About the red carpet, the directors of this Oscar-winning short movie”Two Distant Strangers” admired the Dark Americans murdered by police who prompted their movie.
Directors Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe won Best Live Action Short for its Netflix movie that follows a Black guy caught in a time loop who’s brutally murdered by police. They accepted the award in black-and-yellow tuxedos, the lining of which had been embroidered with the names of individuals who died in the hands of authorities, such as Philando Castile, Tamir Rice and Daunte Wright.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the tuxedos were produced by controversial fashion house Dolce and Gabbana, that was accused of anti-Black and anti-Asian racism. The visceral movie — one that protagonist expires in a sense much like real men and women who have died at the hands of authorities — was criticized because of its unflinching violence experienced with its Dark direct.
In his address, Free, who wrote the movie, noted that Black Americans have been killed by authorities and implored the crowd to not become”indifferent to our annoyance” in the aftermath of police killings.
Theirs was among many references made to police killings and anti-Black racism during the service. Regina King, that opened the series, stated that”if things had gone differently in Minneapolis,” referencing the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin, convicted in the murder of George Floyd, she”could have exchanged [her] heels to get lace boots” And Tyler Perry, who won the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ humanitarian award, encouraged audiences to”refuse hatred.”

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