We sat down with
Academy Award Winner Forest Whitaker to talk about his new movie
The Butler.
FOREST WHITAKER (
CECIL GAINES)
Forest Whitaker is a distinguished artist and humanist. He is the founder of PeaceEarth
Foundation, co-founder and chair of the
International Institute for Peace and is the
UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for
Peace and
Reconciliation. Whitaker is also a talented, versatile performer and one of
Hollywood's most accomplished figures. He has received prestigious artistic distinctions including the
2007 Academy Award® for Best Actor for his performance in
The Last King of Scotland as
Ugandan dictator
Idi Amin. He has also received the
BAFTA Award,
SAG Award, and
Golden Globe® for
Best Actor. In addition, Whitaker received the Best Actor for
Bird at the
Cannes Film Festival.
Whitaker has dedicated most of his time to extensive humanitarian work over the past decade. His social awareness has compelled him to seek ways of using the film medium as a means to raise peoples' consciousness. He produced the award-winning documentary Kassim the
Dream,
which tells the poignant story of a Ugandan child soldier turned world championship boxer,
Rising From Ashes, which profiles
Genocide survivors of the
Rwandan war who have risen from wooden bicycles to competing in the
Olympics, Serving
Life, which focuses on hospice care for prisoners at
Louisiana's
Angola Prison, and the
Emmy nominated and
Peabody Award-winning
Brick City, which takes a look at inner-city life in
Newark, New Jersey.
In 2007, Whitaker received the
Cinema for Peace Award for his selfless and ongoing advocacy for child soldiers, as well as his work with inner-city youth. He was also awarded the
Humanitas Prize in
2001. In 2008, he served as a member of the
Urban Policy Committee and currently sits on the board of the
President's Committee on the Arts and the
Humanities (PCAH). Whitaker serves as a
Senior Research Scholar at
Rutgers University, and a
Visiting Professor at Ringling
College of Art and
Design. In
2011, Whitaker was designated as a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Peace and Reconciliation. In this role, he works towards global
peace building through anti-violent education, research, training and community building. In recognition of his commitment as UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador and for his outstanding contribution to the work of the
Organization, Whitaker received in
December 2012 the
United Nations Correspondents Association Advocate of the Year Award. In
2013,
Boston University's Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center appointed Whitaker as a
Martin Luther King Jr. Fellow.
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