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This post was found to be inappropriate by the moderators and has been removed.Unpopular opinion. The Academy is for Hollywood films. Those other countries have their national awards and only nominate Hollywood films in the Best Foreign Language Film category. Why can’t Hollywood do the same? Seems like hypocrisy to me. But I guess changing the name of a category to Best International Feature when a film has to be in foreign language to qualify makes a lot more sense.
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This post was found to be inappropriate by the moderators and has been removed.Unpopular opinion. The Academy is for Hollywood films. Those other countries have their national awards and only nominate Hollywood films in the Best Foreign Language Film category. Why can’t Hollywood do the same? Seems like hypocrisy to me. But I guess changing the name of a category to Best International Feature when a film has to be in foreign language to qualify makes a lot more sense.
The Academy presents themselves as international. The awards body of Denmark or Taiwan does not. What is difficult to understand?
ReplyCopy URLMichelle (Yeoh, Williams) Oscar campaign manager.
FYC:
Best Picture: Banshees of Inisherin, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Decision to Leave
Best Director: Park Chan-Wook Todd Field
Best Original Screenplay: Banshees of Inisherin, Everything Everywhere All At Once
Best Actor: Colin Farrell
Best Actress: Michelle Yeoh, Cate Blanchett, Tang Wei
Best Supporting Actor: Brendan Gleeson, Ke Huy Quan
Best Supporting Actress: Kerry Condon, Nina HossUnpopular opinion. The Academy is for Hollywood films. Those other countries have their national awards and only nominate Hollywood films in the Best Foreign Language Film category. Why can’t Hollywood do the same? Seems like hypocrisy to me. But I guess changing the name of a category to Best International Feature when a film has to be in foreign language to qualify makes a lot more sense.
the academy has members from 80 countries they should reward international features especially if screenplays like coda and green book are winning
ReplyCopy URLThe Academy presents themselves as international. The awards body of Denmark or Taiwan does not. What is difficult to understand?
Just because everyone watches Hollywood movies leading everyone to care about the oscars and anyone from any country can make Hollywood movies doesn’t mean that the oscars must be international. It only presents itself as an internationally watched event. Same thing as various European football competitions that are watched all over the world. By your logic, the English Football League should allow foreign clubs to compete since foreign viewers watch the league religiously. The truth is that overly nominating foreign films that are directed by filmmakers who aren’t established in Hollywood and that feature actors who are not established in Hollywood only alienates the mainstream American audiences even more who want to see the films they know get nominated as they will probably never see those foreign movies. Movies like Crouching Tiger, Roma and Parasite as different as their directors were already established in Hollywood beforehand. You guys are free to create an international oscars like the international emmys if it bothers you so much.
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The academy is racist, has been racist, and will continue to BE racist as long as the (overwhelmingly white) voting board is the majority on such things.
Jane Campion, a white woman, who while accepting her (deserved) Critics Choice award for Best Director, went out of her WAY to single out the two black women producers of King Richards (Venus and Serena Williams) for not “competing against men the way I have to”. WHAT was the point of that?!? WHAT sense did it make??! How does Serena and Venus equate to white female directors being snubbed by their (again mostly white) counterparts?!?!
These are the SAME people, with the SAME mindsets keeping Black actors and actresses from being given the recognition that they deserve within the academy. That mindset of “I can’t/won’t relinquish my privilege” OR “I haven’t found a way to win against my oppressor so i’ll just shit on someone MORE oppressed” is the sort of backwards thinking that holds TRUE representation back.
ReplyCopy URLThree black actors won Best Actor for three years out of six between 2001 and 2006. Just because a black actor doesn’t win every year doesn’t mean that the Academy is racist. There has never been a year with a black actor or actress sweeping awards season and failing to win the Oscar. The Academy awards those who a majority of its members think were the best that year regardless of race. It’s ridiculous to call thousands of people racist when you don’t know them.
ReplyCopy URLThree black actors won Best Actor for three years out of six between 2001 and 2006. Just because a black actor doesn’t win every year doesn’t mean that the Academy is racist. There has never been a year with a black actor or actress sweeping awards season and failing to win the Oscar. The Academy awards those who a majority of its members think were the best that year regardless of race. It’s ridiculous to call thousands of people racist when you don’t know them.
OH GOODIE! FOUR BLACK ACTORS AND ONE BLACK ACTRESS IN 94 YEARS! OHHHHH JOY!
ReplyCopy URLBlack women still don’t get leads in films. Since Halle Berry can you name a list of black women the academy overlooked who should have won? Viola Davis I guess for The Help but I think she lost more due to the role seeming supportingish. Lupita for Us but that had more to do with the film being horror than her being black.
Other than that I can’t think of a black woman who deserved to win. If they don’t get the jobs they don’t get the nominations.
(and what about other races. Last year saw only the second Asian woman in history win an acting award.)
ReplyCopy URLHolly Hunter was deserving of her Oscar, but it’s Angela Bassett’s turn as Tina Turner that has stood the test of time. She would have totally been a deserving winner that year. Crazy that a role like that would have won today and Holly Hunter’s role in The Piano would have been relegated to runner-up.
ReplyCopy URLBlack women still don’t get leads in films. Since Halle Berry can you name a list of black women the academy overlooked who should have won? Viola Davis I guess for The Help but I think she lost more due to the role seeming supportingish. Lupita for Us but that had more to do with the film being horror than her being black.
Other than that I can’t think of a black woman who deserved to win. If they don’t get the jobs they don’t get the nominations.
Historically or recently? It’s embarrassing if you mean you can’t come up with a single black woman to win besides Halle Berry in 94 years.
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