"in 1963 and completed it after Malcolm X's death. ""Malcolm X"" was distributed by Warner Bros. and released on November 18, 1992. Denzel Washington won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. In 2010, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"". ""Malcolm X"" follows the life of African-American activist Malcolm X. Rising from a troubled childhood, in which his father, a preacher, is murdered by the Black Legion and"
"screen biographies, celebrating the sweep of an American life that bottomed out in prison before its hero reinvented himself."" Ebert and Martin Scorsese both ranked ""Malcolm X"" among the ten best films of the 1990s. In 2010, ""Malcolm X"" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"". The film is recognized by American Film Institute in these lists: Malcolm X (1992 film) Malcolm X, sometimes stylized as X, is a 1992 American epic biographical drama film about the Afro-American activist Malcolm X. Directed and co-written"
"the rage of Malcolm X's autobiography. During production of ""Malcolm X"", Spike Lee showed Bassett a tape of the exact moment when Malcolm X was shot during his assassination, since they would be filming the scene. Bassett called the recording ""haunting"", but noted that after listening, she was ""able to grab hold of the pain and re-create the scene."" Bassett felt it was important for her to get the assassination scene correct, and wondered how Betty ""found the strength to keep going, to raise her family, to educate, to sustain them."" ""Malcolm X"" was released on November 18, 1992. In"
"century. Denzel Washington played the title role in the 1992 motion picture ""MalcolmX""named one of the ten best films of the 1990s by both critic Roger Ebert and director Martin Scorsese. Washington had previously played the part of MalcolmX in the 1981 Off-Broadway play ""When the Chickens Came Home to Roost"". Other portrayals include: The house that once stood at 3448 Pinkney Street in North Omaha, Nebraska, was the first home of Malcolm Little with his birth family. The house was torn down in 1965 by new owners who did not know of its connection with MalcolmX. The site was"
"Malcolm X (1972 film) Malcolm X, also known as Malcolm X: His Own Story as It Really Happened, is a 1972 American documentary film directed by Arnold Perl. It is based on ""The Autobiography of Malcolm X"". The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Marvin Worth and Perl started working on ""Malcolm X"" in 1969, four years after the human rights activist's assassination. The pair initially intended for the film to be a drama, but in the end they made a documentary when some people close to Malcolm X refused to talk to them. Worth"
"After leaving ""One Life to Live"", Freeman appeared in the 1998 motion picture ""Down in the Delta"". His Broadway theatre credits include ""The Hot L Baltimore"" and ""Look to the Lilies"". His portrayal of Elijah Muhammad, the Nation of Islam leader, in the film ""Malcolm X"" earned him the 1992 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture. He had played Malcolm X in the 1979 miniseries, """". In the 1990s he had a recurring guest role as the manipulative Baltimore deputy police commissioner James Harris in """". In 1991 Freeman joined the Department of Theatre Arts"
"he did not commit before his conviction was overturned in 1985. Spike Lee was soon named the director, and he made substantial changes to the script. ""I'm directing this movie and I rewrote the script, and I'm an artist and there's just no two ways around it: this film about Malcolm X is going to be my vision of Malcolm X. But it's not like I'm sitting atop a mountain saying, 'Screw everyone, this is the Malcolm I see.' I've done the research, I've talked to the people who were there."" Soon after Spike Lee was announced as the director"
"recalled in 1993, ""I mostly went for the public figure, rather than the private man. I aimed for showing the evolution of the man and what he had to say. I wanted to do it with the public speeches."" Betty Shabazz, Malcolm X's widow, served as a consultant to the film-makers. She was so pleased with the resulting film, she took her six daughters—who ranged in age from six to thirteen—to see it. Afterwards, one of them asked, ""Daddy was everything to you, wasn't he?"" According to the ""Los Angeles Times"", ""Malcolm X"" garnered ""enthusiastic reviews"". ""Time"" wrote: For Warner"
"of Malcolm X""; Baldwin was joined by screenwriter Arnold Perl, who died in 1971 before the screenplay could be finished. Baldwin developed his work on the screenplay into the book ""One Day, When I Was Lost: A Scenario Based on Alex Haley's ""The Autobiography of Malcolm X"""", published in 1972. Other authors who attempted to draft screenplays include playwright David Mamet, novelist David Bradley, author Charles Fuller, and screenwriter Calder Willingham. Director Spike Lee revised the Baldwin-Perl script for his 1992 film ""Malcolm X"". In 1992, attorney Gregory Reed bought the original manuscripts of ""The Autobiography of Malcolm X"" for"
"On April 22, 1998, Worth died of bronchioloalveolar carcinoma, a form of lung cancer, in Los Angeles. Marvin Worth Marvin Worth (June 6, 1925 – April 22, 1998) was an American film producer, screenwriter and actor perhaps best known for his efforts to bring the biography of Malcolm X to the big screen. His efforts spanned from 1967, when he purchased the rights to ""The Autobiography of Malcolm X"", leading to the production of the 1972 documentary, for which he received an Oscar nomination. Later on, he would help produce ""Malcolm X"", directed by Spike Lee. He was nominated for"
"no longer agreeing with their ideology, and has expressed ""regrets and sorrow"" for having shot Malcolm X. Hagan was portrayed by Giancarlo Esposito in the 1992 American biographical film ""Malcolm X"". Thomas Hagan Thomas Hagan (; March 16, 1941) is a former member of the Nation of Islam and one of the assassins who killed Malcolm X in 1965. For a while he also went by the name Talmadge X Hayer, and his chosen Islamic name is Mujahid Abdul Halim. When Malcolm X was assassinated on February 21, 1965, in the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights, New York, Hagan was"
"Shabazz in the 1995 film ""Panther"". Yolanda King, the daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, played Shabazz in the 1981 television movie ""Death of a Prophet"", and Shabazz was portrayed by Victoria Dillard in the 2001 film ""Ali"". Betty Shabazz Betty Shabazz (May 28, 1934 – June 23, 1997), born Betty Dean Sanders and also known as Betty X, was an American educator and civil rights advocate. She was the wife of Malcolm X. Shabazz grew up in Detroit, Michigan, where her foster parents largely sheltered her from racism. She attended the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama,"
"X lost interest in school, with his dream of becoming a lawyer being shot down by his teachers telling him that ""wanting to become a lawyer isn’t a realistic goal for a nigger"". The film then moves to Malcolm X’s teenage years, when after moving from foster home to foster home he went to Boston to live with his half-sister Ella at the age of thirteen. These were Malcolm X’s zoot suit, wide-rimmed hat, knob-toed shoes, and big-legged pants days. Malcolm Jarvis (aka ""Shorty""), one of Malcolm’s childhood friends, describes meeting Malcolm in a pool hall, and says that his"
"Marvin Worth Marvin Worth (June 6, 1925 – April 22, 1998) was an American film producer, screenwriter and actor perhaps best known for his efforts to bring the biography of Malcolm X to the big screen. His efforts spanned from 1967, when he purchased the rights to ""The Autobiography of Malcolm X"", leading to the production of the 1972 documentary, for which he received an Oscar nomination. Later on, he would help produce ""Malcolm X"", directed by Spike Lee. He was nominated for an Oscar for producing Lenny (1974). Worth's career began at a very early age when he began"
"into the Nation of Islam, he becomes an incendiary speaker for the movement changing his name to Malcolm X and marries Betty Shabazz. Malcolm X preaches a doctrine of separation from white society. However, a pilgrimage to Mecca softens his beliefs, teaching him that Muslims come from all races, even whites, and he endeavors to break free of the strict dogma of the Nation of Islam, with tragic results. He is assassinated on February 21, 1965, in New York City. In the present day, numerous children of African descent, both in the United States and Africa, declare ""I am Malcolm"
"particularly worried about what he viewed as Malcolm X's anti-Semitism"" and he rewrote material to eliminate it. When the ""Autobiography"" was published, ""The New York Times"" reviewer described it as a ""brilliant, painful, important book"". In 1967, historian John William Ward wrote that it would become a classic American autobiography. In 1998, ""Time"" named ""The Autobiography of Malcolm X"" as one of ten ""required reading"" nonfiction books. James Baldwin and Arnold Perl adapted the book as a film; their screenplay provided the source material for Spike Lee's 1992 film ""Malcolm X"". Published posthumously, ""The Autobiography of Malcolm X"" is an"
"Denzel Washington Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor, director, and producer. He has received three Golden Globe awards, a Tony Award, and two Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor for the historical war drama film ""Glory"" (1989) and Best Actor for his role as a corrupt cop in the crime thriller ""Training Day"" (2001). Washington has received much critical acclaim for his film work since the 1980s, including his portrayals of real-life figures, such as South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko in ""Cry Freedom"" (1987), Muslim minister and human rights activist Malcolm X in ""Malcolm"
"Hands"": It entered the popular culture through a speech given by Malcolm X in the last year of his life. In the final scene of the 1992 movie ""Malcolm X"", Nelson Mandela—recently released after 27 years of political imprisonment—appears as a schoolteacher in a Soweto classroom. Yet Mandela informed director Spike Lee that he could not utter the famous final phrase """"by any means necessary"""" on camera; fearing that the apartheid government would use it against him if he did. Lee obliged, and the final seconds of the film feature black-and-white footage of Malcolm X himself delivering the phrase. By"
"X."" Among them is anti-apartheid activist and future South African President Nelson Mandela who begins quoting one of Malcolm X's speeches. Producer Marvin Worth acquired the rights to ""The Autobiography of Malcolm X"" in 1967. Worth had met Malcolm X, then called ""Detroit Red,"" as a teenager selling drugs in New York City. Worth was fifteen at the time, and spending time around jazz clubs in the area. As Worth remembers: ""He was selling grass. He was sixteen or seventeen but looked older. He was very witty, a funny guy, and he had this extraordinary charisma. A great dancer and"
"viewing"". William Hageman wrote in the ""Chicago Tribune"" in 2011 that the documentary ""does a better job of capturing the times"" than Spike Lee's 1992 ""Malcolm X"". ""Malcolm X"" was released on DVD in 2005 as bonus material with the two-disc special edition of Lee's film. In 2012, it was issued on Blu-ray Disc as part of the Blu-ray 20th-anniversary edition of Lee's film. Malcolm X (1972 film) Malcolm X, also known as Malcolm X: His Own Story as It Really Happened, is a 1972 American documentary film directed by Arnold Perl. It is based on ""The Autobiography of Malcolm"
"Malcolm (film) Malcolm is a 1986 Australian cult film comedy, written by the husband-and-wife team of David Parker and Nadia Tass, and directed by Nadia Tass (who made her debut as a feature director on this film). The film stars Colin Friels as Malcolm, a tram enthusiast who becomes involved with a pair of would-be bank robbers. His co-stars are Lindy Davies and John Hargreaves. The film won the 1986 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Film, and seven other AFI awards including Best Script and Best Director. At the start of the film Malcolm is working for the Metropolitan"
"Seven Songs for Malcolm X Seven Songs for Malcolm X is a British documentary film about the life of Malcolm X, the influential civil rights activist who was assassinated in 1965. The film was written and directed by John Akomfrah, with co-writer Edward George, and produced by Lina Gopaul. The Black Audio Film Collective, Akomfrah’s London-based company, and Channel 4 Television Corporation were both involved in the production of the film. It was first aired at the Toronto Festival of Festivals in Canada, on 15 September 1993, and then at the Chicago International Film Festival in October 1993. On 15"
"play Malcolm X. Jewison and Washington previously worked together in the 1984 film ""A Soldier's Story"". A protest erupted over the fact that a white director was slated to make the film. Spike Lee was one of the main voices of criticism; since college, he had considered a film adaption of ""The Autobiography of Malcolm X"" to be a dream project. Lee and others felt that it was appropriate that only a black person should direct ""Malcolm X'.' After the public outcry against Jewison, Worth came to the conclusion that ""it needed a black director at this point. It was"
"of Alex as he does with those of his two younger brothers. In 1960, Alex meets Malcolm X (Al Freeman Jr.), and later he interviews him and a number of other notable people, including George Lincoln Rockwell (Marlon Brando), while writing for ""Playboy"" and the ""Reader's Digest"". Alex, as a co-author, writes also ""The Autobiography of Malcolm X"", and he finishes it several weeks before the assassination of the subject person. While Alex makes another visit in Henning, Cousin Georgia encourages him and his curiosity about his family heritage, then Alex continues his research – to the National Archives, a"
"of Islam, seeking status as heirs. Ultimately the court ruled against them. They had eight children, including two daughters and six sons: In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Elijah Muhammad on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans. Elijah Muhammad was portrayed by Al Freeman Jr. in Spike Lee's 1992 motion picture ""Malcolm X"". Albert Hall, who played the composite character ""Baines"" in ""Malcolm X"", later played Muhammad in Michael Mann's 2001 film, ""Ali"". Elijah Muhammad Elijah Muhammad (born Elijah Robert Poole; October 7, 1897 – February 25, 1975) was a black religious leader, who led the Nation of"
"film. Still, Lee stated he never envisioned any actor other than Washington in the role. Lee, who had worked with Washington on ""Mo' Better Blues"" (1990), cited Washington's performance as Malcolm X in an Off Broadway play as superb. However, some purists noted that Washington was far shorter and had a far darker complexion than the real Malcolm X, who stood 6'4"" and had notably reddish hair and a lighter complexion (due to his very fair-skinned Grenadian-born mother's partial white ancestry) and bore only a passing resemblance to him. Spike Lee also encountered difficulty in securing a sufficient budget. Lee"
"in 1971, Arnold Perl was working on a screenplay about assassinated black activist Malcolm X, which would later become the basis for Spike Lee's 1992 film, ""Malcolm X"". Daniel Melnick, the show’s executive producer, was a partner with Susskind in Talent Associates and had brought Mel Brooks and Buck Henry together to create the TV comedy ""Get Smart"" in 1965. Producer Susskind and actor Harvey Keitel would work together again on Martin Scorsese's ""Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore"" (1974). Scripted by writers like Lonne Elder, who would later be the first African-American nominated for a Best Screenplay Oscar (for 1972's"
"Albert Hall (actor) Albert W. Hall (born November 10, 1937) is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Chief Phillips in the 1979 war film ""Apocalypse Now"" and Judge Seymore Walsh in ""Ally McBeal"" and ""The Practice"". He is also widely recognized for his role as Brother Baines in the 1992 Spike Lee film ""Malcolm X"", where he acted opposite film star Denzel Washington, who appeared in the title role of slain African-American Muslim, former Nation of Islam minister, and human rights activist Malcolm X. Hall was born and raised in Brighton, Alabama. He graduated from the Columbia"
"in her honor. In 2005, Columbia University announced the opening of the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center. The memorial is located in the Audubon Ballroom, where Malcolm X was assassinated. In March 2012, New York City co-named Broadway at the corner of West 165th Street, the corner in front of the Audubon Ballroom, Betty Shabazz Way. Shabazz was the subject of the 2013 television movie ""Betty & Coretta"", in which she was played by Mary J. Blige. She was portrayed by Angela Bassett in the 1992 film ""Malcolm X"". Bassett also played the part of"
"James McDaniel James McDaniel (born March 25, 1958, Washington, D.C.) is an American stage, film and television actor. He is best known for playing Lt. Arthur Fancy on the television show ""NYPD Blue"". He created the role of Paul in the hit Lincoln Center play ""Six Degrees of Separation"". He played a police officer in the ill-fated 1990 series ""Cop Rock"", and a close advisor to the director Spike Lee regarding the activist Malcolm X in the 1992 film ""Malcolm X"". He also played Sgt. Jesse Longford in the ABC television series ""Detroit 1-8-7"". McDaniel won a 1995 Screen Actors"
"teenager named Malcolm X John Lennon (Austin) is still being breast-fed by his mother (Proctor), and gets in trouble with his school principal (Proctor) for studying instead of hanging out and ""relating"" with his peers by smoking marijuana. A US senator who sounds like Robert Kennedy (Proctor) chairs a committee which also returns people for re-grooving, and the ""Secretary of Peace"" (Ossman) directs bomber aircraft to drop copies of ""Naked Lunch"" on Nigeria. This single, 17 min 48 sec track begins as a Turkish language instruction record, and immediately follows its listener on a Kafkaesque trip overseas. An unnamed innocent"
"Casey Affleck – ""Manchester by the Sea"" as Lee Chandler 2017: Gary Oldman – ""Darkest Hour"" as Winston Churchill Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor The Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor is an award presented by the Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association. It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role. 1990: Jeremy Irons as Sunny von Bülow – ""Reversal of Fortune"" 1991: Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lecter – ""The Silence of the Lambs"" 1992: Denzel Washington as Malcolm X – ""Malcolm X"""
"the truth. Seven Songs for Malcolm X Seven Songs for Malcolm X is a British documentary film about the life of Malcolm X, the influential civil rights activist who was assassinated in 1965. The film was written and directed by John Akomfrah, with co-writer Edward George, and produced by Lina Gopaul. The Black Audio Film Collective, Akomfrah’s London-based company, and Channel 4 Television Corporation were both involved in the production of the film. It was first aired at the Toronto Festival of Festivals in Canada, on 15 September 1993, and then at the Chicago International Film Festival in October 1993."