Minimizing #MeToo: Behind the She Said Oscar Snub

And the Oscar for cluelessness goes to the Academy for its lapses in judgment this year, starting with shutting out She Said.

Brilliantly scripted, directed, acted, and edited, She Said tells the story of how two New York Times reporters, Jodi Kantor (Zoe Kazan) and Megan Twohey (Carey Mulligan), cracked the case of movie producer Harvey Weinstein’s decades-long history as a rapist and serial abuser of women. It’s a case that was whispered about—that many reporters before them tried to tackle but gave up on after receiving mob-style threats from Weinstein and his scary-serious security detail.