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Jada Pinkett Smith, Spike Lee will Boycott OSCARS – Video

Post author By Ezra Grant
Post date January 18, 2016

All the major awards at the Oscars will be given to Whites only. It is the second year in a row that Blacks and other minority actors are pushed to the side, their hard work not even acknowledge by the Oscar voters. So Jada Pinkett Smith and Spike Lee have both decided that if the Oscars cannot recognize the works of other talents of other race, then they will not recognize the Oscars.

But the Oscars will at least have one black person in attendance. Chris Rock is set to provide the entertainment.

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#OscarsSoWhite is Trending on Twitter

Post author By Ezra Grant
Post date January 14, 2016

The hashtag says it all. For the second year in a row, the Oscars failed to nominate any person of color for any major award.

No people of color were nominated for best actor, best actress, best supporting actor, or best supporting actress and no films featuring African-American actors were nominated in the best picture category.

“Straight Outta Compton,” a well-reviewed film featuring African-American actors, quickly began trending on Twitter. Other outraged awards-watchers began tweeting with the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite.

Some of the movies that some critics had expected to be contenders, like “Straight Outta Compton” and “Creed,” had to settle for lesser nominations. Idris Elba had drawn some rave reviews for his performance in “Beasts of No Nation,” and Will Smith had drawn attention for his role in “Concussion,” but neither earned a nod. Benicio Del Toro was also passed over for his acclaimed performance in “Sicario.”

Sylvester Stallone earned a nomination for best supporting actor for “Creed.”

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Best Supporting Actress Award Goes to Lupita Nyong’o

Post author By Ezra Grant
Post date March 3, 2014
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Lupita Nyong’o won the Oscar for best supporting actress on Sunday for her role as the hardworking slave Patsey in drama “12 Years a Slave,” capping a breakout awards season for the Yale-trained Kenyan actress.

Nyong’o, 31, won the Oscar in her first feature film role, earning a thunderous standing ovation from the Hollywood audience. She beat fellow frontrunner Jennifer Lawrence’s portrayal of a loopy housewife in caper “American Hustle” in one of the most closely-watched Academy Award races this year.

“Yes!” the actress exclaimed when accepting the award after hugging her brother, “12 Years a Slave” director Steve McQueen and other actors in the film.

“It doesn’t escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else’s, and so I want to salute the spirit of Patsey, for her guidance.”

Nyong’o, who earned the same award from her peers at the Screen Actors Guild Awards in January, was chosen for the role from some 1,000 young actresses who auditioned

She received plaudits from critics for her depiction of suffering as a field-working slave and the object of sexual desire from her master.

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A Coupla White Men Sitting Around Voting

Post author By lakecat
Post date March 11, 2013
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Have you ever wondered who elects the Oscar winners? The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has about 6000 members. 94% of them are white. 77% of them are male. 86% of them are over 50. So don’t think of it as Best Picture. Think of it as What an Old White Man thinks is Best Picture. An Old White Man’s Idea of Best Actor. An Old White Man’s Idea of Best Cinematographer. And so on.

Don’t get me wrong. A lot of old white men are wonderful people. It’s just that they’re the minority now. They’re certainly the minority as far as gender is concerned. And soon they will be the minority as far as race is concerned.

So why are they still running things (well the government and the Fortune 500 anyway)?
Silly, because people who have power don’t give it up voluntarily. Why does it matter? Because the movies have such a powerful impact on our culture. And if only one group gets to decide what is the best , where does that leave the rest of us?

It’s no accident that most of the nominees and winners are white men. Members of a tribe like their own tribe the best. They help them first. It’s human nature. Human nature it may be, but healthy for the culture it is not. Ang Lee aside, where were the nonmale, nonwhite nominees that weren’t either best actress or best supporting actress nominees? A tiny percentage? Who does that benefit?

And whose idea was it to have Seth McFarlane host? His shows, Family Guy, American Dad and his movie Ted are insanely popular among you guessed it, white men. Young white men. Time to attract some new blood to the tribe. So we get hilarious jokes about how Jennifer Anniston was a stripper (she wasn’t) about how actresses throw up to lose weight, a CIA agent was just a nag, and 9 year old will be dating George Clooney soon.
And a delightful song that reduced women at the top of their profession to a crudely referenced body part. Come to the Oscars and be humiliated.

Are they really this tone deaf? Well– there he was so, yes, they are. Lately I have been watching the Oscars just for the pretty dresses. Some of the most beautiful women in the world with a team of experts working on them and the result is they look absolutely stunning. Hey do you think it’s a coincidence that the Best Actress award usually goes to someone who’s young and beautiful? ‘Cause that’s what old men like. Just wondering.

It’s 2013. The days when old white men decide for all of us what has value and what does not are fading. At least I hope so. I can’t think of a good reason to watch the Oscars now.

I can catch the dresses the next day on dozens of websites.