Racist President and Selma

"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.


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The film got a Best Picture nod and one other

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 .

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"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.

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Goth

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.

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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.

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I can't wait till we have a white president again, so the REAL Americans can have a president.

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.

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I hate you, Goth. I hate you so hard.

Still trying to figure out how watching a movie makes someone racist...

From the article BWW's very own resident racist posted:

"The White House has been planning the Selma screening for a while, and the event is designed to kick off the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend."

So this being shown at the White House has nothing to do with the Oscars.

But reading comprehension was never one of Goth's strong points.

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?

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.

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