Spike Lee has infiltrated the Oscars in a big way with “BlacKkKlansman,” which earned six bids including Best Picture and Best Director. It recounts the true story of Ron Stallworth (John David Washington), a black police detective who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan with the help of his Jewish partner (Adam Driver). Gold Derby recently spoke with Driver, screenwriters Charlie Wachtel and David Rabinowitz, film editor Barry Alexander Brown, and composer Terence Blanchard about their nominated work.
See Will ‘BlacKkKlansman’ win Spike Lee his long overdue Oscar?
Though it’s set in the late 1970s, the film uses D.W. Griffith‘s Kkk-glorifying 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” and the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va, to draw parallels between our past and our present. Driver believes that context shows “how much [racism] has been a part of the conversation in this country for so long.” For his role as an...
See Will ‘BlacKkKlansman’ win Spike Lee his long overdue Oscar?
Though it’s set in the late 1970s, the film uses D.W. Griffith‘s Kkk-glorifying 1915 film “The Birth of a Nation” and the 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va, to draw parallels between our past and our present. Driver believes that context shows “how much [racism] has been a part of the conversation in this country for so long.” For his role as an...
- 2/22/2019
- by Zach Laws
- Gold Derby
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