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Hidden Figures garnered awards and nominations in a variety of categories, with particular recognition for its production values, screenplay, cast, and score. At the 89th Academy Awards , it received nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay , Best Picture and Best Supporting Actress (Spencer).
Hidden Figures is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder.It is loosely based on the 2016 non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly about three female African-American mathematicians: Katherine Goble Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe), who worked ...
The television series also garnered her two Primetime Emmy Award nominations in the same category. In 2016, she starred as NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson in the biographical drama Hidden Figures, which won her a MTV Movie Award for Best Hero and an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress.
Mahershala Ali (2016, won for Hidden Figures) Janelle Monáe (2016, won for Hidden Figures) Lucas Hedges (2017, won for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) Caleb Landry Jones (2017, won for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) Al Pacino (2019) Margot Robbie (2019) Chadwick Boseman (2020) Issa Rae (2023)
Theodore Melfi is an American filmmaker. His second film, St. Vincent starring Bill Murray, was released in 2014.In 2016, Melfi co-wrote (alongside Allison Schroeder), directed, and produced Hidden Figures, for which he received Oscar nominations for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. [1]
She won Best Adapted Screenplay at the Humanitas and Veritas Awards for co-writing Hidden Figures. [16] [17] Schroeder was also nominated for an Academy Award, BAFTA, and WGA Award. After Hidden Figures, Schroeder went on to co-write Christopher Robin starring Ewan McGregor for Disney, in which she said she spent months thinking up "Pooh-isms."
Spencer's roles as other black women in 1960s America, as Dorothy Vaughan in the biopic Hidden Figures (2016) and a cleaning woman in the fantasy The Shape of Water (2017), earned her two consecutive nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first black actress to achieve such feat, as well as the first, and to ...
Mandy Walker AM, ACS, ASC (born 1963), [1] is an Australian cinematographer.She is best known for the films Mulan, Hidden Figures and Elvis, the latter of which earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography.