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Ava DuVernay backs David Oyelowo’s claims Academy snubbed Selma over Eric Garner protest

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which has sparked protests against police treatment of black people around the world.Following this, actor Oyelowo, who played Martin Luther King Jr in Selma, told Screen Daily that following the cast’s show of support for Garner, Academy members called the studio saying they would not vote for the film at the upcoming Oscars.He said: ‘I remember at the premiere of Selma us wearing I Can’t Breathe T-shirts in protest.

Members of the Academy called in to the studio and our producers saying, “How dare they do that? Why are they stirring S-H-I-T?” and “We are not going to vote for that film because we do not think it is their place to be doing that”.‘It’s part of why that film didn’t get everything that people think it should’ve got and it.

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