The film Never Rarely Sometimes Always is all about a 17-year-old girl who gets pregnant but encounters hurdle after hurdle as she tries to obtain an abortion. She has to deal with an anti-abortion “crisis pregnancy center” that gives her misleading information, state laws that won’t allow her to have the procedure without parental approval, and a cost that keeps going up.

The movie is getting rave reviews and may be eligible for Academy Awards when nominations are announced in a couple of weeks.

But one member of the Academy who won’t be supporting the film in any way is Kieth Merrill, a director, producer, and Oscar winner himself, who sent the film’s writer Eliza Hittman a nasty message… which she later made public in a now-deleted Instagram post. (He mistakenly called her “Emma.&rdquo