LOS ANGELES: Casey Affleck had faced two lawsuits over accusations of alleged sexual harassment. Some on Twitter seemed upset over the fact that Casey was nominated despite his alleged lewd misconduct, let alone actually winning the prestigious award. Affleck’s win and even his nomination was an argumentative one because many people saw it as yet another moment of the Academy turning a blind eye to the offences and reputations of men, and in particular, white men. A lot of people were upset with the fact that white men who do unspeakable things to women and are never kicked out of the Academy’s fold; people continually insist on separating “art from artist”. And Affleck’s winning Best Actor, in the very year the allegations against him emerged, seemingly shows that not only has the Academy learned nothing from the blow-ups around Allen or Polanski, they’re not even paying attention to the conversation. It was upsetting to see a reality TV star Donald Trump caught, on tape, sexually harassing a female colleague and giggling about “grabbing [women] by the pussy” – and we saw America elect him as president a few weeks later.