I heard on the Chris Plante show online that the Selma producers failed to massively distribute dvd’s of the film to the academy members to review. Without anything to review, how could one evaluate? Eastwood’s crew started sending out review copies in November.
That would explain why the online pirate sites had it before it was even released.
Probably the true reason. Something no one on any side politically talks about is how impeccably middle class the Negro voting rights demonstrators are. That indeed is pretty accurate and it was brilliant psychological warfare against the attitudes of many Southern whites. What a change today, decades after Jim Crow has become a historical issue black Americans display an almost feral sort of animal-ism in the public face of their community. Incredibly vicious crimes are perpetrated by blacks on blacks all the time and here in the Big Uneasy the latest wrinkle is young teens emerging as vicious pistol waving thugs conducting robberies and car jackings and murders. No one but no one will talk about the descent into raw viciousness and dysfunction that has happened to black America since Negroes have become full fledged members of the dependent class.
IIRC, a significant portion of the Academy are geriatrics living in assisted living faciities. So Plante’s point does make sense.
Also is that there are many other Liberal-themed movies out there, which divided up the vote further.
The “snubbing” of Selma can be easily explained away as the result of the statistics involved in any movie this year getting or not getting a nomination, not racism.
Of course there are people out there who feel that Selma was entitled to unanamous votes in all the nominations it was eligible for. Because Ferguson ...
Didn’t a bunch of the people that awarded “12 years a slave” admit they never watched it?