From TalkingPointsMemo
After the Academy Award nominations were announced Thursday morning, Twitter users tore apart the Academy for nominating only white actresses and actors for the nation’s top film honors, using the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite.
But the Oakland Tribune took its criticism to the next level Friday. The newspaper’s front page highlighted the startling lack of diversity among nominees
That #OscarsSoWhite hashtag has inspired some funny stuff. It’s also inspired the haters to crawl out of the woodwork. Some of them have latched onto this “:gotcha!” — rednecks wondering what’s wrong with all-white Oscars when the BET Aawards are all black… ugh.
so I threw myself into the fray:
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@Pete
I don’t get what you’re saying. What do you mean that I’m saying that “a black actor is a black actor first and an actor second.” What I said was that the numbers mean that there will always be less actors who are part of a minority than actors that are a majority simply because their numbers are less, menaing, there will always be more “white actors and films nominated,” simply because there are more white actors. I’m not saying that this is what should happen or whatever, I’m saying that this is the reason why the Academy nominates mostly white actors, there are just simply more of them. WHY there are more of them is the fault of the Hollywood system, the Hollywood system is the problem. The Academy, as an entity within this system and subjected to it, only reflects was is wrong with the entire system. What I’m saying sums up to this, if there were more films featuring black actors, more black actors would probably get nominated. I’m just trying to explain that for people who want to see black actors getting nominated. I myself really don’t care what “color” is the person who portrays x role in x films or in x tv show, if they do a good job, I don’t care if they are white,black red or blue. I agree with Ryan and Sasha that there is a lack of diversity in the Academy and in Hollywood, I’m just saying that there is more to it than just saying that people sit down to vote and say: “I won’t vote for x movie or x actor just because it features a either a black actor or is about black people.”
David Oyelowo was the only actor/actress of color who deserved an Oscar nomination this year I’m sorry but Beyond the Lights is a gloried Lifetime movie and black audiences didn’t even turn out to see it I’m black and I totally agree with the guys over at the Rope of Silicon website don’t understand the critics support for it I couldn’t stop laughing its a awful movie. As for Belle thought maybe the academy would like something like that but, if she couldn’t get a BAFTA nomination for best actress for that then I knew wasn’t getting an Oscar nomination. I think the academy got it right with the best actress nominations so happy for Marion. Gugu will be playing a slave in a movie with Matthew Mcconaughey maybe she will get an Oscar nomination then.
Just for the record SAG and BAFTA are all-white too this year, so the Acad. is only following the trend, don’t know why oscar bloggers didn’t notice it earlier…
”There’s always next year!” … Yeah, that explains why it took the Academy 86 years before they awarded Best Picture to a movie about blacks.
”You can’t have ‘diverse’ representation every year.” There IS ”diversity” every year, and it’s not just limited to black characters, but Latinos & Asians, too. That said, what does it mean if the Academy voters don’t SEE the movies? I really doubt they watched ”Belle,” ”Get on Up” or ”Top Five,” etc.
Last year, ”Fruitvale Station” was one of the most honored and critically acclaimed pictures:
* AFI Awards: A Movie of the Year
* Cannes Film Festival: Avenir Prize
* Gotham Award winners: Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan
* The Humanitas Prize
* Independent Spirit Award winner: Best First Feature
* NBR winners: Ryan Coogler, Michael B. Jordan, Octavia Spencer
* New York Film Critics Circle: Best First Feature
* Producers Guild of America: Stanley Kramer Award
And what does a picture as heralded as ”Fruitvale Station” get from the Academy? ZILCH. Nothing for its breatkthrough director, star or supporting actress. Did Academy voters feel they fulfilled their ”black-movie quota” by watching ”12 Years a Slave,” so they didn’t need to recognize another ”black film”? Ditto for ”The Butler,” which had 2 BAFTA nominations, 3 SAG nominations (including Ensemble) and 3 Broadcast Film Critics nominations.What’s more, ”Fruitvale Station” and ”The Butler” were both handled by the Weinstein Co., and even Harvey couldn’t work his amazing magic for them!
Ryan: hilarious! I literally LOLed with your tweet. Well done 🙂
The Oakland Tribune nailed it! The lack of diversity in the nominees is a reflection of the predominance of the white male in the industry in general. Working in film I have seen first hand the blatant and systemic racism, and even more so, sexism within the film world. The Academy probably won’t change until the demographics of the industry change as a whole, though it would be nice if the leaders of the industry (those people that comprise the Academy) would be leaders in promoting diversity. Look at the link (if you can). It does a great job of showing gender breakdown within the film industry. Its remarkable disheartening.
http://womenintvfilm.sdsu.edu/files/2014_Celluloid_Ceiling_Report.pdf
“People should just get over it. There’s always next year!”
I agree with this. You can’t have “diverse” representation every single year because there aren’t that many movies made every single year. In fact, this year, to my knowledge, was one of the worst years for black-theme movies. I know Kevin Hart was in three movies, there was Get on Up, Belle, Beyond the Light, Selma, and No Good Deed. I can’t remember anymore, can you?
There needs to be more writers writing about “diverse” people, telling their stories, and more producers willing to take a chance on “diverse” people.
But, the biggest oversight and no one talks about it — is the EMMYS!!!!! Television has such a rich pool of black, white, women, Latino and Asian actors, and who gets nominated each year — WHITE PEOPLE!
I expect that next year’s Emmys will see a whole lot of protests about not enough “diverse” people being nominated.
All Crash’s win did was validate John Sayles’ joke in Lone Star that it “was heartwarming to see prejudice overcome by a deeper prejudice”
I do agree that the Oscars are about merit not activism. However, when a film that has received widespread praise (RT score of 99% and Metacritic score of 89%), yet is reduced to tokenism, the writing is on the wall. There is something ass backward going on with he Academy.
And those white-victim trolls, get off of your high horse.
Alex, you might not realize this but you appear to be saying that a black actor is a black actor first and and an actor second. Thanks for using statistics to unintentionally prove Sasha and Ryan right.
fact of the matter is that the Academy Awards are all about recognizing a very small percentage of films. With that in mind, minorities are exactly that, minorities, meaning that there are significantly less than the majority. Now, imagine that there were 100 films released in Hollywood and of those 100 the academy will nominate only 10 percent. Imagine that of those hundred films, 10 percent featured any sort of minorities, either in directing, writing, acting, etc. Now if the Academy will nominate ony 10 percent of films, you have to realize that the chance that one of those films will feature a minority will be 10 percent. Meaning the 10 percent of the 10 percent, which is .01 percent. There would be a .01 percent chance that minorities will get nominated in any of the categories. It all just boils down to numbers. Minorities are less, so films about or with them will always be less, and shrinking the pool, means even less. With that I mind I think the Academy’s record for nominating and awarding african american actors and actresses is pretty impressive. Considering how little the number of minority actors there are in Hollywood, how little the number of those actors actually getting roles, much less good ones, and how little those roles and films are then given the chance to be promoted and compete. The truth is that many minority actors don’t get recognized simply because they just can’t get good roles. The problem is with the system, not necessarily with the Academy. The thing about films without women getting recognized is, I believe, more serious, because women aren’t a minority, there aren’t less women than men, so their prescence in Hollywood or the Academy shouldn’t be minor.
“Give the awards to who deserves them. You can’t just throw in a mandatory race vote, because “it’s the right thing to do”. This year, as far as I know, David Oyelowo was the only black actor/actress that gave a performance good enough to get nominated. ”
@RICHARDSKIN, I guess that’s the real issue. You said “as far as I know”. The entire thing is based on opinions and what one sees. I could say as far as I know David Oyelowo, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Chadwick Boseman, Lorraine Toussaint, Carmen Ejogo, and Henery G Sanders deserved nominations. Last year someone could argue that the best actor line up should have been Chiwetel Ejiofor, Forest Whitaker, Michael B Jordon, Idris Elba, and Chadwick Boseman. How do measure if someone deserves an award for art? It is subjective. Your OPINION is that Halle Berry and Denzel were the least deserving oscar winners ever and that they one because they are black. We can argue that the other 160 something best actor/actress winners won because they were white until we are both red in the face. What we do know for sure is the academy is 94% white, 76% men, and with an average age of 63 years old. The majority of films nominated for best picture are about white men. This is a fact.
I think people get way too passionate about the Academy’s role in all of this. The Academy is just a representation of a larger problem with the Hollywood machine, not the other way around. Oscars have been nominating and giving awards to minorities since pretty early on (i.e. Hattie McDaniel being an african american woman and winning an Oscar in 1939. 1939! Segregation was still a thing.) My point is that, as much as the academy tries, they are still going to be subjected to whatever is going on in the larger system, meaning Hollywood. More than that, this thing about minorities not getting enough recognitions all boils down to simple mathematics. I’m not saying that the Academy and its voters are saints, I’m just saying that there’s more to it than simply wanting to be diverse. The
I think all this race stuff is popping up now because of the current political situation with the African-American community and the Police departments. This whole thing with minorities not being ‘given fair treatment’ stems from what happened months ago in Furgeson. I guarantee you if that hadn’t happened, we would be hearing all this nonsense.
Well, I guess they should all just shut up and take it cos you’re tired of hearing people complaining about inequality, right?
Everybody has a right to get upset about the non-nominations for Selma. But doing so while not mentioning the many ways their Oscar publicity team botched their Oscar race makes me not take them serious. When all the guilds came out everybody was defending them, especially here, by posting “Oh, they just didn’t get the screeners”. But when the Academy does it, they are racists.
Sasha and Ryan are saying for years the Guild make the Oscar nominations. In not giving them the screeners, the Selma team failed to tell the Academy that Selma is a movie worth getting nominated for more Oscars
The last time this debate was this strong all that came from it was two of the least deserved Oscar wins ever. (in my lifetime at least)
Denzel Washington for “Training Day” and Halle Berry for “Monster’s Ball” in 2001. All everyone was harping about was how no black people ever win etc etc. Which is more true than it is not. I’ll give you that. But due to all of the whining those 2 grossly overrated movies/performances won over far more deserving ones that year.
And guess what happen right after that! Several black nominees and WINNERS prevailed that actually deserved it! Jamie Foxx for “Ray” and his double nomination for “Collateral” in 2004. Morgan Freeman for “Million Dollar Baby” Also 2004. Forrest Whitaker for “Last King of Scotland” 2007, Jennifer Hudson and Monique’s Oscar wins. Not to mention the black leading roles that I personally think got robbed, Gabourey Sidibe and Viola Davis. All of which make the 2001 wins seem even worse in my eyes. Those would have still happened with or without 2001.
Give the awards to who deserves them. You can’t just throw in a mandatory race vote, because “it’s the right thing to do”. This year, as far as I know, David Oyelowo was the only black actor/actress that gave a performance good enough to get nominated. He just had the bad luck in being in the most overcrowded category in recent memory.
@dan I agree, the older white male majority should stop being biased and giving other white males special treatment and favors.
earn the nomination on merit. no special treatment or favors
Sometimes it’s like the Black community won’t be satisfied until the White community is taken out of the picture all together and Hollywood is strictly Black.
interesting to see you come to this discussion with such a reasonable and not-at-all-creepy extremist nightmare fear eating at you like some kind of disease.
honestly, Marcus Periello? This is your take on the situation? You think sometimes black people want to get rid of all the white people in Hollywood?
“Why can’t we all just…get along?”
we might all get along better if you relax about black people planning to exterminate white people in Hollywood.
for one thing, have you seen the way white cops deal with black “threats”
— so, really, you can relax. white people in Hollywood will be fine.
” It WAS a weak year for minority actors”
Ok lets have that discussion. I thought Oyelowo was the best of the year. I don’t think Felecity Jones was better than either of Gugu Mbatha-Raws performances. I don’t see how Laura Dern, Keira Knightly, or Meryl Streep were better than Carmen Ejogo’s or Lorraine Toussaint’s performances. I don’t see how anyone can tell me that Robert Duval deserved a nomination over the most underrated performance of the year HENRY G SANDERS in Selma.
Am I the only one who finds it crazy that a American Sniper ( a film about a man who had a high kill count) is going to make about 65+ million dollars the holiday weekend of the greatest American pacifist.
thank you, johnny … and there’s another layer of irony: American Sniper’s huge box-office is happening on the weekend of the great American pacifist who got murdered by a SNIPER in America.
On another note: Am I the only one who finds it crazy that a American Sniper ( a film about a man who had a high kill count) is going to make about 65+ million dollars the holiday weekend of the greatest American pacifist. Unfortunately people won’t be celebrating there long weekend by watching Selma.
” It WAS a weak year for minority actors”
Perhaps, but you cannot tell me that Oyelowo’s or Isaac’s performance were in any way inferior to any other nominee on the list. Not buying it.
I don’t understand why people find it upsetting that other people are expressing their sadness that the Oscar Voters (94% White, 76% Men, and an Average of 63 Years Old) don’t recognize African American and female centered cinema. Everyone should be sad about it, because it limits the visibility of really incredible art. The oscars create conversation and publicity for the work it recognizes. That is why I was such an advocate for Pariah and Fruitvale Station the years they were released. A lot of people keep saying it’s because the work isn’t as good but it’s really not the case. Film is subjective so you can say it’s because the Academy isn’t interested in that work, didn’t see that work or doesn’t like that work, but don’t say it isn’t good. This isn’t a conversation that just happened over night. We have a year when all of the nominees are mostly white, and all the films up for best picture are about men so the time to discuss this is now. The people that get upset about it and sick of hearing about it need to really ask themselves “Why does it bug me that people care about diversity and inclusion?” “Why am I on an Awards website and don’t I want to talk about the type of people voting on what is considered the biggest award in cinema?”
The reason that the 94% White members, mostly men, liked Steve Carrell’s character is because they can relate more to a rich White dude than an African-American Hero that fought for social justice and civil rights for all minorities; they also figured since they voted the best picture last year to a film about slavery that they have done their part and after all, this year, they nominated the two black musicians for best song for “Selma.” Sexism was also obvious as many didn’t feel the need to award Ava with at least the best director nomination. The Academy probably didn’t like how President Johnson was portrayed and not as a hero, so they may have swayed them for voting for it in more categories. African Americans are rarely awarded for being heroes at the Oscars (instead maids, slaves, fortune teller, fat singer, gangster, fat mother on welfare, angry black men, waitress w fat child, etc.—-all the stereotypes are the ones that win). Oh wait it’s because…they wanted to vote for Weird White Dudes shooting people, Old White Dudes talking to themselves in their underwear……..yup this represents the diversity in the United States. Next year, they will have “White Guilt” and more minority actors will be nominated after this year’s uproar. I can’t believe folks haven’t noticed their patterns. If they were truly fair…..Angela Bassett and Whoopi Goldberg should have won Best Actress years back …..they were much better than the other nominees in their respective years, as was the two years Viola Davis was nominated. In supporting roles, there are more opportunities. In lead roles, only biracial Halle Berry has won best actress and she had to sleep w/ a white guy in the movie to do it (sure the old white guys dreamed it was them). No other African American actress has won Best Actress. Minorities do not have enough opportunities in film, as Sasha has mentioned in the past and thus, Viola will not have many more opportunities to win Best Actress, whereas Meryl Streep will get nominated almost every year she is eligible and of course, she is deserving of most of her nominations, but she just has more opportunities. The reality is that the Academy members are not ethnically representative of the United States or movie going public. They are not culturally sensitive, culturally relevant, multiculturalism supporters, diversity well versed, etc. They are White privileged with White guilt to be exhibited when their elitist group realizes again that they were not as inclusive this year……hell, 2-4 minorities missed out this year, realistically. The “token” African-American female president is of no help either. I’m sure she is embarrassed with the nominations, especially for “Selma.”
Mr. Early apparently works for the San Jose Mercury News. The film critic for that publication is a member of the San Francisco Film Critics Circle.
Here is a list of the 2014 SFFCC nominees in the six big categories: :
http://sffcc.org/
Best Picture
BIRDMAN
WINNER – BOYHOOD
THE IMITATION GAME
UNDER THE SKIN
WHIPLASH
Best Director
Wes Anderson, THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL
Jonathan Glazer, UNDER THE SKIN
Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu, BIRDMAN
Mike Leigh, MR. TURNER
WINNER – Richard Linklater, BOYHOOD
Best Actor
Benedict Cumberbatch, THE IMITATION GAME
Jake Gyllenhaal, NIGHTCRAWLER
WINNER – Michael Keaton, BIRDMAN
Eddie Redmayne, THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING
Timothy Spall, MR. TURNER
Best Actress
Marion Cotillard, TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT
Essie Davis, THE BABADOOK
Scarlett Johansson, UNDER THE SKIN
WINNER – Julianne Moore, STILL ALICE
Reese Witherspoon, WILD
Best Supporting Actor
Ethan Hawke, BOYHOOD
Gene Jones, THE SACRAMENT
WINNER – Edward Norton, BIRDMAN
Mark Ruffalo, FOXCATCHER
J.K. Simmons, WHIPLASH
Best Supporting Actress
WINNER – Patricia Arquette, BOYHOOD
Jessica Chastain, A MOST VIOLENT YEAR
Agata Kulesza, IDA
Emma Stone, BIRDMAN
Tilda Swinton, SNOWPIERCER
Number of black nominees: 0
Number of nominations for Selma: 0
ww: It WAS a weak year for minority actors and I mentioned the Selma snub yet you listed those actors too! How do you know that David Oyelowo wasn’t one vote behind Steve Carrell in the voting? How do any of us know Ana Duverny wasn’t in the same situation? But to blame the Academy for not nominating people simply because they ARE a minority is reverse racism. You have an African American president and you have done nothing but tear the man down since he has been in office. I have never seen such an example of public torture as that of Mr. Obama. And why is that? Because he wants everyone to have health care? (WAKE UP AMERICA!). Because he genuinely cares about ALL people? Because he’s African American? There’s an issue you should be addressing. Not because Gugu Mbatha-Raw didn’t get nominated for an Oscar instead of Marion Cotillard!
Paddy. Kudos!!
To the rest of you slackjawed mouth breathing hillbillies playing “white victim” and demanding black people just to “get over it”, there’s a right wing site called Big Hollywood that has been condemning Selma, black movies, and black people in increasingly hostile terms with each passing day. Go there. You’ll be with your own kind.
I think all this race stuff is popping up now because of the current political situation with the African-American community and the Police departments. This whole thing with minorities not being ‘given fair treatment’ stems from what happened months ago in Furgeson. I guarantee you if that hadn’t happened, we would be hearing all this nonsense. The thing is that if the Academy starts filling the slots with multiple ethnicities just for diversity’s sake, that takes away the point of choosing the ‘BEST’ of anything. It becomes a purely political event. I can recall one year where minorities were honored with a Best Picture win: CRASH. In my opinion, the best film of 2005 and was very deserving of its Best Picture win. Another thing to point out is that the Academy has been awarding minorities for their music in recent years. For example, ‘It’s Hard Out Here For A Pimp’ won Best Original Song for ‘Hustle & Flow’, which was performed by 3-6 Mafia; a rap group. All Black, no less. It was a catchy tune (and I’m not really into rap). If they want to get noticed by the Academy, they have to strike the right chord with their work. The same would be true if the roles were reversed.
This is getting really annoying. The more you polticize the Oscar race the more the winners (even the black winners, mostly the black winners) will be delegitimized. Imagine if the social network rage brings Selma to win BP. It could still happen. What would be said about such a win? That it’s not based on merit but on a political agenda. And it would be right.
It’s not rocket science but it might not be a racial conspiracy. Note, I wrote “might” not be. We’re not in the minds of all voting members. Maybe more members enjoyed Carrel over David O. and over Jake Gyllenhaal. Now, I’d wonder about racism if, say, they announced they were expanding the Best Actor category to include Miles Teller, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ralphe Fiennes, and Ben Affleck …
Everyone is okay with only whites being nominated for Razzies though. Yes, those are silly and they’re meant to be a joke, but it says something.
Everybody’s talking about all the acting nominees being white. I think people need to be focusing on the real issue here. When was the last time you saw a female nominated for Best Actor?
“A lot of people were snubbed because of the AMOUNT of great work. Why MUST it be a race issue?”
Because the work is of equal value. Carell and Witherspoon did not turn in greater performances than David O or Gugu. All four turned in good performances, so what do the ones who were left put have in common? It’s not rocket science.
”It happens to be a weak year for minority actors. Let’s move on …”
* David Oyelowo: Golden Globe nominee, Broadcast Film Critics nom., Indie Spirit nom.
* Carmen Ejogo: Indie Spirit nom., Black Reel nom., BFCA nom. (Ensemble).
* Tony Revolori: BFCA nom. (Young Actor), BFCA & SAG nom. (Ensemble)
* Riz Ahmed: Indie Spirit nom., Gotham Award nom., London Critics nom.
* Oscar Isaac: NBR winner, Best Actor (tied with Keaton), Gotham Award nom.
* Gugu Mbatha-Raw: BAFTA Rising Star nom., London Critics nom.
You get the idea. No, it wasn’t a ”weak year for minority actors.”
But it was a ”weak year for minority actors to be recognized by the Academy.”
An all-white slate of Oscar-nominated actors hasn’t happened since 1999.
That says more about the Academy than it says about minority actors.
For the record folks, go back & see how many times Black actors have won acting awards in consecutive years….not very often! Oprah should’ve waited for Selma next year, where it would win Best Picture! The fact they nominated so many last year showed it wasn’tgoing to happen in two years in a row. Do some research, look at their patterns….wake up folks. Next year, the make up Black award for this year will be a blackfemale winning Best Supporting Actress….look how many have won in the 12 years. Therefore, quick Hollywood directors give Viola her grieving/crying mother role so she can finally win the Oscar she shouldn’t won twice now. Don’t worry minorities, we have to wait another year before Hollywood remembers that u were in a film….and yes, it total discrimination this year….if they were voting on the performance, David O & Ralph F. & Jake G. would’ve been in instead of Bradley & Steve C, who should’ve been in supporting anyway.
@W.J. Yes! Exactly.
No one cares about minority snubs; “Love is Strange,” “Pride,” Pei Pei Change for “Lilting,” “The Way He Looks,” to name but a few. If “Selma” received 9 nominations and if Gugu was nominated and if, what, Kevin Hart was nominated, no one would be discussing it.
A lot of people were snubbed because of the AMOUNT of great work. Why MUST it be a race issue?
“I wish Harris had the guts to step down.”
Bob, I’m hoping he walks out on stage in blackface. But, you’re right – he’ll try and diffuse the issue by being cute (which is he’s paid to do) and it will look patronizing. He should think about stepping down.
Kudos, Ryan. Unfortunately some people will NEVER get it!
“Let’s move on to this year…please!”
Let’s not. It’s time the organization was called on to answer for itself. They set themselves up as representing the epitome of the filmmaking industry so they can be responsible and take the flak right along with the applause.
Outside of Selma, who else was missed? Gugu Mbatha-Raw’s performance and Bradford Young’s cinematography (two films) was on par – and in some cases, better – than those nominated.
The Academy Awards should be called “The White Privileged Awards.” Steve Carell, Robert Duvall, & Bradley Cooper had no business getting nominated this year when David O. was outstanding as MLK and the newcomer in Nightcrawler should gotten in the supporting actor race. To be fair, there was not a diverse pool of female choices from minorities this year other than female cast members from Selma that were critically acclaimed. The two biggest issues is that there are not enough films that feature minority casts in quality roles. Honestly, Jennifer Hudson or Audra McDonald could have played the witch in Into the
Woods….just too many old White Academy members voting for characters like themselves: white kid growing up w professor Mom who has 1 crying scene now she’s gonna win an Oscar, White man w guns shooting people….twice Foxcatcher/American Sniper, Weird White dude in his underwear in Birdman w brat daughter, White handicapped/hero by British actor, White military genius, White judge, White trash irresponsible father in Boyhood. Oscar Isaac who is a minority was shut out of most acting races. Jessica Chastain gave the performance of her career in A Most Violent Year was totally overlooked over characters such as Emma Stone/Patricia Arquette who shouldn’t been nominated. We can also blame the Critics since they have their freaking predictions so early in the year & they pick mostly white folks as their best performances, with the exception of Sasha/Ryan, most critics don’t see their own prejudices. However, the folks behind Selma (yes, u Oprah, etc) were dumb in notgetting,the movie out earlier, only Denzel would have gotten an Oscar nomination at the last minute w a crowded Best Actor field;David O. is not well known. The Academy Awards should require that membership be 20 percent White, Hispanic, Black, Asian, Other/mixed races/foreign & perhaps finally deserving actors will win across categories. Some of the foreign actors in films are 10 times better than overrated Steve Carell
& Robert Duvall !!!
Outside of the perceived Selma snub, what African American actors deserved Oscar nominations this year? It is not an Oscar issue, but an issue of films in general, and it happens to be a weak year for minority actors. Let’s move on to this year…please! This is getting really boring.
I dread the lame jokes Harris will make about the white Oscars in his monologue. Patronize, wink-wink, giggle.
I wish Harris had the guts to step down.
Funny how the Oscars were doing so well last year…you know, when 12 Years a Slave won BP and a Mexican director won as well. But hey, we’re angry!
This childish pouting has gone on long enough. It’s perfectly fine to be pissed when your favorites don’t make it in but to make everything snub an act of racism and sexism and cherry-picking horseshit is just asinine.
Don’t you cunts get it? The BET awards represent steps toward increasing the visibility of black people within the entertainment industry and recognising their contribution, BECAUSE THE INDUSTRY IS SO FUCKING WHITE HENCE THESE OSCAR NOMINATIONS. It’s not the fucking other way around! This is no threat to us white people! We do not fucking need our own separate awards groups because WE HAVE NO FUCKING CAUSE TO ADVANCE! WE HAVE NO DISCRIMINATION TO OVERCOME! WE HAVE NO CENTURIES OF INSTITUTIONALISED RACISM TO COMBAT!
Hey, fucking guess what? Calling someone a hillbilly is, at best, a cute little read. A quaint little dig. It’s not a fucking insult. It’s not the truth, necessarily. Maybe all you fuckers who feel so desperately aggrieved at having been labelled ‘hillbillies’ ought to look inside yourselves and wonder what part of each of you is it that takes such umbrage at that term? Does it hit a little too close to home for y’all? Maybe you wanna come over to my blog or to my Twitter and I’ll fucking insult the head off your shoulders for real.
@ Aragorn: Bye Felicia!
Ryan,
now this is too much…you call people names becaues they do not agree with you…hill billies??? then who are you/???? a loser blogger’s assistant working under that other narcissistic blogger’s shadow????? her attack dog??? small town liberal?????? you two are just like high school bullies….You two have double standards based on your own agenda….lost all my interest/respect for this blog in couple of days….you two are making stupid invalid blanket statements and expect everyone to respect that….and this is it for me…after all those long year, I will not be coming back to this so called blog…I dont want to be part of this disrespectfulness…
Retards! I swear. Don’t these people have anything better to do than whine and complain about everything being a conspiracy against Black people? Sometimes it’s like the Black community won’t be satisfied until the White community is taken out of the picture all together and Hollywood is strictly Black. The same could be said for almost any other facet of American life, as well. Maybe someday, the Academy will become more diverse and things will change. Maybe it skipped some people’s attention, but the President of the AMPAS is Black…AND A WOMAN! Perfectly fine. I thought she did a great job with Chris Pine announcing the nominees. To coin a phrase: “Why can’t we all just…get along?” (Jack Nicholson – Mars Attacks!)
#RazziesSoWhite No one seems to have a problem with this. Why?
Someone having an opinion that differs from yours does not make them a stupid hillbilly. I mean, they may be, but if they’re on this board reading up on Oscar related news, they’re probably not. They’re probably a person, like you, who has an opinion and feels like sharing it.
Yet, they have a point about BET. If black people can have their own award show, why can’t white people have their own too? Maybe we should just rename the Academy WET.
People should just get over it. There’s always next year!