NAACP Image Award Nominations
Honeydripper has been nominated for two NAACP Image Awards: Outstanding Independent or Foreign Film, and Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture.
From the press release:
The NAACP Image Awards honors projects and individuals that promote diversity in the arts in television, recording, literature and motion pictures. The theme of this year’s show is “Stand Up and Be Counted.” During this crucial election year, the NAACP encourages everyone to be socially conscious and take a stand on critical human and civil rights issues.
This year, over 1,200 entries were received. From those entries, a special committee of 300 industry professionals and NAACP leaders from across the country selected five nominees in each of 44 categories. Any artist, manager, publicist, production company, record label, studio, network or publishing house could submit an entry to the NAACP Image Awards. The final selections are voted on by NAACP members, and winners will be announced during the live airing of the 39th NAACP Image Awards.
Congratulations on the nods from NAACP. Any chance of seeing the script online?
Don
Comment by Don — January 10, 2008 @ 10:43 am
will this play be coming to the Maryland area?
Comment by Anika — January 29, 2008 @ 9:31 am
It certainly deserves these accolades. What amazes me is how several big city critics have called the movie cliched and stereotyped…I have now seen it three times, twice on DVD and once in the theater (it had its Alabama premiere Saturday night in the county where most of it was filmed) and as Maggie herself told me, “They (the critics) didn’t get it.”
John added, “Unfortunately, all some of them know of the south is from TV shows and movies.”
Well, I grew up in the south, returned to the south after 12 years away, and from talking with black and white people who saw and participated in the making of the movie, it got an awful lot of things right. If you listen to the wonderful New Beginnings choir sing and don’t feel the touch of God, you ain’t alive, folks!
Comment by Angie Long — February 4, 2008 @ 11:39 pm
Honeydripper is like an historical document about a pivotal moment in US music, the birth of rock & roll. Danny Glover plays an Alabama bar owner and piano player. Musicians Keb Mo, Mable John, Eddie Shaw and the outstanding young singer and guitarist Gary Clark Jnr and a repertoire of fine music complete the picture. Fran Leslie - Editor: Blues In Britain magazine
Comment by Fran Leslie — February 22, 2008 @ 6:14 am