Rising Star
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Rising Star |
| Original title | Introducing Dorothy Dandridge |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Martha Coolidge |
| script | Scott Abbott , Shonda Rhimes |
| production | Larry Y. Albucher |
| music | Elmer Bernstein |
| camera | Robbie Greenberg |
| cut | Alan Heim |
| occupation | |
| |
Rising Star (Alternative title: The story of Dorothy Dandridge ; Original title: Introducing Dorothy Dandridge ) is an American biography by Martha Coolidge from 1999. The screenplay by Scott Abbott and Shonda Rhimes is based on the book Dorothy Dandridge by Earl Mills .
action
The film shows the life of Dorothy Dandridge . It begins when Dorothy Dandridge and her sister Vivian are performing in clubs. Dorothy sings at a party and meets the music producer Earl Mills, who gives her some appearances as a singer. In the southern United States she is confronted with racial prejudice and rules - among other things, she is not allowed to use the same toilet as the whites. Her daughter turns out to be mentally disabled, which puts a strain on her marriage.
Dandridge auditions to director Otto Preminger for a role in a film in which all roles are to be cast by Afro-Americans . Preminger thinks she is too conservative for the main role, whereupon her sister and mother teach her how to look erotic. After auditioning again, she gets the role. She and Preminger have an intimate relationship that the director keeps a secret so as not to jeopardize the movie's box office prospects.
Dandridge later played in other films and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress as the first African American actress . She dies from a drug overdose.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was a " typical biopic designed for television, which owes its dramatic form solely to the living conditions of the actress and which ultimately knows how to convince through good performance alongside the majority of the genre ".
Awards
Golden Globe Award
Halle Berry won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Mini-Series or TV Movie in 2000 . The film as best mini-series or TV film and Klaus Maria Brandauer as best supporting actor - series, mini-series or TV film were nominated for the Golden Globe Award.
Emmy Award
Halle Berry, cameraman Robbie Greenberg, the sets, the costumes and the hairstyling won an Emmy Award in 2000 . The six other nominations for the Emmy Award included those for Martha Coolidge, the producers, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Alan Heim and the sound editor.
Other awards
Halle Berry won the Screen Actors Guild Award in 2000 . The film, Halle Berry and Brent Spiner were nominated for a Golden Satellite Award in 2000. Halle Berry and the film won the Black Reel Award in 2000 , for which Obba Babatundé and Brent Jennings were also nominated. Halle Berry and the film won the Image Award in 2000 , for which Obba Babatundé was also nominated.
Martha Coolidge was nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award in 2000. Alan Heim won the American Cinema Editors' Eddie in 2000 . Robbie Greenberg won the American Society of Cinematographers Award in 2000 . The film won the Art Directors Guild Award for Production Design in 2000 . In 2000 he won the Golden Reel Award for sound editing the dialogues and was nominated for the same award in two other categories.
The film won the Prism Award in 2000 , which is awarded to films that address the drug problem. In 2000 he won the NAMIC Vision Award and the Bronze Plaque Award of the Columbus International Film & Video Festival , and in 2000 he was nominated for the Artios of the Casting Society of America .
background
The film was shot in Los Angeles . Its production amounted to an estimated 9.2 million US dollars .
Web links
- Rising Star in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Rising Star at Rotten Tomatoes (English)