Moreover, it is a distinctly old-school triumph. The Hate U Give concerns a young black teenager (Stenberg) attending a rich white prep school who sees her two worlds collide after she witnesses an unjust police-involved shooting, It is one of the best movies of the year. It doesn’t help that, and this is a net positive, there are several major “black movies” ( Black Panther, BlacKkKlansman, Blindspotting, Sorry to Bother You, If Beale Street Could Talk, etc.) already in the running. While the film has been mostly absent in the conversation due to its present-tense narrative, its origins as a young adult novel and its cast made up mostly of respected but not-quite Oscar favorite actors and filmmakers, that may be less a knowing conspiracy and more a self-fulfilling prophecy. Oscar pundits generally discuss, as is their job, the movies they believe will end up in the conversation for various categories, whether or not they think those (often unseen at the start) festival debuts or pedigreed biggies deserve consideration.
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