The film Killers Of The Flower Moon, directed by Martin Scorsese, did not receive any awards at the Oscars despite being one of the best films of the year. The lack of recognition for the film's depiction of violence against Native Americans is disappointing.
The tone was set for Killers Of The Flower Moon from the very beginning of last night’s Oscars ceremony. “Your movies were too long this year,” host Jimmy Kimmel quipped in his opening monologue. “When I went to see Killers Of The Flower Moon , I had my mail forwarded to the theater. Killers Of The Flower Moon is so long, in the time it takes you to watch it, you could drive to Oklahoma and solve the murders yourself.
” Director Martin Scorsese, or—far more importantly—the fact that those 206 minutes depicted the horrific and systemic violence leveled against Native Americans in our country were not mentioned once. Kimmel did give “Robert ’s co-star” Lily Gladstone a shoutout for her historic achievement of being the first Native American woman ever nominated for an Oscar, but even that was used to set up a hollow joke about murder hornets, of all things. Considering this attitude, it wasn’t all that surprising that KOTFM took home zero awards last night, but it is galling. Scorsese’s epic was undoubtedly one of the best films of the yea
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