Selma Oscar Awards Snub Spurs Outraged #OscarsSoWhite Hashtag
Even that Best Picture nomination is something of a consolation prize, coming as it does after the Academy, in 2009, expanded the category to allow up to 10 nominees, which means the overwhelmingly old white male voters would otherwise likely have nominated the five films that got Best Director nods.
The snub of Selma‘s cast and director, as well as every other critically-acclaimed black actor or filmmaker this year (Gugu Mbatha-Raw turned in two such performances in 2014) sparked immediate outrage on Twitter, where the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite took over the social media platform Thursday morning. While White Twitter was wondering how it was that 12 Years A Slave had worn off already, #BlackTwitter was offering razor-sharp critiques of a longstanding issue. While the 2014 Oscars, where 12 Years won Best Picture and Lupita Nyong’o won for Best Supporting Actress, probably seem like a beacon of diversity compared to this year’s roster, there were many more deserving films and performances that weren’t even nominated last year. As this handy chart shows, the outrage over 2015 is tempered by the knowledge that this is nothing new.
The #OscarsSoWhite tweets ran the gamut, lampooning Hollywood’s history of discrimination, film stereotypes, white “post-racial” attitudes on race, and Fox News. Many of them were damn funny, like these personal favorites…READ MORE
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By: Tommy Christopher
Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
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Red Eye Robot January 15th, 2015 at 16:41
“which means the overwhelmingly old white male voters would otherwise likely have nominated the five films that got Best Director nods.”
Should be corrected to say “Overwhelmingly old white LIBERAL men”
arc99 January 15th, 2015 at 18:00
Meanwhile the overwhelmingly old white CONSERVATIVE men are trying to find ways to strip 10 million people of health insurance.
When it comes to doing harm to society, white CONSERVATIVE men have no peer.
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/nov/18/ed-schultz/schultz-103-million-people-would-lose-insurance-ob/
Schultz said repealing the Affordable Care Act would take away insurance coverage of about 10.3 million people. Based on multiple independent sources, the combination of the individual mandate, insurance subsidies through the insurance marketplaces, Medicaid expansion and raising the eligibility age for dependents delivers a total that is in the neighborhood of what Schultz said.
But there is a bit of uncertainty in all of the numbers, and Schultz’s suggestion that health care would be “taken away” for everyone is a tad strong. With those caveats, we rate his claim Mostly True.
Red Eye Robot January 15th, 2015 at 17:41
“which means the overwhelmingly old white male voters would otherwise likely have nominated the five films that got Best Director nods.”
Should be corrected to say “Overwhelmingly old white LIBERAL men”
arc99 January 15th, 2015 at 19:00
Meanwhile the overwhelmingly old white CONSERVATIVE men are trying to find ways to strip 10 million people of health insurance.
When it comes to doing harm to society, white CONSERVATIVE men have no peer.
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/nov/18/ed-schultz/schultz-103-million-people-would-lose-insurance-ob/
Schultz said repealing the Affordable Care Act would take away insurance coverage of about 10.3 million people. Based on multiple independent sources, the combination of the individual mandate, insurance subsidies through the insurance marketplaces, Medicaid expansion and raising the eligibility age for dependents delivers a total that is in the neighborhood of what Schultz said.
But there is a bit of uncertainty in all of the numbers, and Schultz’s suggestion that health care would be “taken away” for everyone is a tad strong. With those caveats, we rate his claim Mostly True.
Khary A January 15th, 2015 at 17:51
To quote Public Enemy ” Who gives a F&CK about a goddamn grammy?” The Academy awards, the Grammys, Golden Globes all of it commercial glad handing from groups that love the aroma of their own flatulence. One doesn’t craft artful things for adulation nor does one tell “history” to receive ephemeral platitudes. The most creative mind in film or most other mediums Alejandro Jodorowsky lies in relative obscurity to the world but it matters little to him as he creates worlds of his own so why would any real artist care what the mundane has for them?
arc99 January 15th, 2015 at 17:58
I agree 100%. As an amateur musician who has not played in a band since shortly after I graduated high school in the early 1970’s, if I had achieved world renown in music, I would have politely but firmly refused to participate in these awards shows.
Artistic expression is not competition. It is a couple of people with a hand held camera or even four guys from Liverpool doing covers of Chuck Berry tunes to earn a living while they write their own stuff.
I wonder if some of the icons of American music like Hendrix, or Dylan or Jagger would have even made it past the first audition on American Idol.
Khary A January 15th, 2015 at 19:44
Hendrix yes, Dylan no, Jagger if it was early style Jagger and Ray Davies would still be the man. You could also add every real punk band, Most talented and skilled Hip Hop Artists, EVERY Death Metal band on earth( like it or hate it is possibly the most honest of the musical styles for it has almost NO commercial value and a score of “indie” rock bands.
fahvel January 15th, 2015 at 23:12
one fine sentiment KA!!!!!!!!!
The last of the Thousad Sons January 15th, 2015 at 18:51
To quote Public Enemy ” Who gives a F&CK about a goddamn grammy?” The Academy awards, the Grammys, Golden Globes all of it commercial glad handing from groups that love the aroma of their own flatulence. One doesn’t craft artful things for adulation nor does one tell “history” to receive ephemeral platitudes. The most creative mind in film or most other mediums Alejandro Jodorowsky lies in relative obscurity to the world but it matters little to him as he creates worlds of his own so why would any real artist care what the mundane has for them?
arc99 January 15th, 2015 at 18:58
I agree 100%. As an amateur musician who has not played in a band since shortly after I graduated high school in the early 1970’s, if I had achieved world renown in music, I would have politely but firmly refused to participate in these awards shows.
Artistic expression is not competition. It is a couple of people with a hand held camera or even four guys from Liverpool doing covers of Chuck Berry tunes to earn a living while they write their own stuff.
I wonder if some of the icons of American music like Hendrix, or Dylan or Jagger would have even made it past the first audition on American Idol.
The last of the Thousad Sons January 15th, 2015 at 20:44
Hendrix yes, Dylan no, Jagger if it was early style Jagger and Ray Davies would still be the man. You could also add every real punk band, Most talented and skilled Hip Hop Artists, EVERY Death Metal band on earth( like it or hate it is possibly the most honest of the musical styles for it has almost NO commercial value and a score of “indie” rock bands.
fahvel January 16th, 2015 at 00:12
one fine sentiment KA!!!!!!!!!