



every time a woman wins for a technical category i level up
Acceptance speeches from the 2015 Academy Awards.
Featuring:Patricia Arquette (Boyhood), John Legend (Selma), Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman),Julianne Moore (Still Alice), Eddie Redmayne (The Theory Of Everything), GrahamMoore (The Imitation Game), and Laura Poitras (CitizenFour).
What a way to begin an acceptance speech. Lupita has made sure that we never forget the sufferings of Patsey and Solomon, and thus the millions of enslaved Africans who were dehumanized in one of the greatest crimes against humanity in the history of the world.
Unspeakable crimes that have gone largely unpunished. How can people scream ‘post-racialism’, ‘non-racialism’ and other ignorant statements when justice, if true justice can ever be attained for such acts, is yet to be achieved?
Didn’t mean to derail from Lupita’s acceptance speech but as important as her win is, so to is the vessel that brought her there - the story of Solomon Northup.
He actually DID thank trans people, and fucking everyone else in the LGBT community and any other person that has ever suffered some sort of judgement.
Why hasn’t anybody noticed that part of the speech?
Heath Ledger winning an Oscar for ‘Best Supporting Actor’ for his role as ‘The Joker’ in The Dark Knight (2008)
will forever reblog this
I wasn’t prepared for this post.