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  • Lee Daniels asked Oprah to play masturbating maid - 8 October 2012
    -Moviemaker Lee Daniels has revealed he originally asked Oprah Winfrey to portray a masturbating maid in new movie The Paperboy before handing the role to singer Macy Gray.-The Precious director, who is overseeing Winfrey's return to the big screen as Forest Whitaker


  • Lee Daniels brushes off Cannes criticism of The Paperboy - 24 May 2012
    -Director Lee Daniels has brushed off criticism of his new movie The Paperboy after causing controversy in Cannes by debuting a scene in which Nicole Kidman appears to urinate on Zac Efron to treat a jellyfish sting.-The big screen adaptation of author Pete Dexter's


  • Daniels hires Brit to play Luther King, Jr. - 17 March 2010
    -Precious director Lee Daniels has turned to Britain while casting for his civil rights movie Selma - he's hired Spooks actor David Oyelowo to play iconic American Martin Luther King Jr.- -The Oscar-nominated filmmaker is turning his attentions to the U.S. civil righ

Lee Daniels - what members say


  • Precious
  • Precious review by slc from London
    Rated - 5.0 stars A gem of a film 17 February 2010
    ...rtable to watch, yet moving and funny. As unpleasant as the subject matter is, Lee Daniels' direction means that you do not leave the cinema with a heavy heart because it...   Read customer review

Lee Daniels - filmography


  • The Paperboy (2012)
    Starring: Zac Efron,  Nicole Kidman,  Matthew McConaughey
    Director: Lee Daniels
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Directed by Oscar nominee, Lee Daniels (Precious), The Paperboy follows two brothers: Ward (Matthew McConaughey, Magic Mike), a reporter for the esteemed daily newspaper, The Miami Times, and Jack (Zac Efron, The Lucky One), a recent college dropout. When Ward shows up with his writing partner, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 83 members
    Due for release on 29th July 2013
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  • The Paperboy - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Zac Efron,  Nicole Kidman,  Matthew McConaughey
    Director: Lee Daniels
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Directed by Oscar nominee, Lee Daniels (Precious), The Paperboy follows two brothers: Ward (Matthew McConaughey, Magic Mike), a reporter for the esteemed daily newspaper, The Miami Times, and Jack (Zac Efron, The Lucky One), a recent college dropout. When Ward shows up with his writing partner, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1 member
    Due for release on 29th July 2013
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  • Precious on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Gabourey Sidibe,  Paula Patton,  Mariah Carey
    Director: Lee Daniels
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Set in Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African-American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother, a poisonously angry woman who abuses her emotionally and ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 34,147 members
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  • Precious - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Gabourey Sidibe,  Paula Patton,  Mariah Carey
    Director: Lee Daniels
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Set in Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African-American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother, a poisonously angry woman who abuses her emotionally and ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 5,114 members
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  • Tennessee on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Adam Rothenberg,  Ethan Peck,  Mariah Carey
    Director: Aaron Woodley
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Road trip drama starring Ethan Peck, Adam Rothenberg and Mariah Carey. When Ellis Armstrong (Peck) is diagnosed with leukaemia, he and his older brother Carter (Rothenberg) set out from their trailer park home in New Mexico to their Tennessee hometown to track down their long-estranged father, in ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 76 members
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  • The Woodsman on DVD (2004)
    Starring: David Alan Grier,  Eve,  Mos Def
    Director: Nicole Kassell
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Thought-provoking drama starring Kevin Bacon as Walter, a convicted paedophile who has served his sentence for his previous crimes and is determined not to relapse. Taking a job in a lumber yard, he starts a relationship with a local woman and, although he lives in fear of his past crimes being ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 28,608 members
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  • Monster's Ball on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Peter Boyle,  Sean Combs,  Halle Berry
    Director: Marc Forster
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Deep South drama starring Halle Berry in an Oscar-winning performance as Leticia Musgrove, the wife of a man recently executed on Death Row. When she is fired from her job, Leticia starts working at the local diner, where she meets Hank Grotowski (Billy Bob Thornton), a former prison warden whose ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 13,485 members
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Lee Daniels facts

5 most recent films

The Paperboy - 3.0 stars
The Paperboy - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Precious - 4.0 stars
Precious - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Tennessee - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Precious - 4.0 stars
Precious - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
The Paperboy - 3.0 stars
Monster's Ball - 3.0 stars
Tennessee - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Paperboy - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Shadowboxer - aka The Assassin - 2.5 stars
The Woodsman - 3.0 stars
Tennessee - 3.0 stars
Monster's Ball - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Mo'nique - 5 times - show films
Mariah Carey - 4 times - show films
Macy Gray - 4 times - show films
Paula Patton - 3 times - show films
Lenny Kravitz - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Marc Forster - 1 times - show films
Aaron Woodley - 1 times - show films
Nicole Kassell - 1 times - show films