Idris Elba received a Golden Globe Best Actor nomination for his roles as Mandela in the movie; Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom', while Chiwetel Ejiofor got his Best Actor nomination for his role as Solomon Northup in the movie, 12 Years A Slave. Chiwetel also got a SAG Awards nomination. The two actors are up against, Tom Hanks - Captain Phillips, Matthew McConaughey - Dallas Buyers Club and Robert Redford for All is Lost.
Latifah opened up to Good Housekeeping about how she has learned to be happy with herself, in all aspects of life. The actress spoke honestly about being a bigger woman amongst the
tiny starlets of Hollywood. She told the magazine, "…for a lot of the
things I've wanted to do in life, I haven't looked typical, I was not
born a size 2. I'm not skinny, period." Still, she learned early on to
embrace her beauty and differences. "When I was around 18, I looked in
the mirror and said, 'You're either going to love yourself or hate
yourself.' And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things,"
she recalled. Sadly, body image hasn't been the only hurdle Latifah has had to
clear. Just as her career took off, her brother was killed in a
motorcycle accident. A devout Baptist, Latifah had a hard time accepting
the loss. "My life was rocked to the core. And I felt guilty, because I
was angry at God," she explained. Years later, she was the victim of a carjacking in which her friend
was nearly killed. The two incidents sent Latifah over the edge and lead
her to drinking as a coping mechanism. She confessed, "Drinking a bunch
of alcohol, numbing myself. Every day I would be faded, like a painting
that's just not vibrant, whose edges are dull, I wasn't living my full
life." Therapy helped the actress to see past her struggles and handle other deep–rooted issues, including the sexual abuse she faced as a child. Now, Latifah is a brighter and happier person. She credits her faith
in God for bringing her through darker days and making her realize that,
as she put it, "Nobody is perfect."
Oprah Winfrey has no regrets, commentating it would have been difficult making time for a family amid her busy career. 'If I had kids, my kids would hate me,' she tells The Hollywood Reporter in its new issue. 'They would have ended up on the equivalent of the Oprah
show talking about me; because something [in my life] would have had to
suffer and it would've probably been them.' Oprah, who grew up in poverty in rural
Mississipi, says her attitude about children is in stark contrast to her
best friend Gayle King who is a mother of two. 'Gayle [now a mother of two] was the
kind of kid who, in seventh grade Home Ec class, was writing down her
name and the names of her children,' she says. 'While she was having
those kind of daydreams, I was having daydreams about how I could be
Martin Luther King.' Celebrating her Sherry Lansing Leadership Award with a new interview, the
59-year-old businesswoman and talk-show host candidly discusses the
struggles launching her TV network OWN, her financial success.