afishlearningpoetry:The Biggest Upset In Oscar History with Moonlight, The Worst Snub with The Color
afishlearningpoetry:The Biggest Upset In Oscar History with Moonlight, The Worst Snub with The Color Purple, + the Role of Race, Sexuality, Gender, & Time with the Academy AwardsIncluding The Color Purple being banned from libraries, Alice Walker’s Beauty In Truth, Steven Spielberg’s admission of holding back with Celie and Shug in the film, Allison Swank’s Africa On Film: Out of Africa, Geoff Nelson’s The Unbearable Whiteness of La La Land, Steven Thrasher’s ‘moonlight, trayvon, the oscars, and america’s fear of black boys’ and how La La Land was always planned to be this way.See also: A Timeline of Other Gay Films Being Snubbed up to Moonlight, La La Land Straightwashed Rebel Without A Cause Decades Later, and The Blank Slate of La La Land.Bonus: Recent examples similar to Out of Africa: -- source link