(CBS News) Forest Whitaker is already generating considerable Oscar buzz for his performance in "Lee Daniels' The Butler." Whitaker plays White House butler Cecil Gaines in the film inspired by ...

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Analysts see similarities in films%27 strong showings %22Butler%22 opens bigger than %22The Help%22 Forest Whitaker film could have a long summer run Lee Daniels' The ...

Inspired by real-life butler Eugene Allen, Gaines (played by Forest Whitaker) witnesses the rise of the civil rights movement, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, Vietnam and the ...

NEW YORK, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Hollywood actor Forest Whitaker says he hopes his film "Lee Daniels' The Butler" inspires young people to stand up to social injustice wherever they see it. The ...

After his career breakthrough with Bird, Whitaker never shied away from real-life characters. The actor stepped into the shoes of White House butler Cecil Gaines (pseudonym for Eugene Allen ...

David Oyelowo is in talks to play the butler's son in the film about Eugene ... Kennedy and Robert Kennedy.? Whitaker, repped by WME, Brillstein Entertainment and Ziffren Brittenham, won an ...

With Whitaker, Daniels and screenwriter Danny Strong pulling the strings, “The Butler” can take a bow.

Forest Whitaker, right, as Cecil Gaines with Robin Williams as Dwight Eisenhower in a scene from “Lee Daniels' The Butler.” NEW YORK — Forest Whitaker tends to talk about his work with a ...