A street artist taking inspiration from the Oscar-nominated film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is taking aim at the entertainment industry just days before the Academy Awards. Three massive, consecutive billboards in Los Angeles — located just a few kilometres from where the Oscars will be held on Sunday — were covered over on Wednesday with messages attacking Hollywood for purportedly shielding pedophiles. The first of the covered billboards appeared near Wilshire Boulevard and La Brea Avenue, with the other two located close by. The covered billboards mimic the signage from the Oscar-nominated Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, in which a grieving mother (Frances McDormand) antagonizes the local police force over its lack of progress in searching for her daughter's killer. (TIFF)A conservative artist who goes by the name Sabo is taking credit for the signage, telling the Hollywood Reporter that the messages are meant to criticize Hollywood figures who enable sexual harassment through their silence.

Source: CBC News March 01, 2018 00:33 UTC