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In 2011, Kirsten Dunst was seemingly on her way to winning her first Oscar. The actress\u2019 performance as a suicidal bride in Lars von Trier’s <\/span>Melancholia<\/span><\/i> is still, to this day, held up as one of the best portrayals of someone suffering from depression in modern cinema. But, on the film\u2019s press run, after Dunst won Best Actress for the role at Cannes Film Festival, von Trier ruined any chance of <\/span>Melancholia <\/span><\/i>– and its lead actress – being celebrated in the way it deserved when, at the press conference following the film\u2019s world premiere, the Danish director told the room that he \u201cunderstand[s]\u201d Hitler and identifies as a Nazi.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In recent years, there\u2019s been a lot of talk about whether the person behind art should impact the way that art is celebrated. There\u2019s Harvey Weinstein, whose film company, Miramax, is behind some of the best 90s and early aughts movies created; there\u2019s R Kelly, Chris Brown, Michael Jackson and Miles Davis, whose music is almost impossible to listen to without images of various kinds of abuse coming to mind, and there\u2019s Terry Richardson, who was behind some of the most iconic fashion photography of the past three decades and who was dropped from every major magazine when allegations of sexual abuse were made against him in 2018.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, a similar conversation is starting surrounding Shia LaBeouf, who last week was accused of emotional, sexual, and physical abuse by British musician, FKA Twigs, in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles. The pair dated for almost a year after meeting on the set of <\/span>Honey Boy<\/span><\/i> in 2018 and during that time, Twigs says she was isolated from her support network and subject to strangulation, \u201cviolent attacks,\u201d and threats.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The lawsuit comes as LaBeouf\u2019s latest project, <\/span>Pieces of a Woman<\/span><\/i>, a drama that has been garnering Oscars\u2019 buzz, is set to be released on Netflix. Set in Boston and starring Vanessa Kirby and LaBeouf, <\/span>Pieces of a Woman<\/span><\/i> follows a couple as they prepare to give birth to their first child. But when the home birth goes wrong, and the pair lose the baby at the hands of their flustered midwife, they\u2019re thrust into immense grief, while pursuing justice through the courts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The film had its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival, where Kirby won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress and the film itself won Best Film. Since then, there\u2019s been deserved Oscars’ attention surrounding Kirby, LaBeouf and the film itself… but that was all before LaBeouf\u2019s assault allegations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Following Twigs\u2019 lawsuit, Netflix has removed LaBeouf from its award consideration page for Pieces of a Woman<\/em>, omitting him from the <\/span>For Your Consideration page<\/span><\/a> for the film, including the movie summary, movie stills and from any award consideration. This decision by the streaming giant has reignited confusion and questions about whether someone who\u2019s been accused of multiple counts of assault in their personal life should be celebrated on the world stage for their professional one.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, in 2017, the Academy Awards faced backlash over a similar situation, when they chose Casey Affleck to win Best Actor for his role in the film, <\/span>Manchester by the Sea<\/span><\/i>, despite accusations of assault re-arising during the Me Too movement. Affleck had been accused of sexual harassment in 2010, when two female employees \u2013 a producer and a cinematographer on his film<\/span> I\u2019m Still Here<\/span><\/i> \u2013 filed separate lawsuits against him, which were both settled for undisclosed sums. When the Academy ignored this and chose to award him, it was met with immense backlash and Brie Larson, who was somewhat forced to hand Affleck his award after winning Best Actress the year prior (for a role about sexual assault, no less), stood with her arms by her side in protest as the audience applauded him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Whether the Oscars will choose to boycott LaBeouf as they\u2019ve done in the past to Dunst – for actions that weren\u2019t her own – or ignore the allegations – as they\u2019ve done to a white man, Affleck, in the past for actions that were<\/em> his own – remains to be seen. 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