Actress and Oscar-nominated director Regina King opened tonight’s 93rd Academy Awards with a reference to this week’s guilty verdicts against Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd: “I have to be honest,” King said, “if things had gone differently this past week in Minneapolis, I might have traded my heels for marching boots.”King, nominated for her directorial debut One Night in Miami… opened tonight’s broadcast with a long, tracking-shot walk through L.A.
Union Square, one of the locations of this year’s ceremony. King, the opening presenter, was followed by a camera as she walked through the train station to take the stage and introduce the year’s screenwriting nominees.“I know many of you want to reach for your remotes when you
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