Oprah Winfrey Interview - The Great Debaters

Through her company's film division, Harpo Films, Oprah Winfrey has produced projects based on classic and contemporary literature that have garnered the highest industry honors for quality acting and production. Telefilms under the "Oprah Winfrey Presents" banner have included the award-winning Tuesdays With Morrie, based on the best-selling novel by Mitch Albom and starring Academy Award®-winner Jack Lemmon and Emmy Award®-winner Hank Azaria; Their Eyes Were Watching God, based on the Zora Neale Hurston novel and starring Academy Award®-winner Halle Berry; and Mitch Albom's For One More Day, based on his best-selling novel and starring Emmy Award®-winner Michael Imperioli and Academy Award®-winner Ellen Burstyn.

In 1998, Harpo Films produced the critically acclaimed Beloved, a Touchstone Pictures feature film based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Toni Morrison, which co-starred Oprah Winfrey and Danny Glover and was directed by Jonathan Demme.

Winfrey made her acting debut in 1985 as Sofia in Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple, for which she received both Academy Award® and Golden Globe® nominations. She also has been lauded for her performances in the made-for-television movies Before Women Had Wings (1997), There Are No Children Here (1993), and The Women of Brewster Place (1989).

The Great Debaters is a fictional story inspired by Wiley College's winning debate team of the early 1930s. Academy Award® winner Denzel Washington steps behind the camera for a second time to direct. He joins fellow Academy Award® winner Forest Whitaker and co-stars as Melvin B. Tolson, the legendary coach. Harpo Films' Oprah Winfrey and Kate Forte produced with Todd Black (The Pursuit of Happyness) and Joe Roth (Mona Lisa Smile).

Filmed primarily in northeastern Louisiana with a few days in east Texas, production started on May 14, and ended on July 16, 2007.

Then, production moved to Boston to film the key Harvard scenes at the prestigious Sanders Theatre in Memorial Hall as well as turning the Wang Theater's foyer into South Station circa 1935. Monday, July 23, 2007, was the last day of filming.

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[travishamlett]

a great piece of work, thank god we have moved on since then, and i hope we continue to move forward...black, white asian, hindu, iranian, we are all the same. just looking at the world through differnet glasses.Each one of us is more than we realise and each one can make the the right place and time.

[wayhighbehere]

this was better than i thought it would be...just went seenit at the premire here in Marshall a few days ago.

[graded]

I cannot believe, that some people have commented below concerning the facts about Harvard being a stretch of the truth. It's just crazy to think that after watching such an inspirational movie that all you walk away with is the urge to research whether it was Harvard or not. The debaters lives & what they went on to achieve for Freedoms Sake following their youth is what should be remembered & that this the most important TRUTH :))

[waffiki]

Thank you OPRAH & DENZEL you must have done a beautiful work. in england it is not released, that tells me it is something extremely beneficial for MY type of people, anything that is good for us is not given to us and most of us seem to move-on and forget about the matter, but i am well prepared thanks to my king EMPROR HAILE-SELASSIE, - look out - get out and get what is rightly yours, and that is what i am going to do;to go and look for the DVD.and i'll get back to you with my verdict.

[Psulionae]

nice interview. i can't wait to see this move...there's so much talent!!!

[shami]

the great debaters, it's a good movie just finished watching it.

[Denisehealthnut]

Little Hallelujah holy dance, I love Oprah!!!

[jamesbarber]

I love Oprah, I've learnt so much from her!

[harlemmoney]

I going to see this movie. Go interview with Oprah. I did know she produce this movie.
Denzel and Forest both should get an Award.
Mike Green Hugs For Harlem keep doing what you do.

[wayhighbehere]

yeah, where the film takes place. Denzel came down here for the premire.

[king]

the truthcaster is bro. eli soriano and we believed that He is the sensible preacher of our time...BRO> ELI SORIANO

[jfn]

what you said is true.

but it is never going to happen ever. never ever ever.

[k]

this movie says "inspired by a true story"

it's totally inaccurate

[metanoia]

they reported the earth to be flat?well, it's the early catholics belief...and it is a muslim belief that christians reported that the earth was flat....in Isaiah 40:22 says "It is he that sitteth upon the circles of the earth, ect...
and the sun was moving?is is not a letteral sun that was moving in the bible.

[wayhighbehere]

Well it's not the 1930s anymore is it?

[rhenzeugenio]

try bro eli soriano, ask him and the bible answer whatever question according to faith and believe in the bible

[maggiedon]

Hundreds of religions, hundreds of faiths, hundreds of teachings, hundreds of doctrines, hundreds of rituals, hundreds of prayers, hundreds of Gods, hundreds of Prophets...The Law of ATTRACTION WORKS THEN

[rhenzeugenio]

@Denisehealthnut in real life bro eli soriano is the great debater,

[andrewberardi]

Creativity 'til infinity!

Follow me @andrewberardi

[rolan]

go search bro. Eli Soriano! he is the MAN! He is the Great DEBATER!
/watch?v=jjxU1EC-Y0o