Below, read more about the cast, who they played and how the actors prepared for their role. The film focuses several real-life people in addition to including some fictional characters to help drive the storytelling. Hidden Figures is up for three Oscars - best picture, best supporting actress for Spencer and best adapted screenplay for Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi - in addition to earning other accolades including best ensemble at the SAG Awards. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), Mary Jackson (Janelle Mone), and many other black women in NASA's West Area Computing Unit participated in what is considered one of America's greatest achievements the successful completion of our very. Set during a time of racial and gender inequality, the film tells the untold story of the three females' achievements, which restored the nation's confidence during the 1960s. Hidden Figures is the true story of the American 1960s Space Race from a perspective that is often overlooked.
Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monae) teamed up to solve mathematical equations for NASA. Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden were good at math.
history, a group of African-American women (played by Taraji P. T he new movie Hidden Figures, which opens in wide release on Friday, tells the story of the real African-American women whose mathematical prowess helped launch the.
and Russian race to put the first man in orbit.īehind the scenes of one of the greatest operations in U.S. In talks, Shetterly celebrates these unsung heroes, teasing out issues of race, gender, science, and innovation against the. Based on a true story, Hidden Figures follows the events of the U.S. Shetterly’s Hidden Figuresa 1 NYT bestseller and inspiration for a 1 movie in Americais the true story of the black women mathematicians at NASA who helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space.