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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."
Gman
(24,780 posts)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)"Hollywood is like the Rocky Mountains, the higher you go the whiter it gets".
Rev. Al Sharpton
Gman
(24,780 posts)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)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)Was entirely too important to be distorted. Especially in this day and age.
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)malaise
(267,823 posts)Rec
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)"...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.