Posted on 01/15/2015 3:33:50 PM PST by Impala64ssa
MSNBC host and civil rights activist Al Sharpton is calling for an emergency meeting of his eight-member diversity task force to discuss action against the Academy Awards after the movie “Selma” received only one Oscars nomination.
“The movie industry is like the Rocky Mountains, the higher you get, the whiter it gets,” Sharpton said with usual flair in a statement released Thursday after the announcement of Oscar nominations.
Many, including Sharpton, were outraged that none of the actors in “Selma,” a movie about the 1965 Voting Rights Act, were nominated for the golden statues.
David Oyelowo, who portrayed Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the movie, did not receive a nomination. Nor did director Ava DuVernay.
This was the second time since 2000 that no black actors or actresses were nominated for an Oscar.
“The lack of diversity in today’s Oscar nominations is appalling and while it is good that Selma was nominated for ‘Best Picture,’ it’s ironic that they nominated a story about the racial shutout around voting while there is a racial shutout around the Oscar nominations,” Sharpton continued in his statement.
“I have called an emergency meeting early next week in Hollywood with the task force to discuss possible action around the Academy Awards.”
“I have called an emergency meeting early next week in Hollywood with the task force to discuss possible action around the Academy Awards.”
Sharpton formed the task force last month after the hack and release of racially-themed emails sent between Sony Pictures executives. Sharpton called on Sony head Amy Pascal to address the issue of Hollywood’s lack of diversity.
“In the time of Staten Island and Ferguson, to have one of the most shutout Oscar nights in recent memory is something that is incongruous,” Sharpton told The New York Daily News on Thursday.
Sharpton’s outrage comes a year after the success of “12 Years a Slave,” which was based on the autobiography of Solomon Northup, a free black man who was captured and sold into slavery in the 1840s. The movie won Best Picture, and actress Lupita N’yongo won the award for Best Supporting Actress. Steve McQueen and Chiwetel Ejiofor were nominated for Best Director and Best Actor, respectively.
Sharpton vs. Liberal Hollywood elites — pass the popcorn!!
The movie sucked. Who cares if about the sex or race of actors, directors, producers, etc?
Make a better movie. Besides, the Academy Awards are for movies no one has seen or cares about it. It ceased to be about the “best” decades ago.
Hay Al......maybe it wasn’t all that good.
I have to give Al credit - that's actually pretty funny - as well as true. Get out the popcorn...
I can think of great “black” movies that I would love to see made. Unfortunately Hollywood would never tell the story honestly and Sharpton wouldn’t accept it if they did.
The story of James Armistead Lafayette Would be a great movie. He was a slave who served the continental army as a double agent reporting on the activities of Benedict Arnold while feeding the British bad information. Armistead died a free man who himself owned 3 slaves.
Instead of popcorn pass the nachos.
He feels very powerful right now. More so than he has in 15 years. Spffft.
Blow it out your black ass, Al...
The movie “Selma” is already in the garbage can. It has failed miserably from both attendance and revenie flow!!! Actually the movie is very good.....but America has turned against African-Americans, those led by Obama, Soros, Sharpton, Holder, De Blasio, the CBC, the NAACP and the Democrat Party!!! Gotta change that Black racist culture, brothers & sisters, and broom Obama out of office....worshipping a Black racist thug like Michael Brown, is no way to go through a productive, effective and useful life!!! End of story!!!
I just can’t stop laughing! The wretched bastards obviously think that if a movie is somehow about them, then one or more of them should automatically qualify for an award.
Its hilarious!
Diversity, sucks! Unless of course, you’re one of the deserving diverse.
“The movie industry is like the Rocky Mountains, the higher you get, the whiter it gets
I have to give Al credit - that’s actually pretty funny - as well as true. Get out the popcorn...”
I’m looking out my East window at 5,080 feet, right now...just East of the Rockies...looking UP at the Bridger Mountain Range...
It USED to be much wither this time of year but someone just built a big ‘chocolate’ colored house over the last 18 months...
The higher I go in my subdivision it gets darker...
Just a view from the Rockies.
The man’s an A$$.
Is this satire?
I haven't see and don't care about any of them. Or the Academy Awards either.
In fact, I don't even know who most of those people are.
Malcolm X never got a dinner!
Stamp your feet, loot.
What if they gave a meeting and no one came to be shook down?
Ha!
Maybe Hollywood will fight back and make a “tell-all” movie about Al Sharpton.
Maybe they can hire Rosie O’Dumbo to play the part of Sharpton.
feh...
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