Posted on 01/17/2015 10:37:10 AM PST by Steelfish
Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs Speaks Out About Lack of Oscars Diversity
Oscars 2015: Outrage Over All-White Acting Nominations
Film Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs has responded to the criticism that followed Thursday's Oscar nominations featuring no people of color in any acting category, making for the least racially diverse Oscars in 17 years. There were also no women nominated in the directing or writing categories.
Boone Isaacs, the first black president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, insists the academy is "committed to seeking out diversity of voice and opinion" and that outreach to women and artists of color is a major focus.
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What you’ll never hear: “They just weren’t good enough this year. That’s why the votes weren’t there. Remember “The Color Purple”, or “Roots”. You don’t get that every year.”
Maybe they can give out an ebony color Oscar to the winners.
It's comical that the media are having this argument one year after 12 Years a Slave won for Best Picture.
Part of the problem may be the reliance on big high-minded Oprah-esque features intended to guilt the Academy into a medal.
Make the best movies you can about what you actually know and let the chips fall where they may.
Now the blacks think they are “entitled” to win every year, or they will riot, burn and destroy that which is not theirs.
This black lady does not have the moral courage to say “hey, we won last year, so chill.”
No similar whine about the lack of diversity in NFL running backs, I reckon.
Take some of your own idealistic medicine, now all of the white actors and and actresses no matter how well deserved will take a back seat to a possible undeserving film or actor because of the color of thier skin, funny! enjoy self pompuos a## holes in tinsel town. Good for us but not good for you, becareful what you wish for
Can we cover the white actors and actress with black paint. After all Hollywood is all about make-believe.
In the future we can look for a quota system so that every category is diverse.
Absolutely true. But when I bought the DVDs "Band of Brothers" I was pleased to see they were historically accurate. Blacks were not in combat roles in the early stages of the war, other than the Red Tail pilots, and certainly weren't in combat roles in the 101st. I'm surprised al pimpton didn't raise a fuss with that other liberal, tom hanks.
Concerning the dearth of blackness at the oscars, maybe America is waking up to the extortion we've suffered. Maybe Americans are becoming aware of the scam of affirmative action, minority business loans, welfare, minority hiring quotas, minority scholarships, ad nauseum.
Maybe America just doesn't want to see blacks who actually aren't talented but are there simply to fill a quota.
Works for me.
Don’t forget commercials.
All those lefties attacking an institution run by a black woman! Those racists!
or where the kids are smart and the parents are stupid
folks like here and Sharpton are twisting MLK’s famous quotation into: Let us be known for the color of our skins, not the content of our character.
Whorlywood paints a picture, the black stands beside it and assumes we all see him or her as the picture was painted by the movie money mongers.
By the way.. IMO, Cheryl Boone Isaacs looks like Spike Lee in drag.
Been there, done that. Most don’t even get that they’re patronizing and profiling. Why the heck would I, a 58 y/o black Tea Partier, care about some cobbled together ‘rap’?
I don’t know most of those performers and don’t wish to know them. All aside, with a good friend, you just let it go, because you know they only have good intentions. I’ve made the same mistake profiling in reverse. “What do you mean, you don’t like Van Halen, Whitesnake or Jimi Hendrix??”
Other than Selma and Annie, what was there last year? Putting all their eggs in one basket, as it were?
I’m asking. I saw two movies all year, and both had Marvel in the title.
Denzel Washington in The Equalizer.
I thought the Oscars were supposed to be about quality, not skin color.
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