Mo'Nique FYC

This is a fan made For Your Consideration ad for Mo'Nique for next years Oscars.
I know I am obsessed - but WOW.
haha

Mo'Nique pre-Push

Mo'Nique, who just won an acting award from Sundance, has had a string of bumpy comedic roles in bumpy films. Not to say she isnt HILARIOUS in them. Here she is in Soul Plane. Funny as hell!

Mo'Nique continues earning raves

It seems there is no shortage of love for Mo'Nique, in what is sure to be her star making dramatic role in Push (not the Dakota Fanning movie). Just read these excerpts from reviews:

From Box Office:

"But the almost certain 2010 Oscar nom for all of this (predictable even today, on the day the 2009 noms were just announced) belongs to Mo'Nique, whose alternately horrifying and devastating performance humanizes a monster. The last ten minutes of Push are devoted to a revelatory confrontation between mother and daughter, and Mo'Nique's bravura transformation, from opportunistic schemer to shattered woman unable to face an unlivable truth, is so unerring it literally makes the viewer gasp. Daniels, who produced Monsters Ball and shows a similar belief in giving his actors room to explore, has captured a performance here that can stand with the best ever committed to film. It simply should not be missed."

McClatchy Newspapers:

"The film is rewarded by a supporting turn by Mo'Nique that many feel is a lock to secure an Oscar nomination next year. And, no, it isn't too early to make such a call. Her performance is, unbelievably, better than most nominated this year."

Variety:

""Push" is a horror movie, of course, and Mary is a monster, whose one glimmer of humanity -- which Mo'Nique, who is utterly brilliant, reveals in a tour de force soliloquy at the finale -- only makes her more horrible."

Hollywood Insider:

"The star of Sundance this year, is also the star of the highly anticipated 'Push'. That would be Mo'Nique of 'Phat Girlz' fame. Those days are over, as she is surely to be an Oscar winner this time next year for her role as Mary - the abusive, mentally handicapped mother of Precious. This performance is stunning in every way possible."

Snapshot:

"Mo'Nique is stunningly psychotic. I couldn't take my eyes off of her the entire time she was on the screen. When she wasn't on the screen, I wondered what she was doing. This is nothing short of a revelation."

Sundance Archival:

"As her domineering mother, Mo'Nique, who has previously only ventured into comedic roles, is absolutely stunning. Most of the film requires her to display utter contempt for Precious, but as the story progresses, she adds a sympathy that is both unexpected and moving. Mo'Nique may not have thought she had a career as a serious actress, but that will completely change after "Push". She is brilliant in every possible way."

Sundance Review Channel:

"Mo'Niques performance in Push, will be the performance of the year."

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WOW!!!
I AM DYING TO SEE THE MOVIE, READ THE BOOK, ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING!

Hollywood Reporters "Push" Review

Because I am THRILLED and EXCITED about this movie. Here is a review from Sundance, done by the Hollywood Reporter:


"Push" has no bounds. It's a disturbing, overwhelming story of one Harlem girl's merciless degradations. An overwhelming, masterful dramatic competition entrant, this Lee Daniels film may have no bounds in the awards categories here at Sundance. It would not be surprising to see "Push" pull in both the Audience Award and Jury Award.

It's a hard-forged film with a story line so grim and abhorrent -- a 16-year-old black girl has been impregnated twice by her father -- that marketing will be tough. However, the film's crystalline performances, including a bravura performance from Mo'Nique, should propel word-of-mouth. Solid supporting turns from Mariah Carey, Paula Patton and Lenny Kravitz will also help commercially.

In this inner-city horror story, newcomer Gabourey Sidibe plays Clarice, a pathetic ghetto girl enduring more personal plagues than Job. Called "Precious," she's illiterate, overweight and emotionally abused by her deadbeat mother (Mo'Nique). Slow in school, Precious wallows in junior high at 16 and is shuffled through the system to a "special" program.

Shoving her boxcar frame into the bleak makeshift classroom, Precious confronts the first ray of help in her life, a charismatic teacher called Blu Rain (Paula Patton). With Blu Rain's feisty prodding, Precious slogs toward her GED.

Precious sustains herself through intermittent fantasies. She envisions herself as the worshipful object of mass media's most vapid idealizations: a red-carpet superstar and, most shockingly, a blonde-haired/blue-eyed white beauty queen. That weird warp is darkly ironic; from the outside it seems the ultimate degradation to Precious. Yet, those oddly inspired flights are the sole windows of self-esteem and sustenance for this degraded girl.

Damien Paul's edgy and effervescent screenplay propels us into the inner recesses of primitive survival. It's a magnificent distillation, both succinct and eruptive. Director Lee Daniels sagely navigates the story from Precious' cavernous inner world through her synaptic flashes of fantasy that momentarily allow her to transcend her personal hell.

As Precious, Sidibe is superb, allowing us to see the inner warmth and beauty of a young woman who, to her world's cruel eyes, might seem monstrous. As Precious' hideous mother, Mo'Nique is cruelty incarnate. It's an astonishingly powerful performance, one that at times left me shaking with fear. It is rare to see a performance this powerful, and it could easily be said that Mo'Nique will rank in the screen history of the baddest of all villians. It is also very easy to guess who will be seen on many a red carpet next awards season - Mo'Nique.

In a striking non-star turn, Mariah Carey is credible as a veteran social worker who is jarred by Precious' plight. As the effervescent school teacher, Paula Patton exudes goodness but sagely reveals her character's inner liabilities, while Lenny Kravitz is low-key perfect as an empathetic nurse's aide.

Under Lee Daniels' radiant hand, technical contributions are magnificently forged. Highest praise to cinematographer Andrew Dunn for the gothic compositions and editor Joe Klotz for the kinetic cuts. "Push" is not only the movie of the festival, it could honestly be the movie I will most remember all year.

Push Winning Sundance

If you love movies - PLEASE watch this and get excited with me.
Watch PUSH win Best film at Sundance
Watch Mo'Nique win Best Actor at Sundance
Watch PUSH win the Grand Jury prize

I must say I am so in awe to see Oscar nominee and Sundance judge almost cry over being able to present the best acting award to .. Mo'Nique.

AMAZING!

Coming Soon: PUSH

No, not the Dakota Fanning action flick, the Sundance winner for best Picture and actress for Mo'Niqe - PUSH. Here is the complete coverage of the film from Sundance ... and a LOOOONG clip of Monique in what very may well be an Oscar Contender. (Also a scene of Mariah Carrey's ... and she doesnt suck, shes actually good). WATCH THIS!



i think this could be the movie of the year!

Sundance Winners (aka Monique may be nominated for an Oscar)

The winners of the Sundance film festival were announced over the weekend, and surprise came in the name of Mo'Nique. You may have heard of her before, maybe youve seen 'The Parkers' (her television show on the UPN), or perhaps you saw the movie 'Soul Plane' (also starring Snoop Dogg), or youve seen the 'Queens of Comedy' or one of her many standup performances, but according to the Sundance judges and audiences, youve never seen Mo'Nique like this! (Let the Oscar push for next year begin!!!)

Mo'Nique is earning raves for her performance in Lee Daniels' "Push: Based on the Novel by Sapphire" at this year's Sundance Film Festival. "Push" was the most winning film of the fest, which ran Jan. 15 to Jan. 25. The film won the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award, while star Mo'Nique won a special prize for acting. Mo'Nique stars as an over-bearing mother who constrains her high school-aged daughter (Gabourey Sidibe) both emotionally and physically. Precious (Sidibe) is pregnant for the second time with her father's child and is teased at school for being overweight and lacking the ability to read or write. Supporting performances from Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepherd and Lenny Kravtiz also won raves at the fest. YES -- you read that right Mariah Carey AND Sherri Shepard .. not to mention Lenny Kravitz (who plays a gay nurse).

"This is so important to me," Mo'Nique said as she accepted the only acting award of the festival. "Because this is speaking for every minority that's in Harlem, that's in Detroit, that's in Watts, that's being abused, that can't read, that's obese and that we turn our back on. And this is for every gay little boy and girl that's being tortured."

The list of winners include:

Directing Award: U.S. Documentary - Natalia Almada, “El General”

Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic - Cary Joji Fukunaga, “Sin Nombre”

World Cinema Directing Award: Documentary - Havana Marking, “Afghan Star”

World Cinema Directing Award: Dramatic - Oliver Hirschbiegel, “Five Minutes of Heaven”

Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award - Nicholas Jasenovec and Charlyne Yi, “Paper Heart”

World Cinema Screenwriting Award - Oliver Hirschbiegel, “Five Minutes of Heaven”

U.S. Documentary Editing Award - Karen Schmeer, “Sergio,” directed by Greg Barker

World Cinema Documentary Editing Award - Janus Billeskov Jansen and Thomas
Papapetros, “Burma VJ,” directed by Anders Østergaard

Excellence in Cinematography Award: U.S. Documentary - Bob Richman, “The September Issue,” directed by R.J. Cutler

Excellence in Cinematography Award: U.S. Dramatic - Adriano Goldman, “Sin Nombre,” directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga

World Cinema Cinematography Award: Documentary - John Maringouin, “Big River Man”

World Cinema Cinematography Award: Dramatic - John De Borman, “An Education,” directed by Lone Scherfig

World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Originality - Benoît Delépine and Gustave de Kervern, “Louise-Michel”

World Cinema Special Jury Prize: Documentary - Ngawang Choephel, “Tibet in Song”

Special Jury Prize: U.S. Documentary - Jeff Stilson, “Good Hair”

Special Jury Prize for Spirit of Independence - Lynn Shelton, “Humpday”

Special Jury Prize for Acting - Mo’Nique, “Push: Based on the Novel by Sapphire”