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...prepare to be asked to play everything raw. Halle Berry won her Oscar for "Monster's Ball," which Daniels produced, and that whole performance was about tearing down any image of her as glamorous. And in "The Woodsman," Kevin Bacon plays the...

In this article: Lee Daniels, Shadowboxer, Mo'Nique, Drew McWeeny, Halle Berry, Oscar, DVD, and Cancer

...projects that sit outside the box; the first film he produced, Monster's Ball, dealt with an interracial relationship (and won an Oscar for lead Halle Berry) and the second, The Woodsman offered a sympathetic portrayal of a pedophile (played...

In this article: Mo'Nique, Lee Daniels, Sapphire, Oscar, Mariah Carey, Oprah Winfrey, Tyler Perry, and Lehman College

...agent who went on to produce of such films as MONSTER'S BALL (the film that got Halle Berry her Oscar) and THE WOODSMAN (the film that should have gotten Kevin Bacon one as well). In 2005, Daniels directed his first film, SHADOWBOXER with...

In this article: Lee Daniels, Shadowboxer, The Woodsman, Mariah Carey, Oprah Winfrey, Ain't It Cool News, New York, Oscar, and HIV

...Los Angeles, California .... Filmmaker LEE DANIELS is shocked to hear his new film PRECIOUS has been tipped for success at the upcoming Academy Awards - because he is so used to disappointment at the Oscars. The director was hoping to...

In this article: Lee Daniels, Academy Awards, The Woodsman, All rights reserved, Sapphire, Kevin Bacon, Hollywood, and California

...and manager. He then decided to produce movies and found financing for several edgy films, including Monster's Ball, which won an Oscar for Halle Berry, and The Woodsman, a stark study of pedophilia starring Kevin Bacon. Daniels' movies,...

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"Precious" is Daniels' second film as a director, but he produced two other gritty works: "The Woodsman," with Kevin Bacon as a convicted sex offender, and "Monster's Ball," for which Halle Berry won an Oscar for best actress. It...

In this article: Lee Daniels, Paula Patton, Sapphire, Mariah Carey, Oprah Winfrey, Tyler Perry, Slumdog Millionaire, and Monster's Ball

...signings. Find out more at harvardsquare.com. The sleeper hit "My One and Only" features Academy Award-winner Renee Zellweger at her most appealing and vulnerable as Anne Hamilton Devereaux. A cross between Marilyn Monroe and Auntie Mame,...

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...at artistically more than any others. It's there in the films he's produced including 2001's "Monster's Ball," which won an Oscar for Halle Berry as a black woman involved with the white racist prison guard who presided over her...

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...is 2. The movie What the Bleep Do We Know!?, which featured both persons published in the sciences and an actress with Bacon number 2 (Academy Award winner Marlee Matlin), gave Erdos-Bacon numbers to David Albert (Erdos 4, Erdos-Bacon...

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