Posted on 12/05/2012 11:14:02 AM PST by smoothsailing
December 4, 2012
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Gerald Molen, the Oscar-winning producer of Schindler’s List, is claiming political bias because a documentary movie he produced this year isn't up for an Oscar, even though that film, 2016: Obama’s America, made more money at the box office than the combined earning of the 15 films the Academy deemed eligible.
2016, a negative take on President Barack Obama co-written and directed by author Dinesh D’Souza, earned $33.4 million at the domestic box office. But its omission on the list of the 15 documentaries the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Monday would advance in the voting process makes it ineligible for an Oscar.
"Dinesh warned me this might happen," Molen said with a laugh Tuesday. "The action confirms my opinion that the bias against anything from a conservative point of view is dead on arrival in Hollywood circles. The film’s outstanding success means that America went to see the documentary in spite of how Hollywood feels about it."
D'Souza echoed his producer's words.
"I want to thank the Academy for not nominating our film,” D’Souza joked. "By ignoring 2016, the top-performing box-office hit of 2012, and pretending that films like Searching for Sugar Man and This Is Not a Film are more deserving of an Oscar, our friends in Hollywood have removed any doubt average Americans may have had that liberal political ideology, not excellence, is the true standard of what receives awards."
The documentaries from 2012 that the Academy has deemed Oscar-worthy besides Sugar Man and Not a Film are Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, Bully, Chasing Ice, Detropia, Ethel, 5 Broken Cameras, The Gatekeepers, The House I Live In, How to Survive a Plague, The Imposter, The Invisible War, Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God and The Waiting Room.
I saw “2016” on Netflix recently. Wasn’t too bowled over by it. Partly because I already knew most of what he went over, so there weren’t any surprises. Even so, it felt kind of flat and much too low key.
I saw “2016” on Netflix recently. Wasn’t too bowled over by it. Partly because I already knew most of what he went over, so there weren’t any surprises. Even so, it felt kind of flat and much too low key.
It should have at least been nominated for the Best Non-Fiction documentary. Oh wait...
In the eyes of a liberal, criticizing the state is blasphemy.
What I find surprising is that they’re surprised that their anti-leftist film didn’t get kudos from the film industry.
I haven’t watched an Academy Award ceremony since the Obamadork was getting his first quota-baby entrance into college.
By ignoring 2016, the top-performing box-office hit of 2012.
lol. A bit of an exaggeration there for sure.
Considering "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry", "Bully","Detropia" and "Ethel" made the list, I would think the one documentary that probably out grossed the next ten combined would've at least been nominated.
Seriously you should watch “The Artist”...absolutely worth every award it received. I didn’t want to go and I went kicking and screaming...My wife told me to knock it off...lol. I ended up LOVING it.....
Obama won(maybe), so Hollywood will trash conservatives, and make even more leftist films over the next 4 years.
By just the thought of a new film criticizing George W Bush has already received several awards.....
I don’t think Molen and D’Souza are surprised. I think they’re disgusted.
I'm shocked.................
When it comes to documentaries, “flat” and “low key” are more credible, than (say) “strident” and “hysterical”.
FMCDH(BITS)
Did you read the article? Molen said it confirms his suspicion about treatment of anything from a conservative perspective in Hollywood, while D’Souza expressed gratitude to the “Academy’ for confirmeing for ordinary Americans its leftist bias.
I'm sure he meant, in the Documentary category. I"m pretty sure in Documentaries, it was a top-performing box-office hit.
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