How Cinema Has Long Depicted Disability — and Why It Still Gets It Wrong

July is Disability Pride Month, and Polish film critic Bartosz Żurawiecki examines how cinema — particularly Hollywood — has portrayed disability over the decades. He highlights a recurring Oscar pattern of rewarding actors for playing disabled characters, citing the 1990 Best Actor race between Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot and Tom Cruise in Born on the Fourth of July. The piece explores entrenched mainstream film tropes around disability representation.

Should disabled characters in films always be played by disabled actors?

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