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Topic	Oscars took a step back in being racially diverse with nominees.
Lebronwon 01/13/20 2:51:12 PM #1:	https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/01/what-the-hell-just-happened-inside-the-oscar-nominations Uh-oh, I thought, as John Cho and Issa Rae read the nominees for best supporting actress and Jennifer Lopez was not among them. Its going to be that kind of year. Despite rave reviews and numerous critics awards for her fantastic work in Hustlers, Lopez was just not something enough for Oscar voters. But what is that something? Looking at the overall, largely cautious list of nominees this year, its tempting to say she wasnt white enough. This was a year in which, in terms of diversity, the actors branch in particular missed no opportunity to miss an opportunity. Its not just Lopez, its Eddie Murphy and Lupita Nyongo and Jamie Foxx and DaVine Joy Randolph and the myriad chances the branch had to make this a breakthrough year for Asian actors, all of whom it passed on. And its not just the actors branch; its the slighting of Dolemite Is My Names costume designer, Ruth Carter, and the complete shutout of Lulu Wangs The Farewell. This list feels like a step backward on a march forward. But I suspect something else was going on with Lopez and Hustlers, which is that she did everything wrong. She dared to play a character who used her sexuality as a professional survival tool and didnt regret it; she committed the unforgivable sin of being sympathetic and then not; she took her public image and spectacularly amplified and reworked it to suit a complicated character. That is not what Academy voters want from J. Lo. What they want is for her to scrub off her makeup and play a poor mother dying of something who tries to find someone to take care of her kids. They want a role that says, Look how serious I am. Look how willing I am to punish myself for you. That kind of self-abasement has always been something Academy voters love to see from actresses; even if we set aside the grim social implications of that kind of thinking, what remains is a disappointing limitation of vision. Three of the four most-nominated moviesThe Irishman, Joker, and Once Upon a Timein Hollywoodare stories about white men who feel culturally imperiled. The fourth, 1917, is about white men who are literally imperiled. It is no accident that those movies have arrived at this particular cultural moment, and while Academy voters dont necessarily have to eat whatever the industry is feeding them, they usually dont look too far afield for alternatives, and this year, what the industry was not feeding them was Black Panther or BlacKkKlansman. --- Not 1, not 2, not 3, not 4, not 5, not 6, not 7 <cite>Lebronwon posted [p:932873060] in Oscars too... [t:78327532]...</cite> <quote>https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/01/what-the-hell-just-happened-inside-the-oscar-nominations Uh-oh, I thought, as John Cho and Issa Rae read the nominees for best supporting actress and Jennifer Lopez was not among them. Its going to be that kind of year. Despite rave reviews and numerous critics awards for her fantastic work in Hustlers, Lopez was just not something enough for Oscar voters. But what is that something? Looking at the overall, largely cautious list of nominees this year, its tempting to say she wasnt white enough. This was a year in which, in terms of diversity, the actors branch in particular missed no opportunity to miss an opportunity. Its not just Lopez, its Eddie Murphy and Lupita Nyongo and Jamie Foxx and DaVine Joy Randolph and the myriad chances the branch had to make this a breakthrough year for Asian actors, all of whom it passed on. And its not just the actors branch; its the slighting of Dolemite Is My Names costume designer, Ruth Carter, and the complete shutout of Lulu Wangs The Farewell. This list feels like a step backward on a march forward. But I suspect something else was going on with Lopez and Hustlers, which is that she did everything wrong. She dared to play a character who used her sexuality as a professional survival tool and didnt regret it; she committed the unforgivable sin of being sympathetic and then not; she took her public image and spectacularly amplified and reworked it to suit a complicated character. That is not what Academy voters want from J. Lo. What they want is for her to scrub off her makeup and play a poor mother dying of something who tries to find someone to take care of her kids. They want a role that says, Look how serious I am. Look how willing I am to punish myself for you. That kind of self-abasement has always been something Academy voters love to see from actresses; even if we set aside the grim social implications of that kind of thinking, what remains is a disappointing limitation of vision. Three of the four most-nominated moviesThe Irishman, Joker, and Once Upon a Timein Hollywoodare stories about white men who feel culturally imperiled. The fourth, 1917, is about white men who are literally imperiled. It is no accident that those movies have arrived at this particular cultural moment, and while Academy voters dont necessarily have to eat whatever the industry is feeding them, they usually dont look too far afield for alternatives, and this year, what the industry was not feeding them was Black Panther or BlacKkKlansman. --- Not 1, not 2, not 3, not 4, not 5, not 6, not 7</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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