Oscars 2024: As 'The Color Purple' arrives, the best picture race comes into focus
LOS ANGELES — Oprah Winfrey believes the new film version of "The Color Purple" is "divinely touched." And at the movie's first public screening, held a couple of weeks ago at the film academy's Samuel L. Goldwyn Theater, nobody was going to argue with her. About half of the thousand people in the room, in fact, rose to applaud the closing credits, well before Oprah took the stage along with ...
by Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times
Dec 01, 2023
4 minutes
LOS ANGELES — Oprah Winfrey believes the new film version of "The Color Purple" is "divinely touched."
And at the movie's first public screening, held a couple of weeks ago at the film academy's Samuel L. Goldwyn Theater, nobody was going to argue with her. About half of the thousand people in the room, in fact, rose to applaud the closing credits, well before Oprah took the stage along with the film's director, the memorably named Blitz Bazawule, and several members of its ensemble, including Fantasia Barrino, Danielle Brooks, Taraji P. Henson and Colman Domingo.
If the closing credits received a standing ovation, you can
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