The Director of Kingpin Just Won Best Pic
Let’s review:
Best film Oscar for the director of Kingpin and Dumb and Dumber? 1
Best film Oscar for the director of Do the Right Thing: 0
1990: Do the Right Thing: No Oscar; Driving Miss Daisy: Oscar.
2019: We have two strong films up for best picture by black directors about what it means to be black, Black Panther and BlacKkKlansman–one director a promising newcomer who even made a deep-into-the-Rocky-franchise film memorable, the other one of the most original and gifted directors of our time. And who beats them? A white Farrelly brother, who once directed Kingpin (a film so stupefyingly gross even a dumb-humor fan like me was appalled). And what was this winning film about? Being black in America, a film starring, of course, a white man.
Yeah, I’m going to bed now.
