Posted on 01/18/2016 4:46:35 PM PST by Hojczyk
upcoming Academy Awards telecast may be caught between Chris Rock and a hard place.
The comic actor is facing pressure to bow out as host of the 88th annual Oscars — with less than six weeks to go before the Feb. 28 telecast — over the mounting calls for boycotting the awards in response to the lack of diversity among the Oscar nominees.
On Monday’s holiday celebrating Martin Luther King Jr., both Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith announced they would not be attending the Academy Awards to protest a second straight year without a black actor receiving a single nomination.
I don't think Chris would bail — if anything, this gives him the world's biggest platform and an excellent area for jokes that only he can do,†Dave Boone, who wrote nine Oscar telecasts and was the head writer for the 2015 edition, told the Daily News.
“Years ago when Whoopi was hosting, (scandal-scarred director Eli) Kazan was getting the lifetime achievement award. I gave her a line, ‘I though the blacklist was me and Hattie McDaniel.’ At the time, it was a joke that only Whoopi could do.â€
Imagine Leo DiCaprio's anxiety right about now. LOL!!! He's thinking "Please don't ask. Please don't ask. I might finally win this time. Oh God, please don't ask."
LOL, I love it, get your popcorn ready.
Might make it worth watching if he boycotts ...
Lmao!
For the 54th straight year, I’m boycotting attending the Oscars.
Black actors lives matter.
If he agrees with the rest of the racists, I hope so.
In the past year or so there was a news story that blacks in leading roles don’t sell well overseas; apparently the rest of the world is more racist than us. In any case, I’m sure the entertainment industry, like any other in the business of making money, responded accordingly.
If affirmative action quotas are good enough for the little people, make Hollywood abide by them as well: 51% of all jobs (and awards) have to go to women or preferred ethnic groups (blacks & Hispanics).
I’ve heard jokes along the same lines (about the lack of blacks in both the Flintstones and the Jetsons).
I’m trying to figure out when people forgot that screen and stage celebrities play pretend for their livings. In a way, it’s more of a game than sports.
I remember when Halle Berry complained and complained about blacks not winning Oscars so the Academy gave her one for Monsters Ball to shut her up. She did not deserve the win and knows it. She is still complaining.
http://bossip.com/1111678/cursed-halle-berry-says-winning-an-oscar-hurt-her-acting-career-and-explains-why/
I’ve been boycotting the Oscars my entire life & see no reason to stop now.
Don't forget Farrah was in it, too.
Isn't there another urban area to burn down?
It’s obvious: 12% of the Oscars, not just the nominations, but the actual awards, have to go to African Americans.
Merit doesn’t matter. Diversity is our strength.
From the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences website:
NOMINATIONS VOTING PROCESS
Regular awards are presented for outstanding individual or collective film achievements in a wide variety of categories. Most categories are nominated by the members of the corresponding branch-actors nominate actors, film editors nominate film editors, etc. However, certain categories such as Foreign Language Film and Animated Feature Film have special voting rules which can be viewed at our Rules & Eligibility page.
All voting members are eligible to select the Best Picture nominees.
Nominations voting is conducted using both paper and online ballots, with online voting being the preferred choice for the overwhelming majority of Academy members. Voting for nominations begins in late December, and all votes are tabulated by PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Nomination results are then announced at a live televised press conference in mid-January at the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
So they would really be boycotting each other, not some secret star chamber that only nominates white people.
-PJ
I figure it happened somewhere in the television age. Before that radio brought celebrities into the home.
TV is often used like a radio (listen to it while doing something else) and there has been an expansion of chat shows, some with political overtones, that openly invite liberal celebrities to boost ratings and sell an agenda.
I’d say we are now in a post-television age. People still watch tv programs, but some do it online or by rental-by-mail. More attention is spent online than on-air. And social networks have been flooded with ‘reports’ of what celebrity died today and what some other celebrity tweeted last night. Even the news programs are awash with reposting the internet.
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