10 Most Divisive Movies Of 2016

After wowing critics at its Sundance 2015 premiere, where it won both the Audience Award and Grand Jury Prize for Best Dramatic Film and broke festival records when distributors Fox Searchlight snapped it up for an unprecedented $17.5 million, Nate Parker’s directorial debut looked set to take the movie world by storm.

Emerging around the time of the #OscarsSoWhite controversy and focusing on real-life slave rebellion leader Nat Turner, it looked like the film could be at least a partial solution to Hollywood’s diversity deficiency too.

But then the film was rocked by its very own controversy when details of a 1999 rape case involving Parker and Birth of a Nation’s co-writer Jean McGianni Celestin emerged and put a dampener on any huge success the movie might’ve earned.

It later emerged that Parker was acquitted and Celestin initially convicted but his sentence later over overturned, but the damage was already done and many moviegoers chose not to see the movie on principle. The glowing reviews it got are testament to its quality and power, but unfortunately it became a movie swallowed up in the controversy surrounding its makers.

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