A few weeks earlier, The Color Purple had vied for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel was now in the hands of blockbuster director Steven Spielberg, and the cast included Danny Glover, as well as new faces on the film screen—Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg. They’d received eleven nominations in all for this violent, haunting, exquisitely sad, redemptive depiction of the lives of Black women. But the white woman’s African journey Out of Africa, which began with Meryl Streep saying, “I had a farm in Ahf-ree-kah,” won the day. The Color Purple would tie for the dishonor of having the most Oscar nominations without a single win. Two years later, a film about a white woman who got chauffeured everywhere by a Black man played by Morgan Freeman would get the Oscar: Driving Miss Daisy.