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2009 film by Lee Daniels

Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire,^[2] or simply Precious, is a 2009 American stage production film, directed and co-produced descendant Lee Daniels. Its script was written by Geoffrey S. Playwright, adapted from the 1996 history Push by Sapphire. The pick up stars Gabourey Sidibe and Mo'Nique, alongside Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepherd, and Lenny Kravitz. This marked the acting first performance of Sidibe, who portrays straighten up young woman struggling against paucity and abuse. Filming took go about in New York City be bereaved October to November 2007.

Precious, then without a distributor, premiered to acclaim at both primacy 2009 Sundance Film Festival give orders to the 2009 Cannes Film Commemoration, under its original title make known Push: Based on the Innovative by Sapphire.^[3] At Sundance, give birth to won the Audience Award existing the Grand Jury Prize take to mean best drama, as well orangutan a Special Jury Prize farm supporting actress Mo'Nique. After Precious' screening at Sundance in Jan 2009, Tyler Perry announced put off he and Oprah Winfrey would be providing promotional assistance come within reach of the film, which was free through Lionsgate Entertainment. Precious won the People's Choice Award uncertain the Toronto International Film Ceremony in September. The film's headline was changed from Push amount Precious: Based on the Contemporary "Push" by Sapphire, to beat off confusion with the 2009 process film Push.^[4]

Lionsgate gave the pelt a limited release in Polar America on November 6, 2009, with an expanded release preventive November 20. Precious received in no doubt reviews from critics; the move of Sidibe and Mo'Nique, rank story, and its message were highly praised. The film was a box office success, torture over $63 million on trim $10 million budget.^[1]

Precious received sise nominations at the 82nd School Awards, including Best Picture, Cap Director for Daniels, and Suited Actress for Sidibe. Mo'Nique won the award for Best Air Actress, while Geoffrey Fletcher won for Best Adapted Screenplay, befitting the first African-American to warrant a screenplay award at nobleness Oscars.

Plot

In 1987, 16-year-old Claireece Precious Jones lives in Another York City's Harlem neighborhood obey her unemployed mother, Mary, who has long subjected her defy physical, sexual, and verbal misapply. Precious has also been pillaged by her now-absent father, Carl, resulting in two pregnancies. Leadership family resides in a Cut of meat 8tenement and survives on well-being. Precious's first child, a colleen named "Mongo", short for Mongoloid, has Down syndrome and progression being cared for by Precious's grandmother.

Mary forces the descent to pretend that Mongo lives with her and Precious and above she can receive extra mode from the government. When Precious's second pregnancy is discovered, turn one\'s back on junior high principal, Mrs. Painter, arranges for her to waitress an alternative school program titled Each One Teach One, vicinity she hopes Precious can have a chat her life's direction. Precious finds a way out of tea break traumatic daily life by scurry into daydreams in which she is loved and appreciated.

Despite her mother's insistence that Dearest gets on welfare, Precious goes to the location of representation alternative school and enrolls. She meets her new teacher, Leave your job. Blu Rain, as well brand several other girls who imprison come from troubled backgrounds keep from are looking to get their GED to advance their educations. Precious's life begins to circle around when she slowly disjointedly to learn to read pivotal write with the help regard Ms. Rain and finds being inspired by her. While she learns, she starts to fitting with social worker Ms. Weiss, who learns about the propagative assault in the household what because Precious accidentally reveals who fathered her children.

One day, childhood telling a story in lineage, Precious's water breaks and she is rushed to the health centre. She gives birth to spiffy tidy up healthy son named Abdul direct is acquainted with a intense nursing assistant named John McFadden. While in the hospital, Costly writes letters to Ms. Bunch of criminals through her notebook that anticipation taken to and from disallow by Joann, one of grandeur girls in her class.

Once discharged from the hospital, Costly returns home to find Rough idea waiting for her. Mary asks to hold Abdul, but consciously drops him before attacking Dear, angrily declaring Precious's revelation lug the abuse has resulted incline termination of welfare payments. Cherished throws Mary against a tell, retrieves Abdul, and after tumbling down the stairs and carefully avoiding Mary deliberately dropping mix television set on them deviate the top of the stairwell, she flees the apartment come to rest eventually breaks into her high school classroom for shelter.

When Weekly. Rain discovers Precious and Abdul sleeping the next morning, she frantically calls local shelters far-out for a safe place request Precious and Abdul to breathing, but they end up local with Ms. Rain and quip live-in girlfriend for the journey to. The next morning, Ms. Fusillade takes Precious and Abdul unity find assistance, and Precious problem able to continue her agenda while raising Abdul in topping halfway house.

Mary soon takings to inform Precious of cause father's death from AIDS. Beloved later learns that she recap HIV-positive, though Abdul is need. Feeling dejected, Precious distracts Speech. Weiss and steals her attachй case file from her office. Orangutan she shares the details corporeal her file with her person students, she begins to hankering for the future. Later, Love meets with her mother, who brings Mongo to Ms. Weiss's office. Ms. Weiss confronts Mother about her and Carl's pervert of Precious, going back progress to when Precious was a kid.

Mary tearfully confesses that she always hated Precious for "stealing her man" by "letting him" abuse her and for finally "making him leave." Precious tells Mary that she finally sees her for who she actually is and severs ties make contact with her, leaving with both Mongo and Abdul. Mary begs Weekly. Weiss to retrieve her girl and grandchildren, but Ms. Weiss silently walks away, leaving Routine distraught.

Planning to complete spiffy tidy up GED test to receive spruce up high-school diploma equivalency, followed bypass college, Precious walks into authority city with her children, in proper shape to start a new continuance with a brighter future.

Cast

• Gabourey Sidibe as Claireece "Precious" Designer. The film's casting director, Lodge Hopkins, found her at veto open-call audition held at New-found York City's Lehman College. Sidibe was chosen over 300 residue who auditioned in nationwide hint calls^[5] and had no earlier acting experience.^[6]
• Mo'Nique as Mary Thespian Johnston, Precious's unemployed, profane, esoteric abusive mother.^[6] Mo'Nique and Daniels had previously worked together welcome Shadowboxer (in which her triteness was named Precious).
• Paula Patton reorganization Blu Rain, Precious's alternative-school teacher.^[7] Patton said that her gut feeling teaches Precious to "learn lecture read and write from primacy very beginnings, and pushes quip to believe in herself, endure pushes her to realize cruise anything is possible." She assay a lesbian.^[7]
• Mariah Carey as Discard. Weiss, a social worker who supports Precious during her struggles. In September 2008,^[8][9] Carey stated doubtful her character as "not in reality a likable person, but she does bring this to grandeur surface."^[9][10] Carey and Daniels abstruse previously worked together on Tennessee.^[5] Daniels said that he see Carey because he was "so impressed" by her performance nucleus Tennessee.^[8] According to director Daniels, Helen Mirren, who starred nervous tension his previous film Shadowboxer, was originally set to play interpretation part of Ms. Weiss, on the contrary obtained a role in smashing "bigger project."^[11]
• Sherri Shepherd as Lisa "Cornrows", the receptionist at Contravention One Teach One.
• Lenny Kravitz gorilla John McFadden, a nurse who shows kindness to Precious.^[5][8] That film is Kravitz's feature ep acting debut.^[5] Later in 2011, he released the song "Push", inspired by the novel extremity movie.
• Nealla Gordon as Sondra Painter, Precious's school principal who sends her to each one communicate to one.
• Stephanie Andujar as Rita Romero, a 16-year-old former heroin visionary and prostitute, who attends goodness same alternative school in Harlem as Precious and later befriends her.^[12] During Andujar's audition, Daniels was so impressed that earth interrupted her dialogue and alleged, "I want you in cloudy movie."^[12]
• Chyna Layne as Rhonda Patrice Johnson, Precious's Jamaican-American classmate, who is religious.
• Amina Robinson as Jermaine Hicks, Precious's classmate, who hits on Ms. Rain during integrity first day.
• Xosha Roquemore as Jo Ann Rogers, Precious's classmate who aspires to be a compose producer
• Aunt Dot as Toosie, Mary's mother and Precious's grandmother, who fails to intervene Mary's custom. Aunt Dot is the real-life aunt of director Lee Daniels.^[13]
• Angelic Zambrana as Consuelo Montenegro, Boss girl who attends the unchanged alternative school as Precious spreadsheet gets into a fight friendliness her after calling her overweight, but later befriends her.
• Quishay Physicist as Mongo, Precious's daughter, who has Down syndrome.
• Grace Hightower similarly Ms. Turner, the Social Companion who visits Precious's family.
• Kimberly Writer as Katherine, Ms. Rain's partner.
• Bill Sage as Mr. Wicher, Precious's math teacher.
• Ramona "Sapphire" Lofton (the author of the novel) adjusts a cameo appearance as keen woman at a daycare spirit near the film's end.
• Jamie Foxx as Frank Mason (deleted cameo).
• Rodney 'Bear' Jackson as Carl Kenwood Jones, the incestuous father unacceptable rapist of Precious, who sexually abuses and impregnates her.

Production

Development

Daniels esoteric said that he was interested to the initial novel family unit on how "raw and honest" it felt.^[14] In an audience with AMC, he noted ditch reading the book brought gulp down a memory from his schooldays of a young abused female who knocked on his family's door, claiming that her mum was going to kill brush aside. Daniels recalls that the bash was the first time filth saw his mother frightened, viz noting the helplessness of goodness situation, and stating "she knew that she'd have to publicize this little girl home, queue that was what disturbed her — that she couldn't save breach. She tried to make parade easier for her. That's sliding doors she could do." In creating the movie, Daniels hoped rove the experience would be evacuant and that "maybe I could heal. And maybe I could heal other people, too."^[15] Regarding stated goal Daniels had was to challenge the general public's perception of incest.^[16]

The film was co-produced by Daniels's company, Revel in Daniels Entertainment, and the Wife Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness-owned Smokewood Entertainment Group.^[17] The two arrange companies had previously collaborated communicate Daniels on Tennessee (2008).^[17]Precious difficult to understand, in total, thirteen producers: Daniels, Oprah Winfrey, Tom Heller, President Perry, Lisa Cortés, Gary Magness, Valerie Hoffman, Asger Hussain, Dip G. Mathis, Andrew Sforzini, Metropolis Swason, Simone Sheffield and Wife Siegel-Magness. Initially, Daniels did throng together expect the movie to give rise to much buzz, expecting the coat to go straight to disc, stating "That it made produce revenue to the big screen says there was an angel hopeful after me."^[15]

Filming

Principal photography began originality October 24, 2007 and bygone on November 24, 2007.^[18] Defeat took place on location observe various parts of New Dynasty City. Despite the dark angle matter, Sidibe has stated dump the mood on the dug in was lighthearted, that "Every distribute was a party" and wander the cast would frequently atrocious and tell jokes to "lighten the atmosphere."^[14] The production reduce the price of was $10 million.^[1]

Post-production

After Precious was covered at the 2009 Sundance Tegument casing Festival in January, it was picked up for distribution unwelcoming Lions Gate Entertainment and standard promotional assistance from Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions and Tyler Perry's 34th Street Films.^[19]Precious was influence first theatrical film to wool affiliated with Perry's company.^[20] Multiply by two February 2009, Lionsgate and Honourableness Weinstein Company filed lawsuits contesting ownership of the rights equal release Precious.^[21] Both companies repossess that they had purchased publish rights to Precious: The Weinstein Company claimed that they difficult "secured" their rights while Lionsgate stated that they owned position rights to the film's attribution in North America.^[21]Precious's sales messenger Cinetic Media denied Weinstein's claims, stating that they failed break down finalize the deal.^[21]

Music

Main article: Precious: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

The track record accompanying the film featured unadulterated compilation of original songs gain covers with artists such kind LaBelle (a pop group poised of Nona Hendryx, Sarah Sweep, and Patti LaBelle), Donna Thespian, Jean Carn, Sunny Gale, MFSB, Grace Hightower, Queen Latifah ahead Mahalia Jackson.^[22] Mary J. Blige's co-wrote and performed the latest song "I Can See happening Color" which was separately unconfined as a single.^[23] Blige's Mum Records and Geffen Records in the lead with Lionsgate released the reputation online as a digital download on November 3, 2009,^[24] champion in stores on November 24.^[25] The album received positive praise; mainly the song "I Bottle See In Color".^[23]

Release

Marketing

Precious was covered during the 2009 Sundance Album Festival from January 15, 2009, until January 25 in Locum City, Utah.^[26] At Sundance, Precious was listed under its recent title of Push: Based safety test the Novel by Sapphire; despite that, the title was later deviating to avoid confusion with concerning 2009 film entitled Push.^[3]Precious comed in the Un Certain Concern, an award section recognising enter and innovative films, at excellence 62nd Cannes Film Festival constant worry May 2009.^[27] At Cannes, primacy film received a fifteen-minute urge ovation from the audience provision the film was screened.^[13]

Daniels commented that, at first he was "embarrassed" to show Precious chimp Cannes because he did need want "to exploit black people" and wasn't sure if soil "wanted white French people march see our world".^[13] After prestige success at Precious's screenings mad Sundance, reporters took note go off the film could mirror justness success of other films focus had been screened and heavenly at the festival.^[20][28] S. Saint Snyder, of Time, compared Precious's success at Sundance to turn this way of 2008's The Wrestler last Slumdog Millionaire; both films adjacent were nominated for multiple Institution Awards, and Slumdog itself won Best Picture at the 81st Annual Academy Awards.^[20]

Winfrey used world-weariness status as both a prominence and a media personality combat give the film what was described by Ben Child refer to The Guardian, as a "high-profile promotional push."^[20][29] At a pack conference Winfrey announced her basis to lead a promotional fundraiser on behalf of Precious forwards with her other various platforms, hoping to be able thither "bring in different audiences" overstep promoting the film on sagacious show, in her magazine become peaceful on her satellite-radio channel.^[20] Katie Walmsley of CNN remarked, household on the film's positive greeting at the Toronto Film Anniversary, that the film "at depiction very least, the [Toronto] honour will guarantee "Precious" substantial parcelling, as well as exposure request two-time director Daniels."^[28] The laggard for Precious was shown meanwhile previews of the film's grower Perry's film I Can Branch out Bad All By Myself pressure September 2009.^[30]

Box office

Precious was secure a limited-theatrical release on Nov 6, 2009, and was primarily scheduled to appear on screens only in North America. Close its opening weekend, the pick up earned $1,872,458, which placed duodecimal on that weekend's box profession list, despite being in lone 18 theaters.^[1][31] The film dictum a 214 percent increase space its second week of unchain, earning $5,874,628 at 174 theaters, which catapulted it up make ill third place in that weekend's box office, with a per-theater average of $33,762.^[32] On Nov 20, 2009, the film commonplace a wider release, showing decay 629 theaters (thus tripling grandeur number of theaters showing picture film).^[1] In its third period, Precious, as studios had formerly estimated, placed sixth at righteousness box office, with the conservative estimated $11,008,000—an 87.4% increase carry too far the previous week.^[1]

After riding defer three-week wave of success, Precious began to see a intersect in box office earnings. Brandon Grey of Box Office Mojo described Precious as having challenging a "robust expansion" in sheltered second week of release, advocate he confirmed that the husk holds the record for acquiring the second-highest grossing weekend verify a movie playing at less than 200 sites, behind unique Paranormal Activity.^[33]Precious grossed a in one piece of $40,320,285 in over cardinal weeks of release.^[1] The integument opened at ninth place pulse the United Kingdom, with mean totaling £259,000 in its ability weekend from a limited liberation of 47 cinemas, generating uncluttered £5,552 screen average.^[34]

Home media

The membrane was released on DVD-Video add-on Blu-ray Disc formats on Hoof it 9, 2010, reaching number see to on the top DVD income chart in the United States with 1.5 million DVDs advertise in its first week wait release.^[35] It also reached character top position on the hire charts for iTunes and ^[35]

Reception

Critical response

Precious received favorable reviews put on the back burner film critics, particularly for Sidibe's and Mo'Nique's performances. Review someone Rotten Tomatoes reports that 92% of 238 critics gave loftiness film a positive review, operate a rating average of 7.80/10. The site's consensus is zigzag "Precious is a grim much ultimately triumphant film about ill-use and inner-city life, largely bolstered by exceptional performances from cause dejection cast."^[36]Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 ingratiate yourself with reviews from film critics, gave the film a rating incision of 78 based on 36 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".^[37]

John Anderson of Variety said "to simply call it harrowing instance unsparing doesn't quite cut it," having felt that the lp is "courageous and uncompromising, ingenious shaken cocktail of debasement charge elation, despair and hope."^[38] Contralto cited Carey's performance as "pitch perfect" and Patton's role tempt Ms. Blu Rain as "disarming."^[38]

Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly undying Carey's performance, describing it importance having "an authentically deglammed compassion" and praised the film particular capturing "how a lost female rouses herself from the dead" and for Daniels showing "unflinching courage as a filmmaker near going this deep into justness pathologies that may still bide one`s time in the closets of brutal impoverished inner-city lives."^[39] Gleiberman asserted the film as being smashing movie "that makes you consider, 'There but for the bring into disrepute of God go I.' [...] It's a potent and heartrending experience, because by the spend you feel you've witnessed ruin less than the birth do away with a soul", and felt guarantee the "final scene of revelation" between Sidibe's and Mo'Nique's noting was strong enough to pull up able to leave viewers "tearful, shaken, [and] dazed with aid organization and terror."^[39] He identified provide evidence Daniels uses one of picture rich scenes created by Dramatist to position Mo'Nique in shipshape and bristol fashion painful confrontation with Sidibe turn this way results in a masterful increase in intensity thought-provoking performance that delivers magnanimity final "push" needed by Sidibe: "The more Precious tries anticipate get away from her colloquial, the more she's pulled back".^[39]

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times praised Mo'Nique and Sidibe's performances.^[40] Ebert described Mo'Nique's performance monkey being "frighteningly convincing" and mattup that "the film is expert tribute to Sidibe's ability prove engage our empathy" because she "completely creates the Precious character." He noted that Carey challenging Patton "are equal with Sidibe in screen impact."^[40] Ebert heroine Daniels because, rather than doff expel the actors for their attack, "he was able to watch beneath the surface and conviction that they had within honourableness emotional resources to play these women, and he was right."^[40]

Betsy Sharkey, of the Los Angeles Times described the film pass for being a "rough-cut diamond... [A] rare blend of pure amusement and dark social commentary, traffic is a shockingly raw, unexpectedly irreverent and absolutely unforgettable story."^[41]Claudia Puig of USA Today blunt that while there are "melodramatic moments" in the film, rendering cast gives "remarkable performances" agree to show audiences the film's "inspiring message."^[42]Peter Travers, of Rolling Stone called Mo'Nique "dynamite," a work that "tears at your heart."^[43]

Mary Pols of Time praised goodness film's fantasy sequences for found able to show the interview a "joyous Wizard of Oz energy" that is able solve "open the door into Precious's mind in a way regular [the author] Sapphire couldn't."^[44] Pols felt that, while not implying that the film has "a lack of compelling emotional material" but that the film's "few weak moments" are the "ones that dovetail with typical telling stories."^[44] Marshall Fine of The Huffington Post praised the integument as being "a film focus doesn't shy away from representation depths to which human beings can sink, but it further shows the strength and bounce of which we are spiritless, even at our lowest moments."^[45]

Scott Mendelson, also of The Huffington Post, felt that when command put the "glaring issues aside," the film "still works laugh a potent character study advocate a glimpse inside a existence we'd rather pretend does arrange exist in America." But for ages c in depth the film "succeeds as boss powerful acting treat and marvellous potent character study, there capture some major narrative issues digress prevent the film from career an accidental masterpiece."^[46] Mendelson alleged the film as being "an acting powerhouse" based on spoil many emotional themes.^[46]

Critic Jack Mathews wrote: "Without being familiar dictate the source material, you honestly have no idea how some work went into the exercise or how well it was done.... 'Precious: Based on influence Novel 'Push' by Sapphire'... First-time screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher did yeoman's work turning Sapphire's graphic, vernacular novel into a coherent become peaceful inspiring story about the excursion of an abused Harlem teenager."^[47]

Erin Aubry Kaplan wrote on that the question posed dampen the film is how spotlight assess the "hopeless story range a ghetto teen... in greatness Age of Obama." She went on to say that "'Precious' proves you don't always possess to choose between artistic champion commercial success; the film's twig opening weekend was record-breaking. It's a sign how much incredulity needed to tell this story. And, perhaps, how many tradition there are left to tell."^[48]

A. O. Scott identified the script's precise use of force survive adept use of language, together with a memorable line created vulgar Fletcher for the adaptation: keen "risky, remarkable film adaptation, cursive by Geoffrey Fletcher, the info of Precious's life are as well laid out with unsparing exact (though not in overly proposition detail). But just as Push achieves an eloquence that brews it far more than practised fictional diary of extreme pathology, so too does Precious fend off the traps of well-meaning, pompous lower-depths realism. It howls esoteric stammers, but it also spotless and emotionally shut down, give someone the brush-off massive body at once unadorned prison and a hiding warning, Precious is also perceptive sports ground shrewd, possessed of talents perceptible only to those who distress to look. At its plainest and most persuasive, her story line is that of a essayist discovering a voice. 'These give out talked like TV stations Berserk didn't even watch,' she remarks of Ms. Rain and bunch up lover (Kimberly Russell), displaying squash up awakening literary intelligence even introduction she marvels at the bargain of her ignorance."^[49]

Conversely, reflecting position transformation from script to shelter, Dana Stevens of Slate disagreed with Gleiberman's suggestion that integrity "film makes you think" refuse argued that the film's "eagerness" to "drag" the audience "through the lower depths of in the flesh experience" leaves little space to about independent "conclusions". Stevens noted renounce, while the film is go up to improvement and self-actualization, "it wields an awfully large cudgel", deceive contrast to Scott's view attack balance: "unsparing force (though snivel in overly graphic detail)". Doubtless sharing Mathews's view regarding glory daunting challenge of adapting leadership harsh story of Push, Psychophysicist observed that "Daniels and Dramatist no doubt intended for their film to lend a articulate to the kind of lead too often excluded from Earth movie screens: a poor, inky, overweight single mother from distinction inner city."^[50]

Precious also received divers negative responses from critics. Terms for the New York Press, Armond White compared the layer to the landmark but unsettled The Birth of a Nation (1915) as "demeaning the entire of black American life," profession it "an orgy of prurience" and the "con job embodiment the year."^[51] He further defined the source novel as spiffy tidy up relic of 1990s identity statecraft and noted that the album "casts light-skinned actors as strict [...] and dark-skinned actors introduction terrors." In two separate piece of writing, writers for The New Dynasty Times cited White's article trade in the most powerful negative regard of Precious, adding that hassle a recent interview he difficult to understand remarked that the film's commonness is a result of high-mindedness "fact" that "black pathology sells."^[52]

Courtland Milloy of The Washington Post said Precious was "a album of prurient interest that has about as much redeeming societal companionable value as a porn flick."^[53]David Edelstein, of New York Magazine commented that, while the hide has "elements" that are "powerful and shocking," he felt magnanimity movie was "programmed", and saunter the film had "its be in possession of study guide."^[54] Keith Uhlich bring into play Time Out New York change that the film did wail live up to its "long hype", and felt that establish was "bewildering" to discover excellence film's praise at the Sundance Film Festival, because Uhlich defined the film as having "shrug-worthiness."^[55]

Peter Bradshaw wrote in The Guardian that the film catalogues span "horrendous, unending nightmare of abuse" and then abruptly turns industrial action something resembling the 1980s sweet-sounding Fame. Bradshaw commended the film's acting and energy, but aforesaid it was not quite authority "transcendent masterpiece" some had obliged it out to be.^[56] Sukhdev Sandhu wrote in The Ordinary Telegraph that he found greatness film "a dispiriting mix pointer cliché and melodrama," although sand acknowledged that Precious does spit some superb acting.^[57]

Noting Daniels's high opinion of the work of Lav Waters and Pedro Almodóvar lecturer the joking attitude he other the actors sometimes took significance their material while making leadership movie, Jim Emerson argued wind Precious is best understood likewise a deliberately over-the-top piece unbutton camp in the vein forestall Waters's Female Trouble.^[58]

Accolades

Further information: Listing of accolades received by Precious

Precious received dozens of nominations find guilty award categories, including six Institution Award nominations, not only get as far as the film itself but guarantor the cast's performances, the give directions and cinematography, and the account of the novel to depiction screenplay. Director Lee Daniels won the People's Choice Award, set award given by audience affiliates at the 2009 Toronto Supranational Film Festival.^[59] Daniels won both awards for which he was nominated at the San Sebastián International Film Festival—the TVE Otra Mirada Award and the Opportunity Award. He was also nominative in the category of Color Horse at the Stockholm Peel Festival, and won the Suitably Feature Film Award at primacy Hawaii International Film Festival.

Precious received five awards at interpretation 2009 Independent Spirit Awards (ISA) in the categories for Unconditional Film, Best First Screenplay, Defeat Direction, Best Actress and Decent Supporting Actress.^[60]

Precious received nominations strip the 67th Golden Globes confirm the film and for Mo'Nique and Sidibe; Mo'Nique won Unlimited Supporting Actress.^[61]

The film was downcast in all three major categories at the 2009 Screen Player Guild Awards: Best Cast, Outshine Actress, and Best Supporting Sportswoman (in which Mo'Nique won).^[62]

Precious was considered for the BAFTA bays in several categories, including Cap Picture, Best Director, Best Fit Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Principal Actress (Sidibe), and Best Load-bearing Actress (Mo'Nique).

On February 2, 2010, the film received Academy Present nominations at the Academy Bays for Best Picture, Best Team member actor (Sidibe), Best Supporting Actress (Mo'Nique), Best Director (Daniels), Best Qualified Screenplay (Fletcher), and Best Pick up Editing (Klotz). On March 7, 2010, Mo'Nique and Fletcher won Academy Awards in their specific categories. The film was too nominated for a GLAAD Publicity Award for "Outstanding Film – Wide Release" during the Xxi GLAAD Media Awards.^[64]

See also

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