Possible Clues:

• Domestic assistance
• Oscar-nominated film starring Viola Davis
• Viola Davis film whose tagline was "Change begins with a whisper"
• 2011 film for which Octavia Spencer won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar
• 2011 movie about 1960s racism
• 2011 movie dealing with 1960s racism
• 2011 Oscar-nominated picture set in 1960s Mississippi
• 2011 Best Picture Oscar also-ran
• 2011 Oscar-nominated film about African-American maids