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nominated for best actress – motion picture comedy or musical for her role in Sia’s “Music,” has provoked controversy for playing the sister of a girl with autism.

has been appalling audiences for two weeks now. Even viewers who think film critics are pretentious jerks who swill brandy while quoting Brecht have been left aghast by the film’s tone-deaf depiction of an autistic girl who fantasizes that her life is a color-saturated music video.

by critics and otherwise concerned viewers, but that hasn’t stopped the masses from rushing to sign a petition to have the film officially condemned by the industry — by way of removing the its two 2021 Golden Globe award nominations. The Change.org campaign has already amassed 55,000 signatures since the petition was launched by allies of the autism community last week — 50,000 of which came only in the last 24 hours.

controversy surrounding the music-driven movie’s depiction of autism (well deserved!). But this is not a case of a few tut-tutters’ finger-wagging tarnishing an otherwise great work of art.