SELMA Trailer and Poster

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At long last we have the first trailer and poster for highly anticipated Oscar hopeful Selma, from director Ava DuVernay.

The film, which details a three-month period in 1965 as Martin Luther King Jr. (played by David Oyelowo of The Butler) marches on Selma, Alabama for equal voting rights has gone through many hands before it reached DuVernay’s. Big names like Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee, Oliver Stone, Paul Greengrass and, most recently, Lee Daniels (The Butler) have tried to bring this story to the screen but it languished in development hell for years. 

Carmen Ejogo (Sparkle) plays King’s wife, Coretta. The film also stars Tom Wilkinson, Tim Roth, Cuba Gooding Jr., Alessandro Nivola, Giovanni Ribisi, Common, Tessa Thompson, Andre Holland, Keith Stanfield, Wendell Pierce, Niecy Nash, Lorraine Toussaint and Oprah Winfrey (who also produced) and opens in New York and Los Angeles on Christmas Day; a nationwide release is set for Jan. 9, 2015.

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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