Hidden Figures is the untold story of the African American Women who helped win the space race by Margot Lee Shetterly book.
MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY is a writer who grew up in Hampton, Virginia, where she knew many of the women in Hidden Figures. She is an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow and the recipient of a Virginia Foundation for the Humanities grant for her research into the history of women in computing. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Synopsis : Hidden Figures is a story of 3 pioneering African American women who played vital roles in the National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) during the early years of the U.S. space program development. Their calculations were essential to several historic space missions, including the successful orbit of the Earth by the now late astronaut John Glenn. Set in 1961, the black community was still segregated from the white. Many are facing discrimination at home, school, and at work which hinders them from using their skills to their extent.The film closely surrounds a trio namely Katherine G. Johnson (played by Taraji P. Henson), Mary Jackson (played by Janelle Monae), and Dorothy Vaughan (played by Octavia Spencer). The trio worked at NASA's Langley Research Centre in Hampton as America raced against the (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or USSR to put a man into space. But the U.S. was so desperate to beat the Soviet Union into space that NASA reluctantly turned to one of the human computers, whose expertise in analytic geometry will make Glenn into orbit a success. She is assigned at her new job only to find that she is the only brown person in the room.
Hidden Figures Awards : Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA 2017
Winner: Best Action/Adventure Film.
BET Awards 2017
Winner, Best Movie