With their slow-mo punch sequences and actors’ body transformations, pugilistic films from “Rocky” to “Christy” have aimed for the academy’s approval.
Category: Jones, James Earl
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At James Earl Jones Memorial, Denzel Washington and Whoopi Goldberg Share Stories
At a gathering in the Broadway theater renamed to honor the star, speakers including Denzel Washington and Phylicia Rashad described Jones as an inspiration.
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Othello and Iago, a Marriage Made in Both Heaven and Hell
Because Shakespeare gave his hero and antihero equal weight, the contest between the actors playing them has never been that easy to call.
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A Great James Earl Jones Role That Can Finally Be Seen
A restored version of Charles Burnett’s 1999 movie “The Annihilation of Fish” opens at the Brooklyn Academy of Music after being virtually unshown for 25 years.
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‘The Annihilation of Fish’ Review: A Gem That’s Worth the Wait
The director Charles Burnett’s deeply humane, singular film from 1999, starring James Earl Jones, is finally receiving a theatrical release.
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Wendell Pierce and Courtney B. Vance on James Earl Jones’s Influence
The two actors talk about how the stage and screen great was a one-of-a-kind inspiration to them, and many others.
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Was James Earl Jones an EGOT Winner? It’s Complicated.
The actor won just about every award he could — but his Oscar was an honorary one. Is that enough for an EGOT?
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James Earl Jones’s Rich Career in Theater: ‘Othello,’ ‘The Great White Hope’ and More
In addition to Broadway crowd-pleasers, the actor deftly navigated classics, experimental theater and new works by major contemporary playwrights.
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James Earl Jones: A Life in Pictures
Onstage and in movies and television, Jones delivered with a deep, authoritative, powerful and sometimes menacing voice.