Awards Path: Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Kevin Kline

awards path: Directed by Bill Condon, according to Toronto Star. Opens Friday at GTA theatres. 129 minutes. AP By Peter Howell Movie Critic Thu., March 16, 2017 Beauty and the Beast Starring Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Kevin Kline, Luke Evans, Josh Gad, Ewan McGregor, Emma Thompson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Audra McDonald and Ian McKellen. PGBill Condon's enchanting live-action adaptation of Disney's Beauty and the Beast is designed to make believers of skeptics even those who think the 1991 animated version can't be topped. The live-action interloper, which remains mostly faithful to the story and songs by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman obviously can't follow a similar awards path, but the thrills remain. The original set a new animation standard and earned a then-unprecedented Oscar nomination for Best Picture. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.