Asian Media Watchdog Group Calls For Awards Boycott Of ‘Licorice Pizza’
Media Action Network for Asian Americans, a nonprofit media watchdog group, is calling for critics and other Hollywood awards voters to leave Paul Thomas Anderson‘s recently-released Licorice Pizza out of 2021’s awards consideration. Licorice Pizza stars Cooper Hoffman and Alaina Haim (part of the sibling musical trio HAIM) in a coming-of-age story set in the early 1970s in California’s San Fernando Valley. The film has earned three Golden Globe Award nominations and has been listed among the Top 10 movies of the year by The American Film Institute and New York Film Critics Online. MANAA is st...