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‘The envelope please’: Darnella Frazier deserved an Academy Award
April 27, 2021
10:51 AM CDT
By Ed Rampell
In this image from police body camera video, Darnella Frazier films former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin outside Cup Foods in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020. | AP
The annual Academy Awards ceremony—wherein a pack of swag bag-shlepping celebs clad in brand-name couture patted themselves on the back on live TV, while thanking their agents, hair stylists, managers, makeup artists, etc.—took place Sunday, April 25, in Los Angeles. To be fair, a number of films that competed for those coveted golden statuettes do have artistic excellence and/or social significance. Half a century later, the 1960s/70s New Left was finally ready for its close-up, with