Selma, directed by Ana DuVernay, written by Paul Webb, and starring David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Wendell Pierce, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Tom Wilkinson, and Oprah Winfrey, comes to nineteen theaters on ...

A Paramount Pictures photo of “Selma,” from left to right: Tessa Thompson plays Diane Nash, Omar Dorsey plays James Orange, Colman Domingo plays Ralph Abernathy, David Oyelowo plays Martin Luther King ...

Filmmaker Ava DuVernay and her Martin Luther King Jr drama Selma took home top honors from the African-American Film Critics Association, which awarded Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor (David ...

In an exclusive behind-the-scenes featurette about the film and the actual history, men like Andrew Young and John Lewis who were there, as well as the cast and crew, discuss the importance of ...

"White, colored or otherwise, come to Selma": Capturing a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement. Source: Harpo Films In Selma, Alabama, the Edmund Pettus Bridge, named after a Confederate ...

The civil rights drama "Selma" had a special premiere at AFI Fest on Tuesday night, and the response was rapturous. Focusing on the march led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from Selma to Montgomery, ...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Selma, the first studio film to center around Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is the big winner among the critics representing the African-American Film Critics Association (AAFCA).

Bradford Young’s work on Ava DuVernay’s civil rights biopic Selma and JC Chandor’s A Most Violent Year landed him on Hollywood’s radar this Oscar season, but it also illuminates the diversity lacking ...

The march for civil rights was a long one — and it grows longer, and wider, all the time — so the question for any filmmaker is, What part of it are you going to tell? The bombing in Birmingham?

Critic Bob Mondello reviews Selma, Ava DuVernay's film chronicling Martin Luther King Jr.'s historic voting-rights march in 1965. Mondello notes that recent protests make the film resonate today. The ...

Selma, one of the most highly anticipated films of the year, was just named the top film of 2014 by the African-American Film Critics Association (AAFCA). The association, which honors Black films and ...