Why the Oscars’ Omission of ‘Selma’ Matters

New York Time ^ | January 18, 2015 | David Carr

[MeshugeMikey]

Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day and given the context, it is an interesting moment to ask whether it really matters that the Motion Picture academy failed to nominate the black director and the black lead actor of “Selma,” the King biopic, for Oscars.

The Oakland Tribune went there and then some on Friday, topping its article about the awards with the headline, “And the Oscar for the best Caucasian goes to ...”

While the snubs may sting and point toward a broader blindness, it’s still more important in the long run that a young female black director received the backing of a Hollywood studio and made an important film. Long after the last blubbering actor has been played off the stage while thanking his or her makeup assistant at the Oscars, we will still have “Selma.”

[driftless2]

That's probably similar to what many people think the percentage of the population are homosexuals. For decades the "experts" told us ten percent. The real number is two or three percent. But if you went by the numbers of homos in movies and tv shows you might think twenty to thirty percent.

In short, the media can never be relied on to give an accurate picture of anything.

[Joe Boucher]

not as long as slime like Jackson and Oprey and Obamma can make money fame and what not by milking it.

[MeshugeMikey]

I like your take on this fiasco.

Perhaps Obie will join Oprah to “celebrate” her great “victory”!

[MeshugeMikey]

It matters less than most anything else I can imagine to me,..aside from its comedic possibilities

[MeshugeMikey]

black fatigue ...I like the concept.

“got MLK”..../s

[MeshugeMikey]

the whole thing is a bad joke isnt it.

Will Revrunt Al-Jump The Sharkton...Protest??

[MeshugeMikey]

I cant wait fo some loquacious wag to Blame BUSH...for this “oversight”

[MeshugeMikey]

the Best Chechnian...the best Transgendered Albino Pygmy in a supporting comedy role

the possibilities stagger the mind

[MeshugeMikey]

If this doesnt work....this resulting “social movement” could get really REALLY Ugly.

I tremble to think what might happen If Revrunt Sharpton and Oprah team up for Mass Protests

[MeshugeMikey]

Imagine W.E.T.

White Entertainment Television?

It all looks so inescapably ludicrous when framed in reverse

[MeshugeMikey]

Ive not seen any trailers for the movie..and.other than oprah’s involvement I know nothing about it.

Given the outlandish whining ...m shocked that no ones protested ANNIE In The Hood’s not being nominated...

[NYRepublican72]

Idiots like Al Sharpton can’t possibly think that there are movies that are better than Selma? It’s not like black actors haven’t been overrepresented in Academy Award nominations in previous years.

[Political Junkie Too]

“And the Oscar for the best Caucasian goes to ...”

Warner Oland? Sidney Toler?

-PJ

[MeshugeMikey]

Who might holiywood choose....to play..... Revrunt Jacksome??

[MeshugeMikey]

sharpton..THINK? we know better than that!

[MeshugeMikey]

AWL that Revrunt Sharpton is concerned with is THE MONEY...

and who is gonna be next in line to have the PRIVILEGE of paying him off...MUCH

[Da Coyote]

Why it doesn’t: The NYT thinks it does.

[MeshugeMikey]

indeed

[redcatcherb412]

Waiting breathlessly for the BET best white actor/actress nominations.