So apparently the Oscars people deliberately omitted black actors and film makers because of skin colour?

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Since they are (rightly) whining about being excluded, surely they should call for all actors to boycott the Oscars rather then just blacks and mexicans etc? Otherwise they are in danger of excluding poor old whitey.

This story really sums it up.

About 12% of the American population is Black. So why the f*** do some of them think that they should automatically selected for awards?
Last time I looked you had to deserve it.

This is from the same school of thought that says that there should be more Black football managers even though,the amount of black players is hugely disproportionate to the few percent of black people in the population.
Rather than celebrate this,some want to just keep complaining.

If in someone's opinion your performance isn't any good your not going to get nominated....on a plus side you might have been paid 5 million dollars for not being good enough...so oh dear how sad never mind

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I think its a bit more complex than just meritocracy, especially in the US, where issues of race run rather significantly deeper than here. The US had the problem with Black Managers in the NFL etc and the implemented a policy of having to interview a black candidate and the result was a surge in successful black managers of teams.

I wouldn't say the Oscars are racist either, the US movie industry is quite prone to liberal influence, probably disproportionately to the rest of the states - and its only this year it seems that this is the case (the last time was 199.

Is there an issue there, I don't know, but in the US racism and racial exclusion is a very big issue. It does seem a bit odd that no black nominations were present across all categories, when Selma was nominated for Best Picture.

Then again, the Oscars are a backslapping award usually for the bloated beast that ends up slavishly praising often average movies and overlooking real quality.

Personally I would have thought that O'Shae Jackson Jr (in Straight outta Compton and Abraham Atta (Beasts of No Nation) deserved to be nominated, but then those are films destined generally overlooked by the Oscars.

The Oscars are like the Brit Awards. Winning one is generally about commercial achievement rather than quality.

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The whole Oscars thing is horribly skewed towards 'successful' movies - why do you think so often 2 or 3 films sweep the board?

I can believe they may have great acting, great directing, and great screenplays etc - but they always win best cinematography, soundtrack, and the raft of jobs you didn't even realise were involved too. Surely there are small obscure films which were really good at something, though the film itself sucked? Maybe Saw XXIV had a great soundtrack, or Debbie Does Dallas Again had great costumes, or Friday the Thirteenth XII was really well cast, but they'll never win anything because the movie itself is not deemed worthy