Academy Awards, USA 2017
| Nominated Oscar | Best Motion Picture of the Year Peter Chernin Donna Gigliotti Theodore Melfi Jenno Topping Pharrell Williams |
| Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role Octavia Spencer | |
| Best Adapted Screenplay Allison Schroeder Theodore Melfi |
Twentieth Century Fox
Directed by Theodore Melfi
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb Wikipedia
(Blu-ray, Fox)
A group of female African-Americans work for NASA as human computers. Prominent among them for her natural abilities in math is Katherine Gobel, played by Taraji P. Henson, who is tapped by director Kevin Costner for the main engineering group working on the first manned flight in orbit. She helps them solve a series of problems and proves critical to the mission. Since this is set in Virginia in the early 1960s, she must also overcome racial inequalities, including a long trip to find a segregated restroom. Polished presentation of an important and largely forgotten episode in the history of manned spaceflight. However, minor characters tend to be stereotypes and the music occasionally forgets that it is the early 60s.
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