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Hidden Figures: Won Outstanding Song – Traditional "I See a Victory" (Kim Burrell and Pharrell Williams) Won Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture: Octavia Spencer: Nominated National Board of Review Awards: January 4, 2017: Best Cast: Hidden Figures: Won [48] Top 10 Films: Hidden Figures: Won [g] Online Film Critics Society ...
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 ...
Colonel Bradford Taylor (Glynn Turman): served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, retired with the rank of colonel, ex-husband of Johanna, father of Suzanne and Terrence, professor of mathematics at Hillman (nicknamed "Dr. War" because of his reputation as a demanding professor), commander of the Hillman ROTC, became Dwayne's primary ...
Katherine Johnson, the black woman whose mathematical genius took her from a behind-the-scenes job in a segregated NASA as portrayed in the film "Hidden Figures" to a key role in sending humans to ...
James Houston Johnson Jr. [1] (16 December 1937 – 18 August 2023) was a retired lieutenant general in the United States Army. He had over 33 years of active military service, culminating as Commanding General of the First United States Army , responsible for 325,000 soldiers, from 1991 to 1993.
Katherine Johnson, an African-American mathematician who made critical contributions to the space program at NASA, died Feb. 24 at the age of 101.Johnson became a household name thanks to the ...
Henry James Johnson OBE, TD (1924–2008) was a Colonel in the British Army. He commanded the 21 SAS (TA), after which he led Britain's clandestine war against Egyptian forces in Yemen during the mid-1960s. After that he set up Britain's first post-war private military company.
In film he appeared in Westerns, war pictures, political thrillers, dramas, horror films, and other genres, generally assaying authority figures. Among his roles were playing a pastor and padre, sheriff and warden, doctor and professor, numerous judges and generals, and three times the President of the United States.