The film received a leading 13 Academy Award nominations at the 81st Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director for Fincher, Best Actor for Pitt, and Best Supporting Actress for Taraji P. Henson, and won three, for Best Art Direction, Best Makeup, and Best Visual Effects.

Taraji P. Henson also shines as Benjamin's surrogate mother, who gives her son the support he needs. Not to mention Tilda Swinton as an early love interest. The screenplay by Eric Roth is excellent.

Actor Taraji P. Henson collaborated with Oscar-winner Brad Pitt for the David Fincher film Curious Case of Benjamin Button. But she figured she’d be the last person Fincher would cast in the ...

Oct 11, 2016 · In fact, Taraji writes in her new memoir Around the Way Girl that even her breakthrough role, as Queenie in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, wasn't all she thought it would be. In the...

1 day ago · The best Taraji P. Henson movies and TV shows include a strong mix of social message dramas, crime epics, and romantic comedies, revealing her ability to shine regardless of the genre. Henson was able to get her foot in the door in Hollywood in the early 1990s when she received her SAG membership after working as a background performer.

Dec 18, 2008 · Taraji P. Henson: Laray Mayfield, who brilliantly cast ‘Benjamin Button’. She had seen my performance in ‘Hustle and Flow’ and actually called David Fincher from the theater and telling him she found Queenie, the part that I play.

Jan 25, 2023 · Taraji P. Henson, who played Queenie, Benjamin's adoptive mother, came into the film after her father passed away a year prior, and would go on a reflective journey of her own...

Nov 23, 2008 · Benjamin is born of the armistice and is lovingly raised by a black attendant, Queenie (Taraji P. Henson), at the rest home. An establishment awash in the gentility of the Old South, the...

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a 2008 American fantasy drama film directed by David Fincher. The storyline by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord is loosely based on the 1922 short story of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The film stars Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson and Tilda Swinton.

Golden Globe nominees Taraji P. Henson and Tilda Swinton may themselves be recognized with Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominations, as well. I wouldn't be at all surprised if "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" finds itself with a slew of Oscar nominations.