Full coverage: ‘Hidden Figures’
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A trailer for “Hidden Figures,” starring Taraji P. Henson and Octavia Spencer.
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Like the calculating women whose lives it celebrates, “Hidden Figures” knows what it’s doing.
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Allison Schroeder was on the playground in 1986, chasing a friend around the slide, when the space shuttle Challenger exploded.
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Nominations for the 89th Academy Awards will be announced early Tuesday morning, and while there’s no such thing as a sure thing, Damien Chazelle’s “La La Land” is probably going to have a very good day.
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When NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson asks to join a high-level briefing in the run-up to astronaut John Glenn’s historic 1962 flight in the film “Hidden Figures,” an engineer rushes to shut the idea down.
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Octavia Spencer thought she might try to become as mechanically minded as her “Hidden Figures” character.
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Octavia Spencer likes to research her roles, but there wasn’t much on file about her “Hidden Figures” character, Dorothy Vaughan.
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Before they were machines based on silicon, “computers” were actually women — though their colleagues would often refer to them as “girls.”
