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Revisiting Sounder: Cicely Tyson’s first Oscar nod Kristal Brent Zook Entertainment Weekly , explores more than a century of movies and the artists who created them. This excerpt remembers Sounder  (1972), a Depression-era tearjerker that earned Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Screenplay, Actor (Paul Winfield), and Actress (Cicely Tyson). It is one of several great period dramas we included that, spanning eras and a range of Black experiences, tell the truth through fiction. It seems a simple story about a sharecropper family and their dog Sounder. Yet William H. Armstrong s 1969 children s novel uses a quaint premise as its Trojan horse. In the 1972 film of 

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