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CineCraftRachel Vorona Cote
1/03/16 9:32pm
The African Americans who’ve won Oscars, and the role they played.

Hattie McDaniel - a slave

Sidney Poitier - a laborer helping white nuns

Denzel Washington x 2- an ex-slave who who helps Matthew Broderick/a corrupt cop with gang connections

Jamie Foxx - a singer who struggles with addiction

Forrest Whittaker - corrupt African dictator

Halle Berry - a poor single mother with a husband on death row and an obese son

Louis Gossett, Jr. - a bombastic drill sergeant who helps Richard Gere

Cuba Gooding, Jr - a bombastic pro football player who helps Tom Cruise

Morgan Freeman - a washed up fighter who helps Clint Eastwood and Hilary Swank

Whoopi Goldberg - a con-artist

Jennifer Hudson - a singer who is a single mom on welfare

Mo’Nique - abusive welfare mom

Octavia Spencer - a maid in Mississippi who helps Jessica Chastain

Lupita Nyong’o - a slave

Even when blacks get recognized by the Oscars, its for playing characters in servile roles, who are impoverished or corrupt or trouble by vice.
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  EldritchCineCraft
  1/03/16 9:40pm
  DAMN good points. There need to be better roles offered to POC.
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  merchantfanCineCraft
  1/03/16 9:41pm
  I agree with your general idea, though I think Ray Charles was about as complimentary as most musician movies are. The addiction just made it more dramatic.
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EldritchRachel Vorona Cote
1/03/16 9:42pm
The Academy is out of touch in every aspect that matters. This year is bound to be another disappointment. The best movies I saw this year were ones with zero chance of getting an award. Goddammit, Mad Max: Fury Road deserves all the awards. Is it too late to give the Star Wars The Force Awakens cast nominations? More than likely they’ll go, as usual, to “high brow” films that no one saw that were pure Oscar bait.
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  Slay.douché - (dreams to be a puppy)Eldritch
  1/03/16 10:51pm
  “Is it too late to give the Star Wars The Force Awakens cast nominations?”
  
  IKR?
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  AliciaEldritch
  1/03/16 11:30pm
  Mad Max: Fury Road was a fantastic movie. It made many critics’ ten best lists but I’ll bet Oscar ignores it outside of the Tech Awards.
  
  Star Wars might get a nod only because the Oscar voters want at least one movie that appeals to the casual Oscar viewer.
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AspieUnicornofTarthRachel Vorona Cote
1/03/16 9:06pm
Well the first step is to support more diversity for writers who aren’t white to right about characters who aren’t white.

And for characters who may or may not be white to be cast as not white.

Actors are the tip of a very big iceberg.
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  as ripley said to the android bishopAspieUnicornofTarth
  1/03/16 9:12pm
  Yep. Why is white skin treated as the default? Even for Egyptian gods.
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  SqarrAspieUnicornofTarth
  1/03/16 9:13pm
  Yes.
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ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ : Riot GRRR is RUNNING WILDRachel Vorona Cote
1/03/16 9:23pm
Everyone will be too busy sucking Eddie Redmayne’s dick to notice.
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  iseedeaddaleksʕ•ᴥ•ʔ : Riot GRRR is RUNNING WILD
  1/03/16 9:26pm
  
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  anyah8sbunniesʕ•ᴥ•ʔ : Riot GRRR is RUNNING WILD
  1/03/16 9:52pm
  I still can’t bring myself to care about Eddie Redmayne
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paultoesRachel Vorona Cote
1/03/16 9:43pm
[or Oscar]

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  maraislanuitpaultoes
  1/03/16 9:45pm
  I was gonna say, didn’t Viola already cover this?
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  Major Lazer Power Blazerpaultoes
  1/03/16 10:12pm
  
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  (i loved this moment)
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harmagedomRachel Vorona Cote
1/03/16 11:40pm
I think that there’s a fundamental problem here, that is, conflating cause and effect. You can’t have a larger number of more diverse nominees if you don’t have a larger number of roles and writing and directing jobs played by Black, Latino, Middle-Eastern, Asian and other minorities first. That’s the real issue. The big movies, the kind of ones who get nominations, they mostly cast white actors and actresses in the key roles, and are written and directed by white people. And, there’s this huge elephant in the room that people seems to be afraid to talk about: most of those casting calls and decisions are made by a considerable bunch of power players in the industry who are self-proclaimed liberals in speech. And, in an even more delicate issue, that almost nobody wants to touch even with an eleven feet pole, a lot of those power players are Jewish, either producers, directors, studio owners... Yes, I said it. It’s an issue of a big bit of hypocrisy. That’s why the one minority which doesn’t have problems getting jobs in the industry and nominations are Jewish actors, actresses, directors and writers. So, they either must to put their money where their mouths are, or stop pretending being so progressive, while keeping this bullshit going on.
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  Bears for Presidentharmagedom
  1/04/16 12:22am
  How very brave of you to take such a rare anti-semitic stand on Hollywood.
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  tshembersharmagedom
  1/04/16 1:45am
  Huhhhh? You’re blaming the Jews?!
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ChickendancerRachel Vorona Cote
1/03/16 9:30pm
Spike Lee needs to do a documentary on the #OscarsSoWhite movement. (Narrated by Ken Burns b/c it’s a Hollywood law that he narrates all documentaries.) The documentary will win an Academy Award. Then, in two years, there will be a fictionalized account of the “Making of #OscarsSoWhite,” starring Michael B Jordan as Spike Lee. The movie will win an Oscar. Then, in 10 years, a studio will reboot the making of movie, which, of course, will lead to a “Behind the Scenes of the Making of Making of” and a “Where Are They Now” on VH1 and a cast reunion on Today. But no Oscar. Which will lead to a 2029 equivalent of a hashtag, thus beginning the Hollywood cycle again. All that’s missing is Marvel, some Roman numerals for sequels, and whatever the opposite of meta is. But not Samuel L. Jackson. Because, thankfully, that mother fucker will be in all three films.
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  Set Fire to the Room--do it now (fiends NOT friends)Chickendancer
  1/03/16 9:38pm
  Swap out Ken Burns for Morgan Freeman and I’m in. Burns shouldn’t be allowed near a documentary about race after his romanticized horseshit on the Civil War.
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  ChickendancerSet Fire to the Room--do it now (fiends NOT friends)
  1/03/16 9:43pm
  I agree with you. However, given how clueless Hollywood is, it works ironically for Ken Burns to narrate this documentary. And would probably be the only way the movie could get made. Because Hollywood is myopic.
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Set Fire to the Room--do it now (fiends NOT friends)Rachel Vorona Cote
1/03/16 9:18pm
I’m just still so mad about David Oyelowo.
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  Major Lazer Power BlazerSet Fire to the Room--do it now (fiends NOT friends)
  1/03/16 10:13pm
  for selma??? that movie wasnt great but he was v. good in it and was really robbed of a nomination
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  VioletteWSet Fire to the Room--do it now (fiends NOT friends)
  1/03/16 11:16pm
  I’m still so mad about Michael B. Jordan (and Octavia Spencer, for that matter) in ‘Fruitvale Station’. And Chadwick Boseman and Nelson Ellis for ‘Get On Up’...
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SqarrRachel Vorona Cote
1/03/16 9:13pm
Off-topic, I know, but I’ve just discovered Bigger Luke and...

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  candy_pantsSqarr
  1/03/16 9:19pm
  Oh my god
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  Sqarrcandy_pants
  1/03/16 9:25pm
  Right?
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Adrastra, patron saint of snarkRachel Vorona Cote
1/03/16 9:38pm
“...there might be a growing perception that the academy is out of touch.”

Might be? More like there already is.
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  CBGAdrastra, patron saint of snark
  1/03/16 9:48pm
  I snorted at “might be.”
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  anyah8sbunniesAdrastra, patron saint of snark
  1/03/16 10:00pm
  
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  Long gone....
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