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  1. Feb 6, 2017 · When Ava DuVernay failed to earn an Academy Award nomination in 2015 for her direction of the Martin Luther King, Jr., biopic, Selma, critics around the country cried foul. That snub, along with ...

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      Filmmaker Ava DuVernay’s new documentary, available to...

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      The Academy has announced a new plan to double the number of...

  2. Jan 20, 2024 · January 20, 2024 6:00 AM EST. F or filmmaker Ava DuVernay, who made Selma, 13th, and When They See Us, the journalist Isabel Wilkerson’s watershed 2020 book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents ...

  3. Jan 31, 2024 · Ava DuVernay’s sharp eye for Black character-building and epic storytelling prevails through the emotional landscape of her new film, Origin.Based on Isabel Wilkerson’s book, Caste: The ...

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  5. Ava Duvernay makes art that looks squarely at society and takes it to task. “Mass incarceration is important to me. The fracturing of the black family structure is important to me.

  6. Jan 18, 2024 · Ava DuVernay is smiling, but there’s a steeliness to her words. The director, writer and producer is no stranger to carving her own path. With “Origin,” her latest film, she was forced to ...

  7. Jan 22, 2024 · DuVernay, who reposted the video with an impassioned caption in praise of Ellis-Taylor, says: "My post was really about feeling so emotional that on this day, this woman who's such a great actor ...

  8. Jan 29, 2024 · Ava DuVernay felt a sense of urgency around sharing the message of ‘Origin’ and brought the conversation straight to the Washington, DC, and those tasked with creating the nation’s laws.

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