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Hissyspit

(45,788 posts)
Fri Jan 16, 2015, 03:58 PM Jan 2015

And the Oscar For Best Headline Goes To...

http://tktk.gawker.com/and-the-oscar-for-best-headline-goes-to-the-oakland-tri-1679943758

...The Oakland Tribune.



Jason Parham

1/16/15 11:55am

Friday's front page of the Oakland Tribune captures the whitewashed Oscar nominations with a flawless headline.

After yesterday's announcements, there were, among other categories, blaring omissions from the Best Director (Ava DuVernay), Best Actor (David Oyelowo), and Best Cinematography (Bradford Young) slots. But maybe that's not so surprising when you consider "the overall academy is still 93% white" and 76% male.

Writing for the Tribune, David E. Early noted: "For the second time in 14 years, not one actor of color was among the 20 nominees in the best actor and supporting actor categories for men or women."

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And the Oscar For Best Headline Goes To... (Original Post) Hissyspit Jan 2015 OP
Sorry but Ava DuVernay did Selma Gman Jan 2015 #1
Surely you jest? Who was a better nomination in a very difficult role? How about best actor? Fred Sanders Jan 2015 #2
Read my entire post. Gman Jan 2015 #7
Other nominated movies were factually inaccurate bigwillq Jan 2015 #4
Yeah but the subject of Selma Gman Jan 2015 #8
and argo was error free and historically perfectly accurate? La Lioness Priyanka Jan 2015 #5
Freaking perfect malaise Jan 2015 #3
"I'd like to thank my sister papers..." KamaAina Jan 2015 #6

Gman

(24,780 posts)
1. Sorry but Ava DuVernay did Selma
Fri Jan 16, 2015, 04:08 PM
Jan 2015

Which is factually inaccurate and misleading. She doesn't deserve it. Surely there are other folks of color who deserved to be nominated for a lot of categories. But she does not.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
2. Surely you jest? Who was a better nomination in a very difficult role? How about best actor?
Fri Jan 16, 2015, 04:20 PM
Jan 2015

"Hollywood is like the Rocky Mountains, the higher you go the whiter it gets".

Rev. Al Sharpton

Gman

(24,780 posts)
7. Read my entire post.
Fri Jan 16, 2015, 04:45 PM
Jan 2015

Then notice the nomination I specifically talked about. surely you're not arguing that just because she is a woman of color she should be nominated.

 

bigwillq

(72,790 posts)
4. Other nominated movies were factually inaccurate
Fri Jan 16, 2015, 04:24 PM
Jan 2015

in some way. Foxcatcher, The Imitation Game, to name two.

I thought DuVernay deserved a nod, as did David Oyelowo for Lead Actor.
Not sure I would be able to single out another performance for a nomination out of that ensemble cast but DuVernay and Oyelowo deserved a nod, imo.


Gman

(24,780 posts)
8. Yeah but the subject of Selma
Fri Jan 16, 2015, 04:57 PM
Jan 2015

Was entirely too important to be distorted. Especially in this day and age.

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
6. "I'd like to thank my sister papers..."
Fri Jan 16, 2015, 04:33 PM
Jan 2015

"...the San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, Hayward Daily Review and Fremont Argus."

All are essentially the same paper, put out by Bay Area News Group, a subsidiary of something called the MediaNews Group. They are normally most useful as cat box liners, though today is clearly an exception.

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