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Could Chris Rock drop out as Oscars host over increasing calls to boycott Academy Awards?
New York Daily News ^ | January 18,2016 | BY JOE DZIEMIANOWICZ, ETHAN SACKS

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.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: academyawards; blacks; chrisrock; daveboone; elikazan; ethansacks; hattiemcdaniel; hollywood; jadapinkettsmith; joedziemianowicz; martinlutherkingjr; mlkday; oscars; snub; spikelee; whoopigoldberg
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To: dfwgator
Waiting to see who the first white celebrity to join them in "solidarity" will be?

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."

61 posted on 01/18/2016 5:58:05 PM PST by A_perfect_lady (Welfare: It's a Safety Net, Not a Hammock.)
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To: A_perfect_lady

LOL, I love it, get your popcorn ready.


62 posted on 01/18/2016 5:58:48 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Hojczyk
He could introduce the nominees of each category by saying “And the all white nominees for best actor/actress/etc are....” That would sting.
63 posted on 01/18/2016 6:04:27 PM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: Hojczyk

Might make it worth watching if he boycotts ...


64 posted on 01/18/2016 6:12:08 PM PST by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: raybbr

Lmao!


65 posted on 01/18/2016 6:23:14 PM PST by FES0844
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To: Hojczyk

For the 54th straight year, I’m boycotting attending the Oscars.


66 posted on 01/18/2016 6:28:00 PM PST by MuttTheHoople (Yes, Liberals, I question your patriotism)
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To: Hojczyk

Black actors lives matter.


67 posted on 01/18/2016 6:30:38 PM PST by chuckee
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To: Hojczyk

If he agrees with the rest of the racists, I hope so.


68 posted on 01/18/2016 6:56:59 PM PST by deweyfrank
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To: Vince Ferrer

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).


69 posted on 01/18/2016 7:39:48 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: dfwgator

I’ve heard jokes along the same lines (about the lack of blacks in both the Flintstones and the Jetsons).


70 posted on 01/18/2016 7:40:52 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: a fool in paradise

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.


71 posted on 01/18/2016 8:07:48 PM PST by CarolinaPeach
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To: Hojczyk

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/


72 posted on 01/18/2016 8:14:25 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: Hojczyk

I’ve been boycotting the Oscars my entire life & see no reason to stop now.


73 posted on 01/18/2016 8:40:11 PM PST by CrimsonTidegirl (Alabama Crimson Tide: 2015 National Champions. ROLL TIDE!!)
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To: dfwgator
#54 Logan's run ref means a photo of Jenny Agutter : )

Blnk
74 posted on 01/18/2016 8:48:27 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: minnesota_bound

Don't forget Farrah was in it, too.

75 posted on 01/18/2016 9:07:29 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Isn't there another urban area to burn down?

76 posted on 01/18/2016 9:43:18 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Hojczyk

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.


77 posted on 01/18/2016 10:56:43 PM PST by Washi (All lives matter, or none do.)
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To: Hojczyk
Just whom would they be boycotting? Themselves?

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

78 posted on 01/18/2016 11:21:03 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Hojczyk
Next they will be complaining that most of the "stars" of 'Shaun the Sheep Movie', nominated for best animated feature film, are in blackface.


79 posted on 01/19/2016 12:48:28 AM PST by disndat (yousit ore loosit)
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To: CarolinaPeach

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.


80 posted on 01/19/2016 2:53:28 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Obama is more supportive of Iran's right to defend its territorial borders than he is of the USA's.)
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