Oscar predictions
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What last second black actors/movies/directors can they wedge in there? That's who will win best actor/picture/director.
If not this year I guarantee next year is the blackest oscars ever
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Unless an even more simpering and un-subtle black pandering movie comes out I bet that that mediocre Jesse Owens movie the ambiguously named "Race" wins best picture in 2017
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Seems like there is a race movie every year.
Triumph of the noble and oppressed negro over the cartoonish redneck racists.
Again I would ask Will Smith or any other black protester which of the white nominees should have been deleted from the nominations and which black should have taken their place.
What the pandering was beyond ridiculous. Of course I'm mostly bummed out about my failings as a predictor.
I figured Best Picture could maybe go either way just came down on the wrong side, but I was stunned by Mark Ryland edging out Sylvester Stallone. I figured the sentiment was way on the Rock side and while I really enjoyed bridge of spies I don't remember leaving with any kind of feeling the Ryland was Oscar worthy.
WSS
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A big factor in the nominations is of course the actors in work that year. How many black actors (or of any other race) were leading actors in relatively successful films this year? John Boyega, but his acting was better suited for pinochio IMO. Anyone else?
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A big factor in the nominations is of course the actors in work that year. How many black actors (or of any other race) were leading actors in relatively successful films this year? John Boyega, but his acting was better suited for pinochio IMO. Anyone else?
A big factor in the nominations is of course the actors in work that year. How many black actors (or of any other race) were leading actors in relatively successful films this year? John Boyega, but his acting was better suited for pinochio IMO. Anyone else?
I'm not sure the relative success of the films has much to do with it. Room, Trumbo, Brooklyn none of which made any noise at the box office.
Audiences as well as the Academy probably like to feel some sort of a kinship with actors and most of them are white. Also a huge amount of the Academy is homosexual or homosexual friendly so there is that agenda. I just don't see many great roles 4 or by black people. And it does get tiresome that most films with black actors in leading roles are required to be about being black. Italians, Irish or Hispanics can easily star in movies about other subjects.
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Hey at least Great Britain is recognized!
WSS
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A big factor in the nominations is of course the actors in work that year. How many black actors (or of any other race) were leading actors in relatively successful films this year? John Boyega, but his acting was better suited for pinochio IMO. Anyone else?
I'm not sure the relative success of the films has much to do with it. Room, Trumbo, Brooklyn none of which made any noise at the box office.
Audiences as well as the Academy probably like to feel some sort of a kinship with actors and most of them are white. Also a huge amount of the Academy is homosexual or homosexual friendly so there is that agenda. I just don't see many great roles 4 or by black people. And it does get tiresome that most films with black actors in leading roles are required to be about being black. Italians, Irish or Hispanics can easily star in movies about other subjects.
WSS
I'm not sure the relative success of the films has much to do with it. Room, Trumbo, Brooklyn none of which made any noise at the box office.
Audiences as well as the Academy probably like to feel some sort of a kinship with actors and most of them are white. Also a huge amount of the Academy is homosexual or homosexual friendly so there is that agenda. I just don't see many great roles 4 or by black people. And it does get tiresome that most films with black actors in leading roles are required to be about being black. Italians, Irish or Hispanics can easily star in movies about other subjects.
WSS
Call it 'well received by critics' rather than successful then. I don't remember the last time a film was 'well received by the critics' starring a black lead, that *wasn't* about black suffering? Maybe seven pounds and the pursuit of happiness? Maybe I'm just being forgetful.
Hey at least Great Britain is recognized!
WSS
Really?
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Well most movies aren't great movies to begin with, but they can be be fun and well done.
Just not many big black stars and when you think about it not that many big white stars. Denzel Washington Forest Whitaker James Earl Jones Will Smith Jamie Foxx Wesley Snipes, though his star has faded, have starred in many films that have nothing to do with black suffering.
I'm just saying that there are at least a few of those Afrocentric films every year.
Whether it's the poor black athlete or the poor black school or the poor black cheerleaders vs evil white school and the evil white cheerleader or the other stereotype genre of black film the ghetto comedy.
But isn't Eddie Redmayne one of yours? That's what I meant by Great Britain being represented. Also Room and Brooklyn are Irish Canadian entries.
WSS
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Yes, Eddie Redmayne is one of ours. Not shocked that the trans film got nominated - I haven't seen it yet, I'll get around to it, but it certainly seems like the kind of things that's 'well received by the critics'.
Not sure if 'Rams' was released in time for this year's awards, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it nominated (foreign film category of some kind). Icelandic, deadpan humour about a pair of sheep farming brothers who haven't spoken for 40 years, something like that.
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More oppression. BLM. (British Lives Matter).
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