Tag: Academy Awards

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 Awards

Including 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:

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blacknoonajade:

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sonofbaldwin:

I got dressed in my traditional Indian regalia, but there was a man, he was the producer of the whole show. He took that speech away from me and he warned me very sternly. “I’ll give you 60 seconds or less. And if you go over that 60 seconds, I’ll have you arrested. I’ll have you put in handcuffs.”

– Sacheen Littlefeather in Reel Injun (2009), dir. Neil Diamond.

They were MAD, CONFUSED AND PRESSED that Marlon Brando would betray White Supremacy in this way.

To this very day, they are TWISTED over this.

And when Littlefeather got up there and READ THEM FOR FILTH, they GAGGED. For eons.

So I imagine there are people like me out there who’ve never even heard of Marlon Brando and are extremely confused over why this is important.

Marlon Brando was the Don in The Godfather, and in 1973, he was nominated for and won an Academy Award for it. However, he was also a huge Natives rights activist, and boycotted the ceremony because he felt that Hollywood’s depictions of Native Americans in the media led to the Wounded Knee Incident (which I was always taught as “the second massacre at Wounded Knee” but apparently that’s not the real name). He sent Sacheen Littlefeather, an Apache Native rights activist, in his stead. Wikipedia’s article on her explains the rest:

Brando had written a 15-page speech for Littlefeather to give at the ceremony, but when the producer met her backstage he threatened to physically remove her or have her arrested if she spoke on stage for more than 60 seconds.[5] Her on-stage comments were therefore improvised. She then went backstage and read the entire speech to the press. In his autobiography My Word is My Bond, Roger Moore (who presented the award) claims he took the Oscar home with him and kept it in his possession until it was collected by an armed guard sent by the Academy.

That is what this gifset is about.

You have GOT to read up on this. The Wounded Knee Incident, Marlon Brando and Sacheen Littlefeather, Anna Mae Aquash. ALL OF IT.