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Why Ava DuVernay's 'Selma' Oscar Snub Matters
forbes ^
| 1/15/15
| Scott Mendelson, Contributor
Posted on 01/15/2015 6:13:13 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
The Oscar nominations were announced this morning. There will be plenty of analysis regarding good surprises and bad surprises....he most egregious omission is the sadly not-entirely-surprising absence of Selmas Ava DuVernay from the five contenders nominated for Best Director....
I fear that it will affect the artistic opportunities afforded to its African-American female director in a manner different than if Selma would have come under fire under the directorial lens of a white male filmmaker.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chitchat; film; hollyweird; race
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Everything is racism with the left when such films don't get all the nominations possible.
Selma is a Best Picture nominee....not good enough.
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To: SoFloFreeper
The Oscar nominations... at heart, it’s like the nominations for Homecoming King and Queen. Oh the injustice!
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posted on
01/15/2015 6:16:14 AM PST
by
Rummyfan
To: SoFloFreeper
And honestly, anything with Oprah Winfrey in it should be deep-sixed!
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posted on
01/15/2015 6:16:50 AM PST
by
Rummyfan
To: SoFloFreeper
Selma?
Wasn’t she the chick on Scooby Doo who was always losing her glasses?
To: SoFloFreeper
I noticed that 8 movies were nominated for Best Picture. Isn’t it usually 5?
American Sniper getting several and Selma getting one nomination. The Libs will hate that.
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posted on
01/15/2015 6:21:45 AM PST
by
TomGuy
To: SoFloFreeper
The direction in
Selma, at least from the about 10% of the film I've seen from promos, looks like a very plain vanilla piece of direction.
Best Director is not supposed to be about displaying competence, but excellence.
Not that the work it honors is always excellent (it isn't), but it is meant for auteurs who take chances that work.
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posted on
01/15/2015 6:22:16 AM PST
by
wideawake
To: Doofer
With all due respect who gives a shit about the Oscars>Right! The Hollywierd crowd praising one another holds no interest for me.
But not nominating this black woman shows their streak of racism and sexism! < /sarc >
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posted on
01/15/2015 6:25:22 AM PST
by
JimRed
(Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
To: SoFloFreeper
To: humblegunner
Selma ... Isn't that some hot hollywood chick with big hoots?
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posted on
01/15/2015 6:27:37 AM PST
by
NorthMountain
(No longer TEA Party ... I'm the TAF Party)
To: wideawake
I've seen Selma. BORRRRIIINNNG!!! Only two interesting parts were the clubbing on the bridge and the march to Montgomery. Guess what? Archival news footage already covers that. In fact the MOST INTERESTING part of the movie was the news footage. The rest was a bore-fest.
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posted on
01/15/2015 6:28:00 AM PST
by
PJ-Comix
(Coakley/Gruber 2016!!!)
To: TomGuy
Selma will win best picture simply because of the subject matter.
To: SoFloFreeper
Selma is a Best Picture nominee....not good enough.Well, industry people will tell you that the odds of it winning when its director wasn't nominated is close to nil.
That said, there are complaints every year when female directors don't get nominated, so nothing new here.
There are always five nominations and people act like 5 is a variable number that can mean 6 or 7. As I've seen none of these movies (haven't checked the list, but unless the director of Captain America or Guardians of the Galaxy were nominated, I haven't seen the movies), I'll refrain from further debate over who did a better job.
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posted on
01/15/2015 6:30:01 AM PST
by
Tanniker Smith
(Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
To: SoFloFreeper
Obama got a Peace Prize for being part black.
So why shouldn’t all the Academy Awards go to blacks?
It’s really just common sense.
/s
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posted on
01/15/2015 6:31:04 AM PST
by
Iron Munro
("Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms - Open Up!" "Must be another UPS delivery, honey.")
To: NorthMountain
Selma ... Oh, yeah, I'd watch that.
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posted on
01/15/2015 6:31:44 AM PST
by
Tanniker Smith
(Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
To: TomGuy
I noticed that 8 movies were nominated for Best Picture. Isnt it usually 5?They expanded the Best Picture category to a max of 10, depending on some percentage of the votes. Best Director is still limited to five.
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posted on
01/15/2015 6:32:27 AM PST
by
Rummyfan
To: Tanniker Smith
Yeah ... I pretty much figured that Salma is a lot more interesting than Selma ...
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posted on
01/15/2015 6:33:43 AM PST
by
NorthMountain
(No longer TEA Party ... I'm the TAF Party)
To: NorthMountain
Salma... and she does have great boobs. Whatever happened to her?
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posted on
01/15/2015 6:34:32 AM PST
by
Rummyfan
To: TomGuy
Few years they bumped it to a max of ten
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posted on
01/15/2015 6:37:00 AM PST
by
morphing libertarian
(defund Obama care and amnesty. Impeach for Benghazi and IRS and fast and furious.)
To: Rummyfan
According to IMDB, she's still working, with several projects in various states of production. Most of her stuff looks a bit too "art-film" for my taste. She was the voice of "Kitty Softpaws" in the "Puss in Boots" movie.
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posted on
01/15/2015 6:41:16 AM PST
by
NorthMountain
(No longer TEA Party ... I'm the TAF Party)
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