Today’s Social Justice tantrum concerns the Academy Award nominations. Apparently, not enough non-white people received nomination.
- Variety: “Black Actors Shut Out of Oscar Race — Again”
- People: “Actors of Color Shut Out by Academy: Oscars Under Fire for Lack of Diversity Again”
- Vox: “Oscars 2016: The nominees are blindingly white. Again.”
- USA Today: “Oscars: Acting races are an all-white field”
It really doesn’t surprise me that the Culture of the Participation Trophy has decided that Academy Awards are an entitlement. They should just hand out Oscars to everybody, like the high school that had 117 valedictorians.
BTW, in this era of gender equality, why are there still separate categories for Best Actor andBest Actress.
Not very progressive, if you ask me.
Ok. I can understand not agreeing with a creator’s views as they are presented in a work. But that doesn’t mean that every piece of entertainment must conform to your political worldview (see SJWs), or that every single line of dialogue, stage direction, or character role and description is carefully chosen to lull people into accepting the Zionist-Illuminati New World Order, either.
Why the hell do a certain quota of roles need to be filled by black people? Or why the hell is the time a woman does something for herself in a film a sign of the feminist control over the media, and nobody should watch the film? Why the hell can’t a story just be a freaking story?
Insufficient minority representation in the frivolous arts?
Who cares?
Really, are there people who lose sleep over this nonsense?
Is it bad that I don’t care. Hollywood is like Academia, so wrapped up in leftist BS that I like it when they eat their own.
@2 – Ditto!
I wonder if these people will ever understand “compassion fatigue”? I’m all compassioned out. I just don’t care.
“It really doesn’t surprise me that the Culture of the Participation Trophy has decided that Academy Awards are an entitlement.”
Perfect! I love the way you word ideas, VtK!!
They asked Ice Cube about Straight Outa Compton being shut out of the Oscars on TMZ. His response was “Were not worried about it.” I bet he really doesn’t care. The Oscars are irrelevant.
Audiences liked Straight Outta Compton. Ice Cube’s not worried about the Oscars. Why then are the SJW’s so hell-bent on shaming the Academy into conforming with the SJ vision of diversity?
At the end of the day, the industry is top-heavy with straight, white males of a certain age, and they’re going to watch certain films first before others. The nominations are going to reflect that. While it’s ironic that Creed and Straight Outta Compton’s only respective nomination went to white male(s), a branch like SAG–which is more diverse–went out of their way to see films like Compton and Beasts of No Nation and nominated them both for Best Ensemble.
Carol–a film directed by a gay man and about two lesbians–was the best film of the year IMO and was shut out of picture/director. I was hoping this wouldn’t happen, but it was possible that it could and it did. So well. AMPAS are all about whose got the money to pimp films that get enough of a critical and commercial response which speak to a certain demographic.
One would hope that a future diversity in membership would enable films that normally don’t get a very shake to shine.
But, yeah, it’s a popularity contest that doesn’t necessarily represent quality in film. Happy that Mad Max was received so well. Wish Charlize Theron got nominated too.
Charlize Theron not receiving a nomination for Best Actress is a damn shame. But honestly? Mad Max was the only movie that I saw this year that was nominated for one of the “big” awards.
Am I the only one that missed this?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/01/06/alabama-chief-justice-screwed-66-judges.html
Alabama judge puts hold on gay divorces
Okay, so they are saying that Hollywood is all white only applauding white movie talent.
So, then why don’t “they” start their own version – like Miss Black America did years ago?
Oh wait, they did, didn’t they? BET awards. The what awards, you say?
Black Entertainment Awards. Yep, no one pays attention to those.
I don’t pay attention to any of them anyway – it is not like I say to myself: “Now, I must see that movie since all the Hollywood elites saw fit to give it awards”
As long as they aren’t using my tax dollars to give awards they can do whatever they like.
Maybe we should have a quota system for blacks. As I recall, a few years ago, there were so many blacks going for awards at the academy. Oh well, whine when you don’t get your liberal way.
Is this just another case of “veneer” liberalism? Seems liberals are hypocrits.
I stopped paying attention to the Oscars the year that they gave the Best Picture Oscar to a horror film over an animated one.
In the past few years the Oscars served as a platform for the liberal left to mock conservatives for laughs and has become a bore. I haven’t watched in the last five yearsand don’t intend to this year. I’ll check to see what is on cable, and if there is nothing to my liking, I have over 200 videos of classic and B movies. Anybody for Blondies and Dagwood, or Charlie Chan?
The Silence of the Lambs is a great movie. So is Beauty and the Beast.
The fact that a horror film won BP is amazing ….
Considering that Jenner still has a penis, what exactly does he mean when he says; “I’m done dating women”
Does that mean done dating people “who identify as women”, or done dating people who don’t have a ‘Y’ chromosome?
I’m so confused!!!!!!