Success did not come overnight for Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor.
对安洁纽·艾莉丝-泰勒来说，成功不是一夜之间得来的。

Accepting the IMDb "Fan Favorite" STARmeter Award during IMDb, Women in Film, and EW's dinner party at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival on Monday, the Emmy- and Oscar-nominated actress reflected on the decades she spent filming projects that either fizzled or never even saw the light of day.
在周一举行的2024年圣丹斯电影节上，这位获得艾美奖和奥斯卡提名的女演员在IMDb、女性电影人和娱乐周刊的晚宴上接受了IMDb“最受欢迎”明星奖。她回顾了自己几十年来拍摄的项目，这些项目要么失败，要么从未见过天日。

"I was in a womb," the 54-year-old said during her acceptance speech at the dinner party, thrown at RIME at The St. Regis Deer Valley in Park City, Utah. "I was working in the darkness."
“我当时还在子宫里，”54岁的她在犹他州帕克城鹿谷瑞吉酒店为RIME举办的晚宴上发表获奖演讲时说。“我在黑暗中工作。”

But then "something changed," she continued, "and I just want to acknowledge the people who ordered that path for me."
但后来“有些事情发生了变化，”她接着说，“我只想感谢那些为我安排这条道路的人。”

Ellis-Taylor — who made her professional acting debut opposite Patrick Stewart in a Broadway revival of William Shakespeare's The Tempest — went on to thank four directors: Christine Swanson, who cast her in the 2020 Lifetime movie The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel; Ava DuVernay, who directed her to her first Emmy nomination for Netflix's 2019 limited series When They See Us; showrunner Misha Green, who directed her to a second Emmy nomination for HBO's 2020 drama Lovecraft Country; and Reinaldo Marcus Green, who directed her to a 2022 Oscar nomination for King Richard.
埃利斯-泰勒的职业表演处女作是在百老汇翻唱莎士比亚的《暴风雨》中与帕特里克·斯图尔特演对手戏，她接着感谢了四位导演:克里斯汀·斯旺森，她让她出演了2020年Lifetime出品的电影《克拉克姐妹:福音第一夫人》;艾娃·杜威内，她执导的Netflix 2019年限定剧《当他们看到我们》首次获得艾美奖提名;米莎·格林，她执导的2020年HBO剧集《洛夫克拉夫特乡村》再次获得艾美奖提名;雷纳尔多·马库斯·格林，她凭借《理查国王》获得2022年奥斯卡提名。

"And then once again Ava DuVernay cast me — what’s wrong with this woman — in Origin," Ellis-Taylor continued, referencing her latest major motion picture, an adaptation of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson's Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. "Talk about living up to the spirit of women in film. She defied protocol, expectation, permits to create what I believe is the people’s movie. And I’m not saying this because we haven’t gotten any awards. I’m saying it because Isabelle Wilkerson has written this book, Caste, that has given us a new language to practice humanity. Ava took up the baton and had given this offering to the world. Go see it."
埃利斯-泰勒继续说道:“艾娃·杜威内又一次让我出演了《起源》，这个女人到底怎么了?”她的最新代表作改编自普利策奖得主伊莎贝尔·威尔克森的《种姓:我们不满的起源》。“说到在电影中践行女性精神。她不顾礼节，不顾期望，不顾许可，创作了一部我认为属于人民的电影。我这么说不是因为我们没有得到任何奖励。我这么说是因为伊莎贝尔·威尔克森写了《种姓》这本书，这本书给了我们一种新的语言来实践人性。艾娃拿起指挥棒，向世界献上了这份礼物。去看看吧。”

Ellis-Taylor then turned her attention to her latest Sundance drama, Exhibiting Forgiveness, directed by a first-time film director, contemporary painter Titus Kaphar, "who I think is one of the most important voices in American art, and soon to be one of the most important voices in cinema. Hopefully it’ll get a distributor and you go see that."
随后，埃利斯-泰勒将注意力转向了她最新的圣丹斯电影节影片《展示宽恕》，该片由第一次执导电影的当代画家提图斯·卡法尔执导，“我认为他是美国艺术界最重要的声音之一，很快也将成为电影界最重要的声音之一。”希望它能找到一个发行商，你可以去看看。”

"If you’re one of these people who think things, ish ain't fair, ish ain’t balanced, that’s facts," Ellis-Taylor told the room, which included 9-1-1: Lone Star actor Rafael Silva, God Save Texas: The Price of Oil director Alex Stapleton, Madam Secretary star and Creative Coalition president Tim Daly, and more. "What’s exciting for me is working with organizations like [Women in Film] — thank you so much — to change that."
“如果你是那些认为不公平、不平衡的人中的一员，这就是事实，”埃利斯-泰勒告诉房间里的人，其中包括911:孤星演员拉斐尔·席尔瓦，上帝拯救德克萨斯:石油价格导演亚历克斯·斯台普顿，女国务卿和创意联盟主席蒂姆·戴利等人。“让我感到兴奋的是与[电影中的女性]这样的组织合作——非常感谢——来改变这一点。”

IMDb’s STARmeter Awards honor celebrities who have trended high on the movie database’s STARmeter chart throughout the year, with its rankings determined by the overall number of page views the actors receive from users each month.
IMDb的STARmeter奖是为了表彰那些在电影数据库的STARmeter排行榜上排名靠前的明星，其排名是根据这些演员每月从用户那里获得的页面浏览量来决定的。