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I have to say that Denzel's over the top performance in Training Day is one of my favorites and that Oscar is deserved. And Twelve Years a Slave was the last movie I saw with memorable black actors - also deserving of the Oscars it won. I plan on seeing Chi-Raq once it is accessible to me - its limited release probably is an indication it is not that good.
1 posted on 01/21/2016 7:14:35 PM PST by Citizen Zed
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America was scandalized by Anne kissing Sidney??


2 posted on 01/21/2016 7:15:57 PM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard then Third: I like to destroy the Turks (Moslims))
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I'm still mad that Battle:Los Angeles was snubbed by the Academy for Best Picture.


3 posted on 01/21/2016 7:23:08 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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The quality of the acting is not important — they all deserve Oscars, because Racism.


5 posted on 01/21/2016 7:26:45 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (I don't know what Claire Wolfe is thinking but I know what I am thinking.)
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They need to go to “Black Acting School”.....

From “Hollywood Shuffle” (Language)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoqmCwp95Q8


10 posted on 01/21/2016 7:41:48 PM PST by dfwgator
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Let's look at the facts.

1.Hollywood likes to nominate actors in serious dramas for oscars, and especially if the movie is about a pet cause issue dear to Hollywood.

2. This year a black actor named Will Smith starred in a serious drama about a pet cause issue dear to progressive's hearts.

3. No black actors were nominated for best actor.

4. Jada Pinket Smith begins a boycott of the acadamy awards because no black actors were nominated.

5. Both Jada Pinket Smith and Will Smith have the same last name. This is because they are married.

13 posted on 01/21/2016 8:02:29 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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“I have to say that Denzel’s over the top performance in Training Day is one of my favorites and that Oscar is deserved.”

Agreed. I’ll always remember listening to his big speech to the rookie telling him why they HAD to be corrupt, and finding myself almost convinced.

I was like: whoa, that’s some good acting, it’s good this guy has decided to just be a play actor in hollywood, who knows what n=mischief he might get up to in real life.


14 posted on 01/21/2016 8:03:15 PM PST by jocon307
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Of 122 nominations, the only black film nominated is Straight Out of Compton for original screenplay, and both writers are white.

Sounds like Hollyweird feels they did enough by supporting Obama.


15 posted on 01/21/2016 8:03:58 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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Affirmative Action!


16 posted on 01/21/2016 8:06:51 PM PST by arthurus (Het is waar. Tutti i liberali sono feccia.)
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maybe they’re should bee end and affirmative action apsect to the Oscuh...


17 posted on 01/21/2016 8:07:18 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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Today, when so many of the most successful people in showbiz -- and in all other walks of life -- are of ethnic origin, such a reaction seems grotesque.

Are they "successful" because they are good? Or, are they successful because they are token minority that was chosen to be in the film for "diversity" reasons?

90%+ of the minority roles in Hollywood were created just to put a brown face in the film. People wouldn't notice if they were not there...and wouldn't care.

23 posted on 01/21/2016 9:47:41 PM PST by Cowboy Bob (With Trump & Cruz, America can't lose!)
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I heard some flak by a couple of black actors how "lily white" the awards will be.
Who gives a rats? I sure don't. They (actors in general) make a ton of money and HAVE to be the most narcissitic, self agrandizing folks on the planet. They are in love with themselves.

From Wikipedia about Narcissus:
He was the son of the river god Cephissus and nymph Liriope. He was proud, in that he disdained those who loved him. Nemesis noticed this behavior and attracted Narcissus to a pool, where he saw his own reflection in the water and fell in love with it, not realizing it was merely an image.

26 posted on 01/21/2016 10:32:32 PM PST by cloudmountain
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“Sidney Poitier, who won an Oscar for his performance in Lilies of the Field, was the first black actor to ever win one of the gold statuettes:”

Not quite true, Hattie McDaniel won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1939 for “Gone With the Wind.”


29 posted on 01/22/2016 5:31:23 AM PST by ops33 (Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
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Just give everyone a “participation Oscar” and the problem goes away ...


32 posted on 01/22/2016 5:38:47 AM PST by glennaro
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34 posted on 01/23/2016 5:11:59 PM PST by SoFloFreeper (Obama hates the three Cs: Christianity, Constitution, and capitalism.)
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