The Trans Oscar Nominee Who Boycotted The Academy Awards
#OscarsSoCis
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You’ll Never Watch the Oscars the Same Way Again
Picture this.
2016 was the year of the 88th Academy Awards and the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite.
Along with a few other unprecedented firsts, Chris Rock hosted the Oscars…again. Which was a first of its kind. He’d come a long way since his first time hosting in 2005 — and he had further still to go before 2022.
More importantly, the 88th Academy Awards nominated the first out trans musician for an Academy Award: Mercury Prize-winning musician Anohni for her song “Manta Ray,” composed for the climate crisis documentary Racing Extinction.
