A year ago it had major hype, due to the contraversy surrounding the "all-White" Oscars.
Now it seems to have been forgotten about.
It was a fine film. An ok film. Nothing amazing. But after all of last year and the hype this created, I'm very surprised it seems to have been forgotten about in the media and Hollywood
A lot of Oscar nominations go to undeserving material merely because of the topic they deal with. 20th century fox don't even seem to want to back BoaN anymore after the controversy. If there hadn't been any controversy I think there would have been a push in the Hollywood trades to get BoaN some nominations, and it might have got a "Best Screenplay" nomination or some technical ones.
BoaN came out just at a point where people needed to point to some work by black auteurs that deserved Oscar recognition. With Moonlight and Fences now out, there are much more deserving black candidates for awards: Barry Jenkins, Mahershala Ali, Denzel Washington and Viola Davis all deserve nominations or wins and none of them have been involved in rape cases.
Fox have put it out for consideration in the Best Screenplay. The script was one of the first scripts sent out for consideration.
shareGot nominated for a DGA award (First-Time Feature), surprising enough.
shareMoonlight and Fences are leading the races they are films with black casts. So the awards don't have to bother with this one. It wasn't that good, and the rape controversy sank it.
shareIt was because the director had rape allegations.
shareI haven't watched it, but there was a lot of hype around it when it was released...
The rape allegations made the movie sink. I don't think it was fair.
Several actresses are complaining about Casey Affleck now because he was involved in something similar, but I guess their complains came after the nomination, not before that.
As I said before, not fair.
A number of reviews from Sundance noted that it wasn't that great. It was definitely a movie of the moment: coming on the heels of the Oscarsowhite controversy, and Parker did a good job of selling himself as the next Spike Lee. The rape controversy strangled it, because it lost all the support it needed from academics, highbrow critics, and activists that championed a film like Selma and Ava DuVernay. But there would have been a letdown that the film is basically a History Channel special that only feels like a theatrical film when we get to the "Braveheart" finale.
shareA number of reviews from Sundance noted that it wasn't that great. It was definitely a movie of the moment: coming on the heels of the Oscarsowhite controversy, and Parker did a good job of selling himself as the next Spike Lee. The rape controversy strangled it, because it lost all the support it needed from academics, highbrow critics, and activists that championed a film like Selma and Ava DuVernay. But there would have been a letdown that the film is basically a History Channel special that only feels like a theatrical film when we get to the "Braveheart" finale.
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