YMMV / Till

• Award Snub: Danielle Deadwyler was nominated for an enormous number of awards for her performance, and won some of them, but was not nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. As with Viola Davis for The Woman King, this got tangled up in the controversy surrounding the nomination of Andrea Riseborough for To Leslie. The Oscars, along with the Golden Globes, ignored this film completely (possibly due to the underwhelming box office performance and dark premise) despite being considered as one of the best movies of 2022.
• Nightmare Fuel: Despite the PG-13 rating, the film does not shy away from how utterly horrific Emmett Till's murder was. Emmett is violently dragged out of bed in the middle of the night by white supremacist Roy Bryant and his associates as his family helplessly watch and tries to plead with them to spare him before being taken to a remote barn to be viciously beaten and tortured to death, all because he whistled and made a comment at Roy's wife Carolyn in a grocery store. While his death isn't really shown, the same can't be said for his corpse afterwards. The lynching left his body horrifically disfigured, most egregiously his face, to the point where his face is considered ''almost'' unrecognizable as a human being. This prompt his mother to have an open casket funeral so the black and white folks can see what was done to him, all of whom look on in horror (or in Emmett's aunt's case, scream) at the sight of his ghastly body.

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