[Rummyfan]

I know, I know.... WGAS about the Academy Awards? But I thought it's good for a few laughs if nothing else.

[Rummyfan]

American Sniper is the winner of the year, whether or not it gets a single statuette, because for all of us in the movie industry — I don't care what your politics are — it is literally the answer to a prayer for a midrange budget movie directed by an 84-year-old guy [Clint Eastwood] to do this kind of business. It shows that a movie can galvanize America and shows that people will go if you put something out that they want to see. With regard to what it did or didn't leave out, it's a movie, not a documentary. I enjoyed it, I thought it was well done, and I can separate out the politics from the filmmaking.

[Vendome]

Selma was shorted because the main actors are not American.

I fact, they are British and never benefited from the courageous work of Rosa Parks or exemplary effects of the march on Selma and Martin Luther King Jr, a real American.

Was it a good film? Sure but, it wasn’t a project of revelation, rather, it was a product of an anniversary.

Should it have won? Nope. But, if it had been produced maybe 10 years ago, with Denzel Washington as MLK, then it likely would have won.

[RginTN]

The AA’s used to be worth watching 40 years ago. Now that actors and actresses are no longer protected by the studios there’s no mystique to it.

[papertyger]

What no one wants to say out loud is that Selma is a well-crafted movie, but there's no art to it. If the movie had been directed by a 60-year-old white male, I don't think that people would have been carrying on about it to the level that they were. And as far as the accusations about the Academy being racist?

Don't you just hate it when the coloreds don't appreciate all we do for them? < /sarc>

[scrabblehack]

Does the Oscar ballot include comment sections like this?
If so, I’m surprised.