Barbara Broccoli is perplexed as we grab a moment alone (well, not exactly alone alone; we were surrounded on all sides) at the swanky soirée Saturday for BAFTA Film Awards nominees at the National Gallery just off Trafalgar Square.
Far classier than the clumsy awards show the following night. “They looked away,” Broccoli says of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voters who flat-out denied Chinonye Chukwu’s movie movie any Oscar nominations.
They looked away from Danielle Deadwyler’s poignant portrayal of Mamie Till-Mobley, the mother of Emmett Till who was tortured to death in Mississippi on August 28, 1955.
They looked away from Chukwu’s exploration of a mother’s love. You see, that’s what Till is about. You don’t see the vicious lynching.
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