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ARRAY: Filmmaker Ava DuVernay

How I Built This with Guy Raz

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I Was Not Hurt by the Not Getting Best Director Nomination

Even when selma came out, it was and is a widely praised, but you were not nominated for best director. And i know that this is pritte kind of a sensitive question, but idonot mean, did it matter? Were you hurt by that? I wasn't hurt by the not getting best actor. The reason why i wasn't hurt by getting best director is because, statistically speaking, there was no way for that to happen. No black woman director had ever been nominated in the history of the academy,. which at that point is many decades. So that's against me.

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