Ava DuVernay was excluded from an Oscars party and the distributor is being called out on social media.

The recent Oscars party hosted by Neon, the production and distribution company behind Ava DuVernay's film Origin, has caused quite a stir. While the event was attended by many A-list celebrities, including the company's founders CEO Tom Quinn and Tim League, some notable names were missing from the guest list. One of those names was DuVernay herself, along with her producer Paul Garnes, who opted to attend the Vanity Fair party instead.

This apparent snub did not go unnoticed, as a now-deleted tweet from the Origin Twitter account called out Neon for their exclusion of the film's filmmakers. It seems that this was not an isolated incident, as the tweet also referenced the company's "standard operating procedure" of neglecting their own films and their potential for awards recognition.

Origin, which is based on Isabel Wilkerson's book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, has received critical acclaim but has failed to garner much attention or any award nominations. Neon acquired the film before its premiere at the Venice Film Festival and was expected to run an awards campaign, but this never came to fruition. The deleted Twitter account for Origin, which was not operated by Neon, had been reposting tweets criticizing the distributor for mishandling the film's release and not promoting it effectively.

One tweet even shared an article claiming that Neon had "snuffed out" both Origin and Michael Mann's Ferrari, another film released by the company that also failed to gain Oscars buzz. The article also questioned the company's decision to focus solely on their other film Anatomy of a Fall, which did win an Academy Award for best original screenplay but has not performed well at the box office.

Despite the controversy, Neon has remained silent on the matter and instead chose to highlight Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor's performance in Origin in a recent post. The company commended her for giving "one of the year's most stunning performances" and promoted the film's availability in theaters and digitally.

On a more positive note, another one of Neon's films, The New Brownies Book, recently won an NAACP Image Award for outstanding nonfiction. This serves as a reminder of the company's potential to release powerful and important films, but also raises questions about their ability to effectively promote and support them.

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