khorum
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2016 Oscars
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
chaos
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Maybe I'm just not paying attention to the right sources but I don't see people making the arguments that "hey, black people aren't represented in the film industry" so much as "hey, black people weren't represented in the oscar nominations". The problem existed a month ago and a year ago and 10 years ago but it seems the blame is being put on the academy "LAWL OLD WHITE GUYS" I'm sorry that the retelling of NWA's origin story (minus the truly controversial stuff) didn't get more love, but that isn't the academy's fault, there were better movies. Could some of those roles have gone to black people? For sure. But, again, if instead of 6.5% representation it was 13%, would everyone just nod and say "yes, that is correct?" I somehow doubt it.
There are competing factions using this "controversy" for their own purposes and no one has any real goal, just a bunch of nebulous stuff that even if progress was made towards it still wouldn't make anyone happy.
I read an article with John Singleton talking about this earlier in the week and he had the right attitude I think. That yes, things need to change on an industry level, but at the end of the day the oscars are and have always been a circle jerk.
There are competing factions using this "controversy" for their own purposes and no one has any real goal, just a bunch of nebulous stuff that even if progress was made towards it still wouldn't make anyone happy.
I read an article with John Singleton talking about this earlier in the week and he had the right attitude I think. That yes, things need to change on an industry level, but at the end of the day the oscars are and have always been a circle jerk.
khorum
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HAHAHA as usual take something stark, mechanistic and undeniably BULLSHIT and attempt to render it opaque with "nuance" and "complexity".
You should be selling credit default swaps.
Even more stats:
Facts - Feels = Butthurt.
Gamma Rays
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How many years has it been since the last time that there were no nominations for Black actors??
Is it 20 years or more, and if there was one sooner than that, it was just another dry year such as this.
What I'm thinking is, did all this hurt have to wait until there was finally a dry year and they could make a big protest gesture like this.
Is it 20 years or more, and if there was one sooner than that, it was just another dry year such as this.
What I'm thinking is, did all this hurt have to wait until there was finally a dry year and they could make a big protest gesture like this.
Borzak
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Academy Overhauls Membership, Voting Rules to Promote Oscar Diversity
What a load of horse shit. Way to devalue those who have been nominated and won prior to this.
What a load of horse shit. Way to devalue those who have been nominated and won prior to this.
Yeah OK.
I still think they should nominate all minority next year except for one white in each category and have that white win.
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The only thing I hate about all this is that the American way is to whine and that's from all sides. If these fuckers were true to their intentions they wouldn't make movies anymore until shit changed. The thing is they want their money and they don't give two shits about where it comes from even if it's from the white suppressors of the industry. How about taking their money and investing in an all black studio? I'll take these fuckers serious when they actually do something besides whine like a bitch.
Kovaks
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My wife had a similar comment but the fact is an all black studio wouldnt be lucrative enough because based on history only black people would watch the movies i.e. Tyler perry, spike lee, barbershop, they would make some money but not much for the movie industry
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2014 Woman of the year was Laverne Cox
You may recognize him/her from Orange is the New Black.
Chukzombi
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Kovaks
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Kreugen
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I still can't get over Shannon Sharpe putting on a wig and calling himself Pam Oliver.
