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Introducing Dorothy Dandridge is a television film directed by Martha Coolidge. Filmed over a span of a few weeks in early 1999, the film was aired in the United States on August 14, 1999.

Plot summary

Dorothy Dandridge (portrayed by Academy Award winner Halle Berry) was a Hollywood trailblazer. A confident sex symbol in the 1950s, she was the first African-American woman ever nominated for an Oscar for '"Best Actress", but the electrifying stage chanteuse and dancer was forbidden to even enter the nightclubs and show rooms she performed in except from the stage. As portrayed by Halle Berry, who shepherded Dandridge's story to the screen, Dandridge is a sure, insistent star who battled racist studios and Jim Crow laws to maintain her dignity in public while stumbling through a private life marked by bad relationships and abusive lovers. Berry gives her best performance to date, brimming with ambition and moxie offstage, charming audiences with the slinky, sure moves of a nightclub veteran onstage, and convincingly "becoming" Dandridge in dramatic re-creations form.

Cast

Halle Berry
— Dorothy Dandridge
Brent Spiner
— Earl Mills
Klaus Maria Brandauer
— Otto Preminger
Obba Babatundé — Harold Nicholas as Obba Babatunde
Loretta Devine
— Ruby Dandridge
Cynda Williams — Vivian Dandridge
LaTanya Richardson — Auntie
Tamara Taylor — Geri Nicholas
William Atherton
— Darryl Zanuck
D.B. Sweeney
— Jack Denison
Don Gettinger — Hotel Clerk
Nicholas Hormann — Oscar Emcee
Sharon Brown — Etta Jones
Darrian C Ford — Fayard Nicholas

Awards & nominations

2000 Black Reel Awards

Best Actress — Halle Berry (won)
Best Film (won)
Best Supporting Actor — Obba Babatundé (nominated)
Best Supporting Actor — Brent Jennings (nominated)

2000 Directors Guild of American

Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies for Television — Martha Coolidge (nominated)

2000 Emmy Awards

Outstanding Art Direction for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (won)
Outstanding Cinematography for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (won)
Outstanding Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (won)
Outstanding Hairstyling for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (won)
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie — Halle Berry (won)
Outstanding Choreography — (nominated)
Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special — Martha Coolidge (nominated)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie — Klaus Maria Brandauer (nominated)

2000 Golden Globes

Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV — Halle Berry (won)
Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV (nominated)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV — Klaus Maria Brandauer (nominated)

2000 Image Awards

Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie/Miniseries/Dramatic Special — Halle Berry (won)
Outstanding Television Movie/Miniseries/Dramatic Special (won)
Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie/Miniseries/Dramatic Special — Obba Babatundé (nominated)

2000 Screen Actors Guild Awards

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries — Halle Berry (won)

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