Ben carson jr biography movie

2009 American biographical television drama film

Not to be confused with the book of the same name, Gifted Hands.

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story is a 2009 biographicaltelevisiondrama film directed and co-produced by Thomas Carter, written by John Pielmeier, and starring Cuba Gooding Jr., Kimberly Elise and Aunjanue Ellis.

The film is based on the autobiography of neurosurgeon (and later politician) Ben Carson, which was co-written by Cecil Murphey and published under the same title in 1990. A Johnson & Johnson Spotlight Presentation, the movie premiered on TNT on Saturday, February 7, 2009.

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Gooding Jr. was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie. Carter was nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Television Film.

The film additionally received a Critics' Choice Television Award nomination for Best Movie/Minis