Monster's Ball

...it could surprise." Notes on a Season • Before he was a director, "Precious" helmer Lee Daniels produced pictures, including "Monster's Ball" which won Halle Berry the best actress Oscar in 2001. His second film as a producer -- "The...

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...of the film's strength comes 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...

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

...was in Tennessee, a film Daniels produced. Daniels has tackled controversial 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...

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...ideal, and seeing that person in the mirror makes her smile one of her rare smiles. This film marks Lee Daniels' second turn as a director, but he made a name for himself as a producer of such masterful works as MONSTER'S BALL and the...

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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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...and "Monster's Ball," for which Halle Berry won an Oscar for best actress. It turned out Sapphire admired "Monster's Ball" and agreed to sell him the rights. One of course, is Sidibe, a college student making her first film, whom Daniels...

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

...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 dais and Sean Combs to...

In this article: Lee Daniels, Sapphire, Vancouver, Homophobia, Oscar, 2009 Sundance Film Festival, Mariah Carey, Halle Berry, and Kevin Bacon

...that the 49-year-old filmmaker has come 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...

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