Current Events > Oscars took a step back in being racially diverse with nominees.

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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.

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Even more reason for Parasite to sweep
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What a garbage article.

Loud_Pipes posted...

What a garbage article.

this. its taking some leaps.

esp since the studios have to lobby for people to get nominated.
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Guess the diversity lobby is going to have to push the academy a little harder next year to hit those quotas

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Joker was about a mentally ill man and a system that was ill-equipped to deal with his disease being ignored and allowed to descend into dangerous madness. The hell do they mean by this?

"Three of the four most-nominated moviesThe Irishman, Joker, and Once Upon a Timein Hollywoodare stories about white men who feel culturally imperiled."

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The fact that Eddie isn't in there for Dolemite Is My Name is criminal.

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i like j.lo as a singer but acting lmao all credibility lost whoever wrote that.

#oscarssowhite???

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The worst part of Oscars season is always the hyper-woke articles that get written every time the nominations list goes up

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ThePrinceFish posted...

Guess the diversity lobby is going to have to push the academy a little harder next year to hit those quotas

The MAGA is strong in this post

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BeantownHero posted...

The MAGA is strong in this post

Almost as strong as the victim complex in this one.

Guess what, there is no racial conspiracy to keep minorities out of the awards. You do not need a minority quota to feel validated.

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Not really. There nothing they can do about it when they pick the best movies and actors.

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ThePrinceFish posted...

Almost as strong as the victim complex in this one.

Guess what, there is no racial conspiracy to keep minorities out of the awards. You do not need a minority quota to feel validated.

I mean, this isnt true, but OK.

"Shut up minorites, and be happy with what you get! oh, and what you DO get, we are gonna slander you with "diversity quota" accusations."

cool #OscarsSoWhite


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BeantownHero posted...

I mean, this isnt true, but OK.

"Shut up minorites, and be happy with what you get! oh, and what you DO get, we are gonna slander you with "diversity quota" accusations."

cool #OscarsSoWhite

Lmao

Maybe demand better performances rather than expecting the leftist academy to hand out affirmative action nominations to avoid hurting your woke fee fees

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BeantownHero posted...

The MAGA is strong in this post

Don't worry buddy, maybe next year can be the year we impose a cap on how many whites are allowed to be represented in our diverse award ceremonies.

ThePrinceFish posted...

Lmao

Maybe demand better performances rather than expecting the leftist academy to hand out affirmative action nominations to avoid hurting your woke fee fees

You simply can't understand his position unless you're a disadvantaged minority. Privilege blinds you to logic.

Thank God I don't care.
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Loud_Pipes posted...

Don't worry buddy, maybe next year can be the year we impose a cap on how many whites are allowed to be represented in our diverse award ceremonies.

That fact that you truly believe there werent any oscar worthy performances done by minorities this season says more about you than anything

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alt-right academy

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ThePrinceFish posted...

Lmao

Maybe demand better performances rather than expecting the leftist academy to hand out affirmative action nominations to avoid hurting your woke fee fees

I love when MAGAs tell on themselves like this


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Forced diversity is corny, but crying about forced diversity will always be waaaay cornier. Race shouldn't matter unless it's a key part of the characters history. But there are still people out there that completely turn off any chance of seeing a character as relatable as soon as they're a different color.

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When the nominees are more than 73% white (the percentage of the US that is white) we have a problem

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up

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Which is why we got movies people actually heard of this year. I'm a left leaning person but the obligation and social justice warriorism of the last few Oscars made them unwatchable.

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Madea didnt get a single nom this year? Fucking racists.

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