Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
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Ben and Curtis begin to learn much from the world of books. Within one year, Ben goes from the bottom of his class to the top. Following Ben's 8th grade awards ceremony where Ben's teacher angrily insults Ben's white classmates that they should be ashamed for performing worse than the black, less privileged Ben, Sonya enrolls Ben in a primarily black high school.
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story is a 2009 biographical television drama film directed and co-produced by Thomas Carter), written by John Pielmeier, and starring Cuba Gooding Jr., Kimberly Elise and Aunjanue Ellis. The film is based on the autobiography of neurosurgeon (and later politician) Ben Carson, which was co-written by Cecil Murphey and published under the same title in 1990. A Johnson & Johnson Spotlight Presentation, the movie premiered on TNT) on Saturday, February 7, 2009.
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
Gooding Jr. was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie. Carter was nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Television Film. The film additionally received a Critics' Choice Television Award nomination for Best Movie/Miniseries and four Creative Arts Emmy Award nominations.
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