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PASS/FAIL: Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs on Selma Snubs, Lack of Diversity

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Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs on Selma Snubs, Lack of Diversity

For a while there, it looked like Selma director Ava DuVernay would make history this year as the first black woman nominated for Best Director, but while the film itself managed to score a Best Picture nomination today, DuVernay was snubbed.

What's more, Selma's powerhouse star David Oyelowo couldn't manage to break into the Best Actor category in a year when all 20 acting nominees were white. ​

With those sober facts in mind, we had to ask Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs whether the organization has a problem with recognizing diversity.

"Not at all. Not at all," she told Vulture this morning, after reading the nominations out loud with Chris Pine. "The good news is that the wealth of talent is there, and it's being discussed, and it's helpful so much for talent — whether in front of the camera or behind the camera — to have this recognition, to have this period of time where there is a lot of publicity, a lot of chitter-chatter."

But had Isaacs, herself the first African-American to preside over the Academy, expected more nominations from the well-reviewed Selma?

"Well, it's a terrific motion picture, and that we can never and should not take away from it, the fact that it is a terrific motion picture," she said.

"There are a lot of terrific motion pictures, it's a very competitive time, and there's a lot of great work that has been done. I am very happy that Selma is included in our eight terrific motion-picture [nominations]."
 
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Selma Was Robbed, and Other Unforgivable Oscar Crimes

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It’s that special day of the year when — after scores of lesser awards events, millions of screeners, and billions of prognostications — we say good-bye to so many of the actors who didn’t play characters with wasting diseases or got martyred or didn’t campaign enough or campaign in the right way or have enough money for a proper campaign or weren’t Daniel Day Lewis or Meryl Streep. We say good-bye to great artists who didn’t luck out in the horse race that cinema — like everything else — has become.

Let’s get the obvious out of the way. David Oyelowo gave the best male performance of the year but lost out along with the rest of the folks from Selma — which got what I can only call a “token” Best Picture nod. People will likely cite the not-entirely unfair denunciation of the film’s representation of LBJ, which began with former Johnson aide Joseph Califano in the Washington Post. Others will say the DVD screeners weren’t in the mail soon enough — which, if true, is almost too depressing to contemplate. Next year, screeners will either be hand-delivered or cars will be hired to transport voters to and from special screenings. I tend to think that the Academy collectively thought it had discharged its duty to the African-American experience with 12 Years a Slave. How else, in a year in which black people confronted inequality with greater urgency than any time in the last 50 years, can you account for the omission? You say it wasn’t a very good movie? You’re wrong. Selma has scale and depth. Ava DuVernay was robbed.

Bennett Miller and his ponderous Foxcatcher benefited. What can one say about this dim, drawn-out, uninsightful movie except that it wore its artistic credentials so ostentatiously that some Academy voters fell for it? I don’t want to complain too much about the nomination of Steve Carell, whose transformation was — at least before he began to repeat himself — impressive, and Mark Ruffalo grounded the film in something halfway human. But with Selma and the magnificent Mr. Turner — brisk, glancingly penetrating, one of the least artsy films about a major artist ever made — available, the tackiness is breathtaking. Timothy Spall, we hardly knew ye.

At least Marion Cotillard slipped in for Two Days, One Night — though she was even better in The Immigrant. If the too-glum Jennifer Aniston had brought more comic energy to Cake, she might have made the grade. It’s a much better script than the draggy film suggests. Anyway, Julianne Moore is a lock for the victim of early-onset Alzheimer’s in Still Alice, and here’s to her. She’s one of our most fearless, hard-charging actors and has earned — after years of toiling in mostly indie projects — Hollywood’s ultimate accolade.

American Sniper did amazingly well given how despicable it is, but its strong box-office showing and the well-organized hate campaign against anyone who protested its flagrant inaccuracies and the way it affirmed the nonexistent connection between 9/11 and the cataclysmic U.S. invasion of Iraq evidently counted for much. It was also a tribute to the bizarre standing of Clint Eastwood, whose omission from the Best Director category was probably the result of his semi-demented monologue to an empty chair at the last Republican National Convention. A curious split vote, but explicable.

Birdman was expected to do well, and did, very, very — and I can’t imagine how the Brits Cumberbatch and Redmayne won’t cancel each other out and throw the award to Michael Keaton for his furiously self-pitying turn as a washed-up superstar. I love Keaton — always have — and when he wins here, it will be further proof that lesser performances of major performers are often the ones that win awards. I expect the contest will come down to Boyhood (the year’s best movie) versus Birdman (the year’s most overrated) and, alas, give the latter the edge. Keaton and Edward Norton — who brilliantly sent up his own reputation for being a colossal dick — will likely win, and the movie’s jabs at critics won’t hurt. For the former, only dear Patricia Arquette and the screenplay seem like locks.

That The Theory of Everything — an increasingly aimless mess — won a screenplay nomination is high hilarity. Almost as off is the nomination for Felicity Jones, who is meltingly, maddeningly beautiful in the film and potentially a major actress but can’t elevate a dud part. Emily Blunt — who carries much of Into the Woods with her marvelous farcical energy — evidently never had a shot.

I was surprised by every documentary nomination apart from Citizenfour, which will deservedly win, and rather pleased by the inclusion of The Last Days in Vietnam. But I am happy to see more life for Finding Vivian Maier for entirely corrupt reasons, having bought two of her photos. I’d like to thank the Academy ... (Perhaps some members made similar purchases.)

The lack of a nod for The Lego Movie is a head-scratcher, but I admit that after an hour of being dazzled by its incessant invention, I fell off a cliff into fatigue and boredom. Look for Big Hero 6 to walk away with this award for all the obvious reasons. (It’s fun, not too artsy, not Japanese, and not a sequel.)

Big kudos to Damien Chazelle — whose low-low-budget first feature, Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, more people should see — for his great Whiplash showing. And a tip of the beanie for Wes Anderson for doing it His Way and finally cracking the Hollywood code with The Grand Budapest Hotel. I’m not a Wes groupie but we need to treasure the artists who can attract both money and good actors while continuing to live in a hermetically sealed solipsistic bubble. And it is a sweet, sad film, which is the most important thing. Isn’t it?
 
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Unless you wanna play the industries games and politics you have to remember that award shows are all fabricated hoopla..The hollywood foreign press association create the awards so european media could have access to hollywood stars back in the Bogie and Becall era. The Oscars is nothing but a promotion machine for studios..same with grammys, emmys, and tonys. I hate to see black people on stage crying for getting a trophy. Steve McQueen literally jumped for joy..now lets see how his career pans out after that. Halle's hasn't been the same since she won one. Monique disappeared and she ran the table in awards the year she won an oscar, botth octavia bulter and viola davis are doing tv. Jamie Foxx is barely an A-lister anymore. Like Mike said blacks shouldn't let these shows validate our worth or careers. Box Office does that, people demanding to see more from you does that. Not some cabal literally in a back room deciding who deserves a trophy based on inside politics.

the awards means something only if you want them to mean something..its the industry equivalent of highschool cool kids patting themselves on the back. thats why you see so many snubs and misses.
 
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Al Sharpton Calls For Emergency Meeting To Address 'Appalling' All-White Oscar Nominees

AP/John Minchillo The Rev. Al Sharpton. The Rev. Al Sharpton was left fuming mad after the Oscars revealed its all-white list of nominees for this year's Oscar awards on Thursday.

"The movie industry is like the Rocky Mountains, the higher you get, the whiter it gets," Sharpton quipped in a statement released later in the afternoon.​

Sharpton, a critic of the lack of diversity in Hollywood, also announced he was holding an "emergency meeting" next week to address the issue.

"I have called an emergency meeting early next week in Hollywood with the task force to discuss possible action around the Academy Awards," he said.

The prestigious awards ceremony was widely criticized after its nominees for best actor, best actress, and best director were all white. In the past two decades this has happened only one other time, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Sharpton praised the Oscars for nominating the civil-rights film "Selma" for best picture, but said it was "ironic" because the film is based on Dr. Martin Luther King's marches.

Said Sharpton: "The lack of diversity in today's Oscar nominations is appalling and while it is good that Selma was nominated for 'Best Picture,' it's ironic that they nominated a story about the racial shutout around voting while there is a racial shutout around the Oscar nominations. With all of the talent in Selma and other Black movies this year, it is hard to believe that we have less diversity in the nominations today than in recent history."​
 
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Al Sharpton Calls For Emergency Meeting To Address 'Appalling' All-White Oscar Nominees

AP/John Minchillo The Rev. Al Sharpton. The Rev. Al Sharpton was left fuming mad after the Oscars revealed its all-white list of nominees for this year's Oscar awards on Thursday.

"The movie industry is like the Rocky Mountains, the higher you get, the whiter it gets," Sharpton quipped in a statement released later in the afternoon.​

Sharpton, a critic of the lack of diversity in Hollywood, also announced he was holding an "emergency meeting" next week to address the issue.

"I have called an emergency meeting early next week in Hollywood with the task force to discuss possible action around the Academy Awards," he said.

The prestigious awards ceremony was widely criticized after its nominees for best actor, best actress, and best director were all white. In the past two decades this has happened only one other time, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Sharpton praised the Oscars for nominating the civil-rights film "Selma" for best picture, but said it was "ironic" because the film is based on Dr. Martin Luther King's marches.

Said Sharpton: "The lack of diversity in today's Oscar nominations is appalling and while it is good that Selma was nominated for 'Best Picture,' it's ironic that they nominated a story about the racial shutout around voting while there is a racial shutout around the Oscar nominations. With all of the talent in Selma and other Black movies this year, it is hard to believe that we have less diversity in the nominations today than in recent history."​
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I just want to say FUCK george wallace jr son!!


now he mad because he has to endure the sins

of his father..


muthafucka you go to take the good with the fuckin

bad...

He talkin bout...


the way his father was portrayed was pure fiction..


Now I want to see the movie....:lol::lol:

wallace was the gotdam devil during the civil rights movement


only gay edgar hoover aka jay edgar hoover satans bitch himself

was worse!!! panty wearing fbi mascot faggot!!!
 
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gonna check that out
 
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Spike Lee Blasts ‘Selma’ Oscar Snubs: ‘You Know What? F*ck ’Em’

On the day the Oscar nominations were announced, The Daily Beast hung out with Spike Lee at his Brooklyn office to discuss awards politics and how Selma was overlooked.
A few hours after the nominations for the 87th Academy Awards were announced, I took a pre-planned trip to the Brooklyn office of Spike Lee to profile the Oscar-nominated filmmaker for his latest Kickstarter-funded movie, Da Sweet Blood of Jesus, which is now available online on Vimeo on Demand and will be released theatrically February 13.

The coincidence wasn’t lost on either of us. Lee’s films have been on the receiving end of several egregious Academy snubs, from his 1989 classic Do the Right Thing failing to receive a Best Picture nod—the racially problematic Driving Miss Daisy ended up winning that year—to Lee not receiving any nominations for his ambitious biopic Malcolm X, though it later landed on both Roger Ebert’s and Martin Scorsese’s lists of the best movies of the ’90s.

As they say, the more things change, the more they stay the same. The biggest Oscar news Thursday was that the powerful Martin Luther King Jr. biopic Selma managed nominations only for Best Picture and Best Song while being snubbed in all the other major categories, most notably Best Director (Ava DuVernay) and Best Actor (David Oyelowo). Lee, who said Selma and Birdman were the two best films he saw last year, seemed annoyed but not surprised.

“Join the club!” Lee chuckled, before getting serious. “But that doesn’t diminish the film. Nobody’s talking about motherfuckin’ Driving Miss Daisy. That film is not being taught in film schools all across the world like Do the Right Thing is. Nobody’s discussing Driving Miss Motherfuckin’ Daisy. So if I saw Ava today I’d say, ‘You know what? Fuck ’em. You made a very good film, so feel good about that and start working on the next one.”
But it wasn’t just Selma. This year’s Oscars is the whitest since 1998, with no person of color receiving an acting nomination. It’s a far cry from last year, when 12 Years a Slave took home Best Picture, Lupita Nyong’o won Best Supporting Actress, and Steve McQueen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Barkhad Abdi garnered nods for Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actor, respectively.

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“Anyone who thinks this year was gonna be like last year is retarded,” said Lee. “There were a lot of black folks up there with 12 Years a Slave, Steve [McQueen], Lupita [Nyong’o], Pharrell. It’s in cycles of every 10 years. Once every 10 years or so I get calls from journalists about how people are finally accepting black films. Before last year, it was the year [in 2002] with Halle Berry, Denzel [Washington], and Sidney Poitier. It’s a 10-year cycle. So I don’t start doing backflips when it happens.”

One of the major problems, according to Lee, is the composition of the Academy voting body, which is 94 percent white and an average of 63 years old. In other words, it’s a different generation of people and thinking, which could explain why most Oscar-winning characters portrayed by African-Americans are subservient—from the slave (12 Years a Slave) to the maid (The Help).

“Let’s be honest. I know they’re trying to become more diverse, but when you look at the Academy and Do the Right Thing or Driving Miss Daisy, are they going to choose a film where you have the relatively passive black servant, or are they going to choose a film with a menacing ‘Radio Raheem?’” asked Lee. “A lot of times, people are going to vote for what they’re comfortable with, and anything that’s threatening to them they won’t.”

But Lee, who also expressed shock that the Roger Ebert documentary Life Itself failed to be recognized, said he was optimistic about the Academy’s trajectory under Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the first black president in Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences history.

“The Academy is trying to be more diverse,” he said. “Cheryl is trying to open it up and have more diversity amongst the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. But with Selma, it’s not the first time it’s happened, and every time it does I say, ‘You can’t go to awards like the Oscars or the Grammys for validation. The validation is if your work still stands 25 years later.’”
 
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Fact is...

Isaacs isn't going to do SHIT about it. For the most part, she really can't. And just because she's Black, doesn't mean she has diversity at heart. Only her own personal motivations. Whatever those may be.

WE really need to stop making any Black (Historical) film that comes out a "movement". Just make GOOD/GREAT films. You don't need awards to judge a film's credibility years down the line. Longevity speaks for itself.

With the internet and social media, OSCARS no longer mean shit anymore.

But what needs to be done is pool current and up & coming Black filmmakers, and give them the resources to accomplish their cinematic vision. And start expending into other genres. Stop with "Hood" shit and comedies all ready.
 
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HAR125LEM said:
Fact is...

Isaacs isn't going to do SHIT about it. For the most part, she really can't. And just because she's Black, doesn't mean she has diversity at heart. Only her own personal motivations. Whatever those may be.

WE really need to stop making any Black (Historical) film that comes out a "movement". Just make GOOD/GREAT films. You don't need awards to judge a film's credibility years down the line. Longevity speaks for itself.

With the internet and social media, OSCARS no longer mean shit anymore.

But what needs to be done is pool current and up & coming Black filmmakers, and give them the resources to accomplish their cinematic vision. And start expending into other genres. Stop with "Hood" shit and comedies all ready.
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HAR125LEM said:
Fact is...

Isaacs isn't going to do SHIT about it. For the most part, she really can't. And just because she's Black, doesn't mean she has diversity at heart. Only her own personal motivations. Whatever those may be.

WE really need to stop making any Black (Historical) film that comes out a "movement". Just make GOOD/GREAT films. You don't need awards to judge a film's credibility years down the line. Longevity speaks for itself.

With the internet and social media, OSCARS no longer mean shit anymore.

But what needs to be done is pool current and up & coming Black filmmakers, and give them the resources to accomplish their cinematic vision. And start expending into other genres. Stop with "Hood" shit and comedies all ready.
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WE won't allow ourselves to be crazy, silly, ridiculous or dysfunctional yet funny because we're still very hypersensitive to how OTHERS (read white folks) will see it. This is why you see such limited works coming from black writers and filmmakers because theyre aware that if they cross the line too far there will be a backlash for it from their own.
 
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geechiedan said:
WE won't allow ourselves to be crazy, silly, ridiculous or dysfunctional yet funny because we're still very hypersensitive to how OTHERS (read white folks) will see it. This is why you see such limited works coming from black writers and filmmakers because theyre aware that if they cross the line too far there will be a backlash for it from their own.
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I got save this post..could never find the words to express
this properly
 
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playahaitian said:
You opened the doors for black people in Hollywood but even this year the Oscars were criticised for overlooking Selma, allegedly for race reasons. Is there still a long way to go?

They’re wrong. The motion picture has cast all kinds of African Americans behind and in front of the camera. I’m in the Academy and I resent people who are not in the Academy making comments about what the Academy should do. People who project racial issues into movies have no business in our business. To get in the Academy is not easy. You have to do a certain amount of A-class movies and be brought in by two members of the Academy – Sammy Davis Jr and Richard Dreyfuss vouched for me. Every movie that comes in is looked upon.

I didn’t vote for Selma. Movies are to be judged on the integrity of their creative art and not political reasons.​
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