Till (2022)

For those that are unaware, the trailer for the new Civil Rights movie Till has been out for a bit and it's absolutely amazing. It stars Danielle Deadwyler as Mamie Till-Mobley, the mother of Emmett Till played by Jalyn Hall. 

The story recounts the fateful time in 1955 Mississippi when Emmett Louis Till was lynched while visiting his cousins. The young boy was in a grocery store when he began to talk with a white woman named Carolyn Bryant. While talking with her, it was alleged that he whistled or flirted with her, offending her. She alerted her husband and his half-brother went to Till’s uncle’s house and abducted the boy. They tortured, beat, and shot him, throwing his body into the Tallahatchie River.

The two men that tortured and murdered Till were acquitted. This was one of the events that launched the Civil Rights movement and propelled it to the mainstream. Till was fourteen years old when he was killed.

With movies like Moonlight and 12 Years a Slave that have won Oscar Gold, including Best Picture, it doesn't seem like much of a stretch to see Till winning the same award.