HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Sidney Poitier celebrates his 92nd!
Poitier was only the second African American to win an Academy Award in any category. The first was Hattie McDaniel, who won in the Best Supporting Actress category in 1939 for Gone with the Wind.
#Oscars
#BHM
Sending gratitude to our gracious and talented host of the 3rd Annual AAFCA TV Honors
@YNB
We love you and wish you well with your upcoming Emmy nominations.
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Icon doesn't even begin to describe Cicely Tyson and her impact. The members of the African American Film Critics Association are absolutely devastated by her passing, and yet, so deeply grateful for her very existence. She will forever be remembered as a trailblazer and advocate
Watch our latest
#AAFCA
Roundtable with
#SteveMcQueen
as he talks about his latest
@PrimeVideo
documentaries and the importance of the Black gaze and Black critics. Full interview:
Congratulation to
@Lupita_Nyongo
on making history this past weekend with the opening of Jordan Peele’s ‘US’. This is the biggest opening of a movie featuring any woman of color as the…
Michael Schultz directed Cooley High on a $750,000 budget, but the film grossed $13,000,000.
The 1975 film continues to be a hit for it’s light-hearted approach to Black high school life and coming-of-age tale.
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#TBT
#AAFCA
The Last Black Man in San Francisco is the beautiful story of an intimate friendship between two Black men we always deserved.
To the backdrop of gentrification in the Bay Area, the film delves into family, masculinity, and forces audiences to question what home means.
#AAFCA
We are forever thankful for
#sidneypoitier
amazing career and what it has meant to Black Identity around the world. We sincerely appreciate his life of service. May your soul rest forever in peace!
OSCAR NOMINATIONS
Congrats to Spike Lee on his FIRST Oscar nomination for Best Director for
@BlacKkKlansman
. About damn time! He was also nominated for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.
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#Blackkklansman
THE BLACK EXPERIENCE ON FILM
@TCM
and
@theaafca
present ‘The Black Experience on Film’
13 acclaimed film critics examine 32 classic black movies all September on TCM. Watch every Tuesday and Thursday night!
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