"President Obama is hosting a screening of Selma on Friday, one day after critics said the Academy Awards snubbed the film about Martin Luther King Jr. and the Alabama civil rights march of 1965."
I'm sure the other snubbed artists would like to be invited to the White House as well. But they aren't getting an invite because they aren't black.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
Many others thought to be sure things got a snub. Let us definitely have a blue ribbon commission formed to study why this is all it got. It is Hollywood guys. They are sympathetic out there in La La land so maybe the others nominated in those categories were better.
Feel much safer now that this is happening with what is going on overseas & here .
Obama could have invited Angelina Jolie and screened "Unbroken."
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
"It is Hollywood guys. They are sympathetic out there in La La land so maybe the others nominated in those categories were better."
Considering that last year's Best Picture award went to 12 Years A Slave, I don't think we can blame the Selma snub on racism.
However, I wouldn't say others were better. I didn't think that Cumberbatch or Redmayne deserved to be nominated. I didn't think they were so outstanding.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
Disagree. Both parties you mentioned deserved their nods as they were thought to be locks by almost every critic and reviewer as was Keaton. This is 3 out of 5 slots. Feinnes was thought to be a lock and he got snubbed. SH*T happens sometimes.
I"m so glad 12 Years a Slave won so now all racism in Hollywood is over! Maybe this year, if The Imitation Game wins, homophobia in Hollywood will be gone too! The Oscars sure are magic.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
But you see what's happening here. If someone who is not straight, white male gets overlooked it's always going to be because of racism/sexism/homophobia.
So it doesn't become about merit, it becomes about giving attention to a splinter group.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
But he also screened the Cesar Chavez movie, as well as Up in 3D, so you're going to have to try harder to make Obama racist, Goth...
I mean, Obama screening a movie about MLK (a few days before MLK's holiday) that was produced by Oprah is pretty unsurprising to get screened in the White House.
Who ever said a non-white/straight person getting overlooked automatically is an example of prejudice? That's not the argument anyone is making, and you damn well know it. This conversation is larger than just Selma- it is a sad state of affairs when all 20 actors nominated for an Academy Award this year are white actors. This isn't because people of color are doing lesser work, but it's that their work is consistently overlooked and thus can get no traction like other major players in Hollywood can. Selma was one of the best reviewed movies of the year and got mostly ignored, and a jingoistic and poorly reviewed film like American Sniper gets showered with praise because it's Eastwood, who by virtue of being a white straight man, has so much more opportunity than anyone involved with Selma with the exception of Oprah Winfrey.
I'm aware that studio politics have played a part in all of this, but it's utter bull**** to say that race had nothing to do with any of this.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
"I'm aware that studio politics have played a part in all of this, but it's utter bull**** to say that race had nothing to do with any of this."
So the two leads in Annie were also snubbed because they were black?
I personally think David Oyelowo got snubbed for two reasons.
I honestly think voters tended to shy away from awarding a Brit for playing America's leading civil rights leader. I think it made them feel uncomfortable.
And second, I think voters took a look at the number of Brits being nominated and said "Uh oh, three Brits in Leading Male. Can't have that."
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
Yeah, just like the Academy got so very uncomfortable when the very British Daniel Day-Lewis played the guy on the five dollar bill. What a shame he didn't get any awards attention for that performance.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
Showing a movie about Martin Luther King to kick off Martin Luther King Jr. weekend. Yup that's racist. The school district in my town is giving away 200 tickets to see the movie for free this weekend. I wonder if they're mad about the Oscars too?
"From the article BWW's very own resident racist posted"
I expected Catalano to be dimwitted. Now I have to add you to the list of BWW dimwits too?
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
If everyone who disagrees with you is being put on a list, perhaps you should just make a list of the people who agree with you. Shorter lists are easier to maintain.
The Oscars really became irrelevant when John Wayne got an Oscar for True Grit beating out Richard Burton.
Wayne was a movie star. Like Eastwood, he was never a great actor. Burton , like O Toole, never got an acting oscar which is a disgrace. As far as racism, as long as you have guys like Sharpton stoking the fires among others it will never be over.