![]() ![]() ![]() Deadwyler is one of the most promising actresses of her generation, something easily observed not just in Till, but in the wildly varying roles that preceded it, including her wary, pragmatic 2019 rendering of Lemon Cassidy in The Devil To Pay, a small indie currently streaming on Netflix. Danielle Deadwyler, star of Till, was nowhere to be found in the nominations for lead actress despite a wrenching depiction of Mamie Till’s mission to ensure that the barbarism of her son’s killing never went forgotten. The Woman King, the historical action epic starring and produced by actress Viola Davis, went entirely unrecognized, a shutout that defies logic. ![]() The 10,000-member organization that awards the Oscars announced its nominations for the 95th Academy Awards Tuesday morning, and while Everything Everywhere All at Once deservedly racked up a leading total of 11 nods ( All Quiet on the Western Front, The Fabelmans, and The Banshees of Inisherin also did well), the obvious absences as the nominations were announced stung. This year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences looked at an impressive crop of cinematic contributions by Black women and largely said, “No thanks.” The academy’s celebration of high-flying, big-budget maximalism (See: Elvis, Top Gun: Maverick, and Avatar: The Way of Water), mysteriously did not extend to Nope or The Woman King. ![]()
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