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Or maybe the Academy just prefers movies about white men doing manly things, because the Academy itself is notorious for being primarily white and male, and there aren’t a whole lot of women directors out there who find themselves driven to make yet another movie about yet another white dude doing more white-dude stuff. Maybe Hollywood listened a little too closely. But in this instance, the politicians who came out en masse against DuVernay’s portrayal of Johnson were loud, insistent and hell-bent on being heard, because, you know, white people. This point of controversy is important because every historical film ever made has taken liberties with the facts because real-life drama hardly ever follows a traditional three-act structure. LBJ's stall on voting in favor of War on Poverty isn't fantasy made up for a film. More: Selma is a reminder of how little the world has really changedĭuVernay herself responded to these criticisms from her Twitter account, saying, “Notion that Selma was LBJ’s idea is jaw dropping and offensive to SNCC, SCLC and black citizens who made it so.” She also linked to a New Yorker magazine article that confirms Johnson asked King to postpone his fight for voting rights in the following tweet: Johnson as “less than sympathetic” to the Civil Rights movement.
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The powerful civil rights film was made to feel all the more poignant by recent current events, and yet, DuVernay was completely overlooked and we can’t help but wonder if the Academy delivered its snub due to the manufactured political controversies surrounding DuVernay’s depiction of Lyndon B. The film, which chronicles Martin Luther King Jr.’s campaign for equal voting rights in 1965, focuses on King‘s historic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, and the political maelstrom that surrounded the civil rights leader at the time. More: 5 Reasons Unbroken snubbed by SAG and Golden Globes We were less surprised to see Jolie left off the list after she failed to make the Golden Globes cut, but DuVernay, who would have been the first female African American director ever nominated for an Academy Award, has received consistent and considerable praise, including a Golden Globes nomination, for her direction of Selma. But none of these snubs was as hard to digest than that of the blatant lack of female nominees in the Directing category.īoth Ava DuVernay and Angelina Jolie caused major buzz this year with their deft direction of human-rights centered films, DuVernay for her masterful direction of Selma and Jolie for Unbroken. The Academy Award nominees were announced with the usual fanfare this morning, accompanied by more than a little head-slapping at the snubs - especially in light of how incredibly pale and male each category looks.