Halle Berry

...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 by Kevin...

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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...

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...from choices made by director Lee Daniels, a one-time casting 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...

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...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...

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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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...eyes as he sits back near a crackling fire in a wood-panelled Vancouver bar. As the producer of The Woodsman, a movie that featured Kevin Bacon as a sympathetic pedophile, and Monster's Ball, the movie that propelled Halle Berry to the Oscar...

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...of an Academy Award-earning film. It was a critical and box-office success, and was nominated for two Academy Awards in 2002: Best Original Screenplay and Best Actress, for which Halle Berry won the Oscar. Daniels's next producing effort...

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...Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, director Rob Reiner and actress Sally Field. Obama has actresses Halle Berry and Scarlett Johansson and labor leader Maria Elena Durazo. Former senator John Edwards, who had 10% support in the USA TODAY/Gallup...

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