But its director and actors did not get anything. The actor who played MLK was excellent. I saw him on one of the talk shows and did not know that he was British.

I saw the film and it was excellent , although they did fool around with history a bit.

LBJ became president in November of 1964 and he pushed the bill through congress and had it signed into law by July of 1964, before his landslide November 1964 victory and before the Viet Nam War was escalated.

How nice it would be if congress and presidents could act that speedily today.

LBJ did not work against MLK. It was J. Edgar Hoover who was the enemy.

LBJ knew that he only had a limited time after JFK's assassination to get the bill passed. It was something that JFK promised but didn't have time to deliver. LBJ pushed extremely hard to get this bill through congress and signed.

There was an excellent Broadway Show this year about the same subject and it won a Tony for Best Play. It was called ALL THE WAY, and I read that HBO is going to make a TV movie about it.

But til then, see SELMA . It was great