Along with red carpets and acceptance speeches, the awards circuit has a long tradition of humbling Black women
Jada Pinkett-Smith at the 2022 Academy Awards. Photo: Myung Chun/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images The 2022 awards season came to a close on Sunday, but not before two moments of jaw-dropping disrespect toward Black women went viral. The first came earlier this month, at the Critics’ Choice Awards, when director Jane Campion won the Best Director prize, and belittled Venus and Serena Williams’s tennis careers in the process. “You know, Serena and Venus are such marvels.
Fast-forward to 2002, when Halle Berry won the Oscar for her performance in Monster’s Ball, making her the first and as of now only woman of color to win Best Actress. Her speech was famous for listing the Black actresses who came before her and the peers she hoped would follow in her stead. But her tears were mocked on late-night television. A year later, Best Actor Oscar winner Adrian Brody used his acceptance speech to lecherously kiss Berry to a roomful of applause.
Then there were the painful awards cycles of 2013 and 2015, when white presenters refused to learn how to pronounce Quvenzhané Wallis’s name. The 9-year-old Black girl was constantly being placed in white spaces and encouraged to smile and do her famous “arm flex,” just for the Onion to think it would be funny to call her a “c–t.
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