In 1973, Tyson earned an Oscar nod for her portrayal of a Depression-era sharecropper's wife in Sounder and won an Emmy the next year playing the title role in the telefilm The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. She received an Emmy nod in 1977 for her impressive turn as Kunta Kinte's mother in the landmark miniseries "Roots" and chalked up a second Emmy in 1994 for her performance in the TV movie Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All.
Tyson also played Coretta Scott King in the miniseries "King" and abolitionist Harriet Tubman in the TV movie A Woman Called Moses. Tyson was briefly wed to jazz legend Miles Davis.
AddSounderCicely Tyson and Paul Winfield both earned Academy Award nominations for their performances in director Martin Ritt's poignant drama about the trials and tribulations of a family of black sharecroppers living in the deep South in the 1930s. Based on William H. Armstrong's Newberry Award-winning... Read More
AddA Lesson Before DyingFrom the prize-winning novel by Ernest J. Gaines comes another story of racism and redemption in the Deep South. When a young black man (Mekhi Phifer) is wrongly condemned for the murder of a white man, his family convinces a trusted schoolteacher (Don Cheadle) to visit him daily. In the process,... Read More
AddThe Rosa Parks StoryAngela Bassett stars in the story that sparked the birth of the modern civil rights movement in the late 1950s. Parks took the only available seat in the first row of the "colored" section on a city bus; when a white woman boarded and the driver demanded that the black riders in her row move,... Read More
AddThe Autobiography of Miss Jane PittmanBased on the novel by Ernest J. Gaines, this highly acclaimed TV drama follows the life of a black woman born into slavery in the South during the 1850s. 110-year-old Jane Pittman (Cicely Tyson) tells her story from her days as a slave during the Civil War to her involvement in the civil rights... Read More
AddThe Heart Is a Lonely HunterAlan Arkin earned an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of John Singer, a deaf and mute man who comes to live in a small Southern town and ends up touching the lives of many, in this film based on the novel by Carson McCullers. Also given an Oscar nod for her performance was Sondra Locke, who plays... Read More
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