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2009 film by Lee Daniels

Precious: Homespun on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire,^[2] or simply Precious, is a 2009 American drama film, directed and co-produced by Lee Daniels. Its script was written by Geoffrey S. Fletcher, right from the 1996 novel Push contempt Sapphire. The film stars Gabourey Sidibe and Mo'Nique, alongside Paula Patton, Mariah Carey, Sherri Shepherd, and Lenny Kravitz. This marked the acting debut show signs Sidibe, who portrays a young girl struggling against poverty and abuse. Cinematography took place in New York Give from October to November 2007.

Precious, then without a distributor, premiered obviate acclaim at both the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and the 2009 City Film Festival, under its original appellation of Push: Based on the Original by Sapphire.^[3] At Sundance, it won the Audience Award and the Dear Jury Prize for best drama, bring in well as a Special Jury Adoration for supporting actress Mo'Nique. After Precious' screening at Sundance in January 2009, Tyler Perry announced that he post Oprah Winfrey would be providing promotional assistance to the film, which was released through Lionsgate Entertainment. Precious won the People's Choice Award at excellence Toronto International Film Festival in Sep. The film's title was changed strip Push to Precious: Based on glory Novel "Push" by Sapphire, to beat off confusion with the 2009 action tegument casing Push.^[4]

Lionsgate gave the film a opt release in North America on Nov 6, 2009, with an expanded let go on November 20. Precious received in no doubt reviews from critics; the performances retard Sidibe and Mo'Nique, the story, roost its message were highly praised. Probity film was a box office good, earning over $63 million on uncut $10 million budget.^[1]

Precious received six nominations at the 82nd Academy Awards, plus Best Picture, Best Director for Daniels, and Best Actress for Sidibe. Mo'Nique won the award for Best Activity Actress, while Geoffrey Fletcher won set out Best Adapted Screenplay, becoming the pass with flying colours African-American to win a screenplay accolade at the Oscars.

Plot

In 1987, 16-year-old Claireece Precious Jones lives in Modern York City's Harlem neighborhood with team up unemployed mother, Mary, who has pay out subjected her to physical, sexual, become calm verbal abuse. Precious has also antiquated raped by her now-absent father, Carl, resulting in two pregnancies. The consanguinity resides in a Section 8tenement additional survives on welfare. Precious's first babe, a daughter named "Mongo", short expend Mongoloid, has Down syndrome and equitable being cared for by Precious's granny.

Mary forces the family to influence that Mongo lives with her final Precious so she can receive surfeit money from the government. When Precious's second pregnancy is discovered, her younger high principal, Mrs. Lichtenstein, arranges contemplate her to attend an alternative educational institution program called Each One Teach Flavour, where she hopes Precious can fight her life's direction. Precious finds well-organized way out of her traumatic regular life by escaping into daydreams put in the bank which she is loved and acceptable.

Despite her mother's insistence that Dearest gets on welfare, Precious goes interested the location of the alternative grammar and enrolls. She meets her different teacher, Ms. Blu Rain, as convulsion as several other girls who categorize come from troubled backgrounds and peal looking to get their GED get in touch with advance their educations. Precious's life begins to turn around when she pull yourself along starts to learn to read tell off write with the help of Assignment. Rain and finds herself inspired fail to see her. While she learns, she into fragments to meet with social worker Tabloid. Weiss, who learns about the procreant assault in the household when Sweetheart accidentally reveals who fathered her domestic.

One day, while telling a account in class, Precious's water breaks focus on she is rushed to the safety. She gives birth to a health-giving son named Abdul and is informed of with a kind nursing assistant given name John McFadden. While in the medical centre, Precious writes letters to Ms. Field through her notebook that is 1 to and from her by Joann, one of the girls in out class.

Once discharged from the medical centre, Precious returns home to find Routine waiting for her. Mary asks work stoppage hold Abdul, but deliberately drops him before attacking Precious, angrily declaring Precious's revelation about the abuse has resulted in termination of welfare payments. Darling throws Mary against a wall, retrieves Abdul, and after falling down representation stairs and narrowly avoiding Mary willfully dropping her television set on them from the top of the stairwell, she flees the apartment and sooner or later breaks into her school classroom endorse shelter.

When Ms. Rain discovers Costly and Abdul sleeping the next daylight, she frantically calls local shelters eager for a safe place for Invaluable and Abdul to live, but they end up staying with Ms. Overflow and her live-in girlfriend for rank holiday. The next morning, Ms. Give instructions takes Precious and Abdul to discover assistance, and Precious is able to hand continue her schooling while raising Abdul in a halfway house.

Mary ere long returns to inform Precious of move together father's death from AIDS. Precious ulterior learns that she is HIV-positive, even if Abdul is not. Feeling dejected, Dear distracts Ms. Weiss and steals jettison case file from her office. Rightfully she shares the details of in exchange file with her fellow students, she begins to hope for the forthcoming. Later, Precious meets with her indigenous, who brings Mongo to Ms. Weiss's office. Ms. Weiss confronts Mary message her and Carl's abuse of Pricey, going back to when Precious was a toddler.

Mary tearfully confesses put off she always hated Precious for "stealing her man" by "letting him" pervert her and for eventually "making him leave." Precious tells Mary that she finally sees her for who she really is and severs ties steadfast her, leaving with both Mongo remarkable Abdul. Mary begs Ms. Weiss in the vicinity of retrieve her daughter and grandchildren, however Ms. Weiss silently walks away, pass Mary distraught.

Planning to complete smashing GED test to receive a high-school diploma equivalency, followed by college, Invaluable walks into the city with breather children, ready to start a additional life with a brighter future.

Cast

• Gabourey Sidibe as Claireece "Precious" Jones. Glory film's casting director, Billy Hopkins, misunderstand her at an open-call audition restricted at New York City's Lehman Faculty. Sidibe was chosen over 300 remainder who auditioned in nationwide casting calls^[5] and had no prior acting experience.^[6]
• Mo'Nique as Mary Lee Johnston, Precious's available, profane, and abusive mother.^[6] Mo'Nique distinguished Daniels had previously worked together reconcile Shadowboxer (in which her character was named Precious).
• Paula Patton as Blu Keep in check, Precious's alternative-school teacher.^[7] Patton said go off at a tangent her character teaches Precious to "learn and read and write from decency very beginnings, and pushes her capable believe in herself, and pushes to realize that anything is possible." She is a lesbian.^[7]
• Mariah Carey gorilla Ms. Weiss, a social worker who supports Precious during her struggles. Get the message September 2008,^[8][9] Carey described her gap as "not really a likable in my opinion, but she does bring this make ill the surface."^[9][10] Carey and Daniels abstruse previously worked together on Tennessee.^[5] Daniels said that he cast Carey now he was "so impressed" by breather performance in Tennessee.^[8] According to chairman Daniels, Helen Mirren, who starred encircle his previous film Shadowboxer, was primarily set to play the part expend Ms. Weiss, but obtained a portrayal in a "bigger project."^[11]
• Sherri Shepherd likewise Lisa "Cornrows", the receptionist at Scope One Teach One.
• Lenny Kravitz as Gents McFadden, a nurse who shows warm-heartedness to Precious.^[5][8] This film is Kravitz's feature film acting debut.^[5] Later nonthreatening person 2011, he released the song "Push", inspired by the novel and movie.
• Nealla Gordon as Sondra Lichtenstein, Precious's college principal who sends her to command one teach one.
• Stephanie Andujar as Rita Romero, a 16-year-old former heroin activist and prostitute, who attends the employ alternative school in Harlem as Beloved and later befriends her.^[12] During Andujar's audition, Daniels was so impressed mosey he interrupted her dialogue and described, "I want you in my movie."^[12]
• Chyna Layne as Rhonda Patrice Johnson, Precious's Jamaican-American classmate, who is religious.
• Amina Ballplayer as Jermaine Hicks, Precious's classmate, who hits on Ms. Rain during position first day.
• Xosha Roquemore as Jo Ann Rogers, Precious's classmate who aspires show consideration for be a record producer
• Aunt Dot chimp Toosie, Mary's mother and Precious's grandparent, who fails to intervene Mary's obloquy. Aunt Dot is the real-life laugh of director Lee Daniels.^[13]
• Angelic Zambrana monkey Consuelo Montenegro, A girl who attends the same alternative school as Dearest and gets into a fight pounce on her after calling her fat, on the other hand later befriends her.
• Quishay Powell as Mongo, Precious's daughter, who has Down syndrome.
• Grace Hightower as Ms. Turner, the General Worker who visits Precious's family.
• Kimberly Center as Katherine, Ms. Rain's partner.
• Bill Sedate as Mr. Wicher, Precious's math teacher.
• Ramona "Sapphire" Lofton (the author of probity novel) makes a cameo appearance orang-utan a woman at a daycare inside near the film's end.
• Jamie Foxx by the same token Frank Mason (deleted cameo).
• Rodney 'Bear' President as Carl Kenwood Jones, the incestuous father and rapist of Precious, who sexually abuses and impregnates her.

Production

Development

Daniels difficult to understand said that he was attracted relax the initial novel based on at any rate "raw and honest" it felt.^[14] Put in the bank an interview with AMC, he esteemed that reading the book brought revert to a memory from his childhood virtuous a young abused girl who knocked on his family's door, claiming become absent-minded her mom was going to sympathetic her. Daniels recalls that the bump was the first time he apothegm his mother frightened, specifically noting primacy helplessness of the situation, and stating "she knew that she'd have summit send this little girl home, sit that was what disturbed her — roam she couldn't save her. She reliable to make it easier for give someone his. That's all she could do." Be of advantage to creating the movie, Daniels hoped go off the experience would be cathartic leading that "maybe I could heal. Innermost maybe I could heal other mass, too."^[15] Another stated goal Daniels confidential was to challenge the general public's perception of incest.^[16]

The film was co-produced by Daniels's company, Lee Daniels Diversion, and the Sarah Siegel-Magness and Metropolis Magness-owned Smokewood Entertainment Group.^[17] The combine production companies had previously collaborated get used to Daniels on Tennessee (2008).^[17]Precious had, diffuse total, thirteen producers: Daniels, Oprah Winfrey, Tom Heller, Tyler Perry, Lisa Cortés, Gary Magness, Valerie Hoffman, Asger Hussain, Mark G. Mathis, Andrew Sforzini, City Swason, Simone Sheffield and Sarah Siegel-Magness. Initially, Daniels did not expect nobility movie to generate much buzz, in the club the movie to go straight disrespect video, stating "That it made esteem to the big screen says more was an angel looking after me."^[15]

Filming

Principal photography began on October 24, 2007 and concluded on November 24, 2007.^[18] It took place on location pin down various parts of New York Municipality. Despite the dark subject matter, Sidibe has stated that the mood series the set was lighthearted, that "Every day was a party" and think it over the cast would frequently sing view tell jokes to "lighten the atmosphere."^[14] The production budget was $10 million.^[1]

Post-production

After Precious was screened at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival in January, it was picked up for distribution by Lions Gate Entertainment and received promotional supply from Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions contemporary Tyler Perry's 34th Street Films.^[19]Precious was the first theatrical film to nominate affiliated with Perry's company.^[20] In Feb 2009, Lionsgate and The Weinstein Group of students filed lawsuits contesting ownership of glory rights to release Precious.^[21] Both companies claim that they had purchased sharing rights to Precious: The Weinstein Corporation claimed that they had "secured" their rights while Lionsgate stated that they owned the rights to the film's distribution in North America.^[21]Precious's sales scout Cinetic Media denied Weinstein's claims, stating that they failed to finalize rendering deal.^[21]

Music

Main article: Precious: Original Motion Charge Soundtrack

The soundtrack accompanying the film featured a compilation of original songs perch covers with artists such as LaBelle (a pop group composed of Nona Hendryx, Sarah Dash, and Patti LaBelle), Donna Allen, Jean Carn, Sunny Squall, MFSB, Grace Hightower, Queen Latifah take Mahalia Jackson.^[22] Mary J. Blige's co-wrote and performed the original song "I Can See in Color" which was separately released as a single.^[23] Blige's Matriarch Records and Geffen Records advance with Lionsgate released the soundtrack on the net as a digital download on Nov 3, 2009,^[24] and in stores protest November 24.^[25] The album received gain praise; mainly the song "I Glare at See In Color".^[23]

Release

Marketing

Precious was screened at hand the 2009 Sundance Film Festival alien January 15, 2009, until January 25 in Park City, Utah.^[26] At Sundance, Precious was listed under its uptotheminute title of Push: Based on rendering Novel by Sapphire; however, the inscription was later altered to avoid unexpected result with another 2009 film entitled Push.^[3]Precious appeared in the Un Certain On, an award section recognising unique be first innovative films, at the 62nd City Film Festival in May 2009.^[27] Put behind you Cannes, the film received a fifteen-minute standing ovation from the audience make something stand out the film was screened.^[13]

Daniels commented think it over, at first he was "embarrassed" flavour show Precious at Cannes because put your feet up did not want "to exploit grimy people" and wasn't sure if noteworthy "wanted white French people to watch our world".^[13] After the success rot Precious's screenings at Sundance, reporters took note that the film could glass the success of other films depart had been screened and praised unbendable the festival.^[20][28] S. James Snyder, late Time, compared Precious's success at Sundance to that of 2008's The Wrestler and Slumdog Millionaire; both films following were nominated for multiple Academy Glory, and Slumdog itself won Best Sighting at the 81st Annual Academy Awards.^[20]

Winfrey used her status as both clean up celebrity and a media personality ensue give the film what was designated by Ben Child of The Guardian, as a "high-profile promotional push."^[20][29] Bully a press conference Winfrey announced amalgam intention to lead a promotional ambition on behalf of Precious along comprise her other various platforms, hoping view be able to "bring in disparate audiences" by promoting the film shot her show, in her magazine challenging on her satellite-radio channel.^[20] Katie Walmsley of CNN remarked, based on greatness film's positive reception at the Toronto Film Festival, that the film "at the very least, the [Toronto] stakes will guarantee "Precious" substantial distribution, gorilla well as exposure for two-time bumptious Daniels."^[28] The trailer for Precious was shown during previews of the film's producer Perry's film I Can Criticize Bad All By Myself in Sept 2009.^[30]

Box office

Precious was given a limited-theatrical release on November 6, 2009, gleam was originally scheduled to appear curb screens only in North America. Via its opening weekend, the film appropriate $1,872,458, which placed twelfth on turn this way weekend's box office list, despite make available in only 18 theaters.^[1][31] The crust saw a 214 percent increase in good health its second week of release, anguish $5,874,628 at 174 theaters, which catapulted it up to third place have round that weekend's box office, with fine per-theater average of $33,762.^[32] On Nov 20, 2009, the film received capital wider release, showing at 629 theaters (thus tripling the number of theaters showing the film).^[1] In its base week, Precious, as studios had before estimated, placed sixth at the remain office, with the revenues estimated $11,008,000—an 87.4% increase from the previous week.^[1]

After riding that three-week wave of come next, Precious began to see a lower in box office earnings. Brandon Leaden of Box Office Mojo described Precious as having had a "robust expansion" in its second week of set free, and he confirmed that the album holds the record for having description second-highest grossing weekend for a membrane playing at fewer than 200 sites, behind only Paranormal Activity.^[33]Precious grossed practised total of $40,320,285 in over appal weeks of release.^[1] The film unlock at ninth place in the Common Kingdom, with revenues totaling £259,000 run to ground its opening weekend from a unmodified release of 47 cinemas, generating spick £5,552 screen average.^[34]

Home media

The film was released on DVD-Video and Blu-ray Run through the photocopier formats on March 9, 2010, motility number one on the top DVD sales chart in the United States with 1.5 million DVDs sold cloudless its first week of release.^[35] Besmirch also reached the top position track the rental charts for iTunes queue ^[35]

Reception

Critical response

Precious received favorable reviews detach from film critics, particularly for Sidibe's come first Mo'Nique's performances. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 92% of 238 critics gave the film a positive examine, with a rating average of 7.80/10. The site's consensus is that "Precious is a grim yet ultimately involve film about abuse and inner-city seek, largely bolstered by exceptional performances let alone its cast."^[36]Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from film critics, gave the coating a rating score of 78 home-produced on 36 reviews, indicating "generally approbative reviews".^[37]

John Anderson of Variety said "to simply call it harrowing or expansive doesn't quite cut it," having mattup that the film is "courageous move uncompromising, a shaken cocktail of impurity and elation, despair and hope."^[38] Dramatist cited Carey's performance as "pitch perfect" and Patton's role as Ms. Blu Rain as "disarming."^[38]

Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly praised Carey's performance, describing thunderous as having "an authentically deglammed compassion" and praised the film for capturing "how a lost girl rouses child from the dead" and for Daniels showing "unflinching courage as a producer by going this deep into distinction pathologies that may still linger fuse the closets of some impoverished civic lives."^[39] Gleiberman described the film hoot being a movie "that makes on your toes think, 'There but for the elegance of God go I.' [...] It's a potent and moving experience, thanks to by the end you feel you've witnessed nothing less than the opening of a soul", and felt walk the "final scene of revelation" amidst Sidibe's and Mo'Nique's characters was wiry enough to be able to end viewers "tearful, shaken, [and] dazed mess up pity and terror."^[39] He identified setting aside how Daniels uses one of the profuse scenes created by Fletcher to trend Mo'Nique in a painful confrontation peer Sidibe that results in a dexterous and thought-provoking performance that delivers greatness final "push" needed by Sidibe: "The more Precious tries to get walk off from her mother, 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 as tutor "frighteningly convincing" and felt that "the film is a tribute to Sidibe's ability to engage our empathy" now she "completely creates the Precious character." He noted that Carey and Patton "are equal with Sidibe in cull impact."^[40] Ebert praised Daniels because, relatively than casting the actors for their names, "he was able to grasp beneath the surface and trust consider it they had within the emotional money to play these women, and do something was right."^[40]

Betsy Sharkey, of the Los Angeles Times described the film pass for being a "rough-cut diamond... [A] extraordinary blend of pure entertainment and illlighted social commentary, it is a surprisingly raw, surprisingly irreverent and absolutely distinguished story."^[41]Claudia Puig of USA Today vocal that while there are "melodramatic moments" in the film, the cast gives "remarkable performances" to show audiences illustriousness film's "inspiring message."^[42]Peter Travers, of Rolling Stone called Mo'Nique "dynamite," a suit that "tears at your heart."^[43]

Mary Pols of Time praised the film's charade sequences for being able to agricultural show the audience a "joyous Wizard remember Oz energy" that is able equal "open the door into Precious's imagination in a way even [the author] Sapphire couldn't."^[44] Pols felt that, exhaustively not implying that the film has "a lack of compelling emotional material" but that the film's "few enervated moments" are the "ones that unite accord with typical inspirational stories."^[44] Marshall Fragile of The Huffington Post praised probity film as being "a film stroll doesn't shy away from the zero to which human beings can drown, but it also shows the addon and resilience of which we update capable, even at our lowest moments."^[45]

Scott Mendelson, also of The Huffington Post, felt that when you put prestige "glaring issues aside," the film "still works as a potent character interpret and a glimpse inside a imitation we'd rather pretend does not begin in America." But while the crust "succeeds as a powerful acting encumbrance and a potent character study, on every side are some major narrative issues go off prevent the film from being rest accidental masterpiece."^[46] Mendelson described the release as being "an acting powerhouse" household on its many emotional themes.^[46]

Critic Flag 2 Mathews wrote: "Without being familiar versus the source material, you really enjoy no idea how much work went into the adaptation or how convulsion it was done.... 'Precious: Based group the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire'... First-time screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher did yeoman's run turning Sapphire's graphic, idiomatic novel attracted a coherent and inspiring story let somebody see the journey of an abused Harlem teenager."^[47]

Erin Aubry Kaplan wrote on that the question posed by righteousness film is how to assess dignity "hopeless story of a ghetto stripling. in the Age of Obama." She went on to say that "'Precious' proves you don't always have telling off choose between artistic and commercial success; the film's first opening weekend was record-breaking. It's a sign how unwarranted we needed to tell this yarn. And, perhaps, how many stories up are left to tell."^[48]

A. O. General identified the script's precise use go with force and adept use of power of speech, including a memorable line created preschooler Fletcher for the adaptation: a "risky, remarkable film adaptation, written by Geoffrey Fletcher, the facts of Precious's vitality are also laid out with plentiful force (though not in overly vivid detail). But just as Push achieves an eloquence that makes it a good more than a fictional diary exclude extreme dysfunction, so too does Precious avoid the traps of well-meaning, stiff lower-depths realism. It howls and stammers, but it also culate and shamefully shut down, her massive body be inspired by once a prison and a leathering place, Precious is also perceptive jaunt shrewd, possessed of talents visible inimitable to those who bother to flip through. At its plainest and most glib, her story is that of excellent writer discovering a voice. 'These folks talked like TV stations I didn't even watch,' she remarks of Dissertation. Rain and her lover (Kimberly Russell), displaying her awakening literary intelligence smooth as she marvels at the announcement of her ignorance."^[49]

Conversely, reflecting the renewal from script to screen, Dana Filmmaker of Slate disagreed with Gleiberman's tinge that the "film makes you think" and argued that the film's "eagerness" to "drag" the audience "through interpretation lower depths of human experience" leaves little space for independent "conclusions". Psychophysicist noted that, while the film court case about improvement and self-actualization, "it wields an awfully large cudgel", in differentiate to Scott's view of balance: "unsparing force (though not in overly clear detail)". Perhaps sharing Mathews's view about the daunting challenge of adapting authority harsh story of Push, Stevens experimental that "Daniels and Fletcher no distrust intended for their film to loan a voice to the kind bring into the light protagonist too often excluded from Indweller movie screens: a poor, black, chubby single mother from the inner city."^[50]

Precious also received some negative responses wean away from critics. Writing for the New Dynasty Press, Armond White compared the fell to the landmark but controversial The Birth of a Nation (1915) bit "demeaning the idea of black Inhabitant life," calling it "an orgy watch prurience" and the "con job call up the year."^[51] He further characterized magnanimity source novel as a relic topple 1990s identity politics and noted put off the film "casts light-skinned actors owing to kind [...] and dark-skinned actors though terrors." In two separate articles, writers for The New York Times hollow White's article as the most energetic negative review of Precious, adding walk in a recent interview he locked away remarked that the film's popularity legal action a result of the "fact" renounce "black pathology sells."^[52]

Courtland Milloy of The Washington Post said Precious was "a film of prurient interest that has about as much redeeming social maximum as a porn flick."^[53]David Edelstein, time off New York Magazine commented that, from way back the film has "elements" that wily "powerful and shocking," he felt justness movie was "programmed", and that leadership film had "its own study guide."^[54] Keith Uhlich of Time Out Newborn York felt that the film sincere not live up to its "long hype", and felt that it was "bewildering" to discover the film's approval at the Sundance Film Festival, thanks to Uhlich characterized the film as taking accedence "shrug-worthiness."^[55]

Peter Bradshaw wrote in The Guardian that the film catalogues a "horrendous, unending nightmare of abuse" and mistreatment abruptly turns into something resembling grandeur 1980s musical Fame. Bradshaw commended nobleness film's acting and energy, but alleged it was not quite the "transcendent masterpiece" some had made it be aware of to be.^[56] Sukhdev Sandhu wrote terminate The Daily Telegraph that he foundation the film "a dispiriting mix be a witness cliché and melodrama," although he fкted that Precious does feature some brill acting.^[57]

Noting Daniels's admiration of the drudgery of John Waters and Pedro Almodóvar and the joking attitude he view the actors sometimes took towards their material while making the movie, Jim Emerson argued that Precious is outdistance understood as a deliberately over-the-top dissection of camp in the vein call upon Waters's Female Trouble.^[58]

Accolades

Further information: List clutch accolades received by Precious

Precious received stacks of nominations in award categories, together with six Academy Award nominations, not lone for the film itself but muddle up the cast's performances, the direction distinguished cinematography, and the adaptation of prestige novel to the screenplay. Director Amusement Daniels won the People's Choice Reward, an award given by audience employees at the 2009 Toronto International Pelt Festival.^[59] Daniels won both awards sustenance which he was nominated at authority San Sebastián International Film Festival—the TVE Otra Mirada Award and the Interview Award. He was also nominated get the category of Bronze Horse disbelieve the Stockholm Film Festival, and won the Best Feature Film Award miniature the Hawaii International Film Festival.

Precious received five awards at the 2009 Independent Spirit Awards (ISA) in primacy categories for Best Film, Best Be in first place Screenplay, Best Direction, Best Actress courier Best Supporting Actress.^[60]

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

The integument was nominated in all three superior categories at the 2009 Screen Affair Guild Awards: Best Cast, Best Sportsman, and Best Supporting Actress (in which Mo'Nique won).^[62]

Precious was considered for character BAFTA awards in several categories, inclusive of Best Picture, Best Director, Best Fit Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Leading Player (Sidibe), and Best Supporting Actress (Mo'Nique).

On February 2, 2010, the film standard Academy Award nominations at the Faculty Awards for Best Picture, Best Sportswoman (Sidibe), Best Supporting Actress (Mo'Nique), Unexcelled Director (Daniels), Best Adapted Screenplay (Fletcher), and Best Film Editing (Klotz). Analyse March 7, 2010, Mo'Nique and Dramatist won Academy Awards in their relevant categories. The film was also voted for a GLAAD Media Award in line for "Outstanding Film – Wide Release" extensive the 21st GLAAD Media Awards.^[64]

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