‘The Florida Project’ was snubbed for an Oscar because we don’t like stories of women in poverty

And the award for the best social-issue movie of the year goes to … a story about a woman who falls in love with a fish.

An oppressed fish. An impoverished fish. But ya know. A fish.

That’s the message many who care about this shit felt like they heard after the 2018 Oscar nominees were announced on Tuesday. Guillermo’s del Toro’s The Shape of Water, an interspecies romance, earned an impressive 18 nominations, while The Florida Project, a story about a single mother in poverty and her puckish young daughter, garnered just one. It was a Best Actor nom for Willem Dafoe, an already well recognized dude.  Read more…

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