[Iron Munro]

I believe one major reason for this black racist uprising is to ensure that the Academy Award for Best Picture is awarded to “Selma” as a sop to the racists.

In effect the award for Best Picture will be stolen from “American Sniper” and will become the “Affirmative Action Award”, given to “Selma” to shut the blacks up and assuage white guilt in Hollywood.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Yep we have to kowtow to pressure groups tto prove we aren’t racist.

I remember there as some consternation the year Broke back Mountain was nominated for best picture. But it lost out to Crash. Some homosexual activists complained that Oscar voters didn’t vote for Brokeback due to the subject matter and that’s why it lost out.

I will never know if Brokeback was any good since I will never plan to see that moviem. Simply have no interest in this cowboy romance as they called it. Not that type of cowboy love story.

[Old Sarge]

the award for Best Picture will be stolen from “American Sniper” and will become the “Affirmative Action Award”, given to “Selma” to shut the blacks up and assuage white guilt in Hollywood.

[Tanniker Smith]

Doubtful. While it may be enough to knock down American Sniper, it won't shift the votes to Selma.

Consider that the Academy bailed on giving Brokeback Mountain the Oscar, and instead gave it to Crash.

They also had a chance to make a statement with The Last Temptation of Christ, which IIRC Robert Ebert predicted would win, not because it deserved to, but because of the controversy around it.

Basically, statements need to be pretty strong and broad to be made with Best Picture because the entire Academy votes for that award.