Redbook, Maya Angelou and Nina Simone

The title of this Oscar-nominated feature documentary came from a November 1970 women's magazine.

Beyond the much-discussed group of 20 actors nominated for a 2015 Academy Award, there is a glimmer of #OscarsSoDiverse in the form of Best Documentary Feature nominee What Happened, Miss Simone?

The acclaimed Netflix project, which premiered at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, could very well be a punchline in host Chris Rock’s opening monologue. As the film’s director Liz Garbus explains in the current issue of Deadline’s AwardsLine, the documentary owes its title to another African-American trailblazer:

“We were searching for a very long time for a title for the film.

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