Pop culture expert Robert Thompson says the changes could be seen in film and television as well.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

She helped break racial barriers by changing the way black women were represented in film.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

This is more than any other actor in film history.

VOA: special.2009.05.29

She's best known for her many roles in film and on television - from the obsessive lover in "Fatal Attraction."

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

But she has had a busy career in film and television and doing commercial voice work.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

Some charity workers say the conditions on the streets are, if anything, worse than those shown in the film "Slumdog Millionaire."

VOA: special.2009.08.10

In the latest film, she is beginning to feel unsure about her own identity now that she is Mrs.John Preston.

VOA: special.2010.06.14

Writer-director Paul Haggis says the research John does in the movie is similar to the studying he did for the film.

VOA: special.2010.12.13

And Morgan Freeman is nominated for his role as former South African president Nelson Mandela in the film "Invictus."

VOA: special.2010.03.01

The next year she starred in a film version of the Tennessee Williams play, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."

VOA: special.2011.04.03

It was also the opening film for the Environmental Film Festival in Washington,D.C., which we reported on last month.

VOA: special.2009.04.03

It followed his journey from poverty in Texas to the theater in New York City and the film world of Hollywood,California.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

In the film,their two very different characters fall in love on a riverboat in the middle of Africa.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

Diane Keaton plays just such a mother, a single mom named Daphne, in the two thousand seven film "Because I Said So."

VOA: special.2009.05.04