VIDEO : Lupita Nyong?o On Oscars Diversity

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast The Academy Award winner opens up about her film ?Queen of Katwe,? mother-daughter bonds, and how her career has progressed since taking home the gold. PLUS watch an exclusive clip from ?Queen of Katwe.? There exists a long-running, peculiar trope in Disney animated films: that of the missing mother. Though wicked stepmothers and clumsy fathers abound, casting its plucky female heroes off to lavish balls and cursed castles, the presence of a mother?s steadying hand is curiously absent in the canon.