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Selma

October 2021

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December 2020

  • David Oyelowo: ‘I’m jealous of my peers – Benedict Cumberbatch never has to talk about his race.’

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September 2019

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May 2019

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February 2019

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October 2018

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March 2018

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March 2017

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    Actor wonders what ‘an American brother’ would have brought to Get Out and Selma instead of Daniel Kaluuya and David Oyelowo

February 2017

  • Director Ava DuVernay.

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    DuVernay’s last film, Selma, was overlooked at the Oscars. Her documentary 13th, which links Trump-era America to its racist past, is a hot favourite to win an award

November 2016

  • In this image released by Paramount Pictures, David Oyelowo portrays Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in a scene from "Selma," a film based on the slain civil rights leader. The 50th anniversary of the historic civil rights marches in Selma and the hit movie that tells the story are expected to bring thousands of visitors to this Alabama city. Visitors can still walk across the bridge where voting rights marchers were beaten in 1965 and visit the churches where they organized the protests. (AP Photo/Paramount Pictures, Atsushi Nishijima)

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October 2016

  • The 13th - Netflix trailer

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    13th: Ava DuVernay offers up a devastating history of black America

    The Selma director explores race and incarceration with a powerful and timely documentary

September 2016

  • 2016 Toronto International Film Festival - Portraits<br>TORONTO, ON - SEPTEMBER 09: Actor David Oyelowo (L) and screenwriter Amma Asante pose for a portrait during the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival at the Intercontinental Hotel on September 9, 2016 in Toronto, Canada. (Photo by Maarten de Boer/Getty Images)

    David Oyelowo in Toronto: 'It's absolutely inexcusable female directors are marginalised'

    The actor, who has two films directed by women premiering at Tiff, also attacks British period films for not featuring black characters and says he will always ‘be an advocate for diversity’

July 2016

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June 2016

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    Ava DuVernay: 'This patriarchy is often shocked when a black film does well'

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May 2016

  • Director Jeff Nichols poses with cast members Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga during a photocall for the film "Loving" in competition at the 69th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes<br>Director Jeff Nichols (L) poses with cast members Joel Edgerton (R) and Ruth Negga (C) during a photocall for the film "Loving" in competition at the 69th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France, May 16, 2016. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau

    Director of Cannes civil rights drama Loving: ‘Society can take longer than the law to get it right’

    Jeff Nichols, along with stars Ruth Negga and Joel Egerton, has spoken about the parallels between his film about an interracial marriage deemed unlawful in 1950s America and the struggle for same-sex couples today

March 2016

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February 2016

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