Ava DuVernay addressed the overlooking of her new film, Origin, this awards season on Instagram Wednesday (January 10th). The Queen Sugar creator was especially upset about the lack of “recognition” for the star of the film, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor.
DuVernay shared a video of Ellis-Taylor handing out “postcards” for Origin at a movie theater in Los Angeles, the same night as the Golden Globes—an event that neither celebrity attended.
“Someone posted this footage, and I burst into tears. This was apparently taken last Sunday, Golden Globes day. This is a video of Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor. Our lead actress in ‘Origin.’ She wasn’t nominated that day,” the Selma director wrote, explaining that Ellis-Taylor was inviting “people to see our work” to “remind herself about what matters.”