Monster's Ball

© 2001 Lions Gate Films
directed by: Marc Forster
written by: Milo Addica & Will Rokos
starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Halle Berry, Heath Ledger, Sean "Puffy" Combs, Mos Def
U.S. Theatrical B.O.: $31,352,964
cumulative critic score on Rotten Tomatoes: 84% positive (out of 136 reviews)

 

Performances aside, anybody else find it disconcerting that the only way a black woman can win a Best Actress Oscar® is to take her clothes off and get fucked by a white man?

Other signs the Academy likes to encourage women to get fucked include Janet Gaynor, Helen Hayes, Anne Baxter, Claire Trevor, Judy Holliday, Vivien Leigh, Donna Reed, Jo Van Fleet, Dorothy Malone, Joanne Woodward, Elizabeth Taylor, Melina Mercouri, Shirley Jones, Shirley MacLaine, Julie Christie, Jane Fonda, Jodie Foster, Julia Roberts, Mira Sorvino, Sharon Stone, Elisabeth Shue, Kim Basinger, Charlize Theron, & Natalie Portman, all of who received Academy Award nominations for being sexually profligate, strippers, or straight-up prostitutes. [source: http://www.filmsite.org/bestactress.html]

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