The Setting

There is not just one setting to my controversy, there are a few. One would be The Academy Awards which is the main event that sparked the controversy. Another setting is online where most of the controversy took place.

Hernandez, Greg. "Red Carpet." 2/22/09 via Wikimedia. Attribution 2.0 Generic. 

The Academy Awards of 2011 took place on February 27^th. This was two months after the release of the movie “Black Swan,” where Natalie Portman was nominated for best actress. The awards were held at the Dolby Theatre, also known as the Kodak Theatre, in the Hollywood and Highland Center on Hollywood Boulevard and North Highland Avenue in Los Angeles. Outside, the red carpet covered the ground as movie stars got out of their cars, into the crisp evening air, and walked down the carpet towards the theatre. The flashes from the cameras of all the paparazzi were going off like crazy around them. Actors, actresses, movie crews, interviewers, paparazzi, and news reporters were all there for this big event. Hollywood was more crowded than it usually is that night. Inside of the theatre was a huge stage with seating that held a capacity of 3,401 people, and that night, every seat was filled. The theatre was buzzing with excited chatter and everyone was curious who would win each Oscar. As Natalie Portman’s name was called out for best actress in the movie “Black Swan,” the crowd went crazy. Natalie walked onto the stage, gave her speech, and everyone clapped politely for her. Meanwhile, Sarah Lane was sitting at home, not surprised that Portman did not even thank her in her acceptance speech. Lane was so heated by the entire situation (the producer asking her not to give anymore interviews before the Oscars and then Natalie winning an Oscar and thanking everyone else in her speech except Lane) that she wrote a blog about how she did most of the dancing in “Black Swan,” thus starting the controversy. From then on the controversy mainly happened through articles, blogs, and interviews that were shown online.