direct attack on jay z or beyonce. i was at a press conference in switzerland. they asked about comparisons between the artists and the social engagement of the past. based upon a film that we were all watching. and what did i think about the way in which artists responded earlier in my life and how they were responding today? and i made the observation that the highly powerful voice that our community has, black america has, in that there is so much celebrity power, that it was sad to see the collective of the celebrity power had not been applied to bringing consciousness to the inequities that we face. now, let me hasten to say that artists who heard that responded, i think, in a very, very strong way. you ll find that jamie foxx, you ll find chuck dean, you ll find any number of highly profiled people in our arts
a worthy winner i mean if you look at the oscar winners in years past they tend to either pick the academy tends to pick either a film that shows sort of the magic of cinema the visual splendor of the sort of fantasy of cinema or they go for a sort of socially aware film that shows the social power that cinema can have and this film kind of does both i mean it s a fantasy story it s a story of literally official water a. sort of alien like creature from the deep sea that falls in love with with a woman set in one nine hundred fifty s. american at the height of the cold war. but it s also some ways a story about giving voice to the voiceless because the two main characters the female character played by sally hawkins is mute she literally can t speak in the time one thousand fifties america where women have politically no voice almost no voice and the other character is this alien creature who can t can t communicate because he can t literally clearly can t speak so it s also in some wa