{"id":12923,"date":"2012-02-20T16:06:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T21:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12923"},"modified":"2012-02-20T15:34:03","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T20:34:03","slug":"%e2%80%98the-help%e2%80%99-cleans-up-at-43rd-naacp-image-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12923","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Help\u2019 Cleans Up At 43rd NAACP Image Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 <em>\u201cThe Help\u201d<\/em> collected three prizes at the NAACP Image Awards, including top actress honors for<strong> Viola Davis<\/strong>, the supporting actress prize for <strong>Octavia Spencer<\/strong> and outstanding motion picture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Davis<\/strong> and<strong> Spencer<\/strong> have collected armloads of accolades for their work in the film about black maids who speak out against their white employers during the Civil Rights Movement. Both are up for Academy Awards next week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Davis<\/strong> said the film has \u201cjust been the joy of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI found my voice,\u201d she said. \u201cI just emerged through `<em>The Help<\/em>.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony Friday at the Shrine Auditorium, which honored diversity in the arts, was punctuated by moving tributes to <strong>Whitney Houston<\/strong>, the Black Stuntmen\u2019s Association and <strong>George Lucas<\/strong> and the Tuskegee Airmen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 \u201cThe Help\u201d collected three prizes at the NAACP Image Awards, including top actress honors for Viola Davis, the supporting actress prize for Octavia Spencer and outstanding motion picture. Davis and Spencer have collected armloads of accolades for their work in the film about black maids who speak out against their white employers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}