Ava DuVernay and David Oyelowo say Academy failed to support Selma after cast's Eric Garner protest
standard.co.ukAva DuVernay has backed claims by actor David Oyelowo that Academy members said they would not vote for their civil rights film Selma after the cast showed support for a black man who died in police custody.Stars of the movie, as well as director DuVernay, wore T-shirts bearing the slogan “I can’t breathe” for Selma’s premiere.They were the words gasped by Eric Garner, who died after a New York City police officer put him in a chokehold in July 2014, months before Selma’s release.Garner’s case has attracted renewed attention in the wake of George Floyd’s death in similar circumstances which has sparked a wave of protests against police treatment of black people.British-American actor Oyelowo, who played Martin Luther King Jr in Selma, told.
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