“Never Rarely Sometimes Always,” a slice-of-life drama that grapples with abortion restrictions, has been in the awards conversation since it premiered at last year’s Sundance Film Festival.
It’s gotten nods from the Indie Spirit Awards, National Board of Review and New York Film Critics Circle.
Given the positive buzz, the film is seen as a possible Oscar contender.Yet one Academy Award voter, filmmaker Kieth Merrill, says he won’t be watching the film due to its subject matter.Merrill, who won an Oscar in 1973 for the documentary “The Great American Cowboy” and was nominated in 1997 for the short “Amazon,” said he has “zero interest in watching a woman cross state lines so someone can murder her unborn child.”In “Never Rarely Sometimes Always,” Sidney Flanagan plays 17-year-old Autumn, who travels from Pennsylvania to New York to obtain an abortion without parental consent.In a since-deleted Instagram post,
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