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/src on/Mission Accomplished Social Justice Warriors./src off/ Although Denzel Washington is not an affirmative action choice. Only movie I have any interest seeing is "Hacksaw Ridge".
1 posted on 01/24/2017 8:41:52 AM PST by C19fan
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So how much of the process was skin color and not acting skill?


2 posted on 01/24/2017 8:44:00 AM PST by Truth29
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Appeasers think they can throw a few bones at the aggrieved SJWs and they will be happy. A couple of years we went through this with “Twelve Years a Slave” getting awards out the wazoo and Hollywood thought “there, we’re good for a while” but last year they were called a bunch of racists so they need to make damned sure that black people win in every category this year. But it won’t work, they’ll be called racists again, if not next year than the one after. Because it works.


4 posted on 01/24/2017 8:47:39 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (ui)
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Clearly, last year couldn’t simply be because no minority gave a performance that even this group of lefties found worthy, could it? This year is going to be filled with Participation Trophies in the list of nominees.


5 posted on 01/24/2017 8:47:50 AM PST by econjack
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ZERO chance the Mel Gibson is given an award

I don’t think he has yet fully groveled at Hollywood’s feet in abject repentance for his “racist” and Christian past.


6 posted on 01/24/2017 8:51:38 AM PST by PGR88
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Hacksaw Ridge - Great movie! The combat scenes will “get your attention”. (been there, done that, got the ‘Fruit Salad”, etc.)

(Although, no one reloads and the M-1s seldom give the “ping” of the clip being ejected. LOTS of brass ejected, though!)


7 posted on 01/24/2017 8:52:03 AM PST by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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So what happens when none of them win?


8 posted on 01/24/2017 8:52:41 AM PST by dfwgator
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Frankly I have not seen any of these pictures and probably want.

Only picture I may see is “Hacksaw Ridge”, otherwise I want see them.

I classify most of these as what I call “Art House” pictures. They just don’t nominate enough wide release films that do any real box office that most people see.

The Awards have truly become an in house deal. Will not be watching.


9 posted on 01/24/2017 8:56:09 AM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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They need to have a special black Oscar category like they used to have for black and white films. Through 1966, there were separate B&W categories for cinematography, art direction and costume design. It was discontinued once they'd reached a point where pretty much everything was shot in color.

So, they could have a "best black" categories for acting and maybe others like director. Of course, some will complain that "it's not the same as a 'real' Oscar", but then, that's the nature of affirmative action. When they hand out black Oscars this year, they will be just as bogus as they would be if they were in a special category.

It's fun to watch Hollywood eat its own.

11 posted on 01/24/2017 8:58:52 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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Interestingly, Martin Scorsese's much-heralded Silence got few nominations--namely because the movie was released too late to get Golden Globe nominations.
13 posted on 01/24/2017 9:05:15 AM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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And the oscar for the most gratuitous use of a skin color goes to..


14 posted on 01/24/2017 9:06:50 AM PST by Trillian
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Oscar? Hollywood?

You must be joking.

I think they have milked this little Charade long enough.

NO THANKS!


15 posted on 01/24/2017 9:16:30 AM PST by EnglishOnly (Fight all out to win OR get out now.)
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#BOM:

Black Oscars Matter.


16 posted on 01/24/2017 9:17:20 AM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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Yeah, I’m actually rooting for Denzel.


17 posted on 01/24/2017 9:17:48 AM PST by dfwgator
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I expect every ‘big’ category to go to the Black on the nomination list. Hollywierd has to atone for no Blacks winning last year. Personally, i only watch to see the clothes. I figured out, decades ago, it was just them awarding themselves Oscars. We, the People, show what we like by the box office proceeds.


19 posted on 01/24/2017 9:22:46 AM PST by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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Haven’t seen it yet, but I hear the Mel Gibson flick is pretty good. I loved ‘We Were Soldiers’.


21 posted on 01/24/2017 9:37:33 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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“And the winner of this year's Affirmative Action Oscar is...Barry Soetoro.”

This will go very nicely on his mantel next to the 2008 Affirmative Action Nobel Peace Prize. Soon to be joined by, the richly deserved Worst President Ever Medal currently being forged by Donald J. Trump.

22 posted on 01/24/2017 9:38:35 AM PST by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban gun free zones)
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I came across this on another site about last year's Oscars, but it's still relevant, and contains a bunch of historical observations on the awards.

Mini - Canon: "Oscar Bait": A History

The "crusty old white men" are addressed at around 8 minutes if you want to skip the when and why the Oscars started becoming irrelevant to the average movie goer that just wants to be entertained.

24 posted on 01/24/2017 9:43:13 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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Maybe it’s because Denzel Washington and Viola Davis really deserved the nominations for their unbelievable performances? Octavia Spencer was very good as well, but not in the Viola Davis range.


25 posted on 01/24/2017 9:43:40 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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Oscars?

So it is that time of year again. This is where the useless non-productive get celebrated by their peers. A full auditorium of self congratulating non-entities cheering on the air heads that give you more sex and violence per hour daily all the while expounding on the dangers of violence and attempting to control the masses with their genius, of witch they will tell you about every day.


28 posted on 01/24/2017 9:49:09 AM PST by JayAr36 (ISLAM IS NOT A REIGION! It is a Theocracy determined to over throw America)
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I saw only one theatrical release last year. Captain Fantastic. It was horrible.


35 posted on 01/24/2017 12:46:40 PM PST by GSWarrior
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