1939 Academy Award for Best Picture Of Mice and Men Nominated

Dee Rees’ breakthrough is a coming-of-age film about a young Black lesbian’s journey to self-acceptance.

The Academy Awards did tip their hat to the Western movie star on two separate occasions before finally giving him the win.

Those concerns were largely allayed by the PGA, which is the only major group other than the Academy that employs that method to determine the winner of its top prize.

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