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Even when Hollywood saw little use for Black performers other than as mammies and butlers, the musical genre, a storytelling mode composed of magical

The new movie has so many references to Hollywood gems like “Stormy Weather” and early jazz shorts, it can be viewed as a Black film syllabus.

The director Blitz Bazawule narrates a scene from the musical, featuring the star performing as the dynamo Shug Avery.

Hollywood offers two year-end hits and one clunker. The clunker film is a male competition movie that gets bogged down in marital problems.

This “The Color Purple” deserves to be the audience-pleasing, surprise hit of this holiday season.

Best Production Design often goes to movies set in real life in the 1900s. But what does that mean for this year's contenders?

Choreographer Fatima Robinson on her pride in the musical film, and how she created its movement.

Director Blitz Bazawule, Larry Jackson and Scott Sanders reveal how the star-studded soundtrack came to be.

'The Color Purple' artisans break down the gramophone scene and explain how they captured the story through Celie's imagination.

Let's look at the last 10 winners in this category to work out if there is a pattern in the way the academy awards certain winners.