Nominated for Nothing: The Academy doesn't get to hate The Last Black Man in San Francisco without loving it
They’re destined to score zero Academy Awards, but they won our hearts throughout 2019. Ahead of Sunday’s 92nd Oscars ceremony, EW is breaking down the year’s best movies, performances, and directorial achievements that were nominated for nothing.
In fact, Jimmie feels such an attachment to the house that he stops by periodically with his best friend Montgomery “Mont” Allen in order to do repairs, to the annoyed bewilderment of the older white couple that now lives there. But then one day, the couple moves out; the woman’s mother died, initializing an inheritance battle between her and her sister that leaves the house in legal limbo. Jimmie seizes the opportunity for him and Mont to move in.
But over the course of the movie, Jimmie has to learn some hard truths of his own. “You never really own s—,” his uncle tells him. After all, the only reason Jimmie’s grandfather was able to live in the Fillmore district in the first place was because all the Japanese-Americans who previously dominated the neighborhood were rounded up into internment camps during World War II.
was born as a Kickstarter project, which is not a traditional path to the Academy’s good graces; they’re still getting the hang of Netflix, after all. The most famous film person in the movie is San Francisco native, who apparently called Fails directly to express his interest and support for the movie .
Plus, this is a remarkable debut for both Fails and Talbot. If either or both of them follow through on the potential they demonstrated with their first feature film, that will be even more reason to revisit
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