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A United Kingdom

December 2020

  • David Oyelowo: ‘I’m jealous of my peers – Benedict Cumberbatch never has to talk about his race.’

    David Oyelowo: 'Nowhere on Earth has been better at covering up racism than Great Britain'

    The actor is tired of talking about race, but the trolling of his latest film shows why he still has to. He talks religion, the secret of his happy marriage – and why he worried he had failed the legacy of Martin Luther King

March 2017

  • Amy Adams in Arrival.

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    Arrival; Mum’s List; A United Kingdom and more – reviews

    Denis Villeneuve’s astonishing and timely sci-fi is full of mind-melting discoveries, while Amma Asante’s latest historical drama sells its story short

December 2016

  • A composite of Moana, Rosamund Pike and David Oyelowo in A United Kingdom, and Phoenix from Red Dog: True Blue

    Boxing Day films in Australia: our pick of the festive releases

    Is Disney’s Moana worth forking out for in 3D? Does A United Kingdom deliver a grand romance? Should you check out Red Dog’s origin story? All these questions answered and more

November 2016

  • Rosamund Pike and David Oyelowo in A United Kingdom.

    Mark Kermode's film of the week
    A United Kingdom review – black king to white queen…

  • Untied they stand... Rosamund Pike and David Oyelowo A United Kingdom.

    The ten best things to do this week
    The 10 best… things to do this week

  • David Oyelowo

    Film talk
    David Oyelowo: 'There's resistance to films with black protagonists' – video interview

  • Rosamund Pike october 2016

    Rosamund Pike: ‘I'm happy being No 2. The guy's usually No 1'

October 2016

  • Lupita Nyong’o and David Oyelowo at the premiere of Queen of Katwe in London.

    David Oyelowo on film diversity: time for less talk, more action

  • David Oyelowo Headlines BLACK STAR Symposium At BFI London Film Festival<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 06: David Oyelowo attends BFI London Film Festival BLACK STAR Symposium on October 6, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images for BFI)

    David Oyelowo: 'People of colour have been expunged from British history'

  • 'A United Kingdom' - Press Conference - 60th BFI London Film Festival<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 05: (L-R) Actress Rosamund Pike, director Amma Asante and actor David Oyelowo attend the 'A United Kingdom' press conference during the 60th BFI London Film Festival at The Mayfair Hotel on October 5, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by John Phillips/Getty Images)

    Amma Asante on A United Kingdom: 'People were comforted a woman of colour was telling this story'

  • Amma Asante photographed last month by Suki Dhanda for the Observer New Review.

    Amma Asante: ‘I’m here to disrupt expectations’

September 2016

  • Empire Live; Women On Screen Panel<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 25: Amma Asante takes part in a 'Women on Screen' Panel Discussion as part of Empire Live at The O2 Arena on September 25, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images )

    Amma Asante: film industry chiefs 'don't trust female directors'

    Director of A United Kingdom says that women are pigeonholed into making ‘certain types of movies’ due to ‘misguided distrust’ from executives
  • 2016 Toronto International Film Festival - Portraits<br>TORONTO, ON - SEPTEMBER 09: Actor David Oyelowo (L) and screenwriter Amma Asante pose for a portrait during the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival at the Intercontinental Hotel on September 9, 2016 in Toronto, Canada. (Photo by Maarten de Boer/Getty Images)

    David Oyelowo in Toronto: 'It's absolutely inexcusable female directors are marginalised'

    The actor, who has two films directed by women premiering at Tiff, also attacks British period films for not featuring black characters and says he will always ‘be an advocate for diversity’
  • A United Kingdom

    First look review
    A United Kingdom review: Rosamund Pike and David Oyelowo in fine romance

    A strange, shameful chapter of history is dusted off by Amma Assante to make this earnestly stirring Empire drama

August 2016

  • A United Kingdom

    Trailer park
    A United Kingdom trailer: interracial marriage causes outrage in true story – video

    David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike star as real-life couple Seretse Khama and Ruth Williams, who caused an international outcry when they married in 1948

June 2016

  • A United Kingdom

    London film festival to open with A United Kingdom

    Amma Asante follows Belle with period tale of interracial relationship starring Rosamund Pike and David Oyelowo

May 2016

  • Director Amma Asante and cinematographer Ben Smithard on the set of Belle in 2013

    Amma Asante is doing British film proud

    Letters: We don’t need ‘a Jeff Nichols of our own’ to tell the stories of race and racism in Britain on film. We have Amma Asante, director of Belle and A United Kingdom

February 2016

  • Angelina Jolie Pitt<br>FILE - In this July 6, 2014, file photo, actress Angelina Jolie Pitt speaks to Cambodian reporters during a visit to Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Angelina Jolie Pitt first came to Cambodia 16 years ago to film “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider,” - the gun-toting, bungee-jumping, supremely toned action hero that made her a star. She’s back now for another movie, “First They Killed My Father,” as a director, and the subject matter is a far cry from Lara Croft. (AP Photo/Andy Eames, File)

    #HollywoodSoWhite: diversity report gives damning picture of US film industry

    Ethnic minorities and LGBT community continue suffer at the hands of ‘inclusion crisis’; meanwhile only 3% of film directors are women, with a third of female characters shown with ‘partial or full nudity’

October 2015

  • A scene from the film Belle by director Amma Asante

    Stop being afraid over diversity, culture secretary tells British creative industries

    Ed Vaizey says fears over accusations of political correctness means the community that is Britain today is not reflected in onscreen and offscreen roles

May 2015

  • David Oyelowo

    David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike set for racially charged African drama

    Oyelowo will play Seretse Khama, a royal exiled from Bechuanaland by the British in 1951 after he controversially married a white English office clerk
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