Oscar-winning Filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow didn’t mince words after her film “Detroit” won Outstanding Independent Motion Picture at the NAACP image awards, calling the Trump administration “racist and xenophobic.”
“I am so grateful to the NAACP for recognizing Detroit as this year’s Outstanding Independent Motion Picture,” Bigelow said in a statement obtained by TheWrap. “The film tells the story of events which took place at Detroit’s Algiers Motel in 1967 as civil unrest erupted in many of our great American cities. The endemic racism, social inequality, and abuse of power which precipitated this tragedy persist today as real threats to our freedom and the integrity of our social fabric.”