA Times

Steve McQueen, the first Black filmmaker to win the Oscar for best picture, has made films about the 1981 Irish hunger strike, sex addiction, American slavery and desperate women pushed to the brink. “These stories are the stories of the United Kingdom, of Britain,” says McQueen, speaking via video chat ahead of the series’ Friday Amazon debut. Movies Steve McQueen’s …

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4 years, 1 month ago

'Small Axe': A Searing Portrait Of Racism And A Community's Will To Survive

NPR

'Small Axe': A Searing Portrait Of Racism And A Community's Will To Survive Enlarge this image toggle caption Kieron McCarron/Amazon Prime Video Kieron McCarron/Amazon Prime Video Steve McQueen has made searingly powerful films about historical injustice, from slavery in the American South to a 1981 hunger strike in a Northern Irish prison. Sponsor Message The first film, Mangrove, is an …

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4 years, 1 month ago

In McQueen’s ‘Small Axe,’ an epic of West Indian heritage

Associated Press

NEW YORK — For Steve McQueen, bringing back the London of his childhood began with remembering the scents of his youth. In “Small Axe,” McQueen’s ambitious five-film anthology about London’s West Indian community, the “12 Years a Slave” director resurrects the British capital in the decades before its multicultural present, tracing the Caribbean immigrant experience through the racism of the …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Small Axe: A guide to all five episodes of Steve McQueen’s BBC series

The Independent

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4 years, 2 months ago

Small Axe: ‘The most exhilarating director working today’

BBC

Small Axe: ‘The most exhilarating director working today’ BBC/Amazon Prime Steve McQueen has followed 12 Years a Slave and Widows with a five-part anthology. They clarify the series title, which comes from a West Indian proverb about taking on the power structure: “If you are the big tree, we are the small axe.” At the centre of Mangrove is the …

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Steve McQueen back in the awards race

Historical drama and TV's reckoning with the past

The greatest TV series of the 21st Century: Who voted

‘How far have we bloody come?’ Inside Steve McQueen’s 40-year Black history project

BAFTA TV Awards 2021: Olly Alexander kicks off ceremony with a stellar performance

How Colin Firth inspired ‘Bridgerton’ and other surprising stories from 6 top TV bosses

Steve McQueen finds the heroes next door in ‘Small Axe’ anthology

BAFTA TV Awards 2021: Steve McQueen's Small Axe, Netflix's The Crown, I May Destroy You lead nominations

BAFTA TV Awards 2021: Winners

Steve McQueen explores love and community in ‘Small Axe’

Golden Globe Awards 2021: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler mock HFPA, James Corden and Kate Hudson

Here’s the list of 2021 Golden Globe winners

Golden Globe Awards 2021: Lily Collins and Andra Day nominated

Kate Hudson in, Spike Lee out and more Golden Globe chaos

Film or television? Who cares? Why the L.A. Film Critics voted ‘Small Axe’ 2020’s best

Small Axe: Steven McQueen’s Amazon movies should be watched in this order.

The costume design in Steve McQueen’s ‘Small Axe’ is a rebellion of style

The TV that helped us survive the chaos of 2020

Alex Wheatle, review: Small Axe’s most conventional entry still brims with powerful images

‘Small Axe’ brings untold history to the screen. For Steve McQueen, it’s personal

'Small Axe': A Searing Portrait Of Racism And A Community's Will To Survive

In McQueen’s ‘Small Axe,’ an epic of West Indian heritage

Small Axe: A guide to all five episodes of Steve McQueen’s BBC series

Small Axe: ‘The most exhilarating director working today’