Maggie Smith as Violet Crawley still gets all the killer lines. In "Downton Abbey: A New Era," she turns her curmudgeonly cutlass on a new-fangled invention called "sound movies" as the visually stunning Abbey is being rented out to shoot a talkie. Oh, and she inherits a posh villa in the south of France.
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Twenty years ago, Halle Berry and Denzel Washington became the first and only Black actors to win both lead acting Oscars in the same night. It's a milestone the film academy hasn't lived up to.