In 2008, the video work Tears are precious was awarded the Best Independent Artist Award at the Optica International Video Art Festival (Paris, Madrid).
As Precious wins awards on the festival circuit, there is a feeling that this is a propitious time for a truthful, sympathetic film about the African-American underclass.
Precious won awards at both the Sundance Film Festival and the Toronto Film Festival, receiving top honors there.
Making this film has got me my life back and that is more precious than any award".
"I suppose every filmmaker has the naive, even pathetic dream that his film could be the one that finally stops a war," said Maoz. "But making this film has got me my life back and that is more precious than any award.
"She said, 'Then why are you answering your phone?' " After winning three awards, "Precious" was finally bought by a distributor.
But for now, he has what those riders do not: the precious yellow jersey awarded to the overall race leader.
Can we break the record for the longest standing ovation at the festival?" Just a few months before its premiere at Cannes, "Precious" won three awards at the Sundance Film Festival, including a special jury prize for Mo'Nique, who plays Precious's monstrous mother.
Carey once again ventured into film with a well-received supporting role in Precious (2009); she was awarded the "Breakthrough Performance Award" at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, and received Black Reel and NAACP Image Award nominations.
In 2010, Geoffrey Fletcher made history as the first (and currently only) African American to win a screenwriting Oscar, taking home the adapted screenplay award for "Precious".
