Hidden Figures, with its release date on Christmas Day of this past year, immediately hit box offices as a hit commemorating the work of NASA’s very own Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughn, and Mary Jackson during their undertaking of NASA’s early Mercury spaceflights in the face of adversity and rampant racism.

The movie highlight’s Katherine who works in the high clearance department of “computers” who calculated and developed all the mathematical elements necessary to get the astronauts into space. This combined with the racial culture of the time and the always looming “space-race” with the Russians placed Katherine and all African American women working for NASA at the time in an especially challenging position.

This woman in particular is still alive today and, astoundingly, only until recent years has gained credit for her countless hours of devotion to the space program.

She received much accreditation after the movies release and this continued into the receiving of Hidden Figures at the Academy Awards, Sunday night. She appeared alongside the movie’s stars Taraji Henson, Janelle Monae, and Octavia Spencer to announce the award for Best Documentary Feature. Johnson, 98 years old,  received  appreciation from the audience as they stood in standing ovation for her accomplishments in the presenters’s opening statements.

Despite all her praise and the positive echoes the movie has had for the general media and African American community (including the free showings in over 13 cities for Black History Month), Hidden Figures brought home a grand total of zero awards Sunday night.

Shock-waves occurred soon thereafter as the question of white privilege within American mainstream award shows was brought up yet another year. This leaves audiences and the general American public to take their own stance on the issue as  another African American remembrance film goes unclaimed on award-show stages.