Cinema Is More Than Sad White Guys

The Golden Globe nominations reveal an industry that only awards “seriousness” to white men who tell stories we’ve already heard

Jude Ellison S. Doyle
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6 min readDec 12, 2019

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“I“Im sorry this is all so self-pitying and boring,” Adam Driver says, late in Noah Baumbach’s new Netflix film, Marriage Story. By my count, this makes Driver’s character the first person to…

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Jude Ellison S. Doyle
GEN
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Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.