The best supporting actress Oscar nominee received the fest's Montecito Award following a career-retrospective conversation.
— and she blew people away. She acknowledged that the Oscar nom that she received for that performance was followed not by many exciting offers, but rather by 18 months of “silence,” but she forged ahead. “I love when you’re underestimated,” she volunteered, “because then you really have an opportunity to shut it down.
“Science tells us that life started on the continent of Africa,” he said. “I like to think that we all started through a Black woman, which means that all of the dynamics of what we are as humans had to exist in Black women — our strengths, our weaknesses, our highs, our lows, our dreams, our nightmares. And so often, this particular group of humanity has been flattened on the screen, in the medium.