Oscar nominations might be introduced on Tuesday, however “Origin” star Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor appears like she’s already shifting on from awards season. As a substitute, she’s specializing in how the movie is impacting audiences.

When requested what it will imply to listen to her title referred to as for her second Academy Award nod, Ellis-Taylor paused to thoughtfully think about her phrases.

“That a part of it… that ship has sailed and that’s alright,” Ellis-Taylor mentioned on the Selection Studio offered by Audible whereas on the Sundance Movie Competition. “What I’m enthusiastic about is my members of the family got here out in droves to see that movie on Friday.”

“Origin” — filmmaker Ava DuVernay’s adaptation of Isabel Wilkerson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning ebook “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents,” during which Ellis-Taylor performs the creator — opened in restricted launch this weekend, grossing $875,000 from 125 screens. It had a short Oscar qualifying run final December.

“It has been…it was missed,” Ellis-Taylor added. “What I’m enthusiastic about is it’s the individuals’s film and that individuals are responding to that decision to motion. I’m not going to be out on the street…for every thing that I do, however that movie is greater than me, the messages in it. It’s primarily based on a ebook that had one thing that disrupted our observe on the earth. I simply need people to see it.”

In latest weeks, Ellis-Taylor — who visited the Selection Studio offered by Audible at Sundance along with her newest movie “Exhibiting Forgiveness” — has spoken out concerning the movie’s muted awards buzz.

Regardless of sturdy opinions out of final 12 months’s fall festivals in Venice and Toronto, DuVernay’s movie morphed into an underdog because the race inched nearer to the brand new 12 months. On Jan. 10, the director took to Instagram to precise remorse that the movie and Ellis-Taylor didn’t achieve the traction she felt they deserved. 

In a video publish, DuVernay shared that Ellis-Taylor had personally camped out at Los Angeles’ AMC Century Metropolis theater to unfold the phrase about “Origin.” 

“She had advised me that she wished to remind herself about what issues. That she wished to ask individuals to see our work, and that she would keep low profile, carry on her masks. That it wasn’t about her, however concerning the film. Somebody seen her. And recorded her. And now I see this – and my coronary heart aches, ” DuVernay wrote of Ellis-Taylor.

The message galvanized Hollywood supporters. Angelina Jolie, Regina King, Ben Affleck, JJ Abrams, Samuel L. Jackson and Guillermo del Toro all hosted particular screenings and labored to advertise the movie. However, as Ellis-Taylor mentioned at Selection‘s Sundance studio, it could be too little too late.

“I want the world for her. All of the flowers. All of the gold statues,” DuVernay concluded within the Jan. 10 publish. “She jogs my memory to maneuver from wishing to what issues. And what issues is why we made this movie and why we do that work. For individuals. To be in group with others. To succeed in for another person’s hand and acknowledge oneself. To inform tales of human dignity and justice.”