'Josephine' Director Asks Men to 'Hold Each Other Accountable' at Critics Choice Event
IndieWire reports that Beth de Araújo, director of “Josephine,” used her Breakthrough Director Award acceptance speech at the Critics Choice Association's Celebración of Cinema & Television to ask men to “hold each other accountable.” Most acceptance speeches are thank-yous with a clock running; this one handed half the room an assignment instead.
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An awards stage is a strange place for a request like this, which may be why it lands: the room is full of people who decide what gets made, not just what gets watched.
Pushback
Peer accountability is the easy half of the sentence. Asking men to police each other can either head off harm or simply move the awkwardness around; the phrase doesn't say which.