It has become a well known and rather sarcastic in joke that if your film is about disability then you’re a shoe-in for an Oscar. Just look at past winners; Million Dollar Baby, A Beautiful Mind; and that’s just in the last ten years. 2011’s winner was no different. It was, of course, the British historical drama The King’s Speech, which garnered four Oscars at the 83rd Academy Awards. From the perspective of a disabled person this long list of impaired winners should be...

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