revealed that Oscar voters were angered by the cast wearing T-shirts that said “I Can’t Breathe” to the film’s Los Angeles premiere in protest of the murder of Eric Garner.
Director Ava DuVernay confirmed the story on Twitter.“Members of the Academy called in to the studio and our producers saying, ‘How dare they do that?
Why are they stirring s–-?’ and ‘We are not going to vote for that film, because we do not think it is their place to be doing that,’” Oyelowo told Screen Daily’s Screen Talk.Actress Aunjanue Ellis, Milauna Jackson, Tanayi Seabrook and Stephanie Lacey orchestrated the gathering to provide a space for willing performers to sing, read poetry, dance, speak and express themselves.