Billie Schwab Dunn Pop Culture and Entertainment Reporter, Newsweek, March 11, 2024 (updated); Xochitl, Ashley Wells, CC Liu, Crystal Quintero (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
I deserve this more than Gladstone. Sorry if they gave it to me. It's no one's fault. #statusquo |
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Others recognized my contribution to film. |
Lily Gladstone snubbed at Oscars, sparking uproar about old Academy and its disgusting lack of inclusion and opportunity.
Native American actor Lily Gladstone (the titular lead actress in Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon, actually supporting Leonardo DiCaprio in his starring role alongside co-lead Robert De Niro, about the super-rich Osage tribe, at one time comprising the richest people in the world murdered by white people for their money, a shocking true story).
Quick, throw Ken in for some much needed comic relief. And show Margot's reaction. |
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1st movie predicted Easy A[wards] |
If Gladstone had been recognized on Sunday night, she would have become the first Native American person ever to win an Academy Award, aka an Oscar. the Native American woman who went up to accept the Best Actor award that one time was just picking it up for Marlon Brando, as he was making a statement about the Academy and its insular possibly racist outlook on movies.
The Context
This isn't about race because, well, it just isn't! |
Set in 1920s Osage County, Oklahoma, the white killers were involved in a plot to steal the rights to the Native's oil-rich land.
Gladstone, who is from the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, previously made history when she was first nominated for the award as she became the first Native American woman to ever be put forward.
However, she is not the first Indigenous nominee for Best Actress, with previous contenders including Yalitza Aparicio for 2018's Roma and Keisha Castle-Hughes for 2003's Whale Rider. Both women also didn't go on to be recognized with an award from the Academy.
COMMENTARY
But Stone is white and is more deserving. |
Y'all are actually oppressing us in our country! |
The answer? Grin and bear it, and shut the H up about it. Like it or lump it. Take it or leave it. Go back to your own country. You're from here? Oh, well, who cares? Go find somewhere else to live.
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