Ava DuVernay's Selma premieres to critical acclaim

Ava DuVernay's Selma, depicting Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1965 voting rights marches, was released on Christmas Day 2014. DuVernay became the first Black woman to be nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Director and the first to direct a film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. The film was a critical and commercial success that helped inspire renewed activism around voting rights and police violence during the rise of Black Lives Matter.