Was given a nomination credit for the winning short film documentary
Music by Prudence (2010) at
The 82nd Annual Academy Awards (2010). Despite removing herself from the project a year earlier, filing
a lawsuit against the film's director
Roger Ross Williams over
creative differences and severing all involvement with the production
of the film, Burkett attended the event, stormed the stage and
interrupted the director's award acceptance speech to give her own
ad-libbed acceptance speech.