Oh it’s Oscar season, baby, and once again that means fixating on all the political things Hollywood wants to talk about rather than actual movies. In the year of the pandemic, big Hollywood movies seemed hardly relevant, but our moral betters in Tinsel Town weren’t going to pass up a chance to lecture us..
The Oscars awards show was a parade of diversity — the hollow kind the left specializes in. And the media lapped it up. The Hollywood Reporter was so impressed with its industry’s commitment to minimizing whiteness in Hollywood that it put out a little scorecard on just how many different races were awarded.
So much for not making race a thing. THR, along with the rest of the industry has put it under a microscope. Combined with Oscars giving a platform to actors praising the Black Panthers for teaching them how to “love” themselves, the whole thing seems to be the opposite of “inclusive.”
The Hollywood Reporter Oscars ”diversity” round up began by proudly mentioning that Hollywood has come a long way since the days of “Oscars so white” – well at least in categories “behind the camera.” OK, OK, so it wasn’t perfect this year but it was still good.
THR loved that Chinese director Chloe Zhao got her best picture. Sure, her film Minari was directed well, but the outlet seemed more fixated on the fact that “Zhao is now the first woman of color (and second woman overall) to win best director.” In addition to Zhao, women of color also won for “Best Makeup and hairstyling.”
The piece mentioned “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom‘s Mia Neal and Jamika Wilson” as the “first Black winners in makeup and hairstyling, sharing the award with makeup artist Sergio Lopez-Rivera.” That’s amazing. Even better was the acceptance speech that stylist Mia Neal. She said, “I can picture Black trans women standing up here, and Asian sisters, and our Latina sisters, and indigenous women.” Clearly next year’s Oscars goal has been set.
Though pleased with the overall inclusivity of the Oscars, THR seemed bemused at the lack of diversity for the two big ticket acting awards: “Going into the ceremony, there was a real possibility that the Oscars could see four non-white acting winners for the first time ever. But in the end, actors of color prevailed only in the supporting categories.” Best supporting actress went to Yuh-jung Youn, a Korean, and best supporting actor went to African American actor Daniel Kaluuya. Again, baby steps.
Though that situation sounds perfect for Hollywood’s bottom line in this woke era: make good strides, but still have the specter of white man Anthony Hopkins and white lady Frances McDormand winning this year’s best actor and best actress awards as the bogeyman to rally against for next year’s award show.
THR closed out their assessment of the very moral Oscars saying, “Among everyone who took home at least one statuette at the 2021 Oscars, 25 are white men, eight are white women, four are Black men, four are Black women, two are Latino men, one is a Latina woman and three are Asian women.” Though the fact that we are keeping count like this doesn’t really seem to be pushing our us past racism, but replanting us back into it.
So now we award based on color, not on what’s best. Hollywood is quickly becoming irrelevant, next year may be it’s last as people decide they’re offering crap
Haven’t you noticed? EVERYTHING is based on color now! EVERYTHING!
OBama started this crap, and all the Dems are keeping it going, which is making a lot of us racist when we weren’t to begin with. The blacks don’t seem to want just to be equal, they want to take over the whole country, I guess. I really don’t know what they want. Thank God there are millions of blacks who are thinking straight and just want a good life and are willing to work for what they get.
Agree. 13 percent of the country is black it’s simple math if 13 percent of blacks win it’s mathematically correct by then you would have to look at what percentage of each color has an education etc etc etc so why not just everyone stop acting like anyone non black is racist. Sick of it
So how many whites won or were even nominated for the racist naacp image awards. Zero it ain’t right if you’re white
Apparently it perfectly all right to have something – anything – that’s all black, but you dare not have anything that’s all white!
Saw a sign in a black guy’s office the other day that stated “They can’t kill all of us”. That is incorrect. When the time comes, and it will be here very soon, we can and we will.
Civil War II is coming Andy, and it won’t be the North and South! Where do I enlist?
Actually if you look at recent US Census data from 2019, there are 77.72 million persons of color and 250 million white persons in the USA. So persons of color are about 23.71% of the US population. Now look at the figures for the Oscars. At least one Oscar(s) going to white people were 33 statuettes and persons of color were 14 statuettes. So the percentage of non-white people taking home at least one Oscar statuette was 29.78%. So what we are saying is that the non-white USA population of 23.71 percent was represented by 29.78 % of the Oscar statuette wins. So where is the problem? It seems like the non-white population was well represented. What exactly is the non-white population asking for?
Funny how the Oscars went from an all-white show (once) to an all-black show – just because black activists demanded it! Looks like BLM/Antifa has Hollywood, the government, Corporate America and half the population scared shitless!
But I just can’t find it in my heart to feel sorry for all you gutless cowards.
I’m just glad I’m not one of you!
Funny how Hollywood thinks we enjoy this high-brow crap. All depressing movies… showing their true focus on despair. Real people have become “woke” to the fact that Hollywood is mindless drivel. And then to tell us how to live as they “fake” a character? Please, I will take advise from my dogs before I do from the Hollyweird. Just because they are unhappy with all their millions, spending it on hazing their brains with drugs and alcohol… fast and fancy cars… then they want us to pony up what we have to “help” the homeless, the this and that and pay to have people become fake men and women too. This is crazy land…. and the Russians and Chinese are lying in wait for our own demise!!!
I didn’t know that anything decent comes out of Holly Wood except flash and show and crow.l
Oscars ? What’s that ? Any damn fool that wasted the time to watch these assholes pat each other on the back needs a check up from the neck up ! I had much more productive ways to pass the time, like napping & scratching my ass.
Keeping score in the NBA too? (sarcastic/rhetorical)
Who in their right mind would have watched that drivel. I saw a clip on Fox of of that old bat Glenn Close trying to twirk her A. Boy how the mighty have fallen. Pretty pathetic when you have to stoop so low to get any attention. They weren’t laughing with Close, they were laughing at her.
And the bigotry doesn’t stop. Did they even pay attention to their ratings? Evidently they were too busy counting coup and patting themselves on the back for how self righteous they are. And they have the nerve to point the finger at any other race, color creed, or ethnic background. This is pathetic.