Ava DuVernay is the director of biographical film Origin.
, the Martin Luther King Jr. biopic, andearned her a Golden Globe for best director and an Oscar nomination for best picture.With these accomplishments under her belt, why was, DuVernay's latest movie, both a flop at the box office and snubbed at the 2024 Academy Awards?, is a biographical drama about Wilkerson's life as she travels through Germany, India and the United States to look further into the caste systems in each country's history.
We've included some highlights below, edited for length and clarity. For the full discussion, plus a review of the satirical comedy The American Society of Magical Negroes,Kathleen, I'm gonna start with you. It feels unlikely to me that Ava herself is runningTwitter account, but let's put this in context. How often do you see a movie use social media to directly drag its distributor like that?Never. I think this is pretty unprecedented.
But what distributors do is they get a bunch of movies together, the ones that they want to make in a given year and they go, "Here's our hobby horse, here's our big winner and we're going all in on this one." Look at A24. They obviously HAD success this year. But they had other great movies that just didn't get any awards and weren't released in time to win awards and to get the buzz leading up to the Oscars because they can't do it for every film.
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