Fences

Nominated for 4 Academy Awards!

2016. 138 m. Denzel Washington. Paramount Pictures. US. English. Rated PG-13.

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Nominated for 4 Academy Awards, including Best Actor, Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Picture.

Adapted from August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play, Fences is directed by Denzel Washington from a screenplay by Wilson. Washington and Viola Davis reprise their stage roles, for which they both received Tony awards, and their big screen performances might just earn them a few more nods this awards season. The film also stars Stephen McKinley Henderson, who received a best supporting actor nomination for the Broadway production. A great American playwright, Wilson wrote Fences as one of 10 plays in a seminal series that charts the black American experience throughout the 20th century. Collectively known as The Pittsburgh Cycle, Henderson has performed in all but two.

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Q&A actor Stephen McKinley Henderson with former President of the National Urban League Hugh Price

Thursday, Dec. 22 2016, 7:00

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Stephen McKinley Henderson has worked on stages throughout the United States and abroad, on and off Broadway, and in television and film. His work in the 2010 Broadway revival of August Wilson’s Fences, with Denzel Washington and Viola Davis, earned Stephen a Tony nomination in the featured actor category. That season he also received the Richard Seff Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor presented annually by Actor’s Equity. He is a Fox Foundation Fellow, member of the LAByrinth Theatre Company, Distinguished Alumnus of Purdue University College of Liberal Arts, and a professor and former Chair of the University of Buffalo’s Theatre and Dance department. Hugh Price is an activist, philanthropist, and former President of the National Urban League. He has worked for the New York Times on their Editorial Board and as Vice President of the Rockefeller Foundation. As President of the National Urban League, Price established the Institute for Opportunity and Equality, focusing on research, advocacy and policy-making. Price has published several books including, Destination: The American Dream.

This film is part of the REMIX: The Black Experience in Film, Media, and Art series.